Theorising youth and everyday peace(building)


Autoria(s): Berents, Helen; McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan
Data(s)

01/08/2015

Resumo

This essay presents a locally-grounded theoretical framework for studying youth and everyday peace(building). Drawing on examples from fieldwork as well as insights from the articles to follow in the journal, the essay highlights three interrelated and overlapping spheres of inquiry. First, it makes the case for examining the age-specific as well as gender-, and other contextually-specific roles of youth as they relate to everyday peacebuilding. Second, the essay draws attention to how everyday peace is narrated by or through youth. It poses questions about what values, policies, and governmental structures are specifically being resisted and rejected, and how peace is conceptualised and/or hidden in the narratives of youth. Third, along with these concerns, the nexus of global and local (including discursive and institutional) structures that facilitate, curtail, and curtain everyday peace (building) practices are important to identify and evaluate for their impacts on the roles and ideas of youth. In proposing this theoretical framework that recognises the complex and multiple ways youth are engaged in their everyday worlds, this essay asks how we can engage this recognition within knowledges and practices of everyday peace(building).

Formato

application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/87592/

Publicador

Taylor & Francis Ltd.

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/87592/3/87592a.pdf

DOI:10.1080/21647259.2015.1052627

Berents, Helen & McEvoy-Levy, Siobhan (2015) Theorising youth and everyday peace(building). Peacebuilding, 3(2), pp. 115-125.

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Copyright 2015 Taylor & Francis

The Version of Record of this manuscript has been published and is available in Peacebuilding, 20 August 2015, http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21647259.2015.1052627

Fonte

Faculty of Law; School of Justice

Palavras-Chave #160000 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY #160600 POLITICAL SCIENCE #youth #young people #everyday peace #liberal peace #peacebuilding
Tipo

Journal Article