Feminist Solutions for Ending War

Abstract

This book was a collective effort, guided by a dedication to feminist ethics and praxis. We are grateful first and foremost to the contributing authors, for dedicating their time and sharing their knowledge.This book project began just before the start of the Covid-19 global pandemic and during a time of renewed anti-racism movements and activism sparked, in part, by the ongoing killing of black men and women by police in Canada and the US, including George Floyd, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Breonna Taylor and Rodney Levi. These global events required us to pause. We felt we needed to rethink the purpose and relevance of our scholarship and reflect on what types of academic work were useful and possible at this point in history. Early in 2020, we checked in with the authors, and revisited if and how we should move forward with this project. We were pleased that everyone remained committed to the book despite the pressures of homeschooling, caregiving, university sector cuts and precarity, and the emotional and physical impacts of living in a pandemic. We acknowledge and were conscious that many contributors are at early stages of their career and do not have fixed-term stable work, which we recognise adds extra stress, pressure, and drain.Reading the chapter drafts and supporting authors in revising and completing the chapters was one of the best professional experiences either of us have had. During an otherwise difficult year, we found the chapters offered hope, drew attention to crucial issues of justice, and offered creative pathways forward. We are grateful to have learned from and been inspired by our engagement with the authors in this project.We are also grateful to our community, colleagues, and wonderful students at the University of Sydney. Thank you also to Jakob Horstmann at Pluto Press, for his enthusiastic work advocating for this project from the beginning.xii Foreword Waging the War on Wars: Feminist Ways Forward

Citizen security revisited: Whose security/ies are we talking about?

“…Feminists have critically analyzed the military, militarization, war, violence, conflict, and security for decades, and it would go beyond the scope of this article to review the many interventions feminist scholars have made. Fortunately, many excellent overviews of feminist literature on these issues exist (see Gentry, et al, 2019;MacKenzie & Wegner, 2021;Ní Aoláin, et al, 2018), complementing some of the classic contributions and central texts (see Elshtain, 1985;Enloe, 1983;Shepherd, 2008;Sjoberg, 2010;Tickner, 1992). While this feminist literature on war, conflict, and security has raised many issues, there are some central tenets that can be discerned.…”