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Placing a posthuman-feminist approach to relationalist thinking at the heart of peace and security analysis in Africa, this book argues against the sidelining of marginalized groups and the more-than-human in peacebuilding efforts. It calls for a more intersectional, grounded, embodied and caring approach to peace and security to address the complex interactions between people and their surroundings, filling gaps left by earlier feminist work by highlighting the link between gender and the nonhuman world.
This path-breaking account of peace and security addresses the often-overlooked connections between gender, the environment and power.
‘Heidi Hudson’s A Posthuman Feminist Peace: Gender, Relationality and More-than-Human in African Peacebuilding and Security makes an urgent and convincing case for our interspecies entanglement to destroy or build relations of care for all living species to flourish. In doing this, Hudson marshals the best of black, postcolonial, decolonial, African and indigenous, historical new materialist and eco-feminisms, among others, to reveal a feminist moral theory that decenters the human, allows for difference and diversity among the inhabitants of our planetary home. Hudson’s posthuman feminist peace is a multispecies intersectionality grounded on radical ethics of care that expands what we see as insecurity, harm, and, indeed, justice and peace. I thank Hudson for her careful and masterful centering of African knowledges that have always assumed an interspecies world sense, and for looking to them to define the new global peace and security agenda.’ Siphokazi Magadla, author of Guerrillas & Combative Mothers: Women & the Armed Struggle in South Africa
‘Hudson’s posthuman feminist relational approach, meticulously elaborated, offers a genuinely new way forward for security thinking. This extraordinary, bold, imaginative book makes a highly original contribution to debates about security in the 21st century, often centring African experiences and knowledges but with an eye to entanglements and the richness of our intrinsically interrelated lives. It will be of interest to anyone seeking generative frameworks through which to engage questions of possibility and peace in the contemporary world.’ Laura J. Shepherd, The University of Sydney
‘A Posthuman Feminist Peace is a rich and ambitious multiple feminist approach to some of the most pressing problems in global politics today, with important emphases on relationality and intersectionality. Every reader will find something to engage in this important book!’ Laura Sjoberg, University of Oxford
‘This book represents a much-needed reconceptualization of peace practice, integrating ecological dimensions that move beyond prevailing limitations in the field.’ Maximilian Lakitsch, University of Graz
Introduction: Of Stakes, Relations and Worlds
Part I: The Matter of Relations and Relations That Matter
1. The Relational Arc of Feminist Contrariness
2. Across and Below: Kinship and Place in Posthuman Feminism
3. Dense Connections: Intra-active Matter and Care in Posthuman Feminism
4. The Freedom to Relate: Posthuman Feminist Peace and Security
Part II: Posthuman Security and Peacebuilding Practices in Africa
5. Posthuman Violence and Transitional Justice
6. Posthuman Livelihoods, Gender, Climate Change and Conflict
7. Forced Migration, Infrastructural Relations and Digital Technologies
Conclusion: A Time and Place to Care