A Really Good Brown Girl
Dumont, Marilyn. Canada: Brick Books, 1996. Marilyn Dumont’s poetry collection, A Really Good Brown Girl, reads as a journey from internalised shame to pride in Métis identity. The coming-of-age text, a combination of…
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How are Tamil Villages Reconstructed? Ethnography of Place-Making in Post-war Reconstruction in Sri Lanka
Sanmugeswaran, Pathmanesan. In Rebuilding Communities After Displacement, edited by Mo Hamza, Dilanthi Amaratunga, Richard Haigh, Chamindi Malalgoda, Chathuranganee Jayakody, and Anuradha Senanayake, 269-288. Cham:…
Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace
Mac Ginty, Roger. 2008. Cooperation and Conflict 43, no. 2: 139-159. This article further develops the concept of “local ownership” in international peacebuilding efforts and assesses the feasibility of a complementary…
International Peacebuilding and the ‘Mission Civilisatrice’
Paris, Roland. 2002. Review of International Studies 28, no. 4: 637-656. This text applies a post-colonial lens to the dominance of internationally-sponsored liberal peacebuilding efforts in the Global South. Of…
The Local, the ‘Indigenous’ and the Limits of Rethinking Peacebuilding
Randazzo, Elisa. 2021. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 15, no. 2: 141-160. This article advocates the study of relationality where interactions and relations between both internal and external actors are not…
Societies Within Peace Systems Avoid War and Build Positive Intergroup Relationships
Fry, Douglas P., Geneviève Souillac, Larry Liebovitch, et al. 2021. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8, no. 1: 1-9. Fry, Souillac, Liebovitch et al. focus on using a scientific method of analysis regarding…
Ultraprimitive Pacifists: The Tasaday as a Symbol of Peace
Sponsel, Leslie E. 1990. Anthropology Today 6, no. 1: 3–5. Sponsel writes about the Tasaday peoples, an indigenous group living in the Lake Sebu area in Mindana, Phillipines. He discusses the symbolic relevance of the…
Ekila: Blood, Bodies, and Egalitarian Societies
Lewis, Jerome. 2008. The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14, no. 2 : 297–315. A case study of the Mbendjele people in Northern Congo, and their indigenous belief of ‘ekila,’ which is an abstract…
Conflict Resolution among Peaceful Societies: The Culture of Peacefulness
Bruce D. Bonta. 1996. Journal of Peace Research 33, no. 4 : 403–20. Bonta analyses the way in which twenty four peaceful societies such as the Semai, the !Kung, and the Nubian peoples utilise methods of conflict…