The End of Peacekeeping makes use of feminist, postcolonial and anti-militarist frameworks to expose peacekeeping as an epistemic power project in need of abolition.
Drawing on critical concepts from Black feminist thought, and from postcolonial and critical race theories, Marsha Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities through increasingly militarized strategies. She uses an intersectional analysis of peacekeeping based on more than fifteen years of ethnographic fieldwork in peacekeeping missions and training centres around the world, including interviews with UN peacekeepers, humanitarian aid personnel, and local populations. Revealing that peacekeeping is not the benign, apolitical project it is often purported to be, the book encourages readers to imagine and enact alternative futures to peacekeeping.
The event is co-hosted by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity and the LSE Department of Gender Studies.
Speaker
Professor Marsha Henry
Marsha Henry is a Professor at the Mitchell Institute, Queen's University, Belfast and Visiting Professor at the LSE Department of Gender Studies. Marsha’s research is concerned with the gendered and racialised politics of violence; militarisation; global south development; international aid and intervention; and conflict, peace and security. In addition, she has published on the challenges of decolonial, intersectional, and feminist qualitative approaches, methodologies and fieldwork. She is the author of several books, the latest of which is: The End of Peacekeeping: Gender, Race and the Martial Politics of Intervention (Penn Press).
Discussant
Professor Clare Hemmings
Clare Hemmings is Professor of Feminist Theory in the LSE Department of Gender Studies. She works across feminist and queer studies exploring the political and epistemological impact of the stories we tell about these fields.
Discussant
Professor Armine Ishkanian
Armine Ishkanian is the Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity programme and Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research examines the relationship between civil society, democracy, development, and social transformation.
Discussant
Dr Denisa Kostovicova
Denisa Kostovicova is Associate Professor of Global Politics and Director of LSEE – Research on South East Europe at the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a scholar of conflict and peace processes with a particular interest in post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice.
Chair
Professor Sumi Madhok
Sumi Madhok is Professor of Political Theory and Gender Studies and Head of the LSE Department of Gender Studies. Her work combines theoretical, conceptual and philosophical investigations with detailed ethnographies of the lived experiences, political subjectivation, and political struggles for rights and justice, specifically, in South Asia.
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