Geographies Of Peace

Author : Fiona McConnell,Nick Megoran,Philippa Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857734921

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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.

Author : Audrey Kobayashi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135756475

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Geographies of Peace and Armed Conflict by Audrey Kobayashi Pdf

This collection addresses the impact of armed conflict and explores pathways to peace across the world. Topics range from geopolitics to the effects of armed conflict on the environment, resources, health, children, and transnational migration. Others explore the social processes involved in post-conflict situations, and others still the lessons for achieving effective peace. The geographical concepts addressed include the notion of "conflict space," landscapes of terror, the relationship between violence and justice, the conditions for peace, and the dynamics of post-conflict. Methods include landscape analysis, interviews with a range of citizens, mapping and geographic information science, and policy analysis. Several papers address the situation of children in conflict zones, the impact of conflict on patterns of migration, the role of gender in achieving peace, the concept of territory as a basis for conflict and for negotiation of peace, as well as the economic impact of conflict. The studies cover several world regions, including Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and eastern Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Author : Colin Flint Professor of Geography Pennsylvania State University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198036701

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The Geography of War and Peace : From Death Camps to Diplomats by Colin Flint Professor of Geography Pennsylvania State University Pdf

How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression. Topics include terrorism, nationalism, religion, drug wars, water conflicts, diplomacy, peace movements, and post-war reconstruction.

Author : Colin Flint,Kara E. Dempsey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000998948

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Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict by Colin Flint,Kara E. Dempsey Pdf

This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book’s logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global climate change, borders, technology, and postcolonialism. This book is valuable for instructors teaching a variety of senior level human geography courses, including graduate-level classes. It will appeal to those working in political geography, historical geography, sociology of geographic knowledge, feminist geography, cultural and economic geography, political science, and international relations.

Author : Fiona McConnell,Nick Megoran,Philippa Williams (Lecturer)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 0755619900

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Geographies of Peace by Fiona McConnell,Nick Megoran,Philippa Williams (Lecturer) Pdf

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Author : Nicholas John Spykman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : UOM:39015003642314

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The Geography of the Peace by Nicholas John Spykman Pdf

Author : Colin Flint,Kara E. Dempsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 1003345794

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Making Geographies of Peace and Conflict by Colin Flint,Kara E. Dempsey Pdf

"This book illustrates the diversity of current geographies, ontologies, engagements, and epistemologies of peace and conflict. It emphasizes how agencies of peace and conflict occur in geographic settings, and how those settings shape processes of peace and conflict. The essence of the book's logic is that war and peace are manifestations of the intertwined construction of geographies and politics. Indeed, peace is never completely distinct from war. Each chapter in the book will demonstrate understandings of how the myriad spaces of war and peace are forged by multiple agencies, some possibly contradictory. The goals of these agents vary as peace and war are relational, place-specific processes. The reader will understand the mutual construction of spaces and processes of peace and conflict through engagement with the concepts of agency, the mutual construction of politics and space, geographic scales, multiple geographies, the twin dynamics of empathy/othering and inclusivity/partitioning, and resistance/militarism. The book discusses the intertwined nature of peace and conflict, including reference to the environment, global climate change, borders, technology, and post-colonialism. This book is valuable for instructors teaching a variety of senior level human geography courses, including graduate level classes. It will appeal to those in working in political geography, historical geography, sociology of geographic knowledge, feminist geography, cultural and economic geography, political science and international relations"--

Author : Colin Flint
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195162097

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The Geography of War and Peace by Colin Flint Pdf

Our world of increasing and varied conflicts is confusing and threatening to citizens of all countries, as they try to understand its causes and consequences. This book takes advantage of a diversity of geographic perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression.

Author : Christopher Courtheyn
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822988786

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Community of Peace by Christopher Courtheyn Pdf

Achieving peace is often thought about in terms of military operations or state negotiations. Yet it also happens at the grassroots level, where communities envision and create peace on their own. The San José de Apartadó Peace Community of small-scale farmers has not waited for a top-down peace treaty. Instead, they have actively resisted forced displacement and co-optation by guerrillas, army soldiers, and paramilitaries for two decades in Colombia’s war-torn Urabá region. Based on ethnographic action research over a twelve-year period, Christopher Courtheyn illuminates the community’s understandings of peace and territorial practices against ongoing assassinations and displacement. San José’s peace through autonomy reflects an alternative to traditional modes of politics practiced through electoral representation and armed struggle. Courtheyn explores the meaning of peace and territory, while also interrogating the role of race in Colombia’s war and the relationship between memory and peace. Amid the widespread violence of today’s global crisis, Community of Peace illustrates San José’s rupture from the logics of colonialism and capitalism through the construction of political solidarity and communal peace.

Author : Nicholas John Spykman,Helen R. Nicholl,Yale University. Institute of International Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : OCLC:849988800

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The Geography of the Peace by Nicholas John Spykman,Helen R. Nicholl,Yale University. Institute of International Studies Pdf

Author : Nurit Kliot,Stanley Waterman
Publisher : Belhaven
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015019407637

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The Political Geography of Conflict and Peace by Nurit Kliot,Stanley Waterman Pdf

Author : Fiona McConnell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : OCLC:884556062

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Geographies of Peace by Fiona McConnell Pdf

Author : Nicholas John Spykman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969-01
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 0208006540

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The Geography of the Peace by Nicholas John Spykman Pdf

Author : Johan Galtung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Developed countries
ISBN : 1612891489

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World Politics of Peace and War by Johan Galtung Pdf

Examines the role of geography and civilization in past, present, and future world politics. The book offers a view into the future, a prognosis, and proposals for strategy away from war, toward peace. This book is intended for students and specialists in international relations as an overview seen from the world, not one particular region.

Author : Scott Kirsch,Colin Flint
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317070337

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Reconstructing Conflict by Scott Kirsch,Colin Flint Pdf

Reconstruction - the rebuilding of state, economy, culture and society in the wake of war - is a powerful idea, and a profoundly transformative one. From the refashioning of new landscapes in bombed-out cities and towns to the reframing of national identities to accommodate changed historical narratives, the term has become synonymous with notions of "post-conflict" society; it draws much of its rhetorical power from the neat demarcation, both spatially and temporally, between war and peace. The reality is far more complex. In this volume, reconstruction is identified as a process of conflict and of militarized power, not something that clearly demarcates a post-war period of peace. Kirsch and Flint bring together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading scholars to examine how periods of war and other forms of political violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the construction of new political institutions and destroying old regimes. Challenging the false dichotomy between war and peace, this book explores instead the ways that war and peace are mutually constituted in the creation of historically specific geographies and geographical knowledges.