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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300050103321

Autore

Brewer John D

Titolo

The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding [[electronic resource] /] / by John D. Brewer, Bernadette C. Hayes, Francis Teeney, Katrin Dudgeon, Natascha Mueller-Hirth, Shirley Lal Wijesinghe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-78975-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIX, 299 p. 1 illus.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict

Disciplina

303.66

Soggetti

Victimology

Peace

Political sociology

War Crimes

Social justice

Human rights

Peace Studies

Conflict Studies

Political Sociology

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Centring Victims in Peacebuilding -- Chapter 3. Northern Ireland Voices -- Chapter 4. South African Voices -- Chapter 5. Sri Lankan Voices -- Chapter 6. Everyday Life Peacebuilding. Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book uses in-depth interview data with victims of conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka to offer a new, sociological conceptualization of everyday life peacebuilding. It argues that sociological ideas about the nature of everyday life complement and supplement the concept of everyday life peacebuilding recently theorized within International Relations Studies (IRS). It claims that IRS misunderstands the nature of everyday life by seeing it only as a



particular space where mundane, routine and ordinary peacebuilding activities are accomplished. Sociology sees everyday life also as a mode of reasoning. By exploring victims’ ways of thinking and understanding, this book argues that we can better locate their accomplishment of peacebuilding as an ordinary activity. The book is based on six years of empirical research in three different conflict zones and reports on a wealth of interview data to support its theoretical arguments. This data serves to give voice to victims who are otherwise neglected and marginalized in peace processes. .