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Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue

Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue

Hinton, Alexander Laban
Shani, Giorgio
Alberg, Jeremiah

Hardcover

Series: Critical Perspectives on Religion in International Politics

Religion General General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 178661037X
ISBN13: 9781786610379
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: Feb 20 2019
Pages: 284
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether positive or negative. The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name.

This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined end), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them.

Visit http: //www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/ for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.

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