Decolonising gender and peacebuilding: feminist frontiers and border thinking in Africa. (3rd May 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Decolonising gender and peacebuilding: feminist frontiers and border thinking in Africa. (3rd May 2016)
- Main Title:
- Decolonising gender and peacebuilding: feminist frontiers and border thinking in Africa
- Authors:
- Hudson, Heidi
- Abstract:
- Abstract: The article seeks to theorise an integrated decolonised feminist frame for peacebuilding in an African context. Arguing that a decolonial-feminist lens has the potential to change the way we look at peacebuilding practices, I propose the notion of 'feminist frontiers' – an engaged yet stabilising heuristic tool for analysing racialised and gendered relations post-conflict. The argument is structured around three pillars, namely: metageographies as metaphoric mental-space constructions of a colonial peace; masks that constrain the introduction of complicated and intersected human subjecthoods; and mundane matter that elicits ambivalent engagements between human and post-human subjectivities in the areas of everyday political economies and infrastructural rule of peacebuilding. I conclude that such feminist frontiers represent intermediate and mediated spaces or epistemological borderlands from where the undertheorised and empirically understudied discursive and material dimensions of peacebuilding from a gender perspective can be investigated.
- Is Part Of:
- Peacebuilding. Volume 4:Number 2(2016)
- Journal:
- Peacebuilding
- Issue:
- Volume 4:Number 2(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 4, Issue 2 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 4
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0004-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 194
- Page End:
- 209
- Publication Date:
- 2016-05-03
- Subjects:
- Decoloniality -- gender -- peacebuilding -- Africa -- intersectionality -- feminist
Peace-building -- Periodicals
Peace -- Periodicals
Mediation -- Periodicals
Conflict management -- Periodicals
Nation-building -- Periodicals
327.172 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rpcb20/current ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/21647259.2016.1192242 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2164-7259
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