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The Distinction of Peace : A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding /

"Peacebuilding" serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake--or even in the midst--of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners cons...

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Main Author: Goetze, Catherine (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Sozialwissenschaften
Friedenssicherung
Friedenskonsolidierung
Berufssoziologie
Berufsfeld
Peace-building > Social aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
Consolidation de la paix > Aspect social.
Peace-building > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Pierre Bourdieu's Toolbox: Fields, Power, Practices, and Habitus in the Analysis of Peacebuilding
  • THE FIELD : 2. The Peacebuilding Field as Default Space
  • 3. "There Are No Neutral Men": The Sociological Structure of Peacebuilding
  • 4. Boundaries of the Field: The Peacebuilder, the Businessman, and the Scholar-Expert
  • THE HABITUS : [Introduction]
  • 5. Peacebuilding Sensibilities
  • 6. Narratives of Intervention: Leadership, Liberalism, and Social Justice
  • 7. The Nomos of the Field: The Fatalism of Saving Lives
  • Conclusion.

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