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Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions
No full textSecurity studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly through the ‘women in’ or ‘women and’ politics and IR discourse. This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. By foregrounding the empirical reality of the breakdown of these traditional divisions, the authors pay particular attention to frameworks which query their very existence. In doing so, the collection as a whole troubles the ubiquitous concept and practices of ‘(in)security’ and their effects on differentially positioned subjects. By gendering (in)securities in ‘states of exception’ and other paradigms of government related to it, especially in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts, the book provides an approach that allows us to study the complex and interrelated security logics, which constitute the messy realities of different – and particularly vulnerable – subjects’ lives. In other words, it suggests that these frameworks are ripe for feminist interventions and analysis of the logics and production of (in)securities as well as of resistance and hybridisation.
This book was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics
Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions
No full textSecurity studies and international relations have conventionally relegated gendered analysis to the margins of academic concern, most commonly through the ‘women in’ or ‘women and’ politics and IR discourse. This comprehensive volume contributes to debates which seek to move feminist scholarship away from the reification of the war/peace and security/economy divides. By foregrounding the empirical reality of the breakdown of these traditional divisions, the authors pay particular attention to frameworks which query their very existence. In doing so, the collection as a whole troubles the ubiquitous concept and practices of ‘(in)security’ and their effects on differentially positioned subjects. By gendering (in)securities in ‘states of exception’ and other paradigms of government related to it, especially in postcolonial and neocolonial contexts, the book provides an approach that allows us to study the complex and interrelated security logics, which constitute the messy realities of different – and particularly vulnerable – subjects’ lives. In other words, it suggests that these frameworks are ripe for feminist interventions and analysis of the logics and production of (in)securities as well as of resistance and hybridisation.
This book was originally published as an online special issue of the journal Third World Thematics
Gender, Seva and Social Institutions:A Case Study of the Bebe Nanaki Gurdwara and Charitable Trust, Birmingham, U.K.
No full textGender, Seva and Social Institutions:A Case Study of the Bebe Nanaki Gurdwara and Charitable Trust, Birmingham, U.K.
No full textGender, Seva and Social Institutions:A Case Study of the Bebe Nanaki Gurdwara and Charitable Trust, Birmingham, U.K.
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Adaptation and Incorporation in Ritual Practices at the Golden Temple, Amritsar
No full textThis article will focus upon the ways in which ritual practices at the Golden Temple in Amritsar Punjab have been transformed since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947. The intermingling of popular ritual practices and institutional controls of the practices of worship within managed sites highlights the evolving nature of ritual practices in Sikh sacred sites. By focusing upon the management and sustenance of ritual practices at Harmandir Sahib, we highlight how the most iconic of all Sikh spiritual sites today also contains a history of contested and on- going heteropraxy despite attempts to discipline ritual devotional practice
Sikh/Muslim Bhai-Bhai? Towards a social history of the rabābī tradition of shabad kīrtan
No full textThis article situates the rabābī tradition of kīrtan within the backdrop of politicized religious boundaries, which find it increasingly difficult to locate the Muslim presence within Sikh history and sacred music. The musical recitation of Sikh sacred hymns through shabad kīrtan has its origins in the appointment by Gurū Nanak of his companion Bhai Mardana in the fifteenth century. This story of origins, while being an integral part of how shabad kīrtan is reflected upon, has not been adequately explored for its significance in terms of social relations, not least for what are now seen as oppositional locations of Sikh and Muslim. The article explores how a social history of the rabābī tradition within context raises a number of questions about how we conceptualize shabad kīrtan within wider currents of identity, religious boundary-making, professional association and spiritual music. © 2011 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC
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