War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions.
War Economy: Gendered Circuits of Violence and Capital examines the war economy from feminist perspectives, bringing fresh thinking in the context of heightened geopolitical tensions.
The book challenges the common understanding of war economy as a state-driven, top-down project necessitated by a conflictual international order. It introduces the concept of gendered circuits of violence — different types of violence across space and time — to conceptually and empirically link crises and wars through flows of capital, bodies, weapons and militarized technologies. The book deals with real-world conflicts, including in Gaza and Russia/Ukraine as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iran, Liberia, and Mexico. With increasing calls for the development of a war economy, especially in Europe, and broad acceptance that the global political economy is rapidly being primed for war, the book’s feminist political economy analysis and alternatives are vital and urgent.
War Economy will appeal to students, scholars and policymakers in the areas of International Political Economy, Politics and International Relations, Gender Studies, Security Studies, and War, Peace, and Conflict Studies.
1. Toward a feminist theory of war economy Aida A. Hozic and Jacqui True
Part I. Gendered Circuits (I): Continuums
2. The arms trade, war economies,
and global circuits of violence Anna Stavrianakis
3. The Feminist Political
Economy of Militarisation in Mexico Daniella Philipson Garcia
4. Economic
warfare, war economy and gendered circuits of violence in Iran Asma Abdi Part
II: Gendered Circuits (II): Temporalities
5. The material basis of
genderbased violence and its circuits: a political economy perspective on
postwar in Bosnia and Herzegovina Vesna BojicicDzelilovic, Denisa
Kostovicova and Marsha Henry
6. Women and Ukraines economies of war and
peace Jennifer G. Mathers
7. Gendered circuits of violence and states of
austerityin Southern Europe Iratxe Perea Ozerin
8. Why IFI prescriptions for
postwar economic recovery cannot bring sustainable peace: A feminist
analysis Carol Cohn and Claire Duncanson PART III Gendered Circuits (III):
Movements
9. Tracing the gendered intersections of international
interventions and socioeconomic justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina Daniela Lai
10. Conflict for fuel or fuelling conflict during war in Gaza and Ukraine
Elliot DolanEvans
11. Remapping gendered circuits of violence: A social
reproduction perspective Elisabeth Prügl, Raksha Gopal and Luisa Lupo
Aida A. Hozi is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Florida. Her research is situated at the intersection of political economy, cultural studies, and international security.
Jacqui True is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence against Women (CEVAW). Her research is focused on the political economy of violence against women, conflict-related gender-based violence, and feminist foreign policy analysis.
