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Geographies of Peace: New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Fiona McConnell
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Description for Geographies of Peace: New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Hardback. This volume offers an attempt to redress that balance, and to think more expansively and critically about what peace means and what geographies of peace may entail. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 168 x 29. Weight in Grams: 644.
From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. And it is war and violence that have been so compellingly studied within critical geography in recent years. This volume offers an attempt to redress that balance, and to think more expansively and critically about ... Read more
From handshakes on the White House lawn to Picasso's iconic dove of peace, the images and stereotypes of peace are powerful, widespread and easily recognizable. Yet if we try to offer a concise definition of peace it is altogether a more complicated exercise. Not only is peace an emotive and value-laden concept, it is also abstract, ambiguous and seemingly inextricably tied to its antithesis: war. And it is war and violence that have been so compellingly studied within critical geography in recent years. This volume offers an attempt to redress that balance, and to think more expansively and critically about ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780761435
SKU
V9781780761435
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About Fiona McConnell
Fiona McConnell is Lecturer in Human Geography and Tutorial Fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford University. Her research interests include the everyday construction of statehood and sovereignty in cases of tenuous territoriality. Nick Megoran is Lecturer in Political Geography, Newcastle University. He researches the geographies and geopolitics of post-Cold War interstate relations, especially the building of nation-states in Central ... Read more
Reviews for Geographies of Peace: New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
'Rich and incisive, these essays offer a number of different significant perspectives - What emerges very strongly - is how important spatial practices are for the interpretation of peace: what looks like peacemaking from one position and scale is much more problematic from other perspectives historical, institutional, state, spatial, political and economic, social, everyday, cultural and so on. This suggests ... Read more