The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War

This edited volume critically investigates women's knowledge about war and explores the epistemic agency of women in a range of contemporary settings across the globe.

Annika Björkdahl is a Professor of Political Science at Lund University, Sweden. Johanna Mannergren is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Introduction: The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War. Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren 1: Incorporating embodied knowledge in UN Peacebuilding Fund projects: success stories, silences, and contestations. Maria Martín de Almagro 2: Archival research, security records and violence against women: Evidence from the First Intifada. Sarai Aharoni 3: Knowing violence: human rights documentation, narrative agency and resistance in Myanmar. Jenny Hedström and Elisabeth Olivius 4: The Politics of Knowledge, Positionality and Power: The "Inclusivity" of Indigenous Women in Peacemaking in Turtle Island (Canada and the United States). Julia Palmiano Federer, Lena Dedyukina and Polly O. Walker 5: Women, Peace and Security: Women Ex-Combatants, Reintegration and Knowledge Production of War in Postwar Era. Luna KC. 6: What we know and don't know about Malian women's experiences with violent extremism. Jenny Lorentzen 7: Insurgent War Knowledge? Silences and embodied epistemic agency in insurgent women's post-war militancy in Colombia. Priscyll Anctil Avoine. 8: Courageous changemakers. Women's activism in the Ukrainian army. Anastasiia Chupis. 9: Embodied knowledge production through virtual reality: tracing the global circulation of Yazidi women's testimonies. Annika Björkdahl and Johanna Mannergren Conclusion