1st Edition
Knowledge and Expertise in International Interventions The Politics of Facts, Truth and Authenticity
1. Knowledge production in/about conflict and intervention: finding ‘facts’, telling ‘truth’ Berit Bliesemann de Guevara & Roland Kostić 2. Bermuda triangulation: embracing the messiness of researching in conflict Suda Perera 3. Intervention Theatre: performance, authenticity and expert knowledge in politicians’ travel to post-/conflict spaces Berit Bliesemann de Guevara 4. Telling the stories of others: claims of authenticity in human rights reporting and comics journalism Julika Bake & Michaela Zöhrer 5. Shadow peacebuilders and diplomatic counterinsurgencies: informal networks, knowledge production and the art of policy-shaping Roland Kostić 6. Reproducing remoteness? States, international and the co-constitution of aid ‘bunkerization’ in the East African periphery Jonathan Fisher 7. The myopic Foucauldian gaze: discourse, knowledge and the authoritarian peace David Lewis
Biography
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara is a Reader at Aberystwyth University’s (Wales) International Politics Department and Director of the Centre for the International Politics of Knowledge. Her current research explores knowledge in international politics through projects on transnational think tanks, knowledge transfers, remote/local conflict knowledge, myths in international politics, and politicians’ fieldtrips.
Roland Kostić is an Associate Professor in Peace and Conflict Research and Senior Lecturer in Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Uppsala University’s Hugo Valentin Centre, Sweden. His current research analyses knowledge production in peacebuilding interventions, its diversification/privatisation through think tanks, experts, policy makers and diplomats, and the role of informal networks.
