Women’s Bodies, Men’s War: the Political Economy of Military Rape and Gender Violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-145
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Exploring the role of gender and women in the political economy of health in armed conflict: a narrative review

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Meagher ◽  
Bothaina Attal ◽  
Preeti Patel
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Health Systems Strengthening ◽  
The Political ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Political Economy Of Health ◽  
And Gender

Abstract Background The ripple effects of protracted armed conflicts include: significant gender-specific barriers to accessing essential services such as health, education, water and sanitation and broader macroeconomic challenges such as increased poverty rates, higher debt burdens, and deteriorating employment prospects. These factors influence the wider social and political determinants of health for women and a gendered analysis of the political economy of health in conflict may support strengthening health systems during conflict. This will in turn lead to equality and equity across not only health, but broader sectors and systems, that contribute to sustainable peace building. Methods The methodology employed is a multidisciplinary narrative review of the published and grey literature on women and gender in the political economy of health in conflict. Results The existing literature that contributes to the emerging area on the political economy of health in conflict has overlooked gender and specifically the role of women as a critical component. Gender analysis is incorporated into existing post-conflict health systems research, but this does not extend to countries actively affected by armed conflict and humanitarian crises. The analysis also tends to ignore the socially constructed patriarchal systems, power relations and gender norms that often lead to vastly different health system needs, experiences and health outcomes. Conclusions Detailed case studies on the gendered political economy of health in countries impacted by complex protracted conflict will support efforts to improve health equity and understanding of gender relations that support health systems strengthening.

scholarly journals Against the Grain: Socially Just Social Science from the Standpoint of Roxana Ng (Review Essay)

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-159
Author(s):  
Elaine Coburn
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
The Political ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Varied Work

This contribution seeks to highlight the important scholarship of Roxana Ng, arguably one of Canadian sociology and political economy’s most underappreciated theorists. Like her activism, Ng’s academic work is both wide-ranging yet firmly focused on major, unjust inequalities. Her research particularly concerns the Canadian capitalist political economy but inevitably, given the embeddedness of these social relations within worldwide historical relations, stretches beyond national borders. In particular, Ng sought to unpack the everyday, intertwined – exploitative and unjust – relations of class, race, and gender, and the ways these unjust relations are articulated through migration and citizenship. This contribution situates the reception and uneven uptake of Ng’s varied work before critically analysing her contributions to understanding (1) immigrant women’s labour in Canada, (2) the complex racialized, gendered relations of power in the academy, and (3) the liberatory potential of embodied epistemologies, specifically Qi Gong meditation. In the conclusions, I consider the overall contributions and some contradictions of her work, in moving from the local to the global, and from the personal to the political.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Kate Bedford
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Diverse Economies ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Gambling Regulation ◽  
Gambling Law ◽  
And Gender

This Introduction identifies why bingo—a self-effacing game that is rarely taken seriously by academics—provides a vital new lens on debates about political economy and regulation. Within gambling studies, bingo practices can be used to further our understanding of mutual aid, of gambling law and policy, and of gendered gambling cultures. More broadly, bingo offers a lens through which we can see political economy and regulation differently. The Introduction summarizes this argument and provides an account of the three academic literatures—on diverse economies, regulation, and gender—to which the book seeks to contribute. It closes with a chapter-by-chapter overview. Finally, using two bingo prizes that reside in a domestic kitchen (a knife set, and a pair of mugs featuring Carry On characters that speak smutty catch phrases when lifted off a surface), the author also explains her personal investments in having the game—in all its ordinariness—taken more seriously in debates about the political economy of gambling regulation.

scholarly journals Women’s bodies as dominated territories: Intersectionality and performance in contemporary art from Mexico, Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 677-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emilia Quiñones-Otal
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
Western Art ◽  
Hispanic Caribbean ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Artistic Heritage

Since the 1970s, artists from Central America, Mexico and the Hispanic Caribbean have explored the connection between imperialism and gender violence through innovative artistic proposals. Their research has led them to use the female body as a metaphor for both the invaded geographical territory and the patriarchal incursion into women’s lives. This trend has received little to no attention and it behooves us to understand why it has happened and, more importantly, how the artists are proposing we examine this double violence endured by the women who live or used to live in countries with a colonial present or past. The resulting images are powerful, interesting, and a great contribution to Latin America’s artistic heritage. This study proposes that research yet to be done in other Global areas where colonies has been established, since it is possible that this trend can be understood, not only as an element of the Latin American artistic canon, but also integral to all of non-Western art.

Crossing Identitarian Lines

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Norman
Keyword(s):  
African Americans ◽  
Gender Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Race And Sexuality ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter’s content proves relevant in its advocacy for the political implications of individual experience. Brian Norman’s Baldwin is an author very much concerned with gender; Norman demonstrates how Baldwin’s writings can be read as protofeminist pieces whose focus on the importance of individual experiences dovetails with suffrage, exclusion, and gender violence in America. Although Baldwin never explicitly announces his feminism, his treatments of race and sexuality, when read through a feminist lens, prove to be intersectional insofar as they can inform gendered experiences of oppression and suffering. Norman is careful to establish that oppression faced by African Americans and women are not interchangeable; rather, the early examination of one can shed light on the progress of the other. Norman’s reading of Baldwin further aids our understanding of Baldwin’s tying together of democracy and identity in that democracy is dependent on the liberation of all rather than a few.

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