Nirbhaya, #MeToo & Orientalism in Transnational Gender Politics
The propagation of neo-colonial Oriental epistemes detracts from ‘mainstream’ feminism aims by generating a cultural divide between East and West.
Decentering Anthropos: Insights from New Materialism
New materialist approach to the instrumentality of lethality shows how the potential for violence latent within weaponry characterizes conflict and influences humans.
Frantz Fanon and the Inefficacy of Anti-colonial Violence
A more effective way of combatting colonial immanent violence is to dismantle the racialised and gendered discourses that make this violence possible.
Limits of Liberal Feminist Peacebuilding in the Occupied Palestinian Territory
Western support for the WPS agenda in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has fostered processes of ‘hybridisation’ and ‘NGOisation’ that depoliticise local women’s movements.
Suffering and Dependence: How Colonialist Discourse Denies African Statehood
To question decolonisation is to perpetuate the Hegelian notion of Africa’s historical immobility, and this can only be shed by the complete overthrow of the settler.
Transitional Justice in Colombia: Between Retributive and Restorative Justice
Colombia’s Comprehensive System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition (SIVJRNR) presents a mixed restorative and retributive justice approach in peace building.
Reproductive Justice in Occupied Palestine: Biopolitical Policies and Experience
Israeli Occupation through its Zionist strategies, manifestations of terror, curfews, surveillance, and violence restricts Palestinian women’s reproductive choices.
Multiple Worlds of Trauma: Methodology, Eurocentrism, and the Colonial Traumatic
This essay discusses if and where it is possible to draw the defining line(s) of trauma amidst a diversity of perspectives without depoliticizing or/and colonizing it.
Dr. Strangelove: Deterrence as a Power of Absence
Stanley Kubrick’s film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb illustrates the power of absence in the discourse of nuclear deterrence.
North Korean Female Defectors in China: Human Trafficking and Exploitation
Already in a vulnerable position, North Korean defectors, particularly women, are susceptible to human trafficking. Chinese policy can tackle or enhance this issue.
