Lisa McLean is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Thanatology at King’s University College in London, Ontario. Julie Marie Hyde is the Director of Research and Knowledge Mobilization at the Dallaire Institute for Children, Peace and Security. Sheherazade Jafari is Co-Founder of The Ripple Collective and teaches at Georgetown University within the Program on Justice and Peace. Jodi Dueck-Read is Director of Research and Program Grants and Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution Studies & Peace and Conflict Transformation Studies at Canadian Mennonite University.

• List of ContributorsForeword by Swati Parashar (University of Gothenburg)AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Generative Feminist ‘Misfitting’ in Peace and Conflict StudiesLisa McLean (King's University College), Julie Marie Hyde (Dalhousie University)Part I: Moving Towards a Feminist Critique1. Who Speaks for Religion? Gender, Agency and a Critical Feminist Approach to Religion in PACSSheherazade Jafari (Georgetown University)2. Inter-beings: Methodological and Ethical Considerations Within Feminist Research with Young PeopleJulie Marie Hyde3. Contradictions of Women’s Empowerment Discourse in Patriarchal Monarchies: The Case of OmanHania Bekdash-Muellers (Independent Researcher)Part II: Envisioning Pathways to Peace with Justice4. Building Peace by Disturbing the Peace: Vulnerability as a Critical Methodology and Vision for Just FuturesLisa McLean5. Black Women’s Practices in the Struggle for Peace and Justice in EcuadorBeatriz Juárez Rodríguez (Carleton University)Part III: Enacting Critical Feminist Praxis6. Research Anonymity as Protection and Non-Anonymity as Acknowledgement: A Deliberation on Epistemic Violence and Epistemic JusticeNompumelelo Motlafi Francis (University of Pretoria)7. The Dispossessed: Indigenous and Migrant Views against the Dominant Narratives on Citizenship in Northeast IndiaBidisha Mahanta (Zubaan), Karie Cross Riddle (Pepperdine University)8. Critical Feminist and Queer Informed Pedagogies for Peace and Conflict StudiesJodi Dueck-Read (Canadian Mennonite University)9. The Difference that Difference Makes: Intersectional Praxis, Pedagogy and Program Design in Peace and Justice StudiesGarrett FitzGerald (Pace University), Emily Welty (Pace University)10. Curriculum Against Empire: Feminist Posthumanist Peace Education in the AnthropoceneJerica Arents (DePaul University)Conclusion: Carrying the Conversation ForwardSheherazade Jafari, Jodi Dueck-ReadIndex

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