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Peacebuilding and Postcolonial Subject

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Hybrid peace; Liberal peace; Peace operations; Peacebuilding; Statebuilding

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The chapter presents postcolonial readings on peacebuilding operations, considering them reproducers of colonial dynamics and hierarchies in the contemporary international scene. Rather than presenting an unequivocal and fixed definition on “postcolonial subjects” in peacebuilding contexts, the chapter aims to highlight how these subjects are problematically produced and represented in international discourses and practices. Examples of peace operations in Haiti, Mozambique, and Somalia are briefly presented in order to illustrate the Eurocentric, colonial, and racist gazes that oftentimes inform peacebuilding imaginaries. Moreover, the chapter presents an introductory inquiring on the “local turn” and “hybrid peace” proposals, exploring some of their potentialities and limits. A new set of recommendations to scholars and practitioners working in peacebuilding emerges through the...

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Fernández, M., Guerra, L. (2020). Peacebuilding and Postcolonial Subject. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_81-1

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