Analyzing Discourses on Islam and  Women’s Rights:  Influences on Post-9/11 Peacebuilding  Efforts in Afghanistan

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Analyzing Discourses on Islam and Women’s Rights: Influences on Post-9/11 Peacebuilding Efforts in Afghanistan

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2024-05-13

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Analyzing Discourses on Islam and Women’s Rights: Influences on Post-9/11 Peacebuilding Efforts in Afghanistan

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10.34577/0002000199

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Okubo, Tokoyo

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This article investigates to what extent misconceptions regarding Islam and women’s rights, as prevalent in Western discourses, influenced both the war on terror and post9/11 peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan. Using an analytical approach that combines elements of Orientalism, Western liberal feminism, Islamic feminism, and intersectionality, this paper examines the multi-dimensional narratives surrounding women’s rights in Afghanistan. This paper explores the historical backdrop of women’s rights in Afghanistan,
investigates the strategies surrounding women’s rights during the war on terror and post9/11 peacebuilding, provides an overarching view of the prevalent misconceptions in Western discourses, and synthesizes these discussions to analyze women’s rights in the post-9/11 Afghan context.This article states that these two key misconceptions of Islam and women’s rights
in Western discourses, the rhetoric of ‘Islam oppresses women’ and the portrayal of
‘Muslim women as passive victims’ in need of liberation, played a central role in framing the war on terror and subsequent peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan. Specifically, this paper discusses how IC aid actors, particularly the U.S. and its allies, exploited the above misconceptions about Islam and women’s rights both to justify the post-9/11 invasion of Afghanistan and to position themselves as ‘liberators,’ thereby creating a binary narrative that portrayed Muslim societies as ‘oppressors’ during post-9/11 peacebuilding efforts. The discourses of Afghan women’s rights issues tended to be used by the IC aid actors, especially the U.S., as a symbolic ‘tool’ to justify and legitimize their military intervention and post-9/11 peacebuilding efforts. This paper points out that the above binary perspectives of Western discourses on Islam and women’s rights not only served as justifications for the post-9/11 intervention in Afghanistan but also oversimplified the multi-dimensional realities of Muslim societies, casting the West as the ‘savior’ and
Muslim societies as inherently oppressive. In this regard, Western liberal feminists often universalize women’s experiences, overlooking cultural nuances, while Islamic feminists provide a more nuanced lens, highlighting the diversity of women’s experiences rooted in Islamic teaching.
As for the above arguments, this paper underscores the importance of transcending binary narratives, not to deny the harsh realities faced by Afghan women but to present a more nuanced, empirical representation of their lives. It contends that the above binary discourses often sideline the multifaceted insights provided by Islamic feminism, which offers a nuanced perspective on the diversity of women’s experiences within various Islamic societies. In this regard, this paper asserts that the introduction of Kimberlé Crenshaw’s concept of ‘intersectionality’ into this discourse illuminates the multifaced identities of Afghan women, emphasizing the interconnectedness of identity markers like gender, race, class, and religion. Moreover, intersectionality has the potential to act as a bridge between the Western liberal feminists and Islamic feminists’ ideologies,
underscoring that advocating for women’s rights is not a straightforward path but a complex journey reflecting the various experiences of the women it seeks to empower. While intersectionality originated within Western academic discourse, it has since transcended its origins, becoming a universally applicable framework to address global complexities of identities and inequities.
In conclusion, the above two misconceptions about Islam and women’s rights
in Western discourses were pivotal in framing the war on terror and subsequent
peacebuilding efforts in Afghanistan. These misconceptions led to an oversimplified
understanding of Afghan women’s experiences. This paper advocates transcending
binary narratives to embrace a multi-dimensional understanding of Afghan women’s
identities and experiences. It stresses moving beyond binary narratives and spotlighting the intricate interplay of factors shaping various experiences of Afghan women in their specific socio-political and cultural contexts.

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ja : 社会科学ジャーナル
en : The Journal of Social Science

号 91, p. 107-127, 発行日 2024-03-29

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国際基督教大学(ja)

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