Spatializing peace and conflict : mapping the production of places, sites and scales of violence

There has been no sustained inquiry into the relationship linking peace and conflict with space and place. This innovative edited volume explores conflict and peace through spatial approaches, and proposes a new research agenda investigating where peace and conflict take place. All chapters employ space as an analytic category and develop strong theoretical contributions alongside new empirical insights. From battlefields to memorials, places of encounter shape how agents relate to each other and how their actions are enabled or constrained. Moreover, spaces such as the international peacekeepers camps or sites of atrocity would not exist if it were not for the conflict. Drawing on concepts such as spatial governmentality, scalar politics, relational spatial theory and spatial narratives the authors investigate case studies reaching from divided cities such as Belfast, Dili and Jerusalem, via rape camps and karaoke bars, to war-torn countries. "Cover"--"Title"--"Copyright" -- "Contents" -- "List of Figures and Tables" -- "Acknowledgements" -- "Notes on Contributors" -- "Spatializing Peace and Conflict: An Introduction" -- "Part I Territorialities and Scales" -- "1 Overcoming the Material/Social Divide: Conflict Studies from the Perspective of Spatial Theory" -- "2 Territoriality in Civil War: The Ignored Territorial Dimensions of Violent Conflict in North Kivu, DRC" -- "3 Armed Conflict and Space: Exploring Urbanâ#x80;#x93;Rural Patterns of Violence" -- "Part II Global and Local" -- "4 Reading Urban Landscapes of War and Peace: The Case of Goma, DRC" -- "5 â#x80;#x98;The Campâ#x80;#x99;, â#x80;#x98;The Streetâ#x80;#x99;, â#x80;#x98;The Hotelâ#x80;#x99; and â#x80;#x98;The Karaoke Bar/Brothelâ#x80;#x99; â#x80;#x93; The Gendered, Racialized Spaces of a City in Crisis: Dili, 2006â#x80;#x93;2008" -- "6 Local Agency in â#x80;#x98;Globalâ#x80;#x99; Spaces? The Engagement of Iraqi Womenâ#x80;#x99;s NGOs with CEDAW" -- "Part III Boundaries and Borders" -- "7 Space, Class and Peace: Spatial Governmentality in Post-War and Post-Socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina" -- "8 Bluffing the State: Spatialities of Contested Statehood in the Abkhazian-Georgian Conflict" -- "9 Urban Space as an Agent of Conflict and â#x80;#x98;Peaceâ#x80;#x99;: Marginalized Im/mobilities and the Predicament of Exclusive Inclusion among Palestinians in Tel Aviv" -- "10 Reframing the Olympic Games: Uncovering New Spatial Stories of (De)securitization" -- "Part IV Places and Sites" -- "11 Where Conflict and Peace Take Place: Memorialization, Sacralization and Post-Conflict Space" -- "12 Seeing and Unseeing the Dome of the Rock: Conflict, Memory and Belonging in Jerusalem" -- "13 Belfast, â#x80;#x98;The Shared Cityâ#x80;#x99;? Spatial Narratives of Conflict Transformation" -- "14 Geographies of Crime and Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Spatializing Peace and Conflict: An Introduction....Pages 1-22 Front Matter....Pages 23-23 Overcoming the Material/Social Divide: Conflict Studies from the Perspective of Spatial Theory....Pages 25-40 Territoriality in Civil War: The Ignored Territorial Dimensions of Violent Conflict in North Kivu, DRC....Pages 41-59 Armed Conflict and Space: Exploring Urban-Rural Patterns of Violence....Pages 60-76 Front Matter....Pages 77-77 Reading Urban Landscapes of War and Peace: The Case of Goma, DRC....Pages 79-97 ‘The Camp’, ‘The Street’, ‘The Hotel’ and ‘The Karaoke Bar/Brothel’ — The Gendered, Racialized Spaces of a City in Crisis: Dili, 2006–2008....Pages 98-117 Local Agency in ‘Global’ Spaces? The Engagement of Iraqi Women’s NGOs with CEDAW....Pages 118-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Space, Class and Peace: Spatial Governmentality in Post-War and Post-Socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina....Pages 141-158 Bluffing the State: Spatialities of Contested Statehood in the Abkhazian-Georgian Conflict....Pages 159-177 Urban Space as an Agent of Conflict and ‘Peace’: Marginalized Im/mobilities and the Predicament of Exclusive Inclusion among Palestinians in Tel Aviv....Pages 178-197 Reframing the Olympic Games: Uncovering New Spatial Stories of (De)securitization....Pages 198-217 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Where Conflict and Peace Take Place: Memorialization, Sacralization and Post-Conflict Space....Pages 221-241 Seeing and Unseeing the Dome of the Rock: Conflict, Memory and Belonging in Jerusalem....Pages 242-264 Belfast, ‘The Shared City’? Spatial Narratives of Conflict Transformation....Pages 265-285 Geographies of Crime and Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina....Pages 286-303 Back Matter....Pages 304-314 This volume brings to the fore the spatial dimension of specific places and sites, and assesses how they condition – and are conditioned by – conflict and peace processes. By marrying spatial theories with theories of peace and conflict, the contributors propose a new research agenda to investigate where peace and conflict take place.