Peace geographies and the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies: Integrating parallel conversations through spatial practices

Macaspac, Nerve V.; Moore, Adam

doi:10.1111/gec3.12614

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“…It builds upon the emergent field of peace geographies and the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies. While these two sets of literature share a commitment toward studying the spatial dynamics of peace and conflict, these scholarly conversations have proceeded in parallel and remained siloed from each other despite their shared geographic orientations (Macaspac and Moore, 2022). Further research can be done to examine peace zones as spatial infrastructures of civilian protection amid active violence.…”

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Spatialities of peace zones

Macaspac¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Peace zones are popularly understood as demilitarized geographic areas. While many peace zones have been documented around the world, scholarly research on the topic is surprisingly sparse. Furthermore, the existing literature focuses toward analyzing the complex social and temporal dynamics of peace zones. There is less work that examines the spatial processes that are mobilized in making the peace zones work. Building upon the analytical innovations of the geographic and spatial approaches to peace that highlight the spatialities of scale, space, and place, this article foregrounds the multiple spatialities of peace zones. Through a case study of the peace zone in the indigenous community of Sagada in the Philippines, this article argues that the peace zone is maintained through territoriality, interdependence, and the refusal of violence that weave together the politics of scale, space, and place.

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Spatialities of peace zones

Macaspac¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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“…The Norwegian Arctic promises security, now and long into the future, because it is imagined as cold, distant, empty and apolitical. Thus, while there exists a nascent 'spatial turn' across peace and conflict studies (Björkdahl and Kappler, 2017;Macaspac and Moore, 2022), and political geographers have long contended with the spatial dynamics of violence and war, security scholars, particularly those concerned with the Anthropocene, would benefit from more work unpacking the relationship between space and imagined security futures.…”

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“…Part of this emerges from the problematic tendency in Anthropocene discourses to draw upon what Scott Hamilton calls ‘the generalised planetary humanity of anthropos ’ to blame for the current predicament (Hamilton, 2019: 612 emphasis in original). Guided by new technology associated with Earth System Science, the elevation of a new planetary species-being works to dehistoricise, universalise and essentialise a mode of production unique to a specific time and place (Malm, 2015). It marks the Earth as an anthropogenic force, one driven by human nature rather than one driven by differentiated sociogenic factors (Malm and Hornborg, 2014).…”

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The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault

Harrington

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This article examines how imaginaries of security in the Anthropocene function at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault (SGSV), otherwise known as the ‘Doomsday Vault’. Recent explorations by scholars of security have suggested that different ways of seeing, understanding, acting in, and imagining the world are necessary to adequately respond to complex crises in the Anthropocene. The dissolution of the nature/culture divide and the existential risk from planetary threats are said to require new and creative formations of security. Buried in the Norwegian high Arctic, the heavily fortified SGSV was built in 2008 as a planetary-scale, ‘deep-time organisation’ that would forever secure a wide variety of plant seeds and their genetic makeup against regional or global upheavals. The article argues that his seed ‘ark’ materialises three Anthropocene security imaginaries: apocalypse, hope and escape. The prevalence and use of these imaginaries reveal the stability of long-held security logics and challenge the widely-held belief in the innately transformative properties of the Anthropocene concept for security. Instead, the SGSV demonstrates the difficulty in overcoming a collective mindfulness that fixes security to eternal forms even in the midst of unprecedented threats, interventions and technology.

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“…The 'spatial turn' in peacebuilding studies resonates with emerging literature on spatializing conflict and peace to advance the understanding of the complex spatial politics and governance of peacebuilding (Björkdahl and Buckley-Zistel, 2016;Brigg and George, 2020;Macaspac and Moore, 2022). This approach is attentive to the materiality and symbolic aspects of space in terms of the spatial sources of conflict and the agency that different groups have in the sites of contested peacebuilding activity.…”

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Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation

Ortiz

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2023

Planning Theory

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This article introduces the concept of territorial healing as a strategy for holistic intervention with communities affected by violence-related trauma. Violence exerted in places generates affective and territorial ruptures contained in socio-emotional wounds and disruptions in the social and institutional fabric that weakens collective life. Building on post/in-conflict cities studies, peacebuilding studies, and a decolonial approach, we argue that territorial healing agglutinates myriad interventions aimed at a collective restorative reparation of geo-traumas (Pain, 2021) and promotes the construction of collective subjects for decision-making in territorial processes. The article highlights the need to go beyond the local/spatial turn of peacebuilding and reparative planning by providing a more robust understanding of how to frame the political project of reparative justice in urban spaces and across different scales. Territorial healing processes go beyond institutionalized frameworks to involve decentralized and autonomous processes that expand the spatiality of the symbolic, corporeal and emotions of collective urban life. This article suggests that a territorial healing trajectory requires weaving the mapping of body-territory-earth (Cabnal, 2019), collective memory, and spatial imagination as a strategy to manage existing conflicts through therapeutic dialogue and the shaping of reparative infrastructures.

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Peace geographies and the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies: Integrating parallel conversations through spatial practices

Cited by 17 publications

References 145 publications

Spatialities of peace zones

Spatialities of peace zones

The eternal return: Imagining security futures at the Doomsday Vault

Territorial healing: A spatial spiral weaving transformative reparation

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