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Hybrid Clubs: A Feminist Approach to Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Citation:
Martin de Almagro, Maria. 2018. “Hybrid Clubs: A Feminist Approach to Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo.” Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 12 (3): 319-34.
Author: Maria Martin de Almagro
Abstract:
Critical approaches to peacebuilding have achieved a local turn wherein alienated indigenous experiences are the cornerstone of emancipatory practices – yet this emancipation of the ‘different’ risks perpetuating the discrimination and normalization of the challenged liberal peace. Using the case study of a feminist campaign to elect more women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this article’s feminist approach to critical peacebuilding utilizes storytelling to develop a conceptual grid that reveals the complexities of the politics of difference, and proposes the concept of the ‘hybrid club’ as a cluster of local and international actors coalescing to develop peacebuilding initiatives.
Keywords: hybridity, gender, Democratic Republic of the Congo, space, embodiment, experience, peacebuilding
Topics: Feminisms, Gender, Women, Governance, Elections, Indigenous, Peacebuilding Regions: Africa, Central Africa Countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Year: 2018
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