ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors demonstrate that everyday violence in general is often gendered in nature or is often a consequence of the gendered dynamics of international politics. They explore how the conceptualization of everyday violence ties to the established understandings of violence in International Relations (IR), and how conceptualizations of violence in security studies and IR might be adapted to account for everyday violence, making them better able to reflect the experiences of diverse identities. The stakes of incorporating everyday violence into IR are particularly relevant for revealing gendered processes and concepts both in practice and theory. The authors provide a more nuanced definition of everyday violence, before demonstrating where everyday violence is tied particularly to gender. They also provide some illustrative empirical examples of forms of gendered everyday violence and suggest some areas that are ripe for further study.
