Gender and Conflict (eBook, ePUB)

Embodiments, Discourses and Symbolic Practices
Redaktion: Ypeij, Annelou; Frerks, Georg

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Through an in-depth analysis of the multifaceted manifestations of gender and conflict, this book shows how cognition and behaviour, agency and victimization, are gendered beyond the popular stereotypes. Conflict not only reconfirms social hierarchies and power relations, but also motivates people to transgress cultural boundaries and redefine their self-images and identities. The contributions are a mix of classical ethnography, performance studies and embodiment studies, showing 'emotions and feelings' often denied in scientific social research. Strong in their constructivist approach and unorthodox in theory, the articles touch upon the dynamic relation between the discourses, embodiments and symbolic practices that constitute the gendered world of conflict. The localities and research sites vary from institutional settings such as a school, rebel movements, public toilets and the military to more artistic domains of gendered conflicts such as prison theatre classes and the capoeira ring. At the same time, these conflicts and domains appropriate wider discourses and practices of a global nature, demonstrating the globalised and institutionalised nature of the nexus gender-conflict. A first set of chapters deals with 'breaking the gender taboos' and renegotiating the stereotypical gender roles - masculinities or femininities - during conflict. A second set of chapters focuses more explicitly on the bodily experience of conflict either physically of symbolically, while the last set straddle body and narrative. The inductive quality of the work leads to unexpected insights and does give access to worlds that are new, and often surprising and unconventional.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317130802
• Artikelnr.: 49354094

Autorenporträt

Prof. Georg Frerks holds a chair in Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management at Utrecht University as well as a chair in International Security Studies at the Netherlands Defence Academy. Till 2013 he also occupied the chair of Disaster Studies at Wageningen University. As a sociologist and policy analyst he focuses on conflict and disaster-induced vulnerabilities and local responses as well as on policies and interventions implemented at international and national levels. Frerks acts as an advisor to several governmental and non-governmental organisations and has paid attention to gender aspects of conflict since early 2000. Frerks has widely published in the area of conflicts, disasters and development. He was co-organizer of the international conference 'Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict' (Amsterdam, 2011). Reinhilde Sotiria König is a cultural anthropologist with roots in the German feminist movement and trained as an ethnographer at the University of Amsterdam. She developed classes about 'the anthropology of death and loss' and has published on transnational migration and diasporas. She conducted fieldwork in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congolese diasporas in Europe. Her interest lies in power relations, historiography and memory, comic strips, palaeoanthropology and currently the changes of the university education system. She is an expert on winter fertility rites. Reinhilde works as a thesis coach in Amsterdam. She is the director of the annual LOVA International Summer School (2012, 2013, 2014) and was co-organizer of Lova's international conference 'Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict' (Amsterdam, 2011) Annelou Ypeij is a feminist anthropologist and works at Cedla (Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation). Her current region specialization is Peru where she studies gender and poverty in urban settings as well as in tourism areas. She has published a wide range of articles and books on these themes. Ypeij is board

Inhaltsangabe

Preface; Chapter 1 Rethinking Gender and Conflict: Discourses
Embodiments and Symbolic Practices
Georg Frerks
Reinhilde Sotiria König
Annelou Ypeij; Chapter 2 Oral Histories of Gender in Flux: Challenging Popular Perceptions about the State of Gender in South Kivu
Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo
Theo Hollander; Chapter 3 Making Uncertain Manhood: Masculinities
Embodiment and Agency among Male Hamas Youth
Maria Frederika Malmström; Chapter 4 Women's Violence and Gender Relations in the Israeli Defence Forces
Ilaria Simonetti; Chapter 5 Between Agency and Subjugation: Female LTTE Combatants in the Sri Lankan Conflict and Post-war Situation
Georg; Chapter 6 Fighting over a Public Toilet: Masculinities
Class and Violence in a Nairobi Ghetto
van Naomi Stapele; Chapter 7 'The Colonized Bodies of Our Women...': Imaginative and Material Terrains of US Military Entertainment on the Fringes of South Korea
Elisabeth Schober; Chapter 8 The Prisoner's Body: Violence
Desire and Masculinities in a Nicaraguan Prison Theatre Group
Julienne Weegels; Chapter 9 'Being Carried Out': Women's Bodies and Masculinity Inside and Outside the Capoeira Ring
Menara Lube Guizardi
Annelou Ypeij; Chapter 10 'You Could Be Surprised How Sweet and Caring Some Guys Are': Girls' Writings about Sexuality
Romance and Conflict
Joanne Cassar; Chapter 11 Just Words under the Wall: A Peace-building Experience in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Patrizia Violi;