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Priscyll Anctil

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Insurgent peace research: affects, friendship and feminism as methods

Author

  • Priscyll Anctil

Summary, in English

Affect and friendship change the way we think about research (epistemology) and conduct research (methodology). This article accounts for affect and friendship as feminist methods in peace research. It argues that affective feminist conversations, practices and actions through friendship can drastically modify how we think about peace. Based on fieldwork conducted in Colombia (2019 and 2022) with female ex-guerrilleras from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia – People’s Army (Farc-ep), it (1) draws upon the concepts of camaradería and being insurgent proposed by the women of the Farc-ep to (2) trace how affect and friendship can change the way we do peace research. Ultimately, the article proposes four aspects for the adoption of friendship as a method in peace research by: 1) deconstructing the linearity in peace research methods; 2) multiplying data collection’s methods; 3) including affects throughout the whole research process and 4) advocating for an insurgent peace research that vindicates long-term ‘transversal politics’ and translocal coalition-building.

Department/s

  • Department of Political Science

Publishing year

2022-09-16

Language

English

Pages

435-455

Publication/Series

Conflict, Security and Development

Volume

22

Issue

5

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Political Science (excluding Public Administration Studies and Globalization Studies)
  • Social Anthropology
  • Gender Studies

Keywords

  • Affect
  • Friendship
  • Feminism
  • Peace Research
  • Methods
  • Insurgent Peace Research

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1467-8802