Overview
- Gives attention to the data on victimhood, offering a new sociological approach to the idea of everyday life peacebuilding
- Argues that victims should be seen as central to the process of conflict transformation
- Draws on nearly 200 interviews with first generation victims in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (2010-15)
- Contrasts sociology’s approach to everyday life peacebuilding with the literature within International Relations Studies
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict (PSCAC)
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About this book
This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding. It argues that sociological ideas about the nature of everyday life complement and supplement the concept of everyday life peacebuilding recently theorized within International Relations Studies (IRS). It claims that IRS misunderstands the nature of everyday life by seeing it only as a particular space where mundane, routine and ordinary peacebuilding activities are accomplished. Sociology sees everyday life also as a mode of reasoning. By exploring victims’ ways of thinking and understanding, this book argues that we can better locate their accomplishment of peacebuilding as an ordinary activity. The book is based on six years of empirical research in three different conflict zones and reports on a wealth of interview data to support its theoretical arguments. This data serves to give voice to victims who are otherwise neglected and marginalized in peace processes.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Francis Teeney, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Katrin Dudgeon, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Natascha Mueller-Hirth, Robert Gordon University, UK.
Shirley Lal Wijesinghe, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding
Authors: John D. Brewer, Bernadette C. Hayes, Francis Teeney, Katrin Dudgeon, Natascha Mueller-Hirth, Shirley Lal Wijesinghe
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78975-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78974-3Published: 16 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07693-1Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78975-0Published: 04 July 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-2797
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2800
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 299
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Victimology, Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, Political Sociology, War Crimes, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights