Corporeal Peacebuilding

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction: Corporeal Peacebuilding

   • Tarja Väyrynen

   Pages 1-16

3. Thinking and Theorizing Peace: Corporeal and Mundane Dimensions

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   Pages 17-33

4. Relational and Connecting Body on the Home Front

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   Pages 35-48

5. Returning Body: Transferring Violence Across Time and Space

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   Pages 49-66

6. Abjected and Silenced Bodies

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   Pages 67-85

7. Peacebuilding as a Corporeal, Temporal and Mneumonic Site

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   Pages 87-100

8. Peacebuilding in Colonial Relations

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   Pages 101-119

9. Conclusions: Corporeal and Response-able Peacebuilding

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   Pages 121-126

10. Back Matter

    Pages 127-132

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This book demonstrates how peace is an event that comes into being in mundane and corporeal encounters. The book brings living and experiencing, sentient body to Peace and Conflict Studies and examines war and peace as socio-political institutions that begin and end with bodies. It therefore differs from the wider field of Peace and Conflict Studies where the human body is treated as an abstract and non-living entity. The book demonstrates that conflict and violence as well as peace touch our bodies in multiple ways. Through attending to witnessing, wounded, remembering, silenced and resistant bodies, the empirical cases of the book attest to the scope and diversity of war, peace and the political of post-conflict peacebuilding. The book offers a sustained engagement with feminist social and political theory and will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike.

• peacebuilding
• corporeal event
• mundane encounters
• feminist theory
• non-representational ethnogoraphy
• post-colonialism
• phenomenological register
• relational elements of human being
• mundane practices of peacebuilding and peace
• mechanisms of conflict resolution
• peace maintenance
• reconciliation
• human vulnerability
• local turn
• new materialism
• home front
• warfare
• parrhesiastes
• heterogenious histories
• post-conflict communities

• Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland

  Tarja Väyrynen

Tarja Väyrynen is Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland.  Her research in the field of peace and conflict focuses on gender and post-conflict peacebuilding. Her research draws from feminist theory and critical political theory.

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