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Entangled Peace: UN Peacebuilding and the Limits of a Relational World

Autor Ignasi Torrent
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 apr 2023
This book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN's limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of 'the locals', the achievement of organisational system-wide coherence and the increasingly questioned agential condition of peacebuilding actors. Inattentive to the relational vulnerability of involved stakeholders, it is suggested that the UN seeks to secure a totalising modern distory, defined in the book as a story that undoes other stories. Whilst affirming the entangled ontogenesis of actors and processes in the conflict-affected configuration, Entangled Peace also delves into a cautionary argument about what the author refers to as entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, normative, deterministic and exclusionary projection of a relational world. Inspired by Alfred North Whitehead, Entangled Peace is an invitation to speculate over the peacebuilding milieu, and by extension the broader theatre of the real, as radical openness, in which events emanate from the collision of an infinite multiplicity of possible worlds.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538150788
ISBN-10: 1538150786
Pagini: 180
Ilustrații: 1 tables;
Dimensiuni: 151 x 229 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction
Chapter 1. Failing to Know and Engage 'the Locals' in Peacebuilding
Chapter 2. System-Wide Coherence and the Problems of Linearity in Peacebuilding
Chapter 3. Rethinking Agency in Complexity-Sensitive Peacebuilding
Chapter 4. Entangled Peace and its Limits
Chapter 5. Peacebuilding Distories and the Ethics of Entangled Peace
Conclusion
Interviews

Recenzii

Entangled Peace puts forth a compelling approach to the way that the UN's agency unfolds in the spaces of its interventions and how the logic of her involvement contributes to erasing and flattening the conflict realities and other agencies of these spaces.
The book offers a critical reading of peace building based on a vision of an extremely contingent 'actual reality', where human and non-human entities exist through a dense web of relations, and in which linear causality is replaced by a rhizomatic structure resulting in the multiplication of colliding possibilities (futures). The concept of 'entangled peace' is the necessary outcome of such a vision applied to the (post)conflict domain. The author, together with Bargués, De Almagro, and Lopez Lucia as main representatives, is part of what I would call a Spanish intelligentsia that is becoming increasingly referential in the critical peace literature for its acute and provocative analyses, stemming from a transposition of the work of postmodern and feminist thinkers, such as Whitehead, Latour, Haraway, Deleuze, and Barad, as well as insights from quantum IR, into powerful interpretative frameworks for a re-construction of the real, starting from the understanding of 'peace'.