Download or read book Gender Conflict and Peace in Kashmir written by Seema Shekhawat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that gender is a key component of conflict and peace discourse. The marginalization of women in conflict and peace is all pervasive. Kashmir is a mirror image of this global scenario. Kashmiri women aided the militant movement in significant ways though they did not take part in direct combat. They played key roles to sustain and nourish the movement – as protestors, protectors and motivators, and facilitators. Their experiences of participation in the conflict, however, remain subdued by the dominant masculinist discourse. Kashmiri women are excluded from the militancy discourse as contributors as well as from peacemaking discourse as stakeholders. The study interrogates theory and practice of women's participation in conflict and argues that changed gender-roles during conflict do not necessarily revolutionize socially ascribed norms. The book also examines the experiences of women in sustaining conflict to make a case for their due place in negotiating formal peace.
Download or read book Gender Conflict and Peace in Kashmir written by Seema Shekhawat and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the role of women in militancy in Kashmir from a historical perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Female Combatants in Conflict and Peace written by Seema Shekhawat and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume illuminates the role of women in violence to demonstrate that gender is a key component of discourse on conflict and peace. Through an examination of theory and practice of women's participation in violent conflicts, the book makes the argument that both conflict and post-conflict situations are gender insensitive.
Download or read book Contesting Masculinities and Women s Agency in Kashmir written by Amya Agarwal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the significance of gender and masculinities in understanding conflict? Through an ethnographic study conducted between 2013 and 2016, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented by the state armed forces and the non-state actors in the Kashmir valley. In addition, the book broadens the understanding of women’s agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in the conflict. Combining existing elements of both feminist research and critical scholarship on men and masculinities, the book highlights the significance of foregrounding the interplay of men’s identities in conflicts to understand agency in a meaningful way. Through the focus on the simultaneous play of multiple masculinities, the book also questions the oversimplified and monolithic usage of masculinity being associated only with violence in conflicts. The empirical data in the book includes interviews and narratives of multiple stakeholders belonging to diverse vantage points in the Kashmir conflict. Some of these include activists, widows, wives of the disappeared, ex-militants, surrendered militants, participants of the stone-pelting movement, mothers of sons killed in the conflict, women representatives of the village Halqa Panchayats, and army personnel. The book also draws from alternative material in the form of graffiti, folk songs, poetry on graves, and slogans. Through anecdotal reminiscence, the author reflects on the challenges of field research in Kashmir that served as an opportunity for self-contemplation.
Download or read book Speaking Peace written by Urvashi Butalia and published by Zubaan. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kashmir has been, for some years, a key issue on the Indian political map. More than a decade of conflict has deeply affected people’s livelihoods and living environments, their health, their eating habits, their work and workplaces, their access to education. The impact of these things is felt most sharply in the lives of women, and yet, few discussions on Kashmir pay attention to this. The book reflects the range of women’s experiences in this conflict. How has the conflict affected them? How have they learnt to live with continuing violence? What strategies have they used to cope, to find a space to share or express what they are going through? What impact has the conflict had on their health and on their access to education? What has it meant for families, for power equations within them, for relationships, for children? The contributions in this book explore these issues through interviews with Kashmiri women, personal reflective pieces, extracts from different reports and books. Together they draw attention to a vital aspect of the conflict that has been all but forgotten. Published by Zubaan.
Download or read book Contesting Masculinities and Women s Agency in Kashmir written by Amya Agarwal and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on rich empirical data, this book explores the politics of competing and sometimes overlapping masculinities represented in the Kashmir valley. It broadens the understanding of women's agency through its engagement with the construction, performance, and interplay of masculinities in conflict.
Download or read book Women s Agency Overcoming Violence by Working for Peace in Kashmir written by Linda Noble and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do women view the protracted conflict in Kashmiri; how have they been affected by violence; what are their activities in response to violence and can their activities contribute to peace processes? Taking into account women's class, age and cultural norms, this research takes a constructive approach with case study design; using qualitative methodology with a quantitative analysis of the interviewees, correlating their experience of violence with their activities to build peace. Applying theory to the data the researcher examines women's networks that connect to all levels of civil society. Women have a long term investment in peace and work differently than their male counterparts. Kashmiri women are a valuable untapped resource who can contribute greatly to social and political peace processes, if they are included at the local, national and international levels. This research contributes to existing literature that supports a gender inclusive strategy for peacebuilding. It also offers valuable information to inform negotiations, conflict resolution, community building, aid assistance programs as well as much needed transitional justice and reconciliation processes.
Download or read book Gender And Armed Conflict In Kashmir written by Sudha Ramachandran & Siddharth Mallavarapu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Muslim Women Agency and Resistance Politics written by Inshah Malik and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates agency in the historical resistance movement in Kashmir by initiating a fresh conversation about Muslim Kashmiri women. It exhibits Muslim women not merely as accidental victims but conscientious agents who choose to operate within the struggles of self-determination. The experience of victimization stimulates women to take control of their lives and press for change. Despite experiencing isolating political conditions, Kashmiri women do not internalize their supposed inferiority. The author shows that women’s struggles against patriarchy are at the heart of a very complex historical resistance to the Indian rule.
Download or read book Gender Violence and Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the outcome of the deliberations of various workshops organized by WISCOMP.
Download or read book Women Silent Victims in Armed Conflict written by Charu WaliKhanna and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims To Highlight The Forgotten Victims Of Armed Conflict-The Woman-Lifts The Veil On Indignities To Which Women Are Subjected By Invading Forces-Analyses The Content Of International Treaties, National Legislation And Emphasizes Their Inadequacy. Opines That Some Of The Changes In The Position Of Women Are Of A Cosmetic Nature Only And We Have A Long Way To Go.
Download or read book Conflict and Displacement in Jammu and Kashmir written by Seema Shekhawat and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impact of arms conflict on women in Jammu and Kashmir, India; a study.
Download or read book Feminism and International Relations written by J. Ann Tickner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important introduction to feminist International Relations discusses the history, present and future of the field. With a unique format, it examines issues including global governance, the United Nations, war, peace, security, science, beauty and human rights.
Download or read book Kashmir Militarization and Women in Conflict A Study of Curfewed Night written by Naseer Khan and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Politik - Sonstige Themen, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The region of Kashmir once known for its scenic beauty has been caught in a political uncertainty from last two decades. The political strife has made direct and indirect impact on the population living there. Kashmir once a pioneering place for all trades and prized destination for tourists is now off colour due to chaos and confusion. The scene got changed abruptly and it took a different shape which was beyond the imagination of the common folk: the rustic ‘ponnywalla’, (horseman), the Kashmir ki kali, boatman, all disappeared from the scene and were replaced by the torturing soldiers, crackdowns, frisking and militants... the white land which turned red due to bloodshed (Naseer 127). The uncertainty made traumatic impact on the families living there especially on those who experienced dreadful events of chaos, conflict, killings, crackdown, beating, frisking, by soldiers, gunfire’s etc. Directly or indirectly all became vulnerable to the considerable emotional anxiety and physical reactions: [...]
Download or read book Gender Conflict Peace and UNSC Resolution 1325 written by Seema Shekhawat and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an increasing amount of literature on various aspects of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325. While appreciating this scholarship, this volume highlights some of the omissions and concerns to make a quality addition to the ongoing discourse on the intersection of gender with peace and security with a focus on 1325. It aims at a reality-check of the impressive to-dos list as the seventeen years since the Resolution passed provide an occasion to pause and ponder over the gap between the aspirations and the reality, the ideal and the practice, the promises and the action, the euphoria and the despair. The volume compiles carefully selected essays woven around Resolution 1325 to tease out the intricacies within both the Resolution and its implementation. Through a cocktail of well-known and some lesser-known case studies, the volume addresses complicated realities with the intention of impacting policy-making and the academic fields of gender, peace, and security. The volume emphasizes the significance of transforming formal peace making processes, and making them gender inclusive and gender sensitive by critically examining some omissions in the challenges that the Resolution implementation confronts. The major question the volume seeks to address is this: where are women positioned in the formal peace-making seventeen years after the adoption of Resolution 1325?
Download or read book Demystifying Kashmir written by Navnita Chadha Behera and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kashmir issue is typically cast as a "territorial dispute" between two belligerent neighbors in South Asia. But there is much more to the story than that. The Jammu and Kashmir state, home to an extraordinary medley of races, tribal groups, languages, and religions, makes up one of the most diverse regions in the subcontinent. Demystifying Kashmir argues that recognizing the rich, complex, and multi-faceted character of Kashmir is important not only for understanding the structural causes of this conflict but also for providing opportunities to establish a just, viable, and lasting solution. In this remarkable book, Navnita Chadha Behera traces the history of Kashmir from the pre-partition India to the current-day situation. She provides a comprehensive analysis of the philosophical underpinnings and the local, bilateral, and international dynamics of the key players involved in this flashpoint of conflict, including New Delhi, Islamabad, political groups and militant outfits on both sides of the Line of Control, and international powers. The book explores the political and military components of India's and Pakistan's Kashmir strategy, the self-determination debate, and the insurgent movement that began in 1989. The conclusion focuses on what Behera terms the four P's: parameters, players, politics, and prognosis of the ongoing peace process in Kashmir. Behera also reflects on the devastation of the October 2005 earthquake and its implications for the future of the area. Based on extensive field research and primary sources, Demystifying Kashmir breaks new ground by framing the conflict as a political battle of state-making between India and Pakistan rather than as a rigid and ideological Hindu-Muslim conflict. Behera's work will be an essential guide for journalists, scholars, activists, policymakers, and anyone interested in how to avert a war between these nuclear powers.
Download or read book Women War and Peace in South Asia written by Rita Manchanda and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, War and Peace in South Asia examines the many different experiences women have of conflict in this region. Rita Manchanda shifts the focus away from the victimhood discourse (such as The Grieving Mother) and explores women's agency for both peace and conflict. The book is structured around six narratives of women negotiating violent politics in their everyday lives.
