Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies: Everyday Peace and the Maoist Conflict in India

Carrer, Monica

This book explores the powerful role of ordinary people's agency in times of violent conflict. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a Critical Discourse Analysis, the author draws out the motivations, drivers and strategies at individual and community levels. With a focus on people’s own voices, this research highlights rich findings showing a wide range of experiences and actions that people engaged in during the violent conflict, and dimensions that are often missed in dominant explanations of violent conflict. Therefore, while looking at peace and conflict from an everyday perspective, the question of power and the meaning of peace knowledge become central. This monograph addresses the power of people’s agency not only in shaping the politics and dynamics of violence, but also in redefining what ‘peace’ and ‘change’ ought to look like. Essential reading for researchers and students of Peace and Conflict Studies, and also International Relations, Security Studies, Resistance Studies, Anthropology, Politics, International Development.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2022-09-20

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031113413

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11342-0

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 275