Gender, Violence and Security: Discourse as Practice

✍ Scribed by Laura J. Sheperd

• Publisher: Zed Books
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 225
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this highly original poststructural feminist critique, the author maps the discursive terrains of institutions, both NGOs and the UN, which formulate and implement resolutions and guides of practice that affect gender issues in the context of international policy practices. Drawing together theoretical work on discourses of gender violence and international security, sexualized violence in war, gender and peace processes, and the domestic-international dichotomy with her own rigorous empirical investigation, the author develops a compelling discourse-theoretical analysis that promises to have far-reaching impact in both academic and policy environments.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
......Page 6
Acknowledgements
......Page 7
Abbreviations
......Page 8
1 | Introduction
......Page 10
Contributions of a feminist poststructuralist
......Page 12
Introducing 1325
......Page 14
Aims
......Page 18
Outline of this study
......Page 20
Endings and beginnings
......Page 23
2 | Analytical strategies
......Page 25
On discourse
......Page 29
On power
......Page 31
On representation
......Page 33
Analytical strategies
......Page 35
3 | The state of the discipline(s)
......Page 43
(Gender) violence
......Page 44
(International) security
......Page 63
4 | The Secretary-General's reports
......Page 88
About the report: reporting on UNSCR 1325......Page 89
Analysing the report: problematizing the Secretary-General's report......Page 95
Challenging the reports: the implementation of UNSCR 1325
......Page 114
5 | United
Nations Security Council Resolution 1325......Page 116
About UNSCR 1325
......Page 117
Understanding UNSCR 1325: a descriptive reading
......Page 120
Problematizing UNSCR 1325: a discourse-theoretical reading
......Page 123
Challenging UNSCR 1325: conclusions
......Page 139
6 | Exploring the narratives of production of UNSCR 1325
......Page 142
Contextualizing the NGO WG on women, peace and security
......Page 144
Analysing the NGO WG on women, peace and security
......Page 148
Contextualizing the United Nations Security Council
......Page 154
Analysing the United Nations Security Council
......Page 158
Challenging the narratives of production: conclusions
......Page 163
7 | Conclusions
......Page 169
‘How does a policy mean?’......Page 170
The violent reproduction of the international
......Page 174
The violent reproduction of gender
......Page 177
Towards a feminist reconceptualization of (international) security and (gender) violence
......Page 181
Notes
......Page 184
References
......Page 193
Index
......Page 219