We have long saved--and curated--objects from wars to commemorate the war experience. These objects appear at national museums and memorials and are often mentioned in war novels and memoirs. Through them we institutionalize narratives and memories of national identity, as well as international power and purpose. While people interpret war in different ways, and there is no ultimate authority on the experiences of any war, curators of war objects make different choices about what to display or write about, none of which are entirely problematic, good, or accurate. This book asks whose vantage points on war are made available, and where, for public consumption; it also questions whose war experiences are not represented, are minimized, or ignored in ways that advantage contemporary militarism. Christine Sylvester looks at four sites of war memory-the National Museum of American History, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Arlington National Cemetery, and selected novels and memoirs of the American wars in Vietnam and Iraq-to consider the way war knowledge is embedded in differing sites of memory and display. While the museum shows war aircraft and a laptop computer used by a journalist covering the American war in Iraq, visitors to the Vietnam Memorial or Arlington Cemetery find more prosaic and civilian items on view, such as baby pictures, slices of birthday cake, or even car keys. In addition, memoirs and novels of these wars tend to curate ghastly horrors of wars as experienced by soldiers or civilians. For Sylvester, these sites of war memory and curation provide ways to understand dispersed war authority and interpretation and to consider which sites invite viewers to revere a war and which reflect personal experiences that show the undersides of these wars. Sylvester shows that scholars, policymakers, and other citizens need to consider different types of situated memory and knowledge in order to fully grasp war, rather than idealize it.

Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

History

Sylvester, Christine

Americas

Oxford University Press

This book presents empirical and interpretive approaches to the question of who women workers of postcolonial Zimbabwe are and what they wish to gain in the way of progress.Christine Sylvester moves between theory and on-the-ground narration with such grace. Fans of her feminist theorizing will find that her thinking about Zimbabwean women's lives will make them all the smarter.Cynthia Enloe, Author of ManeuversThis book provides vital exploration to the study of gender and labour relations in Zimbabwe. [The author] breaks new ground by incorporating theoretical perspectives with African women's everyday life and everyday experiences. This is an important book, timely in the sense that it departs from treating women merely as objects, but as subjects with voices to articulate their own history.Seki Nzenza Shand, Academic Development SpecialistThis book presents empirical and interpretive approaches to the question of who women workers of postcolonial Zimbabwe are and what they wish to gain in the way of progress. Through interviews with over 300 women across four economic sectorsof the late 1980s' economy, and with over 150 experts working with women, the study finds that women workers are neither easy to characterize or set on "a" course of progress for themselves―points that supervisors and development experts do not seem to realize and accommodate. The study draws on a wide range of theoretical orientations and evokes images of "women" and "progress" from the prodigious imaginative literature that has marked Zimbabwe's postcolonial years.

Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe: Narratives of Identity and Work from the 1980s

Business & Money

Economics

Greenwood Pub Group

Summa Theologiae: Volume 17, Psychology of Human Acts: 1a2ae. 6-17

This book is a major new contribution to our understanding of war and international relations (IR). Divided into two sections, the first part surveys the state of war and war studies in international relations, security studies and in feminist international relations. The second part addresses a missing area of IR studies of war that feminism is well-placed to fill in: the emotional and physical aspects of war. 
The author examines a wide variety of conflict situations, such as the Israel/Palestine dispute, the Cold War, Vietnam, Nicaragua, wars of liberation in Africa, genocidal war in Rwanda; humanitarian interventionist war in the Balkans, the recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the 'war on terror'. 
Drawing on the latest feminist thinking, the author demonstrates how war is experienced as a body-based politics and in so doing provides an innovative and challenging corrective to traditional theories of war in international relations. This will be essential reading for all those with an interest in gender, war and international relations.

War as Experience: Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis (War, Politics and Experience)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Routledge

This book argues that the identities and activities commonly associated with women have been eliminated from the theories formulated about international relations. The author points out that these theories often rely on the hidden activities of women and their assigned tasks in life to establish a sphere of politics that is for men only. Using case studies of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK, and of Zimbabwean women's efforts to secure international funding for producer cooperatives, the book explores the possibility of undermining the masculine identity politics of international relations.

Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 32)

Social Sciences

Cambridge University Press

This book argues that the identities and activities commonly associated with women have been eliminated from the theories formulated about international relations. The author points out that these theories often rely on the hidden activities of women and their assigned tasks in life to establish a sphere of politics that is for men only. Using case studies of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in the UK, and of Zimbabwean women's efforts to secure international funding for producer cooperatives, the book explores the possibility of undermining the masculine identity politics of international relations.

Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 77)

Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own "journey" through the subject, as well as the work of the other leading feminist scholars, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. It will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, Women's and Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Christine Sylvester examines the history of feminists' efforts to include gender relations in the study of international relations. Tracing the author's own "journey" through the subject, as well as the work of the other leading feminist scholars, the book examines theories, methods, people and locations which have been neglected by conventional scholarship. It will be of interest to scholars and students of International Relations, Women's and Gender Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

Art/Museums (Media and Power)

Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and museum studies to take up the insights of international relations. And it does so at a time when both international relations and art are said to be at an end-that is, out of control and beyond sight of their usual constituencies. The book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and "museum" spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. The art includes works over which museums might struggle, acquire through questionable means, hoard and possibly lose, such as the Parthenon sculptures, Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks, the ancient art of Babylon, modern art, and the art/museum itself in an era of rapid museum expansion. Bringing art, museums, and international relations together draws on the art technique of collage, which combines disparate objects, themes, and time periods in one work to juxtapose unexpected elements, leaving the viewer to relate objects that are not where they are expected to be.

Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect it (Media and Power)

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Study & Teaching

One of the most distinctive countries in Southern Africa, Zimbabwe presents a fascinating study in contradictions. This book addresses these contraditions, focusing on disjointed trends as continuities and discontinuities with historical patterns of political economy. The author traces the historical antecedents - the precolonial patterns of political economy, the political economy of white settler colonialism, and the class-political conflicts - of contradictory development. In her exploration of the post-independence state and society can be found both the outlines of a country that continues to move in several directions at once and the prospects for a less contradictory future for Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe: The terrain of contradictory development (Profiles)

Politics & Government

Westview Press Inc

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Curating and Re-Curating the American Wars in Vietnam and Iraq

Producing Women and Progress in Zimbabwe: Narratives of Identity and Work from the 1980s

War as Experience: Contributions from International Relations and Feminist Analysis (War, Politics and Experience)

Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 32)

Feminist Theory and International Relations in a Postmodern Era (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 32)

Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 77)

Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Series Number 77)

Art/Museums: International Relations Where We Least Expect it (Media and Power)

Art/Museums (Media and Power)

Zimbabwe: The terrain of contradictory development (Profiles)