Annika Björkdahl
Professor
Spaces of Peace
Author
Editor
- Oliver P. Richmond
- Gëzim Visoka
Summary, in English
This chapter shows that war-making and peace-making “take place” and that sometimes the legacy of conflict obscures manifestations of peacebuilding. The analysis of a “bridge that divides” in the city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo and a “wall that unites” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, casts light on the benefits that a spatial reading of peace can provide to understand the ways in which spatial infrastructures are lived by the people who use them. The process of space-making (the generation of meanings from a material location) will help explain the agency that emerges by the creators, users, and inhabitants of (post)conflict spaces.
Department/s
- Department of Political Science
Publishing year
2021-01-01
Language
English
Pages
139-151
Publication/Series
Oxford Handbooks
Links
Document type
Book chapter
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Topic
- Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
- Human Geography
Keywords
- Agency
- Belfast
- Mitrovica
- Peacebuilding
- Space-making
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISBN: 9780197576410
- ISBN: 9780190904418