Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy

The Failure of Gender Interventions in Timor-Leste

Melissa Johnston (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-763799-9 (ISBN)

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Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives. These initiatives have used both development programs and gender mainstreaming to advance women's empowerment, with the aim of making peacebuilding more effective as well as building more stable societies and efficient economies. This goal has been manifested in a wide range of programs and projects-or "gender interventions"--including economic empowerment measures, gender quotas, gender-responsive budgeting, and legal reforms. Yet, the results have been uneven, provoking a sizable debate among scholars and practitioners seeking to explain the shortcomings and improve the outcomes.

In Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy, Melissa Johnston explains why gender interventions often fail to help those who most need them, using the case of Timor-Leste, a country subjected to high levels of peacebuilding and gender interventions between 1999 and 2017. Looking at three types of gender interventions--gender-responsive budgeting, the law against domestic violence, and microfinance initiatives--Johnston argues that these reforms have produced mixed results because they reinscribe entrenched class and gender hierarchies in their implementation.

Focusing on the connection between politics, economics, and gender, Johnston identifies the emergence of an elite class coalition, built on kinship and gender order in Timor-Leste as the root of the problem. Peacebuilders have made concessions to elites and violent men to keep the peace, a tendency amplified by "local turn" approaches to peacebuilding. As a result, deep inequalities remain and violence against women is endemic across the country. Compelling and insightful, Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy makes the case that as peacebuilders seek to rebuild war-torn societies, understanding the intersection of social and gender order is more important than ever.

Melissa Johnston is a Lecturer in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland. Her work applies a gender lens to examine the links between security and the political economy of development to better understand women's and men's experiences in conflict-affected environments. Her work on conflict, international financial institutions, and violent extremism in Southeast Asia has been published in journals such as Review of International Political Economy, Globalizations, and Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Her article, "Frontier Finance", won the 2021 Australian International Political Economy Network Prize. She is the recipient of the 2019 Australian Political Studies Association PhD Thesis Prize and the Prime Minister's Endeavour Award.

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Introduction

1. Critical Approaches to Peacebuilding and Gender

2. Class Formation, Slavery, and Militarization

3. Class, Gender, and the Distribution of State Resources

4. The Political Economy of Domestic Violence

5. Brideprice and the Exchange of Women

6. Microfinance Interventions

7. Gendered Circuits of Debt and Violence

Conclusion

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Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	OXF STUDIES GENDER INTL RELATIONS SERIES
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	237 x 163 mm
Gewicht	526 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-19-763799-X / 019763799X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-763799-9 / 9780197637999
Zustand	Neuware