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Entangled Peace: UN Peacebuilding and the Limits of a Relational World

Ignasi Torrent

This book scrutinises the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Publish Date: Apr 3rd, 2023
  • Pages: 180
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.38in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9781538150788
  • Categories: • International Relations - General• Peace• World - African

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About the Author

Torrent, Ignasi: - Ignasi Torrent is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the School of Humanities at University of Hertfordshire.

Praise for this book

Entangled Peace puts forth a compelling approach to the way that the UN's agency unfolds in the spaces of its interventions and how the logic of her involvement contributes to erasing and flattening the conflict realities and other agencies of these spaces.

The book offers a critical reading of peace building based on a vision of an extremely contingent 'actual reality', where human and non-human entities exist through a dense web of relations, and in which linear causality is replaced by a rhizomatic structure resulting in the multiplication of colliding possibilities (futures). The concept of 'entangled peace' is the necessary outcome of such a vision applied to the (post)conflict domain. The author, together with Bargués, De Almagro, and Lopez Lucia as main representatives, is part of what I would call a Spanish intelligentsia that is becoming increasingly referential in the critical peace literature for its acute and provocative analyses, stemming from a transposition of the work of postmodern and feminist thinkers, such as Whitehead, Latour, Haraway, Deleuze, and Barad, as well as insights from quantum IR, into powerful interpretative frameworks for a re-construction of the real, starting from the understanding of 'peace'.