Seeing like the International Community: How Peacebuilding Failed (and Survived) in Tajikistan

Heathershaw, John

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“…States often have a closed loop of communication that is limited in terms of its ability to access information beyond the diplomatic capital. Formal informationgathering networks can garner masses of information, but it is not always clear that this information is accurate and prevails beyond the capital city (Heathershaw 2008). It is not clear that the electronic revolution has made states any less reliant on traditional methods of information-gathering.…”

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Introduction: The Transcripts of Peace: Public, Hidden or Non-obvious?

Ginty

2013

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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This piece introduces the special issue on everyday peace indicators. It considers the limitations of orthodox approaches to capturing and evaluating peace. Many of these approaches are top-down and reflect state-centric approaches. Alternatively they are focused on specific peacebuilding programmes and have little to say about the wider context in which peace is being built or obstructed. The lived-experience of conflict and war-to-peace transitions is often written out of accounts of peace and conflict. While recognizing that measuring peace is an inherently complex task, this introductory essay notes that there is little appetite among international organizations to reassess how they record and evaluate peace. In part, this is explained by the lucrative political economy of monitoring and evaluation. This special issue seeks to contribute to thinking about new agendas for evaluating peace.

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Introduction: The Transcripts of Peace: Public, Hidden or Non-obvious?

Ginty

2013

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding

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“…As John Heathershaw argues, the 'survival' of peacebuilding is due to the resilience of its discourse. Seen from the goals of transforming society through the construction of a positive peace, democracy and state-society relations, peacebuilding 'fails', and becomes a 'simulacra' of its own discourse (Heathershaw 2008). This captures the situation in the DRC, where, despite the continuation of war, the increasing authoritarianism and the deterioration of living conditions, peacebuilding survives on its discourse as a long-term claim to rearrange society under a particular worldview.…”

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“…Chapter 4 will show how this failure gives way to a blame exchange between the DRC Government and the MONUC/MONUSCO. What is important to remark on here is that the discourse plays two important functions in terms of legitimacy: (1) it turns statebuilding into authority without the need for popular consent; and (2) it maintains legitimacy in the face of failure (Heathershaw 2008). To undertake statebuilding for the maintenance of international peace and security and for the protection of the population does not need negotiation or consent from the population.…”

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Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making : Insights from 'Africa's World War'

Heredia¹

2017

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“…By exploring what discourses and practices do in conflict contexts (cf. Heathershaw 2008;Olsson 2015), the article draws upon yet develops existing research on the post-war political economies in the Balkans. It approaches the World Bank's anti-informality practices and regulatory arrangements in Kosovo from 1999 to 2014 as objects and subjects of construction and analyses their constitution (what they are) as well as their constitutive effects (what they do).…”

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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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Seeing like the International Community: How Peacebuilding Failed (and Survived) in Tajikistan

Cited by 19 publications

References 15 publications

Introduction: The Transcripts of Peace: Public, Hidden or Non-obvious?

Introduction: The Transcripts of Peace: Public, Hidden or Non-obvious?

Everyday Resistance, Peacebuilding and State-making : Insights from 'Africa's World War'

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

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