Introduction: Framing a south feminist analysis of war, conflict and violence against women – the value of a political economy lens

Abstract

This issue of the newsletter DAWN Informs is intended to publicize the new DAWN book, titled The Political Economy of Conflict and Violence against Women: Cases from the South (Zed Books, London, 2019), and to provide a synoptic version for those, especially from the global South, who may not be able to access it. The book builds on previous work by DAWN in understanding violence against women in contexts of war, conflict and transition. Political economic processes of conflict are tightly knit to the nature of relations between the national and the global economy in post-colonial nation states in the global South, and they also shape the aftermath of post conflict transition, reconstruction, recovery and peace. The rich and varied insights presented here compel us to interrogate and nuance existing frames of analysis that have sought to understand violence against women in conflict and war.