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Cargo cult science, armchair empiricism and the idea of violent / Korf, Benedikt

Korf, Benedikt	Journal Article
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2006.

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Conflict ; Violence ; Ethnic Conflict ; Violent Conflict

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ID: 098753

Geography of participation / Korf, Benedikt

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2010.

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Revisiting the critique of participatory development and one of its core political technologies, Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA), this paper suggests that participation in the form of PRA creates 'provided spaces' that dislocate 'development' from politics and from political institutions of the postcolonial state. PRA thereby becomes what Chantal Mouffe calls a post-political aspiration through its celebration of deliberative democracy (although this is largely implicit rather than explicit in the PRA literature). What makes this post-political aspiration dangerous is that its provided spaces create a time-space container of a state of exception (the 'workshop') wherein a new sovereign is created. In combination with other developmental techniques, PRA has become a place where a new order is being constituted-the state of exception becomes permanent and nurtures the 'will to improve' that undergirds 'development'.

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Geography ; Participation ; Rural Appraisal ; PRA

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ID: 096659

Geography of warscape / Korf, Benedikt; Engele, Michelle r; Hagmann, Tobias

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2010.

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This article elaborates a heuristic approach to understanding the geography of warscape from a theoretically informed perspective. It argues that agency in protracted civil war emerges at the ambiguous interface of different, competing systems of power and authority. In order to account for the multiple trajectories of threat and opportunity that warscapes offer to different social actors and at different times and places, the article proposes the concept of 'governable order', which is derived from a critical review of the literature on 'social navigation' and 'governable space(s)'. The usefulness of combining these three concepts is illustrated by two empirical vignettes. They demonstrate the dynamics of governable spaces in distinct phases of the Sierra Leone and Sri Lanka civil wars. The two cases highlight the temporal and territorial fluidity of governable spaces, which both constrain and enable warscape inhabitants' agency.

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Sri Lanka - Civil War ; Warscape ; Sierra Leone - Civil War ; Social Navigation

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Rethinking the greed-grievance nexus: property rights and the political economy of war in Sri lanka / Korf, Benedikt

Mar 2005

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Mar 2005.

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LTTE ; Sri Lanka-Ethnic Conflict ; Sri lanka-Conflict ; Sri Lanka

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