The distinction of peace : a social analysis of peacebuilding / Catherine Goetze.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetze, Catherine, author.

Series:

Configurations (Ann Arbor, Mich.)

Configurations : critical studies of world politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Social aspects.

Peace-building.

Physical Description:

xii, 283 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Peacebuilding" serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake-or even in the midst-of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In The Distinction of Peace, Catherine Goetze investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of expertise since the 1960s, its increasing influence, and the ways it reflects global power structures. Goetze describes how the peacebuilding field came into being, how it defines who belongs to it and who does not, and what kind of group culture it has generated. Using an innovative methodology, she investigates the motivations of individuals who become peacebuilders, their professional trajectories and networks, and the "good peacebuilder" as an ideal. For many, working in peacebuilding in various ways-as an aid worker on the ground, as a lawyer at the United Nations, or as an academic in a think tank-has become not merely a livelihood, but also a form of participation in world politics. As a field, peacebuilding has developed techniques for incorporating and training new members, yet its internal politics also create the conditions of exclusion that often result in practical failures of the peacebuilding enterprise. By providing a critical account of the social mechanisms that make up the peacebuilding field, Goetze offers deep insights into the workings of Western domination and global inequalities. -- back cover.

Contents:

1 Pierre Bourdieu's Toolbox: Fields, Power, Practices, and Habitus in the Analysis of Peacebuilding 15

The Field

2 The Peacebuilding Field as Default Space 43

3 'There Are No Neutral Men": The Sociological Structure of Peacebuilding 67

4 Boundaries of the Field: The Peacebuilder, the Businessman, and the Scholar-Expert 104

The Habitus

5 Peacebuilding Sensibilities 141

6 Narratives of Intervention: Leadership, Liberalism, and Social Justice 170

7 The Nomos of the Field: The Fatalism of Saving Lives 194.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780472073412

0472073419

9780472053414

0472053418

OCLC:

965760277