Start Date
12-6-2011 9:30 AM
End Date
12-6-2011 12:00 PM
Subject Areas
bodies, feminist, politics, violence, war
Abstract
This paper examines the valence of different deaths, from civilians on the ‘enemy’ side to ‘our soliders’ who fight in Iraq and Afghanistan with a view to mitigating political violence. The concept of feminist geopolitics is employed and recast, both as a bridging concept between feminist and political geography and as an analytical approach that has political valence in the context of the war in Iraq. Feminist geopolitics is revisited in this article, but remains a critical analytic in relation to body counts and other casualties in war zones.
Keywords
body counts, feminist geopolitics, PTSD
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Whose Bodies Count? Feminist Geopolitics and the Memorialization of War-related Deaths
This paper examines the valence of different deaths, from civilians on the ‘enemy’ side to ‘our soliders’ who fight in Iraq and Afghanistan with a view to mitigating political violence. The concept of feminist geopolitics is employed and recast, both as a bridging concept between feminist and political geography and as an analytical approach that has political valence in the context of the war in Iraq. Feminist geopolitics is revisited in this article, but remains a critical analytic in relation to body counts and other casualties in war zones.