This is a conversation with Marie E. Berry and Milli Lake, co-founders and principal investigators of the Women’s Rights After War Project. We primarily spoke about their article "on inconvenient findings" and their paper for Annual Reviews "women's rights after war: on gender interventions and enduring hierarchies"
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Topics Discussed:
The limitations of many 'women's empowerment' programs
What happens when research findings challenge the work that policy makers are invested in promoting? Example of degrowth and economics
Who gets excluded when certain interests (such as class) are maintained?
Examples of Rwanda, Bosnia and Lebanon
Narrowly-defined arena for justice
The three Dayton agreements (referencing the episode with Aida Hozic) and ongoing situation in Bosnia and Serbia
War logics in 'postwar' contexts
The USA as a 'postwar' country
Should we make inconvenient findings less inconvenient?
The idea of nation states
The role of futurism and speculative movements
Resources Mentioned:
69/ The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements (with Aida A. Hozić) https://thefirethisti.me/2021/03/28/69-the-entrenched-manliness-of-ethnic-power-sharing-peace-agreements-with-aida-a-hozic/
Recommended Books:
Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by adrienne maree brown
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies w/ Marie Berry and Milli Lake