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Exploring the physical, embodied landscape of the military-peace complex in Afghanistan
This book focuses on the military and statebuilding components of the international project in Afghanistan since 2001. It posits and discusses the military-peace complex as a framework for understanding the international project in Afghanistan, pointing to the sliding together and collapse between military and peace actors, and mandates and ideational frameworks. Arguing that military and peace work in the liberal mode cannot be logically separated, but rather are co-constituted and operate in a dynamic relationship to each other with fluid and shifting boundaries, the book focuses on the role of gender within the logics of the international project in Afghanistan, as well as exploring material and spatial entanglements and cross-cutting logics.
Based on original interviews and wider research, the book offers a holistic way of viewing the international project in Afghanistan, drawing attention to its under-noticed elements and providing a new way of understanding its politics.
Hannah Partis-Jennings is a Lecturer in International Relations and Security in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at the University of Loughborough.
List of contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Afghanistan in Context
Chapter Two: Performing the Military-Peace Complex, Logics that Entangle
Chapter Three: The Martial Politics of Things and Spaces
Chapter Four: Liberal Feminism, the Third World Woman and the Third Gender
A Final Conclusion
Bibliography
About the author
Hannah Partis-Jennings is a Lecturer in International Relations and Security in the School of Social Science and Humanities at Loughborough University. Hannah has published in
Critical Military Studies, Peacebuilding, Men and Masculinities, International Feminist Journal of Politics and
International Politics.
Summary
This book focuses on the military and statebuilding components of the international project in Afghanistan since 2001.
