scholarly journals Cuando la paz depende de los objetos cotidianos

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Pol Bargués
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
La Paz ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
International Peacebuilding ◽  
Philosophical Pragmatism

This article draws on philosophical pragmatism to examine the growing “new materialist” and “socio-natural” sensitivities in international peacebuilding processes. There has been a shift from the idea of liberal peace, in which international organizations tried to impose liberal and democratic transitions in societies affected by conflict, towards interventions that promote inclusive peace processes and put a premium on the material elements of the everyday. In turn, these processes are much more experimental, uncertain and unpredictable. The pragmatism of James and Dewey is useful both to understand the limitations and criticisms of liberal peace, as well as to anticipate the opportunities and risks that are taken when peace depends on everyday objects.

A post-liberal peace: Eirenism and the everyday

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 557-580 ◽  
Author(s):  
OLIVER P. RICHMOND
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Basic Goal ◽  
Hybrid Forms

AbstractThe ‘liberal peace’ is undergoing a crisis of legitimacy at the level of the everyday in post-conflict environments. In many such environments; different groups often locally constituted perceive it to be ethically bankrupt, subject to double standards, coercive and conditional, acultural, unconcerned with social welfare, and unfeeling and insensitive towards its subjects. It is tied to Western and liberal conceptions of the state, to institutions, and not to the local. Its post-Cold War moral capital, based upon its more emancipatory rather than conservative claims, has been squandered as a result, and its basic goal of a liberal social contract undermined. Certainly, since 9/11, attention has been diverted into other areas and many, perhaps promising peace processes have regressed. This has diverted attention away from a search for refinements, alternatives, for hybrid forms of peace, or for empathetic strategies through which the liberal blueprint for peace might coexist with alternatives. Yet from these strategies a post-liberal peace might emerge via critical research agendas for peacebuilding and for policymaking, termed here, eirenist. This opens up a discussion of an everyday ‘post-liberal peace’ and critical policies for peacebuilding.

Resilience and the ‘everyday’: beyond the paradox of ‘liberal peace’

2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAVID CHANDLER
Keyword(s):  
War On Drugs ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Cultural Relativism ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
International Intervention ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Liberal Peace ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Philosophical Pragmatism

AbstractOver the last decade there has been a shift towards critical understandings of ‘liberal peace’ approaches to international intervention, which argue that local culture holds the key to the effectiveness of peace interventions. In this ‘bottom-up’ approach, peace, reconciliation, and a ‘culture of law’ then become secondary effects of sociocultural norms and values. However, these liberal peace critiques have remained trapped in the paradox of liberal peace: the inability to go beyond the binaries of liberal universalism and cultural relativism. This understanding will be contrasted with the rise of ‘resilience’ approaches to intervention – which build on this attention to the particular context of application but move beyond this paradox through philosophical pragmatism and the focus on concrete social practices. This article clarifies the nature of this shift through the focus on the shifting understanding of international intervention to address the failings of the ‘war on drugs’ in the Americas.

Decolonizing Guam With Poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Anna Erzsebet Szucs
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Us Army ◽  
Ordinary Objects ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Life Circumstances

Craig Santos Perez, poet and activist from Guam, uses his poetry to call attention to the negative effects of colonialism and militarization on his homeland and the Pacific. He reminds his readers of the mistreatment of his people the Chamorros, the special “unincorporated” status of Guam and the land that is taken over little by little by the US Army. His poems reveal information about the life circumstances of the author's community and respond to, as well as critique, the colonial conditions of Guam. This study looks at everyday objects mentioned in Perez's poetry and seeks to unfold the “mission” of these objects. “Everyday objects” do not only refer to traditional objects, but also, to modern objects (borrowed from western culture) which relate to the everyday life of the Indigenous people of Guam. The argument of this research is that ordinary objects, which have significance in Pacific culture, are deliberately placed in the poems by Perez. They convey the message of resistance, decolonial protest and pursuit of survival and can be considered as representations of activism.

12. International Drivers of Democracy

2019 ◽  
pp. 229-252
Author(s):  
Andrea Kendall-Taylor ◽  
Natasha Lindstaedt ◽  
Erica Frantz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Aid ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
International Order ◽  
Democratic Transitions ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
P Diffusion ◽  
Key Questions

Geopolitics and the international order 231 Diffusion, diffusion-proofing, and autocracy promotion 232 External imposition 240 Linkage and leverage 243 Foreign aid 245 International organizations 249 Conclusion 251 Key Questions 252 Further Reading 252 Most scholars agree that democratic transitions tend to cluster in time and space. Samuel Huntington was the first to refer to this phenomenon as ‘waves of democracy’. The most recent and widely analysed wave, the ...

scholarly journals Food and Nationalism: Gastronationalism Revisited

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsuko Ichijo
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Major Development ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Per Se ◽  
State Actors

AbstractThis article reviews recent developments in scholarship on gastronationalism, or more broadly, food and nationalism. It finds while the concept of gastronationalism per se has not been rigorously developed, scholarship of food and nationalism in general has been developing fast. A major development in the study of gastronationalism is the introduction of the everyday nationhood/banal nationalism perspective, which in turn diverts the focus away from the state’s intervention, a point emphasized by Michaela DeSoucey. The review of the field suggests that a renewed focus on the role of food in the interaction between state actors and international organizations would further refine the concept of gastronationalism. As for the study of food and nationalism, efforts to integrate findings from existing case studies to produce an overall understanding of society are needed.

Curiosities from the Front

PMLA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-561
Author(s):  
Guillaume Apollinaire ◽  
Cedric Van Dijck
Keyword(s):  
Musical Instrument ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Guillaume Apollinaire ◽  
The First World War ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Full Swing ◽  
First World

In November 1916, with the first world war in full swing, the Soldiers of the 82nd Territorial Infantry Regiment of the French Forces opened the latest issue of their monthly regimental magazine, Brise d'entonnoirs (“Breeze from Bombcraters”), to find a piece by the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. Entitled “Curiosités du front” (“Curiosities from the Front”), it reinvents the everyday objects that cluttered the front lines: a shovel held up above the trench, for instance, becomes a dancing musical instrument as German bullets strike the shovel plate. This sense of humor was characteristic of the trench press, which existed to distract readers from the grim realities of warfare. Probably because it was thought to be so amusing or pertinent, Apollinaire's piece attracted some notice in its day. Several of its sections—“The Shovel,” “Trellis,” “The Bulletproof Shield”—found their way into other publications, at the front as well as in Paris, and some even made it onto the popular quotation pages of the official magazine of the French army, Bulletin des Armées de la République, of which an unsuspecting Apollinaire had written a year earlier, “Les pages consacrées aux citations sont merveilleuses” (“The pages dedicated to quotations are marvelous” [Letter to André Level]).

Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
International Relations ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
Peace Processes ◽  
Middle Range ◽  
The World

The peace process in Northern Ireland is associated with the signing of the Good Friday or Belfast Agreement, the arduous and lengthy implementation of this Agreement, and the continuing sectarianism in Northern Ireland. Despite the numerous and various studies about this case, no collection of scholarly analysis to date has attempted to assess a wide variety of theories prominent in International Relations (IR) that relate directly to the conflict in Northern Ireland, the peace process, and the challenges to consolidating peace after an agreement. IR scholars have recently written about and debated issues related to paradigms, border settlement and peace, the need to provide security and disarm combatants, the role of agents and ideas, gender and security, transnational movements and actors, the role of religions and religious institutions, the role of regional international organizations, private sector promotion of peace processes, economic aid and peacebuilding, the emergence of complex cooperation even in the world of egoists, and the need for reconciliation in conflict torn societies. How do the theories associated with these issues apply in the context of Northern Ireland’s peace process? Theories of International Relations and Northern Ireland explores primarily middle-range theories of International Relations and examines these theories in the context of the important case of Northern Ireland.

Ubiquitous Food Imaging

2017 ◽  
pp. 141-152
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
Everyday Objects ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Digital World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Everyday Experiences

In our digital world, our notions of intimacy, communion and sharing are increasingly enacted through new media technologies and social practices which emerge around them. These technologies with the ability to upload, download and disseminate content to select audiences or to a wider public provide opportunities for the creation of new forms of rituals which authenticate and diarise everyday experiences. Our consumption cultures in many ways celebrate the notion of the exhibit and the spectacle, inviting gaze, through everyday objects and rituals. Food as a vital part of culture, identity, belonging, and meaning making celebrates both the everyday and the invitation to renew connections through food as a universal subject of appeal.

Assessing Progress

2019 ◽  
pp. 51-76
Author(s):  
Richard Caplan
Keyword(s):  
Fragile States ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Strategic Assessment ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Global Peace ◽  
International Peacebuilding ◽  
The Many ◽  
Warning Indicators

This chapter examines how international peacebuilding actors assess progress towards peace consolidation. Assessments are conducted both informally through the periodic reporting of heads of missions and briefings to organizations’ member states and government ministers, and more formally through benchmarking, conflict analysis, and early warning indicators, among other practices. The chapter highlights innovative approaches to strategic assessment that have yielded insights into the robustness of peace. The chapter also examines some of the many indices and indicators of peace, stability, resilience, and the like that are produced periodically by think tanks and research institutes, including the Global Peace Index, the Peace and Conflict Instability Ledger, the Failed (now Fragile) States Index, and the Everyday Peace Indicators. For the most part, these indices conceal more than they reveal about the quality of post-conflict peace but there are notable exceptions.

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