Global perspectives on war, gender and health : the sociology and anthropology of suffering

178 Pages·2010·1.36 MB·English

by  Hannah Bradby

Global Perspectives on
War, Gender and Health
The Sociology and Anthropology of Suffering

Edited by
Hannah Bradby
and
Gillian Lewando Hundt
Global PersPectives on
War, Gender and HealtH
Global connections
Series Editor: Robert Holton, Trinity College, Dublin
Global connections builds on the multi-dimensional and continuously expanding
interest in Globalization. the main objective of the series is to focus on
‘connectedness’ and provide readable case studies across a broad range of areas
such as social and cultural life, economic, political and technological activities.
the series aims to move beyond abstract generalities and stereotypes: ‘Global’
is considered in the broadest sense of the word, embracing connections between
different nations, regions and localities, including activities that are trans-
national, and trans-local in scope; ‘connections’ refers to movements of people,
ideas, resources, and all forms of communication as well as the opportunities
and constraints faced in making, engaging with, and sometimes resisting
globalization.
the series is interdisciplinary in focus and publishes monographs and
collections of essays by new and established scholars. it fills a niche in the market
for books that make the study of globalization more concrete and accessible.
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Violence and Gender in the Globalized World
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Global Perspectives on
War, Gender and Health
the sociology and anthropology of suffering
Edited by
HannaH bradby and Gillian leWando Hundt
University of Warwick, UK
© Hannah bradby and Gillian lewando Hundt 2010
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Global perspectives on war, gender and health. -- (Global
connections)
1. civilian war casualties. 2. War--Medical aspects.
3. Women and war.
i. series ii. bradby, Hannah, 1966- iii. lewando Hundt,
Gillian.
363.3'498'082-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
bradby, Hannah, 1966-
Global perspectives on war, gender and health : the sociology and anthropology of suffering
/ by Hannah bradby and Gillian lewando Hundt.
p. cm.

includes index.
isbn 978-0-7546-7523-5 (hbk.) -- isbn 978-0-7546-9911-8 (ebook)
1. suffering--social aspects. 2. violence. 3. Women--violence against. 4. social
medicine. i. lewando Hundt, Gillian. ii. title.
HM886.b73 2009
303.6'6--dc22
2009031266
isbn 978-0-7546-7523-5 (hbk)
isbn 978-0-7546-9911-8 (ebk.I)
contents
List of Box and Figure vii
Author Biographies ix
Editors’ Foreword xiii
Foreword xv
Virginia Olesen
introduction 1
Hannah Bradby and Gillian Lewando Hundt
1 Feminist antimilitarism: scope, Problematic and difficulties in a
Potential Global social Movement 19
Cynthia Cockburn
2 Wounds and ‘cures’ in south asian Gender and Memory Politics 31
Srila Roy
3 sociological Perspectives on defining and accounting for
violence: towards Gendering the conflict in northern ireland 51
Linda McKie and Chris Yuill
4 Women War survivors in uganda: resilience and suffering as
consequences of War 69
Helen Liebling-Kalifani
5 concealing violen ce against Women in the sahrawi refugee
camps: the Politicisation of victimhood 91
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
6 scribing Dhamal (chaos): Moral and ethical dilemmas of
Working in areas of violence 111
Rubina Jasani
7 identifying the ‘resilience Factor’: an emerging counter
narrative to the traditional discourse of ‘vulnerability’ in ‘social
suffering’ 127
Astier M. Almedom, Evelyn A. Brensinger and Gordon M. Adam
vi Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health
8 vision of a Peaceable life 147
Parita Mukta
Index 155
list of box and Figure
Figure
7.1 the theory of Salutogenesis (origins of health) 130
Box
7.1 Key differences between vulnerability and resilience 131
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author biographies
Gordon M. Adam is co-founder and Managing director of Media support, a
scottish based organisation working with broadcasters in africa and asia to use
media effectively for peace-building, education and development. a recognised
specialist in media and development, he has written widely on the subject,
including co-authoring dFid’s handbook Working with Media in Conflicts and
other Emergencies (with a. skuse), and Radio and HIV/AIDS: Making a difference
(with n. Harford). after a career in radio journalism with the bbc, he subsequently
set up long-term development communication projects in cambodia, botswana,
Mozambique and afghanistan, and has trained development broadcasters in many
countries.
Astier M. Almedom directs the international (interdisciplinary) resilience
(research and policy/practice) Program at tufts university where she continues
to publish widely on resilience. she started out as a biological anthropologist
(oxford) and taught in medical anthropology (london school of Hygiene and
tropical Medicine) focusing on the application of participatory research methods
in health and hygiene assessments in eastern africa and parts of asia including
afghanistan where she collaborated with Gordon adam’s audience evaluation
team of afghani broadcasters and script writers for the radio drama ‘new Home
new life’ in the mid-1990s. Her current faculty affiliation is with the Fletcher
school of law and diplomacy, the oldest school of international affairs in the
usa.
Hannah Bradby teaches in the Medical school and the department of sociology
at the university of Warwi ck. she edits the journal Ethnicity and Health, published
by taylor and Francis and her book entitled Medical Sociology: An introduction
(2009) is published by sage. Her editorial ‘Feminism and the sociology of gender,
health and illness’ appears at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/shil_enhanced/
virtual2.asp as part of a virtual special edition of Sociology of Health and Illness.
Evelyn A. Brensinger is a graduate student at the Fletcher school, tufts
university earning a master’s degree in law and diplomacy (Mald). concentrating
on Human security and international security studies, she is interested in post-
conflict reconstruction and methods of promoting resilience in war and disaster-
affected populations. she is also an associate in the international (interdisciplinary)
resilience (research and policy/practice) Program at tufts university.
Cynthia Cockburn is a feminist researcher and writer, based at the city university
london, where she is visiting Professor in the department of sociology. she is