In this Book
- The Post-Conflict Environment: Investigation and Critique
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
summary
In case studies focusing on contemporary crises spanning Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, the scholars in this volume examine the dominant prescriptive practices of late neoliberal post-conflict interventions—such as statebuilding, peacebuilding, transitional justice, refugee management, reconstruction, and redevelopment—and contend that the post-conflict environment is in fact created and sustained by this international technocratic paradigm of peacebuilding. Key international stakeholders—from activists to politicians, humanitarian agencies to financial institutions—characterize disparate sites as “weak,” “fragile,” or “failed” states and, as a result, prescribe peacebuilding techniques that paradoxically disable effective management of post-conflict spaces while perpetuating neoliberal political and economic conditions. Treating all efforts to represent post-conflict environments as problematic, the goal becomes understanding the underlying connection between post-conflict conditions and the actions and interventions of peacebuilding technocracies.
Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- pp. i-ii
- Title Page
- p. iii
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. vii-viii
- Copyright Page
- p. iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- List of Abbreviations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Contributors
- pp. 227-230
- Contributors
- pp. 227-230
- Index
- pp. 231-237
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472900893
Related ISBN(s)
9780472052233, 9780472072231, 9780472120390
MARC Record
OCLC
890000638
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2014-09-09
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND