Spaces of Peace, Security and Development
Series editors: John Heathershaw, University of Exeter, UK; Shahar Hameiri, University of Queensland, Australia; Jana Hönke, University of Bayreuth, Germany; and Sara Koopman, Kent State University, USA
Peace, security and development are normative goods and empirical domains which are connected in theory and practice. The concept of space links these domains and is increasingly utilised in their study across a range of disciplines. This is due to the growing recognition that processes of peace, security and development do not neatly correspond to a territorialised demarcation of the world into nation-states. Spaces of Peace, Security and Development provides an interdisciplinary home for spatially based studies from scholars from a range of backgrounds, but in particular those who engage with one or more of: Area Studies, International Relations, Human Geography and Political Anthropology.
The series publishes research that moves away from purely abstract debates about concepts and focuses instead on fieldwork-based studies of specific places and peoples. It shows how particular spatial histories and geographic configurations can foster or hinder peace, security and development. It also encourages work that takes account of the new spatialities of conflict and charts the transnational practices of peace, security and development.
The series welcomes research monographs that empirically or interpretatively test theoretical propositions, as well as edited collections that debate key theoretical, methodological and ethical questions.
A message from the series editors:
Call for proposals
If you would like to submit a proposal, or would like to discuss ideas, please email Stephen Wenham at Bristol University Press: s.wenham@bristol.ac.uk
Download the proposal guidelines here.
Spaces of Peace, Security and Development International Advisory Board (in alphabetical order):
- Rita Abrahamsen, University of Ottawa, Canada
- John Agnew, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
- Alima Bissenova, Nazabaev University, Kazakhstan
- Annika Björkdahl, Lund University, Sweden
- Berit Bliesemann, Aberystwyth University, UK
- Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Philipps University Marburg, Germany
- Toby Carroll, City University, Hong Kong
- Mick Dumper, University of Exeter, UK
- Azra Hromadžić, Syracuse University, USA
- Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of London, UK
- Louisa Lombard, Yale University, USA
- Virginie Mamadouh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Nick Megoran, Newcastle University, UK
- Markus-Michael Müller, Free University Berlin, Germany
- Daniel Neep, Georgetown University, USA
- Diana Ojeda, University of Los Andes, Colombia
- Jenny Peterson, The University of British Columbia, Canada
- Madeleine Reeves, The University of Manchester, UK
- Conrad Schetter, Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), Germany
- Ricardo Soares de Olivera, University of Oxford, UK
- Diana Suhardiman, International Water Management Institute (IWMI), Laos
- Arlene Tickner, Del Rosario University, Colombia
- Jacqui True, Monash University, Australia
- Sofía Zaragocín, Universidad San Francisco, Quito, Ecuador
Unarmed Civilian Protection
A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security
Featuring contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a comprehensive account of unarmed civilian protection (UCP). It brings together a wide range of UCP practices and provides an important illustration of the contributions UCP can make, while also discussing its limitations and failures.
Trajectories of Governance
Tracing the Entanglements of Order and Violence in Peripheral Cities of Latin America
Based on a multidisciplinary analytical framework, it explains why and how some peripheral cities have become the locus of violent orders, whereas others have managed to control violence, and to examine the role of violence in the workings of local governance.
Surviving Everyday Life
The Securityscapes of Threatened People in Kyrgyzstan
Moving beyond state-centric and elitist perspectives, this volume examines everyday security in the Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and written by scholars from Central Asia and beyond, it shows how insecurity is experienced, what people consider existential threats, and how they go about securing themselves.
Shaping Peacebuilding in Colombia
International Frames and Spatial Transformation
This book explores the involvement of the international community in peacebuilding efforts in Colombia since 2016. In particular, it examines how interventions were framed in order to promote and sustain their involvement, and questions whether these frames reflected reality within Colombia.
Precarious Urbanism
Displacement, Belonging and the Reconstruction of Somali Cities
This book explores relationships between war, displacement and city-making. Focusing on people seeking refuge in Somali cities after being forced to migrate by violence, environmental shocks or economic pressures, it highlights how these populations are actively transforming urban space.
Post-Liberal Statebuilding in Central Asia
Imaginaries, Discourses and Practices of Social Ordering
Drawing on decolonial perspectives on peace, statehood and development, this illuminating book examines post-liberal statebuilding in Central Asia. Through its analysis, the book highlights the problem with assumptions about liberal democracy, modern statehood and capitalist development as the standard template for post-conflict countries.
Navigating the Local
Politics of Peacebuilding in Lebanese Municipalities
Covering three Lebanese municipalities with striking sectarian diversity, Saida, Bourj Hammoud and Tyre, this book investigates the ways in which local service delivery, local interactions and vertical relationships matter in building peace.
Gender and Citizenship in Transitional Justice
Everyday Experiences of Reparation and Reintegration in Colombia
Through two Colombian case studies, Sanne Weber identifies the ways in which conflict experiences are defined by structures of gender inequality, and how these could be transformed in the post-conflict context.
Doing Fieldwork in Areas of International Intervention
A Guide to Research in Violent and Closed Contexts
Using insights from those with first-hand experience of conducting research in areas of international intervention and conflict across the world, this book provides essential practical guidance, discussion of mistakes, key reflections and raises important questions for researchers and students embarking on fieldwork in violent and closed contexts.