Although there is growing recognition that women’s participation is critical for the durability of peaceful conflict transition, grounded research examining the political scale of women’s participation has not been common. Where feminist researchers have tackled this topic, they have generally reproduced binary representations of political space, sometimes strongly critical of local spaces as restrictive of women, sometimes strongly critical of a hegemonic liberal international. In this article, I address the issue of women’s participation in conflict transition governance from another more ethnographic angle, drawing from fieldwork conducted in the Solomon Islands, a Pacific Islands country destabilised by conflict in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I apply theories of political scale to consider where and how women are politically active in the conflict transition environment, how that political activity is constituted relative to other political scales and where and how women seek to make their political ambitions understood. The ‘emplacement’ lens I develop offers a critical vantage point for analysis of the ways women constitute political identities and the agendas they might meaningfully progress, at scales ranging from the small worlds of the household and the community to the broader scale of national politics.

尽管人们日益认识到，妇女参与对于持久和平冲突过渡至关重要，但研究妇女参与政治规模的扎根研究并不普遍。女权主义研究者解决这个话题的地方，他们通常复制了政治空间的二进制表示形式，有时强烈批评限制女性的地方空间，有时强烈批评霸权的国际自由主义者。在本文中，我从另一个所研究的民族学角度出发，从在1990年代末和2000年代初因冲突而动荡的太平洋岛国所罗门群岛进行的实地考察出发，探讨了妇女参与冲突过渡治理的问题。我运用政治规模理论来考虑妇女在冲突过渡环境中在哪里以及如何在政治上活跃，相对于其他政治规模如何构成这种政治活动，以及妇女在哪里以及如何寻求表达其政治抱负。我开发的“定位”镜头为分析女性构成政治身份的方式以及她们可能有意义地发展的议程提供了关键的有利点，其规模从家庭和社区的小世界到更大范围的国家政治。