Nonviolent Encounters : Unarmed Civilian Protection through Bodies, Spaces, and Times (Edinburgh Feminist Studies on Peace, Violence and Justice)

Ridden, Louise

Edinburgh University Press（2026/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 184 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781399548823

Full Description

This book takes the emerging practice of Unarmed Civilian Protection (UCP) as a case study of nonviolence to interrogate the roles of violence and nonviolence in conflict knowledge production. By focusing on nonviolent actors using UCP, it decentres violence, which is often so prominent in peace research. This approach creates space to fundamentally reimagine how the world might be when imagined and enacted through nonviolence.

Drawing together feminist theorising from critical military studies, peace and conflict studies and international relations, Nonviolent Encounters argues that decentring violence in conflict knowledge production upsets the simple binaries of protector/protected and war/peace, underpinned by the 'one-world' onto-epistemology of much Western conflict knowledge. Instead, space is created to reconsider nonviolence, not as the binary opposite of violence, but as a way of knowing, doing and being - as a way of producing alternative ontological worlds.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Decentring Violence in Peace and Conflict
1. Nonviolence as a Relational Worlding Process
2. Unarmed Civilian Protection in Principle and Practice
3. Affective Embodiment
4. Emplacing Space
5. Temporal Disruptions
6. Embodied Space-Time: Synthesising Relational Worlds
Conclusion: Undoing Binaries, Embracing the Pluriverse

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