Narrating the women, peace and security agenda logics of global governance / Laura J. Shepherd.

Author/creator Shepherd, Laura J.
Other author Oxford University Press.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Descriptionvolumes cm
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Contents Stories of the women, peace, and security agenda -- Tools to think with : narrative, discourse, logics -- Ownership and origin stories -- Narratives of success -- Narratives of failure -- Narratives of tensions and pressures -- Silences, secrets, and sensibilities -- Resisting narrative closure.
Abstract "This history of UNSCR 1325, and its articulation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda that grew from its adoption, are as familiar to anyone working on the agenda as the alphabet, the rules of grammar and syntax, or the spelling of their own name. In this book, I encounter Women, Peace and Security as a policy agenda that emerges in and through the stories that are told about it, focussing on the world of WPS work at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (noting, of course, that many other equally rich and important stories could be told about the agenda in other contexts). Part of how the WPS agenda is formed as (and simultaneously forming) a knowable reality, is through the narration of its beginnings, its ongoing unfolding, and its plural futures. These stories account for the inception of the agenda, outline its priorities and delimit its possibilities, through the arrangement of discourse into narrative formations that communicate and constitute the agenda's triumphs and disasters. This is a book about the stories of the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and the worlds they contain"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2020044149
ISBN9780197557242 (hardback)
ISBN9780197557259 (paperback)
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