This study addresses debates on the liberal peace and policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebuilding contexts. It locates resistance in the experiences of war, peacebuilding and state-making by exploring discourses, violence and everyday forms of survival as quotidian acts that attempt to challenge or mitigate such experiences. The aim is to not only highlight how contested peacebuilding processes are, but also to examine the practices that constitute, challenge and subvert them. This is important to better understand the dynamics of...
This study addresses debates on the liberal peace and policies of peacebuilding through a theoretical and empirical study of resistance in peacebui...
This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of international relations and world politics. Bringing together a number of scholars from various disciplinary backgrounds to stage a critical intervention into the problematic ways Africa is accounted for in the dominant discourses of international relations and global politics, it challenges the structural and epistemic biases of IR that render the contributions of the continent invisible, and situates the continent as a global region that exists...
This innovative book responds to an existing demand for taking Africa out of a place of exception and marginality, and placing it at the center of int...
