Table Of ContentGender, Globalization, and Violence
This wide-ranging collection of essays elaborates on some of the most
pressing issues in contemporary postcolonial societies, in their transition
from confl ict and contestation to dialogue and resolution. It explores from
new angles questions of violent confl ict, forced migration, traffi cking and
deportation, human rights, citizenship, transitional justice and cosmopoli-
tanism. The volume focuses more specifi cally on the gendering of violence
from a postcolonial perspective as it analyses unique cases that disrupt
traditional visions of violence by including the history of empire and col-
ony, and its legacies that continue to infl uence present-day confi gurations
of gender, race, nationality, class and sexuality. Part One maps out the
gendered and racialized contours of confl ict zones, from war zones, pris-
ons and refugee camps to peacekeeping missions and humanitarian aid,
reframing the fi eld and establishing connections between colonial legacies
and postcolonial dynamics. Part Two explores how these confl ict zones
are played out not just outside but also within Europe, demonstrating that
multicultural Europe is fraught with diff erent legacies of violence and post-
colonial melancholia. Part Three gives an idea of the kind of future that can
be off ered to post-confl ict societies, defi ned as contact zones, by explor-
ing opportunities for dialogue, restoration and reconciliation that can be
envisaged from a gendered and postcolonial perspective through alterna-
tive feminist practices and the work of art and their redemptive power in
mobilizing social change or increasing national healing processes. Though
strongly anchored in postcolonial critique, the chapters draw from a range
of traditions and expertise, including confl ict studies, gender theory, visual
studies, (new) media theory, sociology, race theory, international security
studies and religion studies.
Sandra Ponzanesi is Head of Humanities at University College Utrecht and
Associate Professor in Gender and Postcolonial Critique at the Department
of Media and Culture Studies/Graduate Gender Programme, Utrecht Uni-
versity, the Netherlands.
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1 Feminist Studies 3 Sexuality, Gender and Power
A Guide to Intersectional Theory, Intersectional and Transnational
Methodology and Writing Perspectives
Nina Lykke Edited by Anna G. Jónasdóttir,
Valerie Bryson and Kathleen B.
2 Women, Civil Society and the Jones
Geopolitics of Democratization
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4 The Limits of Gendered 12 Rethinking Transnational Men
Citizenship Beyond, Between and Within
Contexts and Complexities Nations
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Researching Differently World
Edited by Rosemarie Buikema, The Masculinity and Sexuality of
Gabriele Griffi n and Nina Lykke Migration
Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila
6 Making Gender, Making War
Violence, Military and 14 Love
Peacekeeping Practices A Question for Feminism in the
Edited by Annica Kronsell and Twenty-First Century
Erika Svedberg Edited by Anna G. Jónasdóttir and
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7 Emergent Writing
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Studies Social Justice
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8 Gender and Sexuality in Online Edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli
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Passionate Play
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Sveningsson Differently
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9 Heterosexuality in Theory and Methodologies and the Playful Art
Practice of Writing
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Mary Holmes
17 Gender, Globalization, and
10 Tourism and the Globalization Violence
of Emotions Postcolonial Confl ict Zones
The Intimate Economy of Tango Edited by Sandra Ponzanesi
Maria Törnqvist
11 Imagining Masculinities
Spatial and Temporal
Representation and Visual Culture
Katarzyna Kosmala
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Gender, Globalization,
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Postcolonial Confl ict Zones
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1. Social conflict. 2. Transitional justice. 3. Social justice.
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Contents
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
I Introduction: New Frames of Gendered Violence 1
SANDRA PONZANESI
PART I
Confl ict Zones: Colonial Haunting and Contested Sovereignties
1 Neoliberal Discourses on Violence:
Monstrosity and Rape in Borderland War 27
JOLLE DEMMERS
2 Thin Ice: Postcoloniality and Sexuality in the
Politics of Citizenship and Military Service 46
VRON WARE
3 American Humanitarian Citizenship:
The “Soft” Power of Empire 64
INDERPAL GREWAL
4 Female Suicide Bombers and the Politics of Gendered Militancy 82
SANDRA PONZANESI
PART II
European Frictions: Memories, Migration, and Citizenship
5 Uses and Abuses of Gender and Nationality:
Torture and the French-Algerian War 111
CHRISTINE QUINAN
viii Contents
6 Migrating Sovereignties and Mirror States:
From Eritrea to L’Aquila 126
MARGUERITE WALLER
7 Doing “Integration” in Europe:
Postcolonial Frictions in the Making of Citizenship 145
MARC DE LEEUW AND SONJA VAN WICHELEN
8 Coffi n Exchange 161
PAULO DE MEDEIROS
PART III
Contact Zones:
Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Cosmopolitanism
9 “Invisible Wars”: Gendered Terrorism in
the US Military and the Juárez Feminicidio 177
ALICIA ARRIZÓN
10 Political Transitions and the Arts:
The Performance of (Post)Colonial Leadership in Philip
Miller’s Cantata REwind and in Wim Botha’s Portrait Busts 196
ROSEMARIE BUIKEMA
11 Justice by Any Means Necessary:
Vigilantism among Indian Women 214
AARONETTE WHITE AND SHAGUN RASTOGI
12 On Love and Shame: Two Photographs of Female Protesters 229
MARTA ZARZYCKA
13 Rethinking the “Arab Spring” through the Postsecular:
Gender Entanglements, Social Media,
and the Religion–Secular Divide 245
EVA MIDDEN
Contributors 265
Index 271
Figures
4.1 Hilla Medalia, To Die in Jerusalem
(Ayat and Rachel side by side). 93
4.2 Hilla Medalia, To Die in Jerusalem (fi lm poster). 94
4.3 Rachel Levy. 97
4.4 Ayat al-Akras. 98
10.1 Portrait II (Patriot), 2009. 205
10.2 Portrait bust (Mother), 2010. 206
10.3 Untitled (Witness Series I), 2011. 208
12.1 Egyptian army soldiers beat a young woman during a
protest at Tahrir Square in Cairo on 17 December 2011. 232
12.2 Lefteris Pitarakis, Egyptian activist kissing a riot police
offi cer during antigovernment clashes in Cairo on
28 January 2011. 236
12.3 Illustration from an Egypt protest leafl et. 237
