Gender, globalization, and violence
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- Ponzanesi, Sandra > (ed.)
Gender, globalization, and violence
This collection of essays elaborates on issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores questions of violent conflict, forced migration, trafficking and deportation, human rights, citizenship, transitional justice and cosmopolitanism. Contents: Introduction: New frames of gendered violence / Sandra Ponzanesi: Part I: Conflict zones: colonial haunting and contested sovereignties: 1. Neoliberal discourses on violence: Monstrosity and rape in borderland war / Jolle Demmers: 2. Thin ice: Postcoloniality and sexuality in the politics of citizenship and military service / Vron Ware: 3. American humanitarian citizenship: The ‘soft’ power of empire / Inderpal Grewal: 4. Female suicide bombers and the politics of gendered militancy / Sandra Ponzanesi: Part II: European frictions: memories, migration and citizenship 5. Uses and abuses of gender and nationality: torture and the French-Algerian War / Christine Quinan: 6. Migrating sovereignties and mirror states: from Eritrea to L'Aquila / Marguerite Waller: 7. Doing ‘Integration’ in Europe: postcolonial frictions in the making of citizenship / Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen: 8. Coffin exchange / Paulo de Medeiros: Part III: Contact zones: transitional justice, reconciliation and cosmopolitanism: 9. ‘Invisible Wars’: gendered terrorism in the US Military and the Juárez ‘Feminicidio’ / Alicia Arrizón 10. Political transitions and the arts: the performance of (post-)colonial leadership in Philip Miller’s Cantata REwind and in Wim Botha’s Portrait Busts / Rosemarie Buikema: 11. Justice by any means necessary: vigilantism among Indian women / Aaronette White and Shagun Rastogi: 12. On love and shame: two photographs of female protesters / Marta Zarzycka 13. Rethinking the ‘Arab Spring’ through the postsecular: gender entanglements, social media and the religion/secular divide / Eva Midden
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- Ponzanesi, Sandra > (ed.)