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<p>How do understandings of the relationships between gender, violence, security and the international inform policy and practice in which these notions are central? What are the practical implications of basing policy on problematic discourses?In this highly original poststructural feminist critique, the author maps the discursive terrains of institutions, both NGOs and the UN, which formulate and implement resolutions and guides of practice that affect gender issues in the context of international policy practices.The author investigates UN Security Council Resolution 1325, passed in 2000 to address gender issues in conflict areas, in order to examine the discursive construction of security policy that takes gender seriously. In doing so, she argues that language is not merely descriptive of social/political reality but rather constitutive of it. Moving from concept to discourse, and in turn to practice, the author analyses the ways in which the resolution's discursive construction had an enormous influence over the practicalities of its implementation, and how the resulting tensions and inconsistencies in its construction contributed to its failures. The book argues for a re-con

Who reads Gender, Violence and Security : Discourse As Practice?

Author

Laura J. Shepherd

Publisher

Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780327976

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

True Crime, Political Science, Social Science

Rating

4 / 5 (1 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13