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Peace Geographies: Expanding from Modern-Liberal Peace to Radical Trans-Relational Peace
Progress in Human Geography (2018)
  • Christopher Courtheyn, Universidad Minuto de Dios
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
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/