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Producing Spoilers - Peacemaking and the Production of Enmity in a Secular Age (Hardcover)
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Producing Spoilers - Peacemaking and the Production of Enmity in a Secular Age (Hardcover)
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Supporters of Hamas and radical religious Israeli settlers seem to
serve one purpose in the international peace process: to provide an
excuse for its failure. High-level diplomatic negotiators and
grassroots peace activists alike blame religious extremists for
acting as spoilers of rational negotiation, and have often
attempted to neutralize, co-opt, or marginalize them. In Producing
Spoilers, Joyce Dalsheim explores the problem of stalled
peacemaking by viewing spoilers not as the cause, but as a symptom
of systemic malfunctions within the concept of the nation-state
itself, and the secular constructs of historicism that support it.
She argues that spoilers are generated as internal enemies in the
course of conflict and used to explain why processes of peace and
reconciliation fail. In other words, peacemaking efforts can work
to produce enmity. Focusing on the case of Israel and Palestine,
Dalsheim shows how processes of conflict resolution, diplomacy,
dialogue, education, and social theorizing about liberation, peace,
and social justice actually participate in constructing enemies,
thus limiting the options for peaceful outcomes. Dalsheim examines
the work of politicians and diplomats as well as scholars and
grass-roots level peacemakers, drawing on her research and her own
experience as an activist for peace. She identifies a number of
common techniques and assumptions that help to produce spoilers,
among them the constraints of the narrative form and how
storytelling is employed in conflict resolution, and the idea of
anachronism, which prevents theorists and activists from seeing
creative possibilities for peaceful coexistence. Dalsheim also
looks at the limits of territorial solutions and the consequences
of nationalismthe context in which spoilers of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict are produced. She contrasts that
nationalism with current theorizing on flexible citizenship and
diasporic identity. The book culminates by moving beyond national
enmity and outside conventional peacemaking to clear a space in
which to think about alternative forms of negotiation, exchange,
community, and coexistence.
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