Feminist Solutions for Ending War - Reading List

Week 1: What is feminism?

·      bell hooks, Chapters 1, 8, 10, 11 from ‘Feminism is for Everybody’ 

 Week 2: Is Feminism for Everyone? 

·      Bonnie Thorton Dill, Race, Class and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood from Intersectinoal Approach: Transforming the Academy through Race, Class, and Gender edited by Michele Tracy Berger and Kathleen Guidroz

·      CT Mohanty, - Feminist review, 1988 – JSTOR [PDF] Under Western eyes: Feminist scholarship and colonial discourses

Week 3: Do feminists have something different to say about war and security?

·      J Ann Tickner, Feminist responses to international security studies, Peace Review Vol 16, 2004

·      Heidi Hudson, ‘Doing’ security as though humans matter: A feminist perspective on the politics of human security, Security Dialogue 2005

·      Christine Sylvester, “Introduction: War questions for feminism and International Relations” in War as Experience, 2013

Week 4: What is war and what are feminist solutions to ending war?

·      Caitlin Cahil et al. “Dreaming of…”: Reflections on Participatory Action Research as a Feminist Praxis of Critical Hope” Affilia 2010 Vol 25: 4 

·      Swati Parashar, Foreward: Waging the War on Wars: Feminist Ways Foreward from Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner, Introduction to Feminist Solutions to Ending War, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

Week 5: What is Peace and How do Feminists Organise for It?

·      Catia Confortini, What is Peace from Intelligent Compassion: The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Feminist Peace available at https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/What-Is-Feminist-Peace-by-Catia-Confortini-.pdf

·      Heidi Hudson, “One for all, all for one: taking collective responsibility for ending war and sustaining peace,” from Feminist Solutions to Ending War. Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Sarai Aharoni, “Feminist Organising for Peace” from Feminist Solutions to Ending War, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

Week 6: How can we centre Indigenous feminist solutions to ending war?

·      Aileen Moreton Robinson, Toward and Australian Indigenous Women’s Standpoint Theory, Australian Feminist Studies Vol 28: 2013

·      Jess Russ-Smith, Giyira: Indigenous Women’s Knowing, Being and Doing as a Way to End War on Country, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Jorge Barrera, Canada aimed to ‘destroy Indigenous people’: the MMIWG inquiry’s case for genocide CBC news 3 June 2019 

Week 7: How do Black lives matter in efforts to end war?

·      Patricia Hill CollinsBlack Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Introduction. 

·      Gargi Bhattacharyya, “Introduction: dangerous brown men?” from Dangerous Brown Men: Exploiting Sex, Violence and Feminism in the 'War on Terror’

·      Yolande Bouka, Make Foreign Policies as if Black and Brown Lives Mattered, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2020/6/29/are-women-being-left-out-of-the-black-lives-matter-movement/

Week 8: How to queer approaches help us rethink war and security?

·      M Richter-Montpetit, “Everything you always wanted to know about sex (in IR) but were afraid to ask: The ‘queer turn’ in international relations”

·      Cai Wilkinson (2017) “Are we winning? A strategic analysis of queer wars,” Australian Journal of International Affairs, 71:3, 236-240, DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2017.1290049 

·      Cai Wilkinson, “Queer our Vision of Security” from Feminist Solutions to Ending War, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

Week 9: What can we learn from international women’s movements activism? 

·      Eda Gunaydin, Learn from Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movements to Imagine the Dissolution of the Nation-State System, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Ray Acheson, Abolish Nuclear Weapons: Draw on Feminist, Queer and Indigenous Theory and Experiences to Support Movements to End Nuclear Weapons, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Ece Temelkuran, “Kurdish female fighters are onece again pawns in a bigger political game” Guardian October 2019

·      https://video.vice.com/en_uk/video/female-fighters-of-kurdistan/55dc9b6f1ce00c683baee92f?popular=1

Week 10: How do the ways we ‘count’ and memorialize war matter?

·      Sertan Saral, Draw on Ecofeminist and Indigenous Scholarship to Reimagine the Ways we Memorialise War, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Thomas Gregory, “Change how Civilian Casualties are ‘Counted,’ Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Christina Masters, “Body Counts: the biopolitics of death,” in The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror edited by Elizabeth Dauphinee, Cristsina Masters. 

Week 11: How are war and the environment connected?

·      Keina Yoshida, Recognise the Rights of Nature, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson, Create Just, Inclusive Feminist Economies to Foster Sustainable Peace, Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Megan MacKenzie, Is Fragile Masculinity the Biggest Obstacle to Climate Change? ABC News 19 December 2019 

Week 12: What happens after war? 

·      Roxani Krystalli, “Engage with Combatants as Interlocutors for Peace, Not Only as Authorities on Violence,” Feminist Solutions to Ending War (edited by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner)

·      Erin Baines, “The haunting of Alice: Local approaches to justice and reconciliation in Northern Uganda,” The International Journal of Transitional Justice 2007/3/1