The politics of peacebuilding in a diverse world difference exposed
This book challenges the understanding of 'difference' in the field of peacebuilding and offers new ways to consider diversity in the context of international interventions. International peacebuilding as a practice and academic field has always been embroiled in the 'problem' of...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2019.
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| Call Number : | JZ 5538 .P6535 2019 |
| Summary: | This book challenges the understanding of 'difference' in the field of peacebuilding and offers new ways to consider diversity in the context of international interventions. International peacebuilding as a practice and academic field has always been embroiled in the 'problem' of difference. For mainstream scholars and policy-makers, local views, histories, and cultural codes are often seen as an obstacle on the way to peace. For critical scholars, international interventions have failed because of the very superficial attention given to the needs, values, and experience of the people in post-conflict societies. Yet the current proposals of hybrid peace and emancipation seem to reproduce Eurocentric lenses and problematic binaries. Differently inspired by feminist, post-structuralist, and new materialist perspectives, the authors assembled in this volume give sustained attention to the theorisation and practice of difference. Taken together, these contributions show that differences are always multidimensional, non-essential, and are reflections of broader power and gender inequalities. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 159 pages illustrations 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780367209742 (hbk) |