Higate, Paul and Henry, Marsha (2010) Space, performance and everyday security in the peacekeeping context. International Peacekeeping, 17 (1). pp. 32-48. ISSN 1353-3312
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Studies of peacekeeping have helped to reveal the complexities, dilemmas and challenges of operations since their inception, and almost certainly into the future. Yet, despite the empirical and theoretical breadth of this canon, the field continues to be dominated by political science, development studies, international law and military studies, whose scholars tend to draw on 'problem-solving', macro-level and positivist perspectives in their writings. The impact of post-structural and post-positivist epistemologies developed in sociology, human geography and cultural studies remain marginal in the field. Given this, the present article seeks to complement and develop the study of peacekeeping through its framing of blue-helmet activity as embodied, spatial-security practice that is performed 'out front' for the 'beneficiary' audience. In so doing we draw on critical geopolitics, military/human geography and sociological theorizing with a focus on space and performance. Our main aim is to show how the concepts of space and performance can be used to illuminate perceptions of everyday security by recourse to a modest, illustrative empirical component based on fieldwork in Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13533312.as... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Divisions: | Gender Studies |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JZ International relations |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2011 15:28 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2024 01:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31463 |
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