Feminist Peace and the Violence of Communalism

This book examines how narratives of communal conflicts in south India affect Muslims, women, and the lower castes, entrenching complex realities of marginalisation and violence.

Autorentext

Emanuela Mangiarotti is a research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia, where she is also a faculty member of the MA in African and Asian Studies. She holds a PhD in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent (2012) and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Genoa (2022).

Inhalt

Introduction: Communalism Through the Lens of Feminist Peace Research 1. Ethnography of a Communally-Sensitive City 2. Community Boundaries and The Politics of Religious Difference 3. Narrating The Past, Shaping the Present: History in Narratives of Interfaith Relations 4. Communal Violence and the Societal Order in Hyderabad 5. Religious Community as Political Subject 6. Communal Conflicts and Women's Everyday Life Conclusion: Researching Conflict Paradigms in India and Beyond