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Beyond Liberal Peacebuilding A Critical Exploration of the Local Turn

226 Pages

by Routledge

226 Pages

by Routledge

226 Pages

by Routledge

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This book examines the logic behind the shifts and paradigm changes within the scholarship on peacebuilding. In particular, the book is concerned with examining if, and how, these shifts have significantly altered how we think about peacebuilding beyond the ‘liberal peacebuilding’ paradigm. To do so, the book engages with the logic of critique that has led to the emergence of different... Read more

Introduction: A Genealogy of Bottom-up Peace-building in the Age of Non-linearity

1. From Liberalisation to Institutionalisation: The Birth of the Critical Turn in Peace-building

2. The Problematisation of the ‘Liberal Peace’ and the End of Top-down Peace-building

3. Reflections on Kosovo: Shifting Discourses and Paradigms of Peace-building

4. What ‘Local’ in Kosovo? Exploring the Plurality of Kosovo’s local Agency

5. The ‘Emancipatory’ Local Turn? The Limits and Paradoxes of the Local Turn’s Normative Project of Re-conceptualisation6. The ‘Uncritical’ Turn: Between Modernity and Non-linearity

Conclusion: Life after Critique?