[ecrea] New publication: Gender, Globalization, and Violence - Postcolonial Conflict Zones

New publication:

Gender, Globalization, and Violence

Postcolonial Conflict Zones

Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi

Routledge – 2014 – 282 pages

Link and look inside this book: 
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415817356/

Series: Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality

This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most 
pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial society in their transition 
from conflict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores 
from new angles questions of violent conflict, forced migration, 
trafficking and deportation, human rights, citizenship, transitional 
justice and cosmopolitanism. The volume focuses more specifically on the 
gendering of violence from a postcolonial perspective as it analyses 
unique cases that disrupt traditional visions of violence by including 
the history of empire and colony, and its legacies that continue to 
influence present-day configurations of gender, race, nationality, class 
and sexuality. Part One maps out the gendered and racialized contours of 
conflict zones, from war zones, prisons and refugee camps to 
peacekeeping missions and humanitarian aid, reframing the field and 
establishing connections between colonial legacies and postcolonial 
dynamics. Part Two explores how these conflict zones are played out not 
just outside but also within Europe, demonstrating that multicultural 
Europe is fraught with different legacies of violence and postcolonial 
melancholia. Part Three gives an idea of the kind of future that can be 
offered to post-conflict societies, defined as contact zones, by 
exploring opportunities for dialogue, restoration and reconciliation 
that can be envisaged from a gendered and postcolonial perspective 
through alternative feminist practices and the work of art and their 
redemptive power in mobilizing social change or increasing national 
healing processes. Though strongly anchored in postcolonial critique, 
the chapters draw from a range of traditions and expertise, including 
conflict studies, gender theory, visual studies, (new) media theory, 
sociology, race theory, international security studies and religion studies.

Introduction: New Frames of Gendered Violence Sandra Ponzanesi Part I: 
Conflict Zones: Colonial Haunting and Contested Sovereignties 1. 
Neoliberal Discourses on Violence: Monstrosity and Rape in Borderland 
War Jolle Demmers 2. Thin Ice: Postcoloniality and Sexuality in the 
Politics of Citizenship and Military Service Vron Ware 3. American 
Humanitarian Citizenship: The "Soft" Power of Empire Inderpal Grewal 4. 
Female Suicide Bombers and the Politics of Gendered Militancy Sandra 
Ponzanesi Part II: European Frictions: Memories, Migration and 
Citizenship 5. Uses and Abuses of Gender and Nationality: Torture and 
the French-Algerian War Christine Quinan 6. Migrating Sovereignties and 
Mirror States: >From Eritrea to L'Aquila Marguerite Waller 7. Doing 
"Integration" in Europe: Postcolonial Frictions in the Making of 
Citizenship Marc de Leeuw and Sonja van Wichelen 8. Coffin Exchange 
Paulo de Medeiros Part III: Contact Zones: Transitional Justice, 
Reconciliation and Cosmopolitanism 9. "Invisible Wars": Gendered 
Terrorism in the US Military and the Juárez Feminicidio. Alicia Arrizón 
10. Political Transitions and the Arts: The Performance of 
(Post-)Colonial Leadership in Philip Miller’s Cantata REwind and in Wim 
Botha’s Portrait Busts. Rosemarie Buikema 11. Justice by Any Means 
Necessary: Vigilantism Among Indian Women Aaronette White and Shagun 
Rastogi 12. On Love and Shame: Two Photographs of Female Protesters 
Marta Zarzycka 13. Rethinking the "Arab Spring" Through the Postsecular: 
Gender Entanglements, Social Media and the Religion/Secular Divide Eva 
Midden

Sandra Ponzanesi is Head of Humanities at University College Utrecht and 
Associate Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Critique at the 
Department of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme, 
Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Among her publications are 
Paradoxes of Postcolonial Culture (2004), Migrant Cartographies (2005), 
Postcolonial Cinema Studies (2012), Deconstructing Europe (2012) and The 
Postcolonial Cultural Industry (2014). She has also guest edited two 
special issues on ‘Postcolonial Europe’ and ‘Digital Crossings in Europe.’

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