Spatialising Peace and Conflict by Annika Bjorkdahl

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Summary

This volume brings to the fore the spatial dimension of specific places and sites, and assesses how they condition – and are conditioned by – conflict and peace processes. By marrying spatial theories with theories of peace and conflict, the contributors propose a new research agenda to investigate where peace and conflict take place.

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Spatialising Peace and Conflict by Annika Bjorkdahl

There has been no sustained inquiry into the relationship linking peace and conflict with space and place. This innovative edited volume explores conflict and peace through spatial approaches, and proposes a new research agenda investigating where peace and conflict take place. All chapters employ space as an analytic category and develop strong theoretical contributions alongside new empirical insights. From battlefields to memorials, places of encounter shape how agents relate to each other and how their actions are enabled or constrained. Moreover, spaces such as the international peacekeepers camps or sites of atrocity would not exist if it were not for the conflict. Drawing on concepts such as spatial governmentality, scalar politics, relational spatial theory and spatial narratives the authors investigate case studies reaching from divided cities such as Belfast, Dili and Jerusalem, via rape camps and karaoke bars, to war-torn countries.

Annika Björkdahl is Professor at Lund University and the Editor-in-Chief of Cooperation and Conflict. She researches peacebuilding, gender and transitional justice. Her publications include Rethinking Peacebuilding (2013) and articles in Security Dialogue, Millennium, Human Rights Review, and Journal of European Public Policy.

Susanne Buckley-Zistel is Professor for Peace Conflict Studies and Director of the Center for Conflict Studies, Marburg University, Germany, and Senior Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg for Global Cooperation Research at the University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Her research focuses on issues pertaining to peace and conflict, violence, gender and transitional justice.

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ISBN 13 9781349715534
ISBN 10 1349715530
Title Spatialising Peace and Conflict
Author Annika Bjorkdahl
Series Rethinking Peace And Conflict Studies
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Year published 2016-04-06
Number of pages 314
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