Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace: Interrogating Peace and Peacemaking (Bloomsbury Critical Education)

"In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil life and of international relations. Coming from different areas of study, the contributors to this volume discuss peace and critical peace education from a range of perspectives. The nature of peace, myths related to peace, the logistics of peace and peace-making as well as the relation of peace and pedagogy in the broadest meaning of the term constitute the main themes of the book. The common thread that binds the chapters together is the distinction between genuine/authentic and false peace and the importance of critical reflection on actions that contribute to genuine peace."-- "Reframes peace education through a lens of critical education, interrogating current conceptions of peace"-- Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 8 Notes on Contributors 10 Foreword 16 Notes 18 Introduction 20 Part 1 The Contents of Peace 24 Chapter 1 Where does True Peace Dwell? 26 Introduction 26 Wilderness 27 Peace, the comedy 31 The causes of war 34 Peace’s dwelling place 37 Homelessness 42 Conclusion 44 Notes 45 References 49 Chapter 2 A Gramscian Analysis of Passive Revolution and its Contribution to the Study of Peace 51 Introduction 51 Peace and passive revolution 52 The Risorgimento: State formation, geopolitics and social class 53 Capitalist consolidation in Italy – Fordism and Fascism 55 Extending the concept of passive revolution to ­post-war Republican Italy and economic integration in Western Europe 57 Passive revolution at a European level 60 Conclusion 63 Notes 63 References 64 Chapter 3 Breathing Peace, Relating with the Other and the Maternal 66 Introduction 66 Women and peace 67 Irigaray and the question of sexual difference 68 The makings of a hostile culture and the hospitable feminine 71 Breath 74 Shortcomings of Irigaray’s characterization of peace and sexuality 76 Conclusion 78 Notes 78 References 79 Chapter 4 The Limits of Exogenous Initiatives in Peacemaking, Focusing on Iraq after the US Invasion 81 Introduction 81 Exogenous peace 83 Peacemaking in Iraq since 2003: A statement of the central problematique 84 The crisis of the constitution 86 The Sunni–Shia divide 87 The result 90 Conclusion 92 Notes 94 References 97 Chapter 5 Critical Peace in the Digital Era of Austerity and Crisis 100 Introduction 100 On the meaning of peace: A critical engagement 101 Alternative envisioning: Towards critical peace 101 Peacemaking instruments of the neo-liberal era 102 Challenges ahead: A research agenda for critical peace 104 Digital socialities, peace and commons: Building alternatives? 107 Conclusion 108 Notes 109 References 110 Part 2 Challenges to Peace Education 114 Chapter 6 Dreaming of Peace in a Culture of War 116 The hidden curriculum of violence 117 Peace: A critical moral imperative 119 Making a peacefully just world possible 122 Of revolution and dreams 125 Notes 126 References 127 Chapter 7 The Myth of the Inevitability of War 129 Introduction: Western thought and the culture of war 129 The multidimensionality of discourse: A Wittgensteinian perspective 130 Structure and content analysis of the discourse of Myth and the discourse of History 133 Analysis of the discourse of myth 134 The structure of myth – Thematic necessity 134 The content of myth – Interpretative possibility 135 The discourse of history – The parting of the ways 136 The transformation of discourse 138 The hybridization of myth and history 140 Conclusion 142 Notes 144 References 145 Chapter 8 Liberal Peace and Media Debates around the Cases of Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo 146 Introduction 146 Selling war: The rise of propaganda and political communication strategies 147 The media in the era of liberal peace 148 Media and the anti-terror ideology 150 Clashes over Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo 152 Different models 156 Conclusion: Challenges for the media 158 Notes 159 References 160 Part 3 Pedagogy of Peace 164 Chapter 9 Some Reflections on Critical Peace Education 166 Introduction 166 Lack of criticality in peace education 167 Critiquing psychologized assumptions 169 Our proposition 171 Conclusion 176 References 177 Chapter 10 School Textbooks and Entanglements of the ‘Colonial Present’ in Israel and Palestine1 180 Introduction 180 Positioning 180 Whither textbooks? 181 War zones, curricular fields, textbook sites 184 ‘Visual orders’ and constructions of the body politic 187 Power geometries and inter-textualities 190 School textbooks as performed spectacles 194 Notes 195 References 196 Chapter 11 The Long Shadow Thrown over the Actions of Men 200 Introduction 200 The shadow 200 Advaita 206 Re(an)nunciation 208 Participation 212 Conclusion 215 Notes 217 References 217 Chapter 12 Schooling for Democracy: Music and Critical Pedagogy in Egypt 219 Introduction 219 Life history and educational practice 221 Educating beyond nationalism 222 ‘A perfect state of mind’: The education of an educator 224 Towards a humanistic and critical pedagogy 228 Pluralism does not deny politics 230 A school for life 231 Notes 232 References 234 Epilogue 236 Introduction 236 Peace, pacification and passive resistance 237 Women – inclusion and a new paradigm 240 ‘Liberal peace’ from above 242 Cementing common sense 245 The myths of peace and war 247 Reading the world in the word 250 Critical education for peace – the basics 252 From myths to music 254 Portraying and creating realities 255 Re(an)nouncing and participating 257 Notes 259 References 260 Index 262 "In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil life and of international relations. Coming from different areas of study, the contributors to this volume discuss peace and critical peace education from a range of perspectives. The nature of peace, myths related to peace, the logistics of peace and peace-making as well as the relation of peace and pedagogy in the broadest meaning of the term constitute the main themes of the book. The common thread that binds the chapters together is the distinction between genuine/authentic and false peace and the importance of critical reflection on actions that contribute to genuine peace."-- Provided by publisher