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Author Partis-Jennings, Hannah, author

Title The military-peace complex : gender and materiality in Afghanistan / Hannah Partis-Jennings
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 210 pages)
Series Advances in critical military studies
Advances in critical military studies.
Contents Afghanistan in Context -- Performing the Military-Peace Complex: Logics that Entangle -- The Martial Politics of Things and Spaces -- Liberal Feminism, the Third World Woman and the Third Gender -- A Final Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Exploring the physical, embodied landscape of the military-peace complex in Afghanistan. Based on original research and interviews. Articulates and explores the notion of a military-peace complex as a framework to understand intervention practices in Afghanistan. Offers a holistic account of the international project in Afghanistan. Pays attention to under-studied aspects of the international project in Afghanistan including the everyday, gendered and material dynamics that shape it. This book focuses on the military and statebuilding components of the international project in Afghanistan since 2001. It posits and discusses the military-peace complex as a framework through which to understand the international project in Afghanistan, pointing to the sliding together and collapse between military and peace actors, mandates and ideational frameworks. Arguing that military and peace work in the liberal mode cannot be logically separated, but rather are co-constituted and operate in a dynamic relationship to each other with fluid and shifting boundaries, the book focuses on the role of gender within the logics of the international project in Afghanistan, as well as exploring material and spatial entanglements and cross-cutting logics. Based on original interviews and wider research the book offers a holistic way of viewing the international project in Afghanistan, drawing attention to its under-noticed elements and providing a new way of understanding its politics
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Subject Peace-building -- Afghanistan -- International cooperation
Civil-military relations -- Afghanistan
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory.
Diplomatic relations
Civil-military relations
Feminism
Humanitarianism
Peace-building
Politics and government
SUBJECT Afghanistan -- Foreign relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2015001025
Subject Afghanistan
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1474453341
9781474453349