Spaces of Peace
(2021) In Oxford Handbooks p.139-151- Abstract
This chapter shows that war-making and peace-making “take place” and that sometimes the legacy of conflict obscures manifestations of peacebuilding. The analysis of a “bridge that divides” in the city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo and a “wall that unites” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, casts light on the benefits that a spatial reading of peace can provide to understand the ways in which spatial infrastructures are lived by the people who use them. The process of space-making (the generation of meanings from a material location) will help explain the agency that emerges by the creators, users, and inhabitants of (post)conflict spaces.
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- author
- Björkdahl, Annika LU and Kappler, Stefanie
- organization
- publishing date
- 2021-01-01
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Agency, Belfast, Mitrovica, Peacebuilding, Space-making
- host publication
- The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
- series title
- Oxford Handbooks
- editor
- Richmond, Oliver P. and Visoka, Gëzim
- pages
- 13 pages
- publisher
- Oxford University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85131280705
- ISBN
- 9780190904418
- 9780197576410
- DOI
- 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.9
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- af46faa4-ac65-47a3-915f-113c4ae56486
- date added to LUP
- 2022-08-18 13:53:47
- date last changed
- 2024-09-18 13:12:32
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