Gendering Peace in Violent Peripheries

This book forwards Assam (and Northeast India) as a specific location for studying operations of gendered power in multi-ethnic, conflict-habituated geopolitical peripheries globally.

Uddipana Goswami is a writer, feminist peace researcher, and author of Conflict and Reconciliation: The Politics of Ethnicity in Assam (Routledge, 2014).

Introduction: Engendering Conflict, Reframing Peace 1. Why Assam?: Making Peace in Peripheries of Power 2. Men in the Margins: Masculinity, Marginality, and Ethnic Conflicts 3. Many Violences: Conflict as Habit 4. Women Underground: Marginalized Women of a Troubled Periphery Postscript: Peace Praxis and Reflexivity in Peripheries of Power