Gendering ethnic conflicts

Minority women in divided societies - the case of Muslim women in India

Bibliographic Data

ID2147495
AuthorsAyelet Harel-Shalev (0000-0001-9502-0095, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume40
Issue12
Pages2115-2134
Publication date2017-09-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2017.1277028
OpenAlexW2585081156
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited68

This article explores the practical and theoretical significance and long-term consequences of the failure to incorporate women's interests in post-conflict negotiations by examining the case of Muslim women in India. Analyses of deeply divided societies must recognize that political competition and political violence do not affect all citizens equally. Also, the "larger picture" depicted by inter-community conflicts should not overshadow the effects of intra-community conflicts, which are no less important. Evident within each community conflict are the winners and the losers of the political accommodation process, in which the marginalized and weaker sections of each "side" of the conflict may be the real "losers". Gendered analysis of ethnic conflicts and ethnic conflict resolution demands a reorientation of the concepts of conflict and security - Whose conflict is being solved and who is being secured

Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Migration, Refugees, and Integration

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