Overview
- Analyses the existing methods in the “local turn” literature within peace studies and pushes for a more locally grounded empirical or ethnographic approach
- Offers a thoroughly inter-disciplinary conversation: includes both scholars within peace studies and critical IR and anthropologists working on the study of conflict and violence
- Provides arguments in support not only of local research or ethnographic research, but of a decolonised and participatory research practice which itself empowers local actors
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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This volume calls for an empirical extension of the “local turn” within peace research. Building on insights from conflict transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and voice. By incorporating scholars from these various fields the volume pushes for more locally grounded, ethnographic and potentially participatory approaches. While recognizing that any Ethnographic Peace Research (EPR) agenda must incorporate a variety of methodologies, the volume nonetheless paves a clear path for the much needed empirical turn within the local turn literature.
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Keywords
- Ethnographic
- Peace
- Research
- EPR
- Peace Studies
- Anthropology
- Conflict Transformation
- Feminist International Relations
- Eastern Indonesia
- Peacebuilding
- Wartime Rape
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- ICTY
- Women’s Court
- Ethnography
- Mozambique
- Reconciliation
- Timor-Leste
- Indian Residential Schools Settlement
- Transitional Justice Research
Table of contents (12 chapters)
Reviews
“This is an important book that elaborates an approach to studying conflict that puts those who experience conflict at the centre. Ethnographic peace research is based on the premise that we can only understand conflict or peace through the lived experience of those who are there. This book is a timely antidote to approaches that remove thestudy of actual people from research, whilst developing a convincing argument that mixed approaches incorporating ethnography can provide a sufficiently accurate understanding of violence and how it can be overcome.” (Paul Jackson, Professor of African Politics, University of Birmingham, UK)
“This volume demonstrates the contributions that locally grounded research can make to the field of peace studies, and to understanding the irreducible complexities of post-conflict societies. The contributors illustrate the insights that a scalar ethnographic analysis can make to rebuilding lives and livelihoods in the aftermath of war and, as such, the volume as a whole illustrates the importance of the ethnographic turn in peace research and should be required reading for practitioners and policy-makers.” (Kimberly Theidon, The Fletcher School, Tufts University, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Gearoid Millar is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) of Sociology at the Institute for Conflict, Transition, and Peace Research (ICTPR), University of Aberdeen, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethnographic Peace Research
Book Subtitle: Approaches and Tensions
Editors: Gearoid Millar
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65563-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-65562-8Published: 29 December 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-88055-6Published: 31 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-65563-5Published: 24 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 285
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Peace Studies