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Book SynopsisWill war ever end? Feminists across the world are proving that they can oppose patriarchal capitalist violence
Trade Review‘So much of patriarchal political culture is sustained by the myth that war, like poverty, will always be with us. But as I read the grounded, energizing chapters of Mackenzie's and Wegner's engaging book, I realized that the unrealistic ones among us are actually those who perpetuate the myth of unending war’
-- Cynthia Enloe, author of 'The Big Push: Exposing and Challenging Persistent Patriarchy'
'Explains the deeply-rooted gendered realities of war and builds on intersectional feminist analyses to articulate diverse creative possibilities for peace. In our increasingly militarised world it challenges us to use our political imaginations to think differently'
-- Kimberly Hutchings, Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University, London
'This collection shows that war is not a human inevitability, but a choice - a choice that states make over and over again. It offers intellectual and practical solidarity, and real tools for making other choices possible'
-- Kenneth MacLeish, Associate Professor of Medicine, Health & Society and Anthropology at Vanderbilt University
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Acknowledgements
Introduction to Feminist Solutions to Ending War - 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, Lecturer, Australian Catholic University, Australia
2. One for All and All for One: Taking Collective Responsibility for Ending War and Sustaining Peace - Heidi Hudson, Professor of International Relations, University of the Free State, South Africa
3. Feminist Organising for Peace - Sarai B. Aharoni, Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
4. Piecing-up Peace in Kashmir: Feminist Perspectives on Education for Peace - Shweta Singh, Assistant Professor, South Asian University, India & Diksha Poddar, Researcher, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
5. Learn from Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movements to Imagine the Dissolution of the Nation-state System - Eda Gunyadin, Researcher, University of Sydney, Australia
6. Queer Our Vision of Security - Cai Wilkinson, Associate Professor in International Relations, Deakin University, Australia
7. Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Draw on Feminist, Queer and Indigenous Theory and Experiences to Support Movements to End Nuclear Weapons - Ray Acheson, Researcher at Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, USA
8. Make Foreign Policies as if Black and Brown Lives Mattered - Yolande Bouka, Assistant Professor, Queen’s University, Canada
9. Draw on Ecofeminist and Indigenous Scholarship to Reimagine the Ways We Memorialise War - Sertan Saral, PHD Candidate, University of Sydney, Australia
10. Engage with Combatants as Interlocutors for Peace, Not Only as Authorities on Violence - Roxani Krystalli, Assistant Professor, University of St Andrews, Scotland
11. Recognise the Rights of Nature - Keina Yoshida, Research Officer in the Centre for Women, Peace, and Security, LSE, UK
12. Create Just, Inclusive Feminist Economies to Foster Sustainable Peace - Carol Cohn, Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA & Claire Duncanson, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK
13. Change How Civilian Casualties are ‘Counted’ - Thomas Gregory, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland, New Zealand
14. Listen to Women When Creating Peace Initiatives - Laura J. Shepherd, Professor of International Relations, University of Sydney, Australia
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