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  • Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research

    Edited by Gearoid Millar ...
    While many have argued in the past decade that peace and conflict studies must engage more with local actors and communities, and scholars regularly describe the importance of local context and culture for building sustainable peace, there are substantial challenges methodologically to fulfilling this ‘local turn’. Many peace and conflict studies scholars are inexperienced with methods appropriate ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • An Ethnographic Approach to Peacebuilding

    Understanding Local Experiences in Transitional States

    by Gearoid Millar ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
    This book aims to outline and promote an ethnographic approach to evaluating international peacebuilding interventions in transitional states.While the evaluation of peacebuilding and transitional justice efforts has been a growing concern in recent years, too often evaluations assess projects based on locally irrelevant measures, reinforce the status quo distribution of power in transitional ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Peacebuilding and Friction

    Global and Local Encounters in Post Conflict-Societies

    Edited by Annika Björkdahl, Kristine Höglund, Gearoid Millar, Jair van der Lijn, Willemijn Verkoren ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution
    This book aims to understand the processes and outcomes that arise from frictional encounters in peacebuilding, when global and local forces meet.Building a sustainable peace after violent conflict is a process that entails competing ideas, political contestation and transformation of power relations. This volume develops the concept of ‘friction’ to better analyse the interplay between global ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Ethnographic Peace Research

    Approaches and Tensions

    Edited by Gearoid Millar ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This volume calls for an empirical extension of the “local turn” within peace research. Building on insights from conflict transformation, gender studies, critical International Relations and Anthropology, the contributions critique existing peace research methods as affirming unequal power, marginalizing local communities, and stripping the peace kept of substantive agency and voice. By ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Gender and Migration

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    by Anastasia Christou, Eleonore Kofman ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access short reader offers a critical review of the debates on the transformation of migration and gendered mobilities primarily in Europe, though also engaging in wider theoretical insights. Building on empirical case studies and grounded in an analytical framework that incorporates both men and women, masculinities, sexualities and wider intersectional insights, this reader provides an ... Read more

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  • The Future of Social Movement Research

    Dynamics, Mechanisms, and Processes

    Edited by Jacquelien van Stekelenburg, Conny Roggeband, Bert Klandermans ...
    Series series Social Movements, Protest and Contention
    Are the dynamics of contention changing? This is the question confronted by the contributors of this volume, among the most influential scholars in the field of social movements. The answers, arriving at a time of extraordinary worldwide turmoil, not only provide a wide-ranging and varied understanding of how social movements arise and persist, but also engender unanswered questions, pointing to ... Read more

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  • Media and Development

    by Martin Scott ...
    Series series Development Matters
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  • Learning Activism

    The Intellectual Life of Contemporary Social Movements

    by Aziz Choudry ...
    What do activists know? Learning Activism is designed to encourage a deeper engagement with the intellectual life of activists who organize for social, political, and ecological justice. Combining experiential knowledge from his own activism and a variety of social movements, Choudry suggests that such organizations are best understood if we engage with the learning, knowledge, debates, and ... Read more

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  • Gender, Violence, and Human Security

    Critical Feminist Perspectives

    by Aili Mari Tripp, Myra Marx Ferree, Christina Ewig ...
    The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and communities persist. Large-scale violence by formal and informal armed forces intersects with interpersonal and domestic forms of violence in mutually reinforcing ways. Gender, Violence, and Human Security takes a critical look at notions ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE)

    IPE as a Global Conversation

    Edited by Mark Blyth ...
    The study of the International Political Economy (IPE), like the IPE itself, is plural and unbounded. Despite what partisans sometimes say, rather than there being ‘one way’ of studying the IPE that is the ‘right way’, we find across the world great variation in IPE scholarship in terms of focus, questions, and methods. How then can we make sense of this and understand the field as a whole rather ... Read more

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  • The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology

    Edited by George Ritzer ...
    Series Book 36 - Wiley Blackwell Companions to Sociology
    Featuring a collection of original chapters by leading and emerging scholars, The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Sociology presents a comprehensive and balanced overview of the major topics and emerging trends in the discipline of sociology today.Features original chapters contributed by an international cast of leading and emerging sociology scholarsRepresents the most innovative and 'state-of-the ... Read more

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