3 | Gender, War and the Everyday

Gender, War, and the Everyday, September 24

As feminist International Relations scholar Christine Sylvester (2012) argues, the study of war and peace should not start and end with “states, military strategies, conventional security issues or weapons.” In this class, we examine the intersection between gender, war and the everyday, with a particular focus on how the politics of the ordinary and gendered body.

Reading – read #1 then choose any 2

    1. Parashar, Swati. “What wars and ‘war bodies’ know about international relations.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs 26.4 (2013): 615-630.
    2. Dávila, María Ximena. “Vital encounters: Violence, multiple (in) securities and the reproduction of ordinary life in Colombia.” Security Dialogue (2024): 09670106241237633.
    3. Butalia, Urvashi. “Community, state and gender: On women’s agency during partition.” Economic and political weekly (1993): WS12-WS24.
    4. Mra, Khin Khin, and Jenny Hedström. ““This Bra Protects me Better than the Military”: Bodies and Protests in the Myanmar Spring Revolution.” Journal of Contemporary Asia (2024): 1-22.
    5. McQuaid, Katie. “Violent continuities: Telling stories of one sexual minority life in the African Great Lakes region.” Identities 21.5 (2014): 570-585.
    6. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Nadera. “The politics of birth and the intimacies of violence against Palestinian women in occupied East Jerusalem.” British Journal of Criminology 55.6 (2015): 1187-1206. and How Palestinians are smuggling sperm out of Israeli prisons to have babies (short video)

Presentation Artist, Maria Kulikovska