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Rescripting and Restaging: Spatialising Structure and Agency

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Movement as Conflict Transformation

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This chapter discusses the intricacies of spatialising structure and agency and maps out the concepts of rescripting and restaging. The chapter begins by looking at the social performativity of use of space and how space is inherently social. Next the agentive capability for social actors to transform space is introduced, and the relationship between rescripting and restaging, as agentive and structural concepts respectively, is explored. Through discussing these concepts within four spaces of peace (institutional, urban, social and personal) the work sets out how staging impacts on social actors’ capability to rescript and transform space.

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Forde, S. (2019). Rescripting and Restaging: Spatialising Structure and Agency. In: Movement as Conflict Transformation. Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92660-5_2

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