Spatialising Peace and Conflict ― Mapping the Production of Places, Sites and Scales of Violence

There has been no sustained inquiry into the relationship linking peace and conflict with space and place. This innovative edited volume explores conflict and peace through spatial approaches, and proposes a new research agenda investigating where peace and conflict take place. All chapters employ space as an analytic category and develop strong theoretical contributions alongside new empirical insights. From battlefields to memorials, places of encounter shape how agents relate to each other and how their actions are enabled or constrained. Moreover, spaces such as the international peacekeepers camps or sites of atrocity would not exist if it were not for the conflict. Drawing on concepts such as spatial governmentality, scalar politics, relational spatial theory and spatial narratives the authors investigate case studies reaching from divided cities such as Belfast, Dili and Jerusalem, via rape camps and karaoke bars, to war-torn countries.

Annika Bjorkdahl, Lund University, Sweden Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Philipps University Marburg, Germany Karen Buscher, Gent University, Belgium Sven Chojnacki, Free University Berlin, Germany Jolle Demmers, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Martin Doevenspeck, University of Bayreuth, Germany Faye Donnelly, University of St Andrews, UK Bettina Engels, Free University Berlin, Germany Nina Fischer, University of Edinburgh, UK Andreas Hackl, University of Edinburgh, UK Annika Henrizi, University of Marburg, Germany Kristine Hoglund, Uppsala University, Sweden Milena Komarova, Queen's University Belfast, UK Erik Melander, Uppsala University, Sweden Laura Michael, Queens University of Belfast, UK Brendan Murtagh, Queens University Belfast, UK Henri Myrttinen, International Alert Liam O'Dowd, Queen's University, Belfast, UK Linda Price, Independent Researcher, Canada and Australia. Olivera Simi?, Griffith University, Australia Margareta Sollenberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Elena B. Stavrevska, Central European University, Hungary Ralph Sundberg, Uppsala University, Sweden Mikel Venhovens, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Zala Vol?i?, University of Queensland, Australia