Bridging Divides Through Gender-Just Citizenship

This open access book explores how to build a gender-just peace in which women's political citizenship is foregrounded through a case study of Northern Ireland. It addresses the role that civil society can play in peacebuilding and in political life in deeply divided transitional societies. It specifically focuses on women's groups, and, as such, studies what grassroots peacebuilding across an ethnic divide can look like in practice. Further, it analyses what it means to build a gender equal citizenship based on the lived expertise and experiences of women's activism, political participation and interethnic cooperation during and after conflict. Based on material collected through interviews, participant observation and official documents, the book explores the potential for gender-just political citizenship but also the risk of backlash in terms of women's rights during a transition from armed conflict to peace. Essential reading for students and researchers in Political Science, Gender Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and Transitional Justice.

This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access Advances research regarding intersections between gender, citizenship and ethno-nationalism in deeply divided societies One of the first analyses of transversal politics and agonistic peace in relation to building gender-just citizenship Explores women's grassroots activities and the pushback against women's political participation in contemporary NI

Autorentext

Linda Eitrem Holmgren is a researcher and works as a research coordinator at the Department of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theorizing a Gender-Just Political Citizenship in Deeply Divided Transitional Societies.- Chapter 3: Women's Public Participation and Political Activism During the Troubles.- Chapter 4: Gender, Citizen Participation and Women's Political Activity in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland.- Chapter 5: Women's Cross-Community Activities, Agonistic Dialogue and Transversal Politics in Belfast.- Chapter 6: Moving Forward Trajectories Towards Gender-Just Transversal Citizenship in Northern Ireland.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.