Mediating anti-political peace in Abidjan: Radio, place and power

Cante, Fabien

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2020.102282

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“…Challenge 4: script these voices so that 'only the right words will come out'. This involved outright censorship of taboo words like 'war' (Cante, 2020 ). Challenge 5: defl ect micro-local hostilities.…”

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Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements

Cante¹,

Hussain²,

Makori³

et al. 2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This final movement explores whether thinking with re‐arrangements can help us account for that which is hidden, unseen or nested in the recesses and folds of urban practices. And if so, how we might then talk about and account for elusive parts of an arrangement that both exert an influence and are influenced. This essay uses sensibilities as an entry point into the intangible interactions between subjects and (re)arrangements.

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Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements

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Hussain²,

Makori³

et al. 2023

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Between April and September 2015, the station was contracted by USAID to run a series of bi‐weekly public events across Abobo, promoting the need for peace ahead of new presidential elections. Like other forms of institutional peacebuilding (Cante, 2020), these shows served to legitimise the post‐war reconsolidation of political domination, and to enforce government visions of peace. To do so, the shows relied on a network of neighbourhood leaders (traditional chiefs, youth sections, women's associations, religious representatives) with more or less explicit ties to national and municipal administrations.…”

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“…One of the reasons that UFARA members would not label their encounters and activities as peace is because, in 2014-16 (when I carried out my fieldwork), peace in Abidjan was conceived exclusively in interventionist terms-as something that ought to be engineered from the outside, by foreign agencies and a newly reconsolidated state. As I have shown elsewhere (Cante, 2020), dominant discourses of peace sought to blame conflict on ordinary people's pathological tendencies, as opposed to elite contests for state control. Discursively, and through its performance in urban space, institutional peacebuilding legitimised the reconstruction of authoritarianism under Ouattara by posing the state as a bulwark against an irrational, potentially dangerous population-erasing the fact that the same state, led by some of the same elites, played a central role in the escalation of political violence during the 1990s.…”

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Everyday peace in a ‘post‐conflict’ African metropolis: Radio encounters, indeterminacy, fugitivity

Cante

2023

Trans Inst British Geog

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Drawing on the ethnography of a multi‐ethnic local radio listeners' club in post‐war Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the article provides an original account of everyday peace in an African metropolis. It bridges peace geographies and African urban studies to document the informal and often invisibilised practices through which residents re‐make the city in the wake of war. In doing so, the article expands existing understandings of everyday peace while reaffirming the concept's radical, decolonial proposition: to seek peace in subaltern lifeworlds, rather than in institutional and interventionist programmes that too often reproduce violent power asymmetries. Through the story of the UFARA listeners' club, emerging out of radio encounters, the article shows how everyday peace articulates a response to different forms of conjunctural and structural violence, including precarity and territorial control. It also points to indeterminacy and fugitivity as lived, affective and political figurations of peace which, while eschewing the trappings of resistance, nonetheless point to the need to imagine peace otherwise.

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Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace

Harrowell,

Sellick

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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Discussions about the role of heritage sites and practices in provoking conflict – or conversely, as opportunities for building peace – have gained new impetus in recent years. In this context, we discuss a site of contested heritage in the occupied Palestinian territories, the Susya national heritage site. The article first highlights the way this contestation relates to wider conflict over territory (as well as political, economic and cultural resources). Using oral histories gathered by Palestinian youth researchers, it then considers how heritage narratives reinforce or challenge competing claims to ‘belong’ in Susya against a backdrop of protracted conflict. Finally, the article asks whether such contested heritage sites could play a role as resources for peace by adopting a conflict transformational paradigm, and what the barriers are to this approach.

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Mediating anti-political peace in Abidjan: Radio, place and power

Cited by 3 publications

References 60 publications

Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements

Movement 5. Sensing the Affective Lives of Arrangements

Everyday peace in a ‘post‐conflict’ African metropolis: Radio encounters, indeterminacy, fugitivity

Contested heritage in Susya: Asymmetry and possibilities for peace

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