ABSTRACT

It has become widely acknowledged by scholars and practitioners that women’s participation in peace-building is essential to building sustainable, inclusive peace. The question remains, however, what is ‘women’s participation’ in practical terms? What does it look like? What does it feel like? Following feminist scholarship that has argued for attention to the politics of emotion in International Relations, I call for an emotion-aware approach to thinking about women’s participation in peace-building and the recognition that emotion has real, material effects on how women participate and the impact of their participation. Drawing on fieldwork experience in Burma and on the Thailand-Burma border I reflect on the process of asking such questions and the possibilities of taking affect seriously in the study of peace. What emerges from this reflection is a methodological consideration that centres emotion and recognises it as simultaneously politically meaningful and gendered. Exploration of the challenges of such an approach grounds this contribution in the realities of data collection and interpretation in the field, while also demonstrating the richness that emerges from such inquiry.

摘要

学者和实践者普遍承认，妇女参与和平建设对于建设可持续、包容的和平至关重要。然而，问题仍然存在，实际上什么是“妇女的参与”？它是什么样子的？是什么感觉喜欢？继主张关注国际关系中的情感政治的女权主义学术研究之后，我呼吁采用一种具有情感意识的方法来思考女性参与和平建设，并承认情感对女性如何参与和他们参与的影响。借助在缅甸和泰缅边境的实地考察经验，我反思了提出这些问题的过程以及在和平研究中认真对待影响的可能性。从这种反思中产生的是一种方法论考虑，它以情感为中心，并承认它同时具有政治意义和性别特征。探索这种方法的挑战将这种贡献建立在该领域数据收集和解释的现实中，