Forces for Good?
Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq
Authors: Duncanson, C.
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- About this book
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This book utilises the growing phenomenon of British soldier narratives from Iraq and Afghanistan to explore how British soldiers make sense of their role on these complex, multi-dimensional operations. It aims to intervene in the debates within critical feminist scholarship over whether soldiers can ever be agents of peace.
- About the authors
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Claire Duncanson is a Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Her research and teaching is focused at the intersection of international security, international development and gender politics.
- Reviews
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"As a whole, the book has four major strengths. First, its focus on agency adds balance to a debate that has been biased towards deterministic understandings of how gender affects war and international military interventions. Second, its attention
to complexity, highlighting the tensions and contradictions of gendered identities, adds to our knowledge of the variety of strategies through which masculinity is constructed, reasserted and transformed. Third, its reference to context and intersectionality is a reminder of the historicity of gender, thus strengthening our ability to avoid reified and essentialist visions of gendered social practice. Finally, the book explores, froma new angle, the British contribution to the interventions in Iraq and
Afghanistan, and, as such, it is innovative from an empirical perspective [...] A valuable and thoughtful contribution for understanding the way gender affects the social, cultural and organizational contexts of security." - International Peacekeeping
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-17
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Can Soldiers Ever Be Used to Achieve Peace? Feminists Debate Military Intervention
Pages 18-51
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What Can We Learn from Soldiers’ Narratives? Methodologies and Methods
Pages 52-71
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British Soldier Identities and the War-Fighting Ethos
Pages 72-102
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British Soldiers Doing and Undoing Empire in Iraq and Afghanistan
Pages 103-133
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Forces for Good?
- Book Subtitle
- Military Masculinities and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Authors
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- C. Duncanson
- Series Title
- Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-31942-5
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137319425
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-230-28226-1
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-32817-8
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIII, 193
- Topics
