Legacies of War: Violence, Ecologies, and Kin

Kimberly Theidon

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In Legacies of War Kimberly Theidon examines the lives of children born of wartime rape and the experiences of their mothers and communities to offer a gendered theory of harm and repair. Drawing on ethnographic research in postconflict Peru and Colombia, Theidon considers the multiple environments in which conception, pregnancy, and childbirth unfold. She reimagines harm by taking into account the impact of violence on individual people as well as on more-than-human lives, bodies, and ecologies, showing how wartime violence reveals the interdependency of all life. She also critiques policy makers, governments, and humanitarian organizations for their efforts at postconflict justice, which frequently take an anthropocentric rights-based approach that is steeped in liberal legalism. Rethinking the intergenerational reach of war while questioning what counts as sexual and reproductive violence, Theidon calls for an explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict agenda that includes a full range of sexual and reproductive rights, including access to safe and affordable abortions.

Book Details

Publisher: Duke University Press
Publish Date: Aug 5th, 2022
Pages: 128
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.80in - 5.90in - 0.40in - 0.60lb
EAN: 9781478018384
Categories: • Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Gender Studies• Latin America - South America

About the Author

Kimberly Theidon is Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at Tufts University and author of Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru.

Praise for this book

"Urgent, timely, and heartbreaking. . . . As Theidon asks us to move beyond facile assumptions about these women and children, she similarly asks us to expand our analytical focus to consider the connections between reproductive and environmental harm and justice."--María Elena García "NACLA" (7/22/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"Legacies of War provides deep reflection and raises difficult questions. As such, this is an important book for students of the Andes, global gender justice, and (post-)conflict violence and reconciliation. In addition, it is a very well-written journey through the possibilities and value of ethnographic work and scholarship."--Jelke Boesten "Journal of Latin American Studies" (12/12/2022 12:00:00 AM)

"Permeated by compassion and deep insight, Legacies of War is a groundbreaking book that offers unique and innovative perspectives on a topic that has received scant attention in academic and policy debates. . . . It holds the potential to improve assistance and support for victims of war--both human and other than human--and should therefore be read by any scholar and practitioner working with reconciliation and post-war reconstruction processes."--Sofie Rose "International Feminist Journal of Politics" (1/12/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"Writing in a narratively engaging ethnographic style, the author describes the international agendas, policies, and practices that maintain the invisibility of women's rights in the context of wartime violence. Throughout the text, Theidon focuses on solutions and calls for an "explicitly feminist peace-building and postconflict reconstruction agenda" (p. 5). Readers will come away with a nuanced account of how war, violence, and reproduction permeate the globe. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals."--J. Wies "Choice" (2/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"This book makes visible a widely hidden outcome of sexual violence and poses vital questions of increasing importance as we continue to face assaults on women's reproductive rights and the natural environment. It would be of particular interest to those engaged with social and environmental justice, gender, Latin American studies, and human rights."--Nicole Coffey Kellett "Journal of Anthropological Research" (6/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"In this book, as excellent as it is timely and urgent to disseminate, Theidon manages to put into perspective the horrors of sexual violence in Colombia and Peru, while bringing up the same problems in various parts of the planet. The author looks inward and outward, from small indigenous populations to large first world countries, to conclude that in all areas patriarchy, machismo and sexual violence against women have not yet listened to the victims of these forms of violence." (translated from Spanish)--Mara Favoretto "Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research" (5/25/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"Meticulously researched and well-grounded in theory, Legacies of War is an insightful examination of the intergenerational impact of war on women, children, communities, and the environment. By interweaving personal encounters, first-hand examples, and survivor stories with traditional scholarly approaches, Theidon brings the subject matter to life and makes cogent arguments that are easily understood, even by those with little background in the subject matter."--Lynn C. Purkey "Feministas Unidas" (5/1/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"Theidon demonstrates in Legacies of War a unique ability to recognize, analyze and interconnect, with delicate sensibility and an innovative conceptual apparatus, the intricacies of invisibilized harm in complex post-conflict scenarios. The book should be recommended reading for policy makers and scholars interested in violence, its after effects and a posthumanist approach to justice and reparations."--Alejandro Quintero Mächler "Revista" (9/26/2023 12:00:00 AM)

"This book inspires new questions in peace studies, medical anthropology, and environmental humanities. It opens theoretical routes to ethnographically explore the nuances of conflict-related sexual and reproductive violence, the challenges of transitional justice projects to repair the interspecies entanglements that are affected by war, and the limits and possibilities of the human rights framework to build a feminist peacebuilding agenda."--Vanesa Giraldo-Gartner "American Anthropologist" (9/3/2023 12:00:00 AM)