Spatialising Peace and Conflict: Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence
Spatialising Peace and Conflict: Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies) by Annika Björkdahl and Susanne Buckley-Zistel
English | | ISBN: 1137550473, 1349715530 | 314 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
English | | ISBN: 1137550473, 1349715530 | 314 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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.