Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries: Marginality, Masculinity, and Feminist Agency

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Engendering Peace
	Why Northeast India?
	Assam and Northeast India
	The Conflicts
	Engendering the Northeast’s Conflict Literature
	Making Space in Asian Feminisms
	Gender Studies and Northeast Women
	Existing Approaches in Northeast Conflict Literature
	Methodology
	Ethnography and Feminist Ethnography
		Reflexivity
		Interviews
		Documentary Sources
	Book Map
	Notes
	References
1 Why Assam?: Making Peace in Peripheries
	Introduction
	Assam in Conflict
		Gendered Conflicts in Violent Peripheries
			Benign Patriarchies
			Hyper Aggression
			Many Violences
		Multiple Centers and Moving Margins
		Power in the Periphery
		Engendered Peace
	Assam and Asian Peripheries
		Peace in the Peripheries
		Northeast in the Asian Century
	Notes
	References
2 Men in Margins: Masculinity and Conflict
	Introduction
	Mainland Machismo
	Masculinities in the Margins
	When Patriarchies Collide
	Fear, Conflict, Violence
	Notes
	References
3 Many Violences: Conflict as Habit
	Introduction
	Gendered Violences
		Marginalized Gender
		Migrant Other
	Structures of Violence
		In Policy
		In Public Rhetoric
	Tools of Violence
	Breaking the Habit of Violence
	Notes
	References
4 Women Underground: Marginal, Peripheral?
	Introduction
	Women in Public Politics
	Women Fragmented
	Women’s Agency
		Isolation
		Recalibration
		Transformation and Transcendence
	Women and the Margins
	Notes
	References
Postscript: Peace Praxis and Reflexivity
	Introduction
	Reflection
	Connection
		Past, Present, Future
		Individual and Collective
		Local and Global
	Interrogation
	Notes
	References
Index