Gender, Globalization, and Violence Postcolonial Conflict Zones

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Conflict zones: Colonial Haunting and Contested Sovereignties Neoliberal discourses on Violence: Monstrosity and rape in Borderland war ..............27 Thin Ice: Postcoloniality and sexuality in the Politics of Citizenship and military services......46 American humanitarian citizenship: The soft power of Empire ................64 Female suicide bombers and the politics of Gendered militancy ............82 2. European Frictions : Memories, migration, and citizenship Uses and abuses of Gender and Nationality : Torture and the French-algerian War .............111 Migrating sovereignties and mirror states : From eritrea to L`Aquila .......126 Doing integration in Europe: Postocolonial Frictions in the Making of Citizenship ..................145 coffin Exchange ..........161 3. Contact zones: Transitional Justice, Reconciliation, and Cosmopolitanism Invisible wars : Gendered terrorism in the US Military and the juarez feminicidio..........177 Political transitions and the arts: The performance of colonial leadership in philip miller`s Cantata R Ewind and in Wim Botha`s Portrait busts .........196 Justice by any means necessary : Vigilantism among indian women ........214 On love and shame : Two photographs of female Protesters .......229 Rethinking the Arab spring through the postsecular : Gender entanglements, social media , and the Religion - secular Divide ....245