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(2019) Corporeal peacebuilding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
The chapter elaborates how people experience war, conflict and peacebuilding as felt and corporeal. It highlights that focusing on the relational and sensing body it is possible to study war and peacebuilding in ways that challenge the prevailing and normalized assumptions about conflict and peacebuilding agency, namely the belief that agency resides solely either in institutionalized politics or is constituted through overt violence. The chapter derives from the narratives of two eldery women who have experienced the Second World War and it underscores the line where the body intersects with politics. As the line is under constant negotiation, it opens up also alternative political horizons for peacebuilding.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97259-6_3
Full citation:
Väyrynen, T. (2019). Relational and connecting body on the home front, in Corporeal peacebuilding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 35-48.
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