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Overview"The Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda is celebrated as a landmark global framework for achieving gender equality in peace and security governance. Its power is visible in two decades of United Nations resolutions, national action plans, regional initiatives, and countless activist, academic, and philanthropic projects. Yet despite this vitality, it is haunted by failure, as a lack of political will and stubborn patriarchal resistance frustrate its promise. This book offers a groundbreaking critical account of the WPS agenda, exploring its evolution in relation to the wider politics of global governance and feminism. Paul Kirby and Laura J. Shepherd argue that WPS is not a settled, cohesive policy but a field in flux, defined and disrupted by a growing number of national, supranational, subnational, and transnational agents who in turn act on an expanding catalogue of threats, from climate change to homophobia, challenging traditional boundaries of peace and security. Kirby and Shepherd reconceptualize WPS as a ""policy ecosystem,"" tracing interaction and contestation around the agenda across levels from the UN Security Council to military alliances to feminist activists. They combine analysis of a vast dataset of policy documents with key informant interviews and close readings of diplomacy, statecraft, the politics of indigeneity, counterinsurgency, antimilitarism, human rights, and the arms trade across the first twenty years of WPS. Far-reaching and incisive, Governing the Feminist Peace poses a provocative question: What if we abandoned the idea of the WPS agenda as a unified political project altogether?" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Paul C. Kirby , Laura ShepherdPublisher: Columbia University Press Imprint: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231205122ISBN 10: 0231205120 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 02 April 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures A Note on Referencing Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations 1. The Impossibility of Women, Peace, and Security 2. Becoming Policy Ecologists 3. Map, Territory, Text 4. Producing an Agenda at the United Nations 5. Domesticating the Gender Perspective 6. Fractures and Frictions of a Policy Ecosystem 7. Borderlands of the Feminist Peace 8. Forget WPS Appendix 1. Ecosystem Policy Documents Appendix 2. Policy Ecosystem Selection Criteria Appendix 3. Codebook for Policy Ecosystem Analysis Appendix 4. United Nations Treaties, Conventions, and Resolutions Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsPaul Kirby and Laura Shepherd push us, their lucky readers, to the edges of our seats. Reading this book sharpens our wakefulness, keeps us restless in our curiosities. Kirby and Shepherd show us how the myriad and shifting resistances to the Women, Peace, and Security agenda actually have fueled the vitality of diverse WPS campaigners and their understandings. Our learning how to become what they call 'policy ecologists' will better equip us to grasp the fluid, messy realities of international political life. -- Cynthia Enloe, author of <i>Twelve Feminist Lessons of War</i> This magnificent collaboration exceeds all expectations. Engaging with the Women, Peace, and Security agenda as a dynamic plurality, Shepherd and Kirby map the complexities, tensions, and contestations of its vast ecosystem of policies and ‘messy realities.’ Their method produces compelling insights into what conditions (and failures) might empower feminist vitality (postcolonial, antiracist, indigenous, and queer) to foster feminist peace. -- Dianne Otto, Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School Reflecting the impressive repertoire of their feminist scholarship, Kirby and Shepherd present critical insights into the WPS policy ecosystem. Their ‘breaking’ of WPS in this book infuses new energy into efforts to imagine and realize feminist peace. -- Soumita Basu, Associate Professor of International Relations, South Asian University, New Delhi In Governing the Feminist Peace, two of the world’s leading scholars on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) make a compelling case for pursuing feminist peace by forgetting WPS. They pair skillful, careful, detailed research on WPS’s multiplicities with field-changing theoretical analysis. The result is a must-read text for students, scholars, and practitioners alike. -- Laura Sjoberg, author of <i>Women as Wartime Rapists: Beyond Sensation and Stereotyping</i> Paul Kirby and Laura Shepherd push us, their lucky readers, to the edges of our seats. No curling up, no cozy cuppa. Reading this book sharpens our wakefulness, keeps us restless in our curiosities. Kirby and Shepherd show us how the myriad and shifting resistances to the women, peace and security agenda actually have fueled the vitality of diverse WPS campaigners and their understandings. Our learning how to become what they call 'policy ecologists' will better equip us to grasp the fluid, messy realities of international political life. -- Cynthia Enloe, author of <i>Twelve Feminist Lessons of War</i> Author InformationPaul Kirby is senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London and a codirector of the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub. Laura J. Shepherd is professor of international relations at the University of Sydney and a visiting senior fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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