Humanising Political Violence: Lee Ann Fujii’s Legacies for Civil War Studies

Abstract

This review highlights Lee Ann Fujii’s legacy of humanising our research on, and understanding of, political violence and her contributions on the social embeddedness of participation in violence, the endogeneity of social categories to violence and embodied and performative dimensions of violence. It argues that civil war scholars should draw on Fujii’s relational approach as an ethical radar for the methods we use as a reality check on our analytical frameworks.