9 | Everyday Peace: Love and Care

November 5
“Brothers, sisters, let us open our hearts like a flower waiting for the first ray of sunlight in the morning. Let us sow dreams and harvest hopes, remembering that we can only build from the bottom up, from the left, and from the heart” – Oaxacan activist Beatriz Cariño Trujillo, murdered in 2010 (above: Lapiztola Stencil, Let’s Sow Dreams, Let’s Harvest Hope, 2015)

Guest Speakers:  Abiya Fatuma, student, survivor, advocate, Uganda, and Liliane Umuhoza, advocate and  MMPGA alumni!

Hosts:  Claire, Anna, Alyssa

In this class, we will explore the question posed by Krystalli and Schulz, what does it mean to take love and care seriously in the study of war and rebuilding of life in its aftermaths? How to centre care and love as a practice of solidarity and peace building that is transformative of relations of violence, a practice of protection, and resistance to violence and silencing? How might policymaking centre care as a methodology for peacebuilding?

Readings –  Do reading 1 + 2 and then choose 1 more

  1. Krystalli, Roxani, and Philipp Schulz. “Taking Love and Care Seriously: An Emergent Research Agenda for Remaking Worlds in the Wake of Violence.” International Studies Review 24.1 (2022). (21 pages)
  2. Hudson, Heidi. “One for All, All for One: Taking Collective Responsibility for Ending War and Sustaining Peace.” (2021): 29.
  3. Agarwal, Amya. “Civilian and Caring Masculinities and the Questions of Justice in Kashmir.” Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice. Routledge 325-343.
  4. Berry, Marie E. “Radicalising resilience: mothering, solidarity, and interdependence among women survivors of war.” Journal of International Relations and Development 25.4 (2022): 946-966. (11 pages)
  5. Blomqvist, Linnéa, Elisabeth Olivius, and Jenny Hedström. “Care and silence in women’s everyday peacebuilding in Myanmar.” Conflict, Security & Development 21.3 (2021): 223-244. (21pages)
  6. Vaittinen, T., Donahoe, A., Kunz, R., Bára Ómarsdóttir, S., & Roohi, S. (2019). Care as everyday peacebuilding. Peacebuilding, 7(2), 194–209. (15 pages)

Presentation Artist, Laetitia Ky (Khayria and Elena)

Further Reading

  1. Hromadžić A (2022). Life in an age of death: War and the river in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    American Anthropologist 124(2): 263–278.
  2. Tallulah Lines. “Portraits of feminicide: mural painting as protection among migrant women in Quintana Roo, Mexico”, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, (2024) 50:13, 3338-3358, DOI: 10.1080/1369183X.2024.2345996
  3. Hartnett, Liane. “Love is worldmaking: Reading Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora as international theory.” International Studies Quarterly 66.3 (2022): sqac037.
  4. Vaittinen, T., Donahoe, A., Kunz, R., Bára Ómarsdóttir, S., & Roohi, S. (2019). Care as everyday peacebuilding. Peacebuilding, 7(2), 194–209. (15 pages)
  5. Helen Berents, Caitlin Mollica, Casey Odgers-Jewell, Hayley Payne, Savannah Spalding, Conducting Care-full Research: Collaborative Research amidst Corona, a Coup, and Other Crises, International Studies Perspectives, 2024; https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekae005