Reimagining the Aftermath of War, Now

May 10, 2022 | Aida A. Hozić and Juliana Restrepo Sanín
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Feminist scholars stress two aspects of wars. First, they emphasise continuums and circuits of violence, challenging the usual dichotomies of war and peace, public and private, domestic and international. From the feminist perspective, wars are not territorially bound and cannot be contained. They travel (and return) with refugees, humanitarian workers, mercenaries, and veterans. They circulate within the global economic system through arms trade, informal and illicit markets, looted goods and drugs, and official aid packages. And they are enunciated by crime, extremism, and domestic violence and stretch into the future through trauma, displacement, domestic abuse, addictions, and suicides among survivors and veterans.