Gendering Security and Insecurity - Post/neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions

List of contents

1. Gendering (in)security: interrogating security logics within states of exception Sophia Dingli and Navtej Purewal 2. Boundary anxieties and infrastructures of violence: somali identity in Post-Westgate Kenya Awino Okech 3. Suspended death: on freezing corpses and muting death of palestinian women martyrs Suhad Daher-Nashif 4. Gendering violent pluralism: women’s political organizing in Latin America Kristin Bergtora Sandvik 5. Sovereignty, vulnerability and a gendered resistance in Indian-occupied Kashmir Goldie Osuri 6. Violence, the state and gendered indigenous agency in the Brazilian Amazon José Miguel Nieto Olivar 7. Gendered militarisation as state of exception on the Korean Peninsula Young-Ju Hoang and Noël O’Sullivan 8. Labels, victims and insecurity: an exploration of the lived realities of migrant women who sell sex in South Africa Rebecca Walker and Treasa Galvin 9. Militarized cultures, disgraced bodies, and autocratic securities Jihan Zakarriya 10. From administration to occupation: the re-production and subversion of public spaces in Kashmir Khalid Wasim Hassan

About the author

Navtej K. Purewal is Reader in Political Sociology and Development Studies at SOAS University of London, UK. Her recent publications have focused on gender and neoliberal governmentality as well as assemblages of gender/caste/religion through resistance in South Asia. She is a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective.
Sophia Dingli is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Glasgow, UK. Her work is located at the intersection of realist, critical and postcolonial theories, and she has published works on the topics of gender and security and silence in political theory and practice.

Summary

This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. It was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics.

Product details

• Authors: Navtej (Soas University of London Purewal, Navtej K. (Soas University of London Purewal, Navtej K. Dingli Purewal
• Assisted by: Sophia Dingli (Editor), Navtej Purewal (Editor), Navtej K. Purewal (Editor), Purewal Navtej K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780367196639
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19663-9
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Thirdworlds; ThirdWorlds
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Politics & government, Politics and government, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Gender studies, gender groups, Peace studies & conflict resolution