|
Showing 1 - 10 of
10 matches in All Departments
The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of
interaction and transformation between different institutional and
social forms, and normative systems. It has been used in numerous
ways to generate important analytical and methodological insights
into peacebuilding and development. Its most recent application in
the social sciences has also attracted powerful critiques that have
highlighted its limitations and challenged its continuing usage.
This book examines whether the value of hybridity as a concept can
continue to be harnessed, and how its shortcomings might be
mitigated or overcome. It does so in an interdisciplinary way, as
hybridity has been used as a benchmark across multiple disciplines
and areas of practical engagement over the past decade - including
peacebuilding, state-building, justice reform, security,
development studies, anthropology, and economics. This book
encourages a dialogue about the uses and critiques of hybridity
from a variety of perspectives and vantage points, including deeply
ethnographic works, high-level theory, and applied policy work. The
authors conclude that there is continued value in the concept of
hybridity, but argue that this value can only be realised if the
concept is engaged with in a reflexive and critical way. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the online journal
Third World Thematics.
Reconceiving Civil Society and Transitional Justice examines the
role of civil society in transitional justice, exploring the forms
of civil society that are enabled or disabled by transitional
justice processes and the forms of transitional justice activity
that are enabled and disabled by civil society actors. Although
civil society organisations play an integral role in the pursuit of
transitional justice in conflict-affected societies, the literature
lacks a comprehensive conceptualisation of the diversity and
complexity of these roles. This reflects the degree to which
dominant approaches to transitional justice focus on liberal-legal
justice strategies and international human rights norms. In this
context, civil society organisations are perceived as
intermediaries who are thought to advocate for and support formal,
liberal transitional justice processes. The contributions to this
volume demonstrate that the reality is more complicated; civil
society can - and does - play important roles in enabling formal
transitional justice processes, but it can also disrupt them.
Informed by detailed fieldwork across Asia and the Pacific Islands,
the contributions demonstrate that neither transitional justice or
civil society should be treated as taken-for-granted concepts.
Demonstrating that neither transitional justice or civil society
should be treated as taken-for-granted concepts, Reconceiving Civil
Society and Transitional Justice will be of great interest to
scholars of Security Studies, Asian Studies, Peacebuilding, Asia
Pacific, Human Rights, Reconciliation and the Politics of Memory.
The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Global
Change, Peace & Security.
The concept of hybridity highlights complex processes of
interaction and transformation between different institutional and
social forms, and normative systems. It has been used in numerous
ways to generate important analytical and methodological insights
into peacebuilding and development. Its most recent application in
the social sciences has also attracted powerful critiques that have
highlighted its limitations and challenged its continuing usage.
This book examines whether the value of hybridity as a concept can
continue to be harnessed, and how its shortcomings might be
mitigated or overcome. It does so in an interdisciplinary way, as
hybridity has been used as a benchmark across multiple disciplines
and areas of practical engagement over the past decade - including
peacebuilding, state-building, justice reform, security,
development studies, anthropology, and economics. This book
encourages a dialogue about the uses and critiques of hybridity
from a variety of perspectives and vantage points, including deeply
ethnographic works, high-level theory, and applied policy work. The
authors conclude that there is continued value in the concept of
hybridity, but argue that this value can only be realised if the
concept is engaged with in a reflexive and critical way. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the online journal
Third World Thematics.
This new textbook gathers an international roster of top security
studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific's
international relations and pressing contemporary security issues.
It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters
students' use in international relations and security studies
courses. Merging a strong theoretical component with rich
contemporary and historical empirical examples, Asia-Pacific
Security examines the region's key players and challenges as well
as a spectrum of proposed solutions for improving regional
stability. Major topics include in-depth looks at the United
States' relationship with China; Security concerns presented by
small and microstates, the region's largest group of nations;
threats posed by terrorism and insurgency; the region's
accelerating arms race and the potential for an Asian war; the
possible roles of multilateralism, security communities, and human
security as part of solutions to regional problems.
This new textbook gathers an international roster of top security
studies scholars to provide an overview of Asia-Pacific's
international relations and pressing contemporary security issues.
It is a suitable introduction for undergraduate and masters
students' use in international relations and security studies
courses. Merging a strong theoretical component with rich
contemporary and historical empirical examples, Asia-Pacific
Security examines the region's key players and challenges as well
as a spectrum of proposed solutions for improving regional
stability. Major topics include in-depth looks at the United
States' relationship with China; Security concerns presented by
small and microstates, the region's largest group of nations;
threats posed by terrorism and insurgency; the region's
accelerating arms race and the potential for an Asian war; the
possible roles of multilateralism, security communities, and human
security as part of solutions to regional problems.
Joanne Wallis is a lecturer in the College of Asia and the Pacific
at the Australian National University. She has previously taught at
the University of Cambridge, the University of Melbourne and
Swinburne University. She completed her PhD in politics and
international studies at the University of Cambridge in 2011. From
January 2009 to January 2012 she was an honorary Fellow of the
School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of
Melbourne. In 2006, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Walker
Institute of International and Area Studies at the University of
South Carolina. She has also worked as a lawyer and has conducted
research consultancies for Australian and international NGOs. Her
research considers the role that constitution making plays in
building states and nations in post-conflict societies, with a
particular emphasis on the opportunities for engagement between
liberal and local approaches to law, governance and development.
How can fragmented, divided societies that are not immediately
compatible with centralised statehood best adjust to state
structures? This book employs both comparative constitutional law
and comparative politics, as it proposes the idea of a 'constituent
process', whereby public participation in constitution making plays
a positive role in state building. This can help to foster a sense
of political community and produce a constitution that enhances the
legitimacy and effectiveness of state institutions because a
liberal-local hybrid can emerge to balance international liberal
practices with local customary ones. This book represents a
sustained attempt to examine the role that public participation has
played during state building and the consequences it has had for
the performance of the state. It is also the first attempt to
conduct a detailed empirical study of the role played by the
liberal-local-hybrid approach in state building.
|
You may like...
Captain America
Jack Kirby, Joe Simon, …
Paperback
R610
R476
Discovery Miles 4 760
|