Gender, Agency and Political Violence
Abstract
This book’s authors analyze the multiple ways in which acts (and perpetrators) of violence, strategies of resistance and efforts at conflict resolution are gendered, by considering the conditions, maintenance and interpretation of political violence. Specifically, they engage with the constitution of gendered subjects and gendered agents in a range of different contexts of violence, to illustrate the importance of contextualized analysis. They show that political violence is not the exclusive preserve of non-state actors, but that individuals, resistance movements, paramilitaries and state (or state-sponsored) organizations perpetrate violence in pursuit of political objectives.
Citation
Åhäll, Linda and Laura J. Shepherd, eds. Gender, Agency and Political Violence. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2012.
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