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State Formation, the Local and Hybridity

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This brief chapter discusses the interrelated concepts of ‘the local’ and hybridity in the context of peace-building. Both have been theorised as analytical devices, as avenues of emancipation, and have in praxis been deployed as stratagems to further the agenda of institutional state- and peace-building. In this sense the chapter serves as a bridge between the preceding chapter and the one that follows, on peace infrastructures, which have in different ways relied on these concepts.

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    Hameiri, on the other hand argues that this encounter does not so much result in hybrid states but an altogether new form of statehood, a depoliticised regulatory kind (Hameiri, 2011, pp. 197–202).

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Kovács, B.Á. (2019). State Formation, the Local and Hybridity. In: Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89566-6_5

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