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What is feminist peace? How can we advocate for peace from patriarchy? What do women, globally, advocate for when they use the term 'peace'? This edited collection brings together conversations across borders and boundaries to explore plural, intersectional and interdisciplinary concepts of feminist peace.
The book includes contributions from a geographically diverse range of scholars, judges, practitioners and activists, and the chapters cut across themes of movement building and resistance and explore the limits of institutionalised peacebuilding. The chapters deal with a range of issues, such as environmental degradation, militarization, online violence and arms spending.
Offering a resource to advance theoretical development and to advocate for policy change, this book transcends traditional approaches to the study of peace and security and embraces diverse voices and perspectives which are absent in both academic and policy spaces.
This is a nuanced and compelling analysis of grassroots feminist activism in Russia in the politically turbulent 2010s.
Drawing on rich ethnographic data, the author illustrates how a new generation of activists chose feminism as their main political beacon, and how they negotiated the challenges of authoritarian and conservative trends.
As we witness a backlash against feminism on a global scale with the rise of neo-conservative governments, this highly relevant book decentres Western theory and concepts on feminism and social movements, offering significant insights into how resistance can mobilise and invent creative tactics to cope with an increasingly repressed space for independent political action.
141 SEVEN Feminist critiques Introduction This chapter explores feminist perspectives in criminology. It is probably impossible to define feminist criminology. This is because it comprises numerous strands. As DeKeseredy (2010: 29) observes: ‘there are at least 12 variants of feminist criminological theory’. Daly and Chesney-Lind (1988: 502) offer a broad definition that appears to capture its key themes. They define feminist criminology as ‘a set of theories about women’s oppression and a set of strategies for change’. Chesney-Lind and Morash (2013: 288
Defining feminism and feminist theory is challenging, but most feminist criminologists agree that it is more than just adding women to pre-conceived notions of crime and social control. In its most confined sense, feminism is a collection of political ideologies focused on women’s oppression to advance women’s equality through strategies for social change. In a more comprehensive, multifaceted sense and in terms of feminist scholarship, feminism is an array of interconnected contextual frames utilized for the observation, analysis and interpretation of the
Exploring what it means to enact feminist geography, this book brings together contemporary, cutting edge cases of social justice activism and collaborative research with activists. From Black feminist organising in the American South to the stories of feminist geography collectives in Latin America, the editors present contemporary case studies from the Global North and South.
The chapters showcase the strength and vibrancy of activist-engaged scholarship taking place in the field and serve as a call to action, exploring how this work advances real-world efforts to fight injustice and re-make the world as a fairer, more equitable and more accepting place.
Introduction What does it mean to be an African sex worker feminist? In answering this question, two qualitative studies were conducted with African sex worker groups in 2014 and 2015; the South African movement of sex workers, known as Sisonke, 1 and the African Sex Workers Alliance (ASWA). Based on their embodied lived experiences, each participant described what it meant to be an African , a sex worker and a feminist , and then collectively discussed these in relation to each other and the social dimensions they occupy. Both studies concur that
around male victims. Some more confident students had raised their hands in class to ask this question directly. What struck me in this instance, however, were two things. First, neither of the students had felt comfortable raising the question in our two-hour class, and the male student seemed particularly reluctant to articulate the question himself. I wondered how many other students in that class left with similar questions gone unasked, and how those questions might have tugged uncomfortably at – or even undermined – their perception of the relevance of feminist
From the denial of abortion rights in Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the state and its institutions continue to fail women. This book offers a counter narrative to contemporary injustices and a persistent culture of victim-blaming.
The academic and activist contributions to this collection explore contemporary research areas and pursue new discursive directions in order to present a feminist criminology, built on feminist praxis, for the twenty-first century.
Providing a direct challenge to regressive and ineffective theory, policy and practice, this book resists the politics of gendered victimisation through extending feminist analyses of the state and documenting interventions into contemporary injustices.
PART II Anti- Racist Feminist Redemption
