Recovering the Everyday Within and for Decolonial Peacebuilding Through Politico-Affective Space (original) (raw)

Abstract

The universalization of Western peace frameworks, which remain discursively tethered to liberal notions of freedom, markets, democracy and justice, continues to be the subject of critique in the peace and conflict literature. These critiques lay bare the imposition of Western power at the ideological and instrumental levels, patent disregard for local particularities, and general indifference to coloniality as an analytic in peacebuilding practices, policies and scholarship. In this chapter, we reference decolonial peaces that centre the everyday, typically subordinated by liberal constructions of peace. The perspective of the everyday is able to resist constructions of peace that are decontextualized and disembodied, and privileges a reading of the micro-politics of space, subjectivity and relationality, how individuals and communities enact peace, how peacebuilding praxes are contested, negotiated and constructed at the local level, and how these inform more critical approaches to...

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