Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism: Liberal-Local Hybridity via the Everyday as a Response to the Paradoxes of Liberal Peacebuilding

Richmond, Oliver P.

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“…Scholars increasingly recommend strengthening the local (and the associated values and initiatives) in peace-building efforts (Richmond, 2009). Of course, the question about the "true" nature of the local remains (Mac Ginty and Richmond, 2013), for instance when Palestinian GWN activists report instances of (local) resistance against the project.…”

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Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Ide¹,

Fröhlich

2015

Earth Syst. Dynam.

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Abstract. The existing literature faces difficulties when accounting for the simultaneity of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation. We suggest that this puzzle can be solved by more recent constructivist works, which argue that conflictive or cooperative behavior is driven by discursively constructed interests, identities and situation assessments. Based on a literature review and field interviews, we analyze and compare the dominant water discourses in Israel and Palestine with the discourse dominant among the activists of a water cooperation project between communities from Israel and the West Bank. Our main result is that discourses are indeed crucial for understanding water-related conflict and cooperation. This finding highlights the relevance of constructivist approaches in the study of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation as well as of practices of bottom-up discursive conflict transformation.

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Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Ide¹,

Fröhlich

2015

Earth Syst. Dynam.

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“…Recently, the concepts of 'hybridity' and 'postliberal' forms of peace have emerged in the peacebuilding literature (Richmond 2009). Hybridity involves a bottom-up perspective that explores the interactions between local and international actors in post-conflict environments (Mac Ginty 2010).…”

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Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo

Danielsson¹

2016

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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The World Bank has for over a decade tried to formalize the informal economy in Kosovo. However, local journalists and businessmen among others provide an alternative understanding of informality that problematizes the World Bank's view and actions. Against this backdrop, the article analyses the constitution and the constitutive effects of the World Bank's anti-informality operations in Kosovo between 1999 and 2014. Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's power analytics, the article claims that the Bank's agenda, and the economic ideas enacted through it, does structure and shape informal economic practices on the ground. Yet this structuring involves two forms of misrecognition. As a result, informality is paradoxically constituted (in novel ways) and reconstituted through the World Bank's imposed antiinformality agenda. The article concludes with a discussion of how this underlines the need for policy solutions that depart from liberal peacebuilding's subject-object distinction to instead form around an acknowledgement of informality as emergent and transforming throughout international interventions.

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“…It would also 'bring back the local voices which are supposed to be a part of the social contract upon which the liberal state is built' (Richmond 2009, 333) without which the state is not legitimate. It would also resonate with the fact that peace and security are not made (or unmade) by a narrow set of actors: they are made and constantly remade by people across society (MacGinty 2011;Richmond 2009). …”

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Security Sector Reform, Statebuilding and Local Ownership: Securing the State or its People?

Gordon

2014

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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Becoming Liberal, Unbecoming Liberalism: Liberal-Local Hybridity via the Everyday as a Response to the Paradoxes of Liberal Peacebuilding

Cited by 196 publications

References 30 publications

Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Socio-environmental cooperation and conflict? A discursive understanding and its application to the case of Israel and Palestine

Reforming and Performing the Informal Economy: Constitutive Effects of the World Bank's Anti-informality Practices in Kosovo

Security Sector Reform, Statebuilding and Local Ownership: Securing the State or its People?

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