| ID | 175365 |
| Title Proper | Spatial-relational challenge |
| Other Title Information | emplacing the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Brigg, Morgan |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The nascent spatial turn in peace and conflict studies is a promising development that expands conceptual resources and offers useful correctives to existing scholarship. However, the turn to space and place tends not to adequately emplace itself (including on its own European-derived terms) or sufficiently engage the socio-spatial difference of diverse peoples. Instead, a de-contextualised knower is invited to apply a new set of mobile scholarly tools in various settings without seriously considering diverse peoples’ conceptualisation and operationalisation of place in socio-political ordering. Long-standing Aboriginal Australian approaches to place, meanwhile, indicate the diversity and sophistication of approaches to space and place. They furthermore show that western political ontology – including the figures of the individual and the state embedded in much dominant scholarship – may not be relevant in many settings in which peace and conflict scholarship is undertaken. Realising the full potential of the spatial turn requires grappling with the relational emplacement of the knowing subject and the varied ways in which place configures socio-political order both for diverse peoples ‘in the field’ and in the centres of dominant forms of knowing in the Global North. |
| `In' analytical Note | Cooperation and Conflict Vol. 55, No.4; Dec 2020: p.535-552 |
| Journal Source | Cooperation and Conflict Vol: 55 No 4 |
| Key Words | Place ; Aboriginal Australia ; Political Ontology ; Indigenous People ; Relationality ; Spacetime |