| ID | 175358 |
| Title Proper | Emplacing the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Brigg, Morgan ; George, Nicole |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This introduction provides an overview for the following collection of articles that engage with, and aim to extend, recent scholarship emphasising space as a category of analysis in peace and conflict studies. Attempts to ‘spatialise’ this field of enquiry have emphasised the ways actors and ideas travel and transform across scale (from the personal to the local, regional and global) and how agents, actors and identities constitute, and are constituted by, space and place in dynamics of conflict and peace. Attention to space has increased appreciation of the complex nature of nature of war- and peace-‘scapes’, and reflects upon space as material and symbolic, given meaning through peoples’ embodied activity and interactions. The articles in this issue engage with the foundations of the spatial turn and build upon innovations in spatial analysis of peace and conflict by focussing on the idea of ‘emplacement’ and emplaced security as critical to peacebuilding efforts and processes of conflict transition. To do so, we consider place in a relational sense, focussing on attachment, affective connection and narratives of place-identity as these are connected with conflict management, security, governance and political ordering. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 55, No.4; Dec 2020: p.409-420 |
| Journal Source | Cooperation and Conflict Vol: 55 No 4 |
| Key Words | Conflict ; Security ; Space ; Peacebuilding ; Scale |