Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin - Softcover

Theidon, Kimberly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1478018380 ISBN 13: 9781478018384

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2022

Synopsis

In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy, and childbirth unfold. She reimagines harm by taking into account the impact of violence on individual people as well as on more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable abortions.

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About the Author

Kimberly Theidon is Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at Tufts University and author of Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1478018380
• ISBN 13: 9781478018384
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128