Continuum Approaches to Violence in Global Politics: Lessons from Feminist Theorizing

Abstract The first part of this article engages anti-eventist approaches in feminist scholarship addressing questions of war and conflict, both providing “proof” that such approaches exist and discussing their arguments in some detail. The second part then suggests that the tools for the special issue editors’ proposed “new framework” to “overcome the limitations of an ‘event’ model of mass violence” with a “theoretical shift away” can indeed be found in feminist scholarship that long predates contemporary anti-eventism. The third section suggests that basing anti-eventism in feminist theorizing has significant value-added in comparison to anti-eventist approaches that neglect gender analysis. The article concludes with direct dialogue with some of the key questions that inspired this special issue around questions of how to understand aftermath and pursue justice.