This handbook broadens and engages with current debates on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding.
Through an expansive range of chapters across a unique array of geographical settings, the volume shatters prevailing assumptions about mens relationship to conflict and its wake. Situated across scholarship, policy, and practice, the contributions offer new possibilities for a more complex and complete picture of the gendered tapestries of conflict, peace, and the spaces in between. The handbook combines feminist, intersectional, relational, decolonial, and queer perspectives on the conceptualisation of masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. This approach provides us with the tools to go beyond direct, physical, conflict-related violence to examine less visible forms of violence and power, as well as other ways in which masculinities interact with conflict and peace. In doing so, the book permits a multi-faceted view of mens roles, relationships, vulnerabilities, and non-violent agencies in conflict and peacebuilding across scholarship, policy, and practice.
This book will be of much interest to students of gender, masculinities, peace and conflict studies and International Relations.
Chapter 1, 3, 9, 13, and 30 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Chapter 25 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.
This handbook broadens and engages with current debates on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding.
PART 1: Theoretical framings
1. Masculinities in conflict and
peacebuilding: an introduction
2. Theoretical frameworks on masculinities
and peacebuilding: current limitations and Potential for a
gender-transformative peace
3. Masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding:
a critical mapping of the field
4. Feminist research on men and
masculinity(ies): dilemmas and discomfort PART 2: Civilian masculinities and
the spectrum of violent contexts
5. Invisible men: the injured lives of
Afghan interpreters
6. Masculine vulnerability, gangs, and perpetual violence
7. Masculinities and/under protracted occupation
8. 'Doing' padre de Pamilya:
displacement and masculinities in the Southern Philippines
9. Passing as a
'hard man': regulating everyday queer (in)visibilities in the Syrian conflict
10. Masculinities in the conflict-affected rural Pashtun society of Pakistan
PART 3: Masculinities, agency, vulnerability, and care
11. Masculinities and
agency: gendering vulnerability and victimhood
12. Masculinity, trauma, and
armed conflict: how gender norms shape and perpetuate trauma among men
13.
Male survivors of conflict-related sexual violence, masculinities and
peacebuilding
14. War disability: complications and possibilities for
peacebuilding processes
15. Enacting a politics of care: refugee mens
experiences and responses to displacement in Greece
16. "When I see my son,
all I feel is love": caring practices of fathers seeking asylum in Belgium
PART 4: Masculinities in peacebuilding
17. Mainstreaming masculinities in the
Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda
18. Analysing men and masculinities in
gender-transformative humanitarian action policy
19. Gentleman-bureaucrat
masculinities and UK national security policymaking
20. Confronting
masculinities and breaking binaries in disarmament diplomacy
21. Between
civilian and military masculinities and exceptionalism in humanitarian memoir
22. Masculinities in the Colombian Truth Commissions Final Report:
challenges and opportunities for gender-transformative justice
23. Doing
gender, doing peace: eurocentrism, masculinities, and the WPS Agendas add
men and stir problem PART 5: Civilian masculine gender norms in the
aftermath of conflict
24. Masculinities in post-conflict Aceh: gender, power,
and peace processes
25. Patriarchal backlash in Uganda? Contested
masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding
26. "Today I can truly have a
heart for people: narratives of identity transformation amongst former gang
members in South Africa
27. Moving away from violence: emerging
counter-hegemonic masculinities in Timor-Leste
28. Reshaping gender roles and
pollution of hpon after the 2021 military coup in Myanmar
29. Queering
masculinities in protests: imagining other ways to be with Danish Siddiqui
PART 6: Transforming masculinities in conflict-affected settings
30.
'Faithing' masculinities in conflict: engaging faith leaders and communities
to prevent sexual and gender-based violence in the Democratic Republic of
Congo
31. Transforming masculinities through Male Advocacy in post-conflict
Bougainville
32. Resisting the dichotomies of war heroes and victims:
masculinities and political prisoners in El Salvador
33. Men beyond war: a
case study of working with traumatized men in Eastern DR Congo
34. Seeing the
forest for the trees: the case for a more structural approach to countering
militarised masculinities and mobilising men for feminist peace
Henri Myrttinen is a visiting research fellow at the University of Bremen, Germany, and an independent consultant on gender, peace, and security.
Chloé Lewis is a senior research fellow with Equimundo: Centre for Masculinities and Social Justice and is a research fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
Heleen Touquet is a visiting professor at the department of political sciences at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
Philipp Schulz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Intercultural and International Studies (InIIS) at the University of Bremen.
Farooq Yousaf is an independent researcher based in Australia.
Elizabeth Laruni is the Conflict Sensitivity and Gender Lead of the London-based peacebuilding organisation International Alert.
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