Article
Peace Geographies: Expanding from Modern-Liberal Peace to Radical Trans-Relational Peace
Progress in Human Geography
(2018)
Abstract
The emerging peace geographies subfield has made significant contributions to peace research by showing how peace is a contested spatial process and political discourse. This article integrates peace geographies with the until now ignored trans-rational ‘many peaces’ framework’s exploration of an even wider range of peace imaginaries. Yet some forms exacerbate rather than provide alternatives to intersectional violences pervasive in today’s world. I argue for a normative framework to evaluate the ‘plurality of the peaces’ illuminated by these subfields, proposing ‘radical trans-relational peace’ – ecological dignity and solidarity through trans-community networks – as a geographically and politically situated conception to analyze the ‘many peaces’.
Keywords
- peace,
- peace geographies,
- politics,
- race,
- trans-rational peace,
- violence
Disciplines
Publication Date
October, 2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132517727605
Citation Information
Christopher Courtheyn. "Peace Geographies: Expanding from Modern-Liberal Peace to Radical Trans-Relational Peace" Progress in Human Geography Vol. 42 Iss. 5 (2018) p. 741 - 758 ISSN: 0309-1325 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher-courtheyn/3/