Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains (Gender in a Global/Local World)

Rethinking Silence, Voice and Agency in Contested Gendered Terrains (Gender in a Global/Local World)

by JaneParpart (Editor), SwatiParashar (Editor)

Synopsis

Global and local contestations are not only gendered, they also raise important questions about agency and its practice and location in the twenty-first century. Silence and voice are being increasingly debated as sites of agency within feminist research on conflict and insecurity. Drawing on a wide variety of feminist approaches, this volume examines the various ways that silence and voice have been contested in feminist research, and their impact on how agency is understood and performed, particularly in situations of conflict and insecurity.

The collection makes an important and timely contribution to interdisciplinary feminist theorizing of agency, silence and voice in global politics. Interrogating the intellectual landscape of existing debates about agency, silence and voice in an increasingly unequal and conflict-ridden global world, the contributors to this volume seek to challenge the dominant narratives of agency based on voice or speech alone as a necessary precondition for understanding or negotiating agency or empowerment. Many of the authors have engaged in field research in both the Global South and North and bring in-depth and diverse gendered case studies to their analysis, focusing on the increasing importance of examining gender and agency in comparative global perspectives.

This book will contribute to and deepen existing discussions of agency, silence and voice in development, culture and gender studies, political economy, post-colonial and de-colonial scholarship as well as International Relations' scholarship.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10 Dec 2018

ISBN 10: 1138746517
ISBN 13: 9781138746510

Author Bio
Jane L. Parpart is emeritus professor at Dalhousie University and adjunct research professor at Carleton University, University of Ottawa, University of Massachusetts Boston, Aalborg University, Denmark and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She has written extensively on gender and development; gender mainstreaming and empowerment; masculinities and violence; urban life in Southern Africa; and gender, agency and voice/silence in conflict situations. Her recent writings include: Rethinking the Man Question, with Marysia Zalewski (eds) (2008); Exploring the Transformative Potential of Gender Mainstreaming in International Development Institutions (Journal of International Development, 2014), Militarized Masculinities, Heroes and Gender Inequality during and after the nationalist struggle in Zimbabwe (NORMA, 2016); and Imagined Peace, Gender Relations and Post-conflict Transformation, in J. Kaufman and K. Williams (eds) Women, Gender Equality and Post-conflict Transformation (Routledge, 2016). Swati Parashar is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Monash University, Australia. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), Delhi for the year 2016. She holds a Ph.D. from Lancaster University in the UK and an MA from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. She has previously worked with policy think tanks in Singapore and New Delhi and has held academic appointments at the University of Limerick, Ireland and the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her research and publications focus on critical war and security studies, feminist and postcolonial international relations and, gender and political violence in South Asia. She is the author of Women and Militant Wars: The Politics of Injury (2014) London, Routledge.