⏰ September 26, 2024 (Thu), 13:15–14:15
🥙☕️Pre-Book Launch lunch: 12:30–13:15 (Refter, 2nd floor)
📍 Room John Vincke (3rd floor), Technicum 1, Campus UFO, Ghent University
✍ To register, click HERE.
ABOUT THE BOOK AND CONVERSATION:
The graphic novel follows the story of two guerrilleras, from their life before the armed struggle, to their participation in arms and then, in their return to civilian life. It explains the disciplining of their body to fit the military order, and it talks about love, combat, fear and the courage to change. It insists on the meaning of ‘dis-embodying’ combat and war, and the transformation of this combat into a feminist one.
The book is divided into three moments: the war, the civilian life, and the post-war feminist militancy. It focuses on the embodied sensations and emotions that are experienced in this process of transformation, and it ends with examples of projects led by the women in the northeastern region. Most of the novel is fiction, except the productive projects that are presented at the end of the novel – which are currently implemented by the fariana
The CRG Book Launch Series features eminent authors whose work is of great significance and relevance to our research on the micro-level dynamics of civil conflict and political violence.
Priscyll Anctil Avoine is a researcher in Feminist Security Studies and an Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, Swedish Defence University. Her research focuses on embodied and emotional processes in contemporary wars, with a particular emphasis on women’s political militancy in leftist insurgencies and in peace processes. Priscyll is also actively involved in the activities of the Fundación Lüvo, a feminist and antiracist collective working in peacebuilding and nonviolence.
María Martín de Almagro, PhD’s research is at the intersection of gender studies, international peacebuilding governance, and the role of knowledge production and meaning-making practices in world politics. Theoretically, much of her work investigates concepts and performances of authority, legitimacy, and power through poststructural and postcolonial accounts and feminist and interpretive methodologies. Empirically, as an IR scholar and an Africanist, she studies the micro-dynamics of war-to-peace transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa with the aim of producing original findings that derive from an in-depth study of this region, but that can at the same time inform broader debates in the discipline.