Rethinking Peace: Discourse, Memory, Translation, and Dialogue
Alexander Laban Hinton · Giorgio Shani · Jeremiah Alberg
Feb 2019 · Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Long considered a subfield of international relations and political science, Peace Studies has solidified its place as an interdisciplinary field in its own right with a canon, degree programs, journals, conferences, and courses taught on the subject. Internationally renowned centers offering programs on Peace and Conflict Studies can be found on every continent. Almost all of the scholars working in the field, however, are united by an aspiration: attaining Peace, whether “positive” or “negative.” The telos of peace, however, itself remains undefined and elusive, notwithstanding the violence committed in its name.
This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined “end”), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them.
Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/ for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.
This edited volume critically interrogates the field of peace studies, considering its assumptions, teleologies, canons, influence, enmeshments with power structures, biases, and normative ends. We highlight four interrelated tendencies in peace studies: hypostasis (strong essentializing tendencies), teleology (its imagined “end”), normativity (the set of often utopian and Eurocentric discourses that guide it), and enterprise (the attempt to undertake large projects, often ones of social engineering to attain this end). The chapters in this volume reveal these tendencies while offering new paths to escape them.
Visit http://www.rethinkingpeacestudies.com/ for further details on the Rethinking Peace Studies project.
About the author
Alexander Hinton is Founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR), Professor of Anthropology, and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention at Rutgers University. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including, most recently, Man or Monster? The Trial of a Khmer Rouge Torturer (Duke, 2016) and The Justice Facade: Trials of Transition in Cambodia (Oxford 2018). In recognition of his research and scholarship, Professor Hinton has received a number of honors and awards. The American Anthropological Association selected Hinton as the recipient of the 2009 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology “for his groundbreaking 2005 ethnography Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide, for path-breaking work in the anthropology of genocide, and for developing a distinctively anthropological approach to genocide.” Professor Hinton was listed as one of “Fifty Key Thinkers on the Holocaust and Genocide” and is a past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (2011-13). Professor Hinton has received fellowships from a range of institutions and, from 2011-12, was a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. In March 2016, served as an expert witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. He has been invited to speak on six continents across the globe.
Professor Giorgio Shani is Chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies and Director of the Rotary Peace Center at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan. He was educated at the University of London and was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Centre of International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science from 2016 to 2017. Author of Sikh Nationalism and Identity in a Global Age (Routledge 2007) and Religion, Identity and Human Security (Routledge 2014), he has published widely in internationally refereed journals and is currently writing a book on Sikh Nationalism (Cambridge University Press). He was President of the Asia-Pacific region of the International Studies Association (ISA) from 2014-2018.
Professor Jeremiah Alberg teaches philosophy and religion in the Humanities Department of International Christian University. He is the Director of the Library and of the Center for Teaching and Learning. He is the author most recently of Beneath the Veil: Reading Scandalous Texts (Michigan State University Press, 2013) and the editior of Apocalypse Deferred: Girard and Japan (University of Notre Dame Press, 2017). He has published on Kant in Kant-Studien and Kantian Review. He is currently serving as President of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.
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