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This book provides a comprehensive overview of feminist international relations in South Asia. It highlights the key contentions, debates, and tensions in the field, and studies how the trajectory of feminist international relations in the region has been marked by dialogue, dissidence, and difference with the Global North.
List of contents
Introduction
Section I: Thinking Feminist Epistemologies 'Differently' in South Asia Chapter 1: Can Feminist IR Hear Differing Voice? A Critical Reading of Feminist Historie(s) in South Asia, 'Reification' and Boundaries Chapter 2: 'A Feminist Debt': Conversation between Feminist and Non-Western Thought Chapter 3: Framing Feminist Strategic Discourse: Jahanara Begum and the Exchange of Letters During the War of Succession (1657-9) Chapter 4: Silencing and Questioning: The Quest for Peace and a New Praxis in South Asia? Chapter 5: Feminist Engagement with a Racist State: Ethical, Political and Epistemological Dilemma
Section II : Re-thinking Women, Peace and Security Agenda Chapter 6: Which Women, What Women, What Peace and Whose Agenda in South Asia Chapter 7: International Dimension of Feminist South Asia: The case of the WPS Agenda Chapter 8: Performative Impact or Transformative Change: Implementation of the WPS Agenda in Nepal Chapter 9: Violent Extremism and the 'Prevention' Pillar in the WPS Agenda: Critical Perspectives from Bangladesh
Section III: Gender, Populism and Nationalism Chapter 10: Wall Art Wave in Sri Lanka: Sinhala Buddhist Militarized Male Body as an Authoritarian Populist Space Chapter 11: Framing Political Masculinity and Gendered Populism: Bangladesh and the World Chapter 12: Gender, Populism and Nationalism: Mapping the Indian Context
Section IV: Militarism and Militarisation Chapter 13: Does Militarization have one form? Narratives from the Darjeeling Himalayas Chapter 14: Military, Militants and Men: The "3M's" dominating Pakistan's war on terror in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province
About the author
Shweta Singh is Associate Professor of International Relations at the South Asian University, New Delhi, India.
Amena Mohsin is Professor of International Relations at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Summary
This book provides a comprehensive overview of feminist international relations in South Asia. It highlights the key contentions, debates, and tensions in the field, and studies how the trajectory of feminist international relations in the region has been marked by dialogue, dissidence, and difference with the Global North.
