Index. Acknowledgements -- Foreword by / Laura J. Shepherd -- Listen to women when creating peace initiatives / Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner -- 1. Giyira : indigenous women's knowing, being and doing as a way to end war on country / Jessica Russ-Smith -- 2. One for all, all for one : taking collective responsibility for ending war and sustaining peace / Heidi Hudson -- 3. Feminist organising for peace / Sarai B. Aharoni -- 4. Piecing-up peace in Kashmir : feminist perspectives on education for peace / Shweta Singh and Kidsha Poddar -- 5. Learn from Kurdish women's liberation movements to imagine the dissolution of the nation-state system / Eda Gunaydin -- 6. Queer our vision of security / Cai Wilkinson -- 7. Abolish nuclear weapons : feminist, queer, and indigenous knowledge for ending nuclear weapons / Ray Acheson -- 8. Make foreign policies as if Black and Brown lives mattered / Yolande Bouka -- 9. Draw on ecofeminist and indigenous scholarship to reimagine the ways we memorialise war / Sertan Saral -- 10. Engage with combatants as interlocutors for peace, not only as authorities on violence / Roxani Krystalli -- 11. Recognise the rights of nature / Keina Yoshida -- 12. Create just, inclusive feminist economics to foster sustainable peace / Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson -- 13. Change how civilian casualties are 'counted' / Thomas Gregory -- 14. Listen to women when creating peace initiatives / Laura J. Shepherd -- Notes on contributors -- Index.
Summary:
'All wars are started by men', so goes the saying. Whether this is true or not, patriarchal capitalism is certainly the driving force behind war in the modern era. So can we end war with feminism? This book argues that this is possible, and is in fact already happening. Each chapter provides a solution to war using innovative examples of how feminist and queer theory and practice can inform pacifist treaties, movements and methods, from the international to the domestic spheres. Including chapters on how the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is informed by feminist theory, how indigenous feminism provides the key to reimagining peace, the disruptive aesthetics of North Korean women's art, the link between male domestic violence and mass violence, rethinking the queer definition of security, and many more aspects. By thinking beyond the violence of the capitalist patriarchy, this book makes the powerful case that the possibility of life without war is real.
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