Mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social article in @risjnl.bsky.social puts Women, Peace and Security in conversation with abolition feminism, as the latter shares common features with anti-militarist approaches to feminist peace underpinning some WPS activism and scholarship doi.org/10.1017/S026... - ThreadSky

hannahwright.bsky.social • 344 days ago

Mine and @columbaachilleos.bsky.social article in @risjnl.bsky.social puts Women, Peace and Security in conversation with abolition feminism, as the latter shares common features with anti-militarist approaches to feminist peace underpinning some WPS activism and scholarship

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0260210524000354

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hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

However, although anti-militarist WPS advocates sometimes call for the abolition of military institutions and technologies, WPS policies often seek to reform institutions (policing, prisons, borders) that abolition feminisms would abolish

hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

We ask: 1) How would abolition feminism explain why the WPS agenda has often failed to make progress towards a radical vision of feminist peace?; What does abolition feminism demand of the WPS agenda?

hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

Using Gorz’s concept of ‘non-reformist reforms’, which has been taken up many abolitionist movements, we argue that WPS is often pursued in ways that make it reformist in character, undermining the transformative potential that more radical WPS advocates envisage

hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

Further, if feminist peace is anti-militarist, anti-capitalist & anti-colonial, this entails abolishing all interlinked systems of state violence, requiring a more far-reaching critique of WPS than its anti-militarist advocates/critics typically put forward

hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

Our analysis raises several questions, including 1) How does abolitionist thinking translate across different geographies, epistemological positions, languages, & ways of organising? 2) What would anti-carceral solutions to CRSV mean for feminist peace activists?

hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

Thanks to @risjnl.bsky.social and the reviewers for such a constructive review process!

hannahwright.bsky.social•344 days ago

We conclude that non-reformist approaches may offer more realistic pathways for achieving feminist peace; feminist peace ultimately challenges all militarist systems of state coercion; ‘feminist peace’ ≠ ‘WPS’; and highlight dangers of co-optation of abolitionist thought

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