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Geographies of Peace - New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (Hardcover, New)
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Geographies of Peace - New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution (Hardcover, New)
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From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of
peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread
and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise
definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise.
Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also
abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its
antithesis: war. And it is war and violence that have been so
compellingly studied within critical geography in recent years.
This volume offers an attempt to redress that balance, and to think
more expansively and critically about what peace means and what
geographies of peace may entail. The editors begin with an
examination of critical approaches to peace in other disciplines
and a helpful genealogy of peace studies within geography. The book
is then divided into three sections. The opening section examines
how the idea of peace may be variously constructed and interpreted
according to different sites and scales. The chapters in the second
section explore a remarkably wide range of techniques of
peacemaking.This widens the discussion from the archetypical image
of top-down, diplomatic state-led initiatives to imperial boundary
making practices, grassroots cultural identity assertion, boycotts,
self-immolation, ex-paramilitary community activism, and
'protective accompaniment'. The final section shifts the scale and
focus to everyday personal relations and a range of practices
around the concept of coexistence. In their concluding chapter the
editors spell out some of the key questions that they believe a
geography of peace must address: What spatial factors have
facilitated the success or precipitated the failure of some peace
movements or diplomatic negotiations? Why are some ideologies
productive of violence in some places but co-operation in others?
How have some communities been better able to deal with religious,
racial, cultural and class conflict than others? How have creative
approaches to sharing sovereignty mitigated or transformed
territorial disputes that once seemed intractable? Geographies of
Peace is the first book wholly devoted to exploring the geography
of peace.Drawing on both recent advances in social and political
theory and detailed empirical research covering four continents, it
makes a significant intervention into current debates about peace
and violence.
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