• ISBN13: 9789385932304
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: August 12, 2017
• Pages: 220
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 327 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Women's Studies

About the Book In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by scholarship, they have played a crucial role in attempts to strengthen civil society and bring peace to the region. This collection offers a close look at the successes and failures of those efforts, adding important insight into ongoing debates on gender and political change in societies affected by conflict. At the same time, the book takes a fresh, critical look at universalist feminist and interventionist biases that have tended to see peace processes as windows of opportunity for women's empowerment while ignoring the complexity of gender relations during conflict.

Åshild Kolås is a social anthropologist and research professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo and the author of Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition.