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OverviewGender is not a 'security issue', but it tells us a lot about how, why and when certain subjects are written as security concerns. Thirteen case studies on violent subjects, reason, and emotion demonstrate different ways in which we understand political violence, security, resistance, power, and agency, and how we make sense of gender. Full Product DetailsAuthor: L. Åhäll , L. ShepherdPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.479kg ISBN: 9780230293908ISBN 10: 0230293905 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 March 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsRethinking Gender, Agency and Political Violence; L.J.Shepherd PART I: VIOLENT SUBJECTS Masculinity, Militarism and Popular Culture: The Warrior Superhero in Hollywood; L.Crowe Masculinities, Pain and Power: Gendering Experiences of Truth Sharing in Northern Ireland; L.White (Re)Masculinizing Security? Gender and Private Military and Security Companies; J.Joachim & A.Schneiker The Gender of Resistance: A Case Study Approach to Thinking about Gender in Violent Resistance Movements; G.Gonzalez, M.Kimmel, F.Malekahmadi & J.Tyagi PART II: REASON/RATIONALITY Power and Gendered Rationality in Western Epistemic Constructions of Female Suicide Bombings; T.Narozhna Assassins, Virgins, Scholars: Epistemologies and Geopolitics in Scholarly Knowledge on Suicide Bombing; C.Brunner From Snipers to Suicide Attacks: Exploring the Representations and Realities of Conflict in the Northern Caucasus; C.Moore Gendered Agency in Contested Truths: The Case of Hyunhee Kim (KAL858); S.Park-Kang PART III: EMOTION/EMOTIONALITY Ungendering the Links between Emotions and Violence: Towards a Political Appreciation of Empathy and Compassion; E.Hutchison & R.Bleiker Confusion, Fear, Disgust: Emotional Communication in Representations of Female Agency in Political Violence; L.Åhäll Heartfelt Positivity as an Orthogonal Approach to Gender, Agency and Political Violence: Reading Stormheart; E.PenttinenReviews'Gender, agency and political violence is a thought-provoking contribution to feminist debates around issues of political violence, agency/resistance and conflict resolution...The volume is an invaluable contribution to existing scholarship, providing both new empirical insights and novel methods for understanding the gendered nature of violence, both in its perpetration and subsequent (re)interpretations.' - Maria O'Reilly, King's College London, Peacebuilding Author InformationROLAND BLEIKER Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland, Australia CLAUDIA BRUNNER is based at the Center for Peace Research and Peace Education, University of Klagenfurt, Austria LORI CROWE Doctoral Researcher in the Department of Political Science, York University, Canada GABRIELA GONZALEZ VAILLANT Ph.D. graduate student at SUNY-Stony Brook, USA EMMA HUTCHISON Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, Australia JUTTA JOACHIM Associate Professor of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany MICHAEL KIMMEL Distinguished Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, USA FARSHAD MALEKAHMADI Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Social Sciences, Naugatuck Valley Community College, Connecticut, USA CERWYN MOORE Senior Lecturer in International Relations at POLSIS, University of Birmingham, UK TANYA NAROZHNA Assistant Professor of Global Politics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada SUNGJU PARK-KANG Guest Researcher at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg, Sweden ELINA PENTTINEN Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Tampere, Finland and Professor of International Relations and European Studies at the University of Tallinn, Estonia ANDREA SCHNEIKER Assistant Professor at the Institute of Political Science at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany JUHI TYAGI Ph.D. graduate student at SUNY-Stony Brook, USA LISA WHITE Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Lincoln, USA Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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