Peace Studies: A Proposal
Lerner, Laurence. 1995. New Literary History 26, no. 3: 641–65. This text analyzes the notion that Peace Studies should be viewed as a new critical perspective through which literature can be studied, much like…
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Refreshed Grounds for a Feminist Peace Studies
Kvasnicka, L. and Finnegan, A.C. 2020. Peace Change, 45: pp. 426-454. This article examines the notion of peace studies as a discipline that is dominated by female scholars and aims to examine this phenomenon. It notes…
‘Murphy’ and Peace
Wallace, Jeff. 2015. Twentieth Century Literature 61, no. 3: 352–72. This text investigates Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy as a potentially pacifist text. Published in 1938, Murphy is an avant-garde novel whose…
From Power-blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies
Kappler, Stefanie, and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 160-177. This academic article argues for an examination into the “intersectionality” of peace as a means of better understanding the dynamics…
Mundane Peace and the Politics of Vulnerability: A Nonsolid Feminist Research Agenda
Väyrynen, Tarja. 2019. Peacebuilding 7, no. 2: 146-159. Drawing on feminist peace and conflict studies, this article situates peace in the everyday as an ontological disruption to traditional peace studies. This…
Peacekeeping and Critical Theory
Pugh, Michael. 2004. International Peacekeeping 11, no. 1: 39-58. This text views peace operations through the lens of governance where the distribution of aid and resources is employed to both reinforce the values of…
The tragedy of great power politics
Mearsheimer, John J., and Glenn Alterman. 2001. WW Norton & Company. This text by John Mearsheimer is a foundational theoretical work in the field of International Relations and outlines the inherently conflictual…
Three pillars of the liberal peace
Doyle, Michael W. 2005. American political science review 99, no. 3: 463-466. This short journal piece introduces the “Liberal Peace Theory”, the concept of how peace is formed and maintained between liberal states in…
Security! What Do You Mean?: From Concept to Thick Signifier
Huysmans, Jef. (June 1998) European Journal of International Relations 4, no. 2 This article analyses the nexus between theory and practical action. More specifically, Huysmans uses the term “thick signifier” to…
Theorizing the Politics of ‘Islamic Feminism.’
Mojab, Shahrzad. (2001) Feminist Review, no. 69 This article undoubtedly has an informative value, as it is one of the few publications that delve into the history and characteristics of the connection between religion…