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Highlights
- In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar.
- About the Author: Jenny Hedström is Associate Professor of War Studies at Swedish Defence University.
- 156 Pages
- Political Science, World
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About the Book
"A study of the community and household work Kachin women undertake as part of the ongoing civil war in Myanmar"-Book Synopsis
In Reproducing Revolution, Jenny Hedström explores the Kachin revolution in Myanmar from the perspective of female soldiers, female activists, and women displaced by the violence in northern Myanmar. Hedström argues that the household is an inherently gendered, militarized, and political space that impacts, and is in turn impacted by, the external conflict with which it coexists. In this context, women's everyday labor--the gendered work of childcare, farming, fighting, and forging connections both across households and between the household and the army and the nation--is key to revolutionary survival. Hedström calls this labor militarized social reproduction, and in Reproducing Revolution she demonstrates that such labor is critical to the military effort, and that warfare itself is shaped through everyday domestic action.
About the Author
Jenny Hedström is Associate Professor of War Studies at Swedish Defence University. She is coeditor of Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar. Her research and teaching concern the relationship between households, gender, warfare, and peacebuilding--often with a focus on Myanmar.
