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(2019) Corporeal peacebuilding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The introductory chapter offers an elaboration of peacebuilding as corporeal event that becomes into being in mundane encounters. The objective is to argue that Peace and Conflict Studies can be revitalized by employing feminist theorizing, non-representational ethnography, post-colonial thinking and critical theorizing of everyday life. The chapter shows how taking the body seriously introduces phenomenological registers that prioritize the relational and vulnerable elements of human being and, thereby, mundane practices of peacebuilding and peace. In addition to that, the chapter urges a novel ethical stance to peacebuilding that is based on the Scandinavian research tradition where one of the initial goals was to study the ordinary mechanisms of conflict resolution and peace maintenance, not just violence and its management.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97259-6_1
Full citation:
Väyrynen, T. (2019). Introduction: corporeal peacebuilding, in Corporeal peacebuilding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-16.
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