Hammett, D. orcid.org/0000-0002-9607-6901 and Marshall, D. (2017) Building peaceful citizens? Nation-building in divided societies. Space and Polity, 21 (2). pp. 129-143. ISSN 1356-2576
Abstract
Interventions aimed at citizenship formation and nation-building in divided and post-conflict societies place great emphasis on promoting and entrenching peace as a cornerstone of economic development and statehood. Such efforts are multi-scalar, encompassing interventions to build democratic institutions and responsible citizens with the pursuit and maintenance of peace at the heart of these ideals. Dominant international pedagogies and policies for liberal-peace-building in divided societies can be used to maintain existing power relations and hierarchies, and may prevent the realization of social (and other forms of) justice while stifling dissent and criticism through exhortations to patriotism, unity, civility, and nation-building. Thus, the ‘goodness’ of peace makes this concept particularly useful as a technique of governance. However, ‘peace’ can also be reworked to suit counter-hegemonic political purposes that open up rather than shut down the question of what peace means. Through an exploration of contestations around the notion of ‘peace’ and its deployment in efforts to promote particular foreign policy agendas we highlight the incongruities in civil society actors’ approaches to peace, and their efforts to achieve sometimes conflicting aims, within divided societies.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Space and Polity on 22 May 2017, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13562576.2017.1330383. |
Keywords: | Citizenship; peace; civil society; governmentality |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EUROPEAN RESEARCH COUNCIL YOUCITIZEN - 295392 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 18 May 2017 12:09 |
Last Modified: | 03 Aug 2023 08:34 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13562576.2017.1330383 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:116323 |