Peacebuilding And Spatial Transformation

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Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

Author: ANNIKA. KAPPLER BJORKDAHL (STEFANIE.)
language: en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date: 2018-11-10
This book investigates peacebuilding in post-conflict scenarios by analysing the link between peace, space and place. By focusing on the case studies of Cyprus, Kosovo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Northern Ireland and South Africa, the book provides a spatial reading of agency in peacebuilding contexts. It conceptualises peacebuilding agency in post-conflict landscapes as situated between place (material locality) and space (the imaginary counterpart of place), analysing the ways in which peacebuilding agency can be read as a spatial practice. Investigating a number of post-conflict cases, this book outlines infrastructures of power and agency as they are manifested in spatial practice. It demonstrates how spatial agency can take the form of conflict and exclusion on the one hand, but also of transformation towards peace over time on the other hand. Against this background, the book argues that agency drives place-making and space-making processes. Therefore, transformative processes in post-conflict societies can be understood as materialising through the active use and transformation of space and place. This book will be of interest to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, human geography and IR in general.
Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

Offers a new interdiscplinary analytical tool for examining post-conflict tranformation Presents five key post-conflict case studies to show link between agency and power Will be of interest to students of to students of peacebuilding, peace and conflict studies, human geography and IR in general
Peacebuilding and Spatial Transformation

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Introduction : Space, Place and Agency - Mapping Peace Across Sites -- Introduction -- Advancing the agenda -- Multi-site ethnography -- Outline of the book -- Bibliography -- 1. Space, Place and Agency -- Introduction -- Spaces and places for the construction of peace -- Rethinking and situating agency in spatial politics -- Place -- Space -- Time -- Agency at the intersection between space and place -- Turning a place into a space (space-making) -- Turning a space into a place (place-making) -- Agency through placeand space-making -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 2. Cyprus: Contesting the Island -- Introduction -- Emplacing the Cyprus problem: transformations and continuities -- Spatial politics in Cyprus - Famagusta and Varosha -- Place-making -- Space-making -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- 3. Kosovo: Emplacing the State and Peace(s) -- Introduction -- Transition towards a state -- Spatial politics: manifesting the state -- Space-making -- Place-making -- Conclusion -- Note -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- 4. Bosnia-Herzegovina: The Ethnic Peace -- Introduction -- Transition from war to ethnic peace -- Spatial politics and the ethnicisation of peace -- Space-making -- Place-making -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- 5. Northern Ireland: The 'Maze of Peace' -- Introduction -- Segregating the peace -- Spatial politics - the peace walls in Belfast -- Space-making -- Place-making -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Interviews -- 6. South Africa: Perpetuating Spatial Apartheid? -- Introduction -- Transitions from apartheid -- Spatial politics: mechanisms of exclusion and relocation -- Place-making -- Space-making -- Conclusion -- Notes