Joy and International Relations

Penttinen, Elina

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“…Further, instead of assuming that such colonialist or imperialist standpoints, positionalities and hierarchies are identifiable, knowable and communicable prior to the research encounter, scholars have suggested that positionalities and differences in research gain their meaning 'right here and now' through social practice (Elliston 2000;Moran et al 2001;Penttinen 2013;Puumala 2013) and embodied knowledge (Moore and Mathias 2016). We, as researchers and researched, are produced through our experience (Skeggs 1999, 39, 42), and this experience must be translated into a perspective before it can become a standpoint (Moran et al 2001, 432).…”

Section: Researched Subjects and Postcolonial Paranoiasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Jauhola

2020

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This book and the accompanied video documentaries would have not been possible without the support of a number of people over the past eight years, some going way beyond that, all the way to early 2000s at the Peace Station in Helsinki and dialogue with Acehnese human rights defenders. First of all, I want to thank all those Acehnese who allowed the project team and me to enter your homes and lives-I have a deep gratitude of having gained insights that led research towards appreciating Ilmu Bodoh, subaltern theorising on peace. On behalf of all of us who have formed the Scraps of Hope team during these years, we sincerely hope that we can live up to your expectations of this journey. Any representational biases and mistakes are solely ours. I also want to thank all the Acehnese counterpart organisations and their staff members, directors, researchers, lecturers and, most importantly, administrative staff members facilitating the paper bureaucracy related to foreign researcher visits in Aceh between the years 2012 and 2018. These institutions are the International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies (ICAIOS), the University of Malikussaleh (UNIMAL) and the Islamic State University Ar-Raniry (UIN). My special gratitude goes to the staff of the Embassy of Republic of Indonesia in Helsinki and in particular the Ambassador of Indonesia in Finland, H. E. Wiwiek Setyawati Firman, for facilitating the filming permissions for 2015, and taking part in the University of Helsinki Think Corner Talk-Poetry-Dance ZUBAIDAH DJOHAR: BUILDING A BOAT IN A PARADISE-FEMINIST LITERATURE THAT RESISTS FORGETTING xii Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh evening in November 2017. The Scraps of Hope team, daring to dream of a media-embedded, peer-reviewed monograph already in 2015, we truly were ahead of the times! Thank you Seija Hirstiö, Ariyuki Suzuki, Päivi Nikkilä, and Riitta Koikkalainen and Jukka Turunen for being part of Scraps of Hope! My gratitude for all the hard work by Rahmat in Aceh for essential logistics and additional camerawork in recordings in December 2015. Evi Sugianty (ICAIOS) and Mifta Sugesti-your professionalism in going through interview and video recordings, providing transcripts, translations and detailed comments on the draft videos, has provided deepened perspectives to ethnographic moments that could otherwise go unnoticed. My sincere thanks to poet, trainer, researcher and friend Ibed, Zubaidah Djohar and a colleague at UNIMAL campus Nanda Amalia, and all her colleagues who invited me to their classes in 2012. A special thank you to the Creative Minority student group for initiating the creative writing workshops leading to Zubaidah Djohar's edited book Dalam Keriput Yang Tak Usang: Suara Pemuda Dan Jalan Panjang Perdamaian Aceh and similarly, all the voluntary effort that went into writing, editing and publishing the book Bisu yang Bersuara, collection of writings of female survivors of violence in the midst of peace in Aceh after the initial joint writing workshop organized in August 2018. Similarly, the whol...

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Section: Researched Subjects and Postcolonial Paranoiasmentioning

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Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Jauhola

2020

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“…As Elina Pentinnen notes, 'In the field of international relations it is not customary to focus on how individuals experience flow, beauty and love in the midst of extreme violence.' 17 Rather, attention is often directed towards wars' horrors, pain, and trauma. For Pentinnen, such a focus is understandable as War is undesirable, it represents suffering … It is something that disrupts peace and upsets continuity, scars personalities and destroys societies.…”

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Joy and war: Reading pleasure in wartime experiences

Welland

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In recent years there has been a ‘turn’ to thinking about war through the experiences of those touched by it. While this scholarship has generated numerous important insights, its focus has tended to remain on wars’ violences, those responsible for enacting them, and the effects of such violence. In this article, the experiences of pleasure and joy in war that simultaneously take place are placed centre stage. Drawing on three war novels, the article tracks three recurring themes of pleasurable and joyful experiences related to war: bodily pleasures, the ‘togetherness’ of war, and moments of joy that escape war’s reach. Through this focus, war is shown to work across a range of affective registers and as never totalising or universalising in its experience. The article argues that paying attention to joy and pleasure can work to displace war as a focus of analysis, directing attention instead to the experiences of those who live through war and how they survive, sustain, and resist it.

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“…These can be, for example, disclosing the experience of violence, making formal or informal reports, taking necessary steps to leave the relationship, and making a safety plan. Or, these can be the actions of individual peace-keeper, security agent or a police who helps a target of violence even beyond their own job description (Penttinen 2013). Therefore the difficulty of recognizing agency in the midst of violence and oppressive conditions may only be a problem of level of analysis.…”

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Gender Agency and Violence

Penttinen¹

2018

The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Security

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The question of gender and agency in the context of violence is a topic of much debate in feminist scholarship. The controversy lies in developing understanding how violence is gendered without reinforcing gender stereotypes about women as passive victims and men as aggressive perpetrators and to develop new understanding of how especially women use and enact agency in conflict and post-conflict setting. In this chapter I combine feminist security studies with feminist research on violence in order to deepen understandings of how gender and agency can be understood in the context of violence. The objective of the chapter is to focus on how violence is gendered, how gender norms and normative notions of gender inform manifestations and practices of violence in public and private spheres as well as look for possibilities of agency in the midst of violence. My objective is to broaden the analysis of gender-based violence in feminist security studies which focuses on large scale gender based violence in conflict areas (Eriksson Baaz and Stern 2014; Could and Agnich 2016) on the politics of gender-mainstreaming (Basu 2016, Pratt and Richter-Devroe 2011) by combining research on intimate partner violence (IPV) (Dobash & Dobash 1998; McKey 2005) in order to develop understanding how the large-scale and small-scale manifestations are linked and reflect hierarchic gender orders. I emphasize that in the context of feminist security studies it is

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Joy and International Relations

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Scraps of Hope in Banda Aceh: Gendered Urban Politics in the Aceh Peace Process

Joy and war: Reading pleasure in wartime experiences

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