9781786610379-178661037X-Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue (Critical Perspectives on Religion in International Politics)

Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue (Critical Perspectives on Religion in International Politics)

ISBN-13: 9781786610379
ISBN-10: 178661037X
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Alexander Laban Hinton, Giorgio Shani, Jeremiah Alberg
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover 284 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781786610379
ISBN-10: 178661037X
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Alexander Laban Hinton, Giorgio Shani, Jeremiah Alberg
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover 284 pages

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Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue (Critical Perspectives on Religion in International Politics) (ISBN-13: 9781786610379 and ISBN-10: 178661037X), written by authors Alexander Laban Hinton, Giorgio Shani, Jeremiah Alberg, was published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue (Critical Perspectives on Religion in International Politics) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether “positive” or “negative.” The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name. This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined “end”), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them. Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/ for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.
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