Rethinking Peace (eBook, ePUB)

Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue
Redaktion: Hinton, Alexander Laban; Alberg, Jeremiah; Shani, Giorgio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether "positive" or "negative." The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name.

This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined "end"), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them.

Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/ for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781786610393
• Artikelnr.: 55137268

Autorenporträt

Alexander Hinton is Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR), Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. Professor Giorgio Shani is Chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Rotary Peace Center at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. Professor Jeremiah Alberg teaches philosophy and religion in the Humanities Department of International Christian University. He is the Director of the Library and of the Center for Teaching and Learning.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Paul Hastings (Japan International Christian University Foundation) Introduction: Rethinking Peace Studies Alexander Laban Hinton
Giorgio Shani
and Jay Alberg I. DISCOURSE Rethinking Peace: Discourse Giorgio Shani (Politics and International Studies
International Christian University [ICU] Japan) 1. The Inner Battles of Peace Studies: The Limits and Possibilities Ashis Nandy (Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
India) 2. Sovereignty
Interference
and Crisis Stephen Eric Bronner (Political Science and Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Rutgers
US) 3. Towards A Peace with Global Justice Oliver Richmond (Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Manchester
UK) 4. Saving Liberal Peacebuilding: From the "Local Turn" to a Post-Western Peace Giorgio Shani (Politics and International Studies
ICU
Japan) II. MEMORY & TEMPORALITY Rethinking Peace: Memory & Temporality Jay Alberg (Philosophy
ICU
Japan) 5. Cultural Memory in the Wake of Violence: Exceptionalism
Vulnerability
and the Grievable Life Marita Sturken (Media
Culture and Communication
New York University
US) 6. Justice in the Land of Memory: Reflecting on the Temporality of Truth and Survival in Argentina Natasha Zaretsky (Center for Genocide and Human Rights
Rutgers
US) 7. Negotiating Difference and Empathy: Cinematic Representations of Passing and Exchanged Identities in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Yael Zerubavel (Bildner Center
Rutgers
US) 8. Silence and Memory Politics Leigh A. Payne (Political Science
University of Oxford
UK) II. TRANSLATION Rethinking Peace: Translation Jay Alberg (Philosophy and Religion
ICU
Japan) 9. A Translational Comics Text and its Translation: Maus in Japanese Beverly Curran (Society
Culture
and Media
ICU
Japan) 10. To Arrive Where We Started: Peace Studies and the Logos Jeremiah Alberg (Philosophy and Religion
ICU
Japan) 11. The Crisis of Japan's Constitutional Pacifism: The Abe Administration's Belated Counter-Revolution Shin Chiba (Politics and International Studies
ICU
Japan) IV. DIALOGUE Rethinking Peace: Dialogue (Fetish) Alexander Laban Hinton (Anthropology and Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Rutgers
US) 12. Peace-in-Difference: Peace through Dialogue about and across Difference(s) Hartmut Behr (International Relations
Newcastle University
UK) 13. From Substantialist to Relational Difference in Peace and Conflict Studies Morgan Brigg (Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Queensland
Australia) 14. Zona Intervenida: Performance as Memory
Transforming Contested Spaces Nitin Sawhney (Media Studies
The New School
US) AFTERWORD Look Again - Aleppo: The Last Lesson on Prevention Alexander Laban Hinton (Anthropology and Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Rutgers
US)