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The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically
diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration
since its origin. Looking to London steps into the maelstrom of
current and recent wars and the resulting migration crisis, telling
the stories of women refugees who have made it to London to seek
safe haven among the city's Kurdish, Somali, Tamil, Sudanese and
Syrian communities, under the watchful eye of the security
services. Cynthia Cockburn brings her lively and lucid style to a
world in which hatred is being countered by compassion, at a moment
when the nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment expressed in Brexit
is being challenged by a warm-hearted 'refugees welcome' movement
bringing community activists into partnership with London borough
councils for the reception and rehoming of victims of war. This
book is essential reading for all who want to think more deeply
about the meaning of asylum.
The city of London is celebrated as one of the most ethnically
diverse capitals in the world, and has been a magnet of migration
since its origin. Looking to London steps into the maelstrom of
current and recent wars and the resulting migration crisis, telling
the stories of women refugees who have made it to London to seek
safe haven among the city's Kurdish, Somali, Tamil, Sudanese and
Syrian communities, under the watchful eye of the security
services. Cynthia Cockburn brings her lively and lucid style to a
world in which hatred is being countered by compassion, at a moment
when the nationalist, anti-immigrant sentiment expressed in Brexit
is being challenged by a warm-hearted 'refugees welcome' movement
bringing community activists into partnership with London borough
councils for the reception and rehoming of victims of war. This
book is essential reading for all who want to think more deeply
about the meaning of asylum.
A postwar moment is one of promise - but too often of missed
opportunities. Will peace bring a democratic, inclusive and equal
society? This depends on many factors, but the contributors to this
book argue that one of them - crucial but often overlooked - is the
importance accorded to transforming gender power relations. Through
a focus on two countries, Bosnia and the Netherlands, linked
through a "peace-keeping operation," the contributors illuminate
the many ways in which processes of demilitarisation and
peace-keeping are structured by notions of masculinity and
femininity. The Dayton Peace Agreement failed to acknowledge the
gendered nature of the war it ended. Gender was also neglected by
the many powerful international institutions and agencies which
arrived in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1995 to pacify and administer the
war-torn country. Several chapters in the book consider these
shortcomings in the Bosnian postwar moment, and the way they have
impeded local women's efforts to reshape their world. The Dutch
contingent of the UN peace-keeping forces was widely held
responsible for failing to prevent the massacre by Bosnian Serb
forces of thousands of Bosnian Muslim men in Srebrenica. The
self-questioning provoked in the Netherlands by this event here
becomes a rich source of insight into relationships between
soldiering and masculinities, war-fighting and peace-keeping. Show
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How are men responding to feminism? In particular, at work dealing
with the challenge to their power and privilege represented by
positive action for sex equality? The 1980s saw many organizations,
from major companies to left-wing local councils, take action to
improve women's chances. The research on which this book is based
evaluates the part of men in the equality process. The author
demonstrates the social mechanisms through which women's
aspirations for change are thwarted and draws lessons from
experience for feminist activism in organizations in the 1990s.
Refusing to take part in war is as old as war itself. This
wide-ranging and original book brings together four different
bodies of knowledge to examine the practice of conscientious
objection: historical and philosophical analyses of conscientious
objection as a critique of compulsory military service and
militarization; feminist, LGBT and queer analyses of conscientious
objection as a critique of patriarchy, sexism, and heterosexism;
activist and academic analyses of conscientious objection as a
social movement and individual act of resistance; legal analyses of
the status of conscientious objection in international and national
law. Conscientious objection is an increasingly important subject
of academic and political debate in countries including the US,
Israel and Turkey. This book provides a much needed introduction
and tool for making sense of the history of nation-states in the
20th century and understanding the political developments of the
early 21st century.
Even in places of deadly national enmity, some very ordinary people
are routinely doing peace. In this highly original study, Cynthia
Cockburn deepens our understanding of the processes sustaining
conflict in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and
Bosnia/Hercegovina by means of a close involvement with three
remarkable women's projects that have chosen co-operation. How, she
asks, do they fill the dangerous space between them with words
instead of bullets? How do they make democracy out of difference?
The book brings fresh insight to theories of the self in relation
to collective identities and of gender in nationalist thought and
practice. Observing in words and photographs how these women's
alliances create a safe space in which to work together, we learn
more about the dangers of essentialism and the problematic
relationship between identity and democracy.
Cynthia Cockburn's classic work began as a study on the human
impact of technological change, but ended as an exploratiion in the
making and remaking of men, showing how work and technology are
used by men in maintaining their control over women. It continues
to offer an unparalled insight into men and trade unionism from a
feminist point of view.
How are men responding to feminism? In particular, at work dealing
with the challenge to their power and privilege represented by
positive action for sex equality? The 1980s saw many organizations,
from major companies to left-wing local councils, take action to
improve women's chances. The research on which this book is based
evaluates the part of men in the equality process. The author
demonstrates the social mechanisms through which women's
aspirations for change are thwarted and draws lessons from
experience for feminist activism in organizations in the 1990s.
'...an important and valuable contribution to the study of
organisations, to an analysis of gendered social processes, and to
those who actively remain committed to creating a better world for
women.' Jalna Hanmer, Times Higher Education Supplement. '...an
engrossing study of resistance to the implementation of equality
policies in different kinds of organizations.'Elizabeth Meehan,
Queen's University, Belfast '...the book has the triple virtues of
increasing specialized knowledge, compelling the attention of
readers generally interested in politics and society and being
moving for all who are concerned about human dignit
This original study by the, the product of 80,000 miles of travel
by the author over a two-year period, examines women's activism
against wars as far apart as Sierra Leone, Colombia and India. It
shows women on different sides of conflicts in the former
Yugoslavia and Israel refusing enmity and co-operating for peace.
It describes international networks of women opposing US and
Western European militarism and the so-called 'war on terror'.
Women are often motivated by adverse experiences in male-led
anti-war movements, preferring to choose different methods of
protest and remain in control of their own actions. But like the
mainstream movements, women's groups differ - some are pacifist
while others put justice before non-violence; some condemn
nationalism as a cause of war while others see it as a legitimate
source of identity. The very existence of feminist antimilitarism
proposes a radical shift in our understanding of war, linking the
violence of patriarchal power to that of class oppression and
ethnic 'othering'.
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