1st Edition

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict The Coloniality of Violence

By Julia Carolin Sachseder Copyright 2023
242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Violence against Women in and beyond Conflict explores the processes and structures that underlie and contribute to sexual violence and internal displacement in armed conflict, utilizing extensive ethnographic research to provide cutting-edge insights. The author argues that the key to understanding violence against women lies at the intersection of transnational capital, race, and gender... Read more

Introduction: Peace for Some, and a Continuum of Violence for Others

1. The Continuum of Violence: State of the Art and Theoretical Perspectives on Conflict, Sexual Violence, and Displacement

2. A Feminist Decolonial Ethnography of Violence in (Post)Colonial Settings

3. Understanding Present Through Past: Colombia’s Colonial Experience and its Armed Conflict in Historical Perspective

4. Women’s Experiences of Violence and Insecurities in Colombia’s Conflict

5. "After" Violence: Territory, Identities, and Resistance

6. The Coloniality of Violence: Women’s Experiences of Extractive Insecurities in Colombia and Beyond

Biography

Julia Carolin Sachseder is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Departments of International Relations and Gender Studies at the Central European University, Austria. She is also an affiliated postdoctoral Researcher at the Austrian Institute of International Affairs (OIIP), and a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research interests involve primarily the political economy and (post)coloniality of violence and (in)security, gender, as well as non-state and corporate actors in peace and conflict.