Forces for Good? - Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq (Hardcover)

Forces for Good? explores British soldier 'herographies' to identify constructions of gender, race, class and nation and their consequences on complex, multi-dimensional operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace.Many feminist analyses of military intervention point to the way in which interventions are legitimated by gendered narratives where representatives of civilization are tasked with addressing violent conflict in troubled lands, a story which distracts from the root causes of the violence and enables the furthering of a neoliberal agenda. This book advances this critique by adding the important but hitherto neglected case of the British Army, and challenges its determinism, which Duncanson argues to be normatively, empirically and theoretically problematic.Exploring the impact of identity and gender constructions on the prospects for successful peacebuilding, this book will appeal to a range of scholars in politics, international relations, peace studies, gender and women's studies, sociology and anthropology.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Release date:	July 2013
First published:	June 2013
Authors:	C. Duncanson
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	193
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-28226-1
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > International relations > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Peacekeeping operations
LSN:	0-230-28226-1
Barcode:	9780230282261

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