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Zusatztext 'By drawing on feminist IR work and critically engaging with notions of everyday peace! Helen Berents convincingly argues for widening our understandings of political engagement and questions narratives that situate young people as inevitably 'problems' rather than agential actors facing problems of conflict and violence alongside the wider community. This careful! ethnographically informed research offers rich! engaging details of the lived experiences of young people in the Colombian conflict and highlights how youth have navigated insecurity while demonstrating resilience and resistance.' - Lesley Pruitt! RMIT University! Australia and author of Youth Peacebuilding: Music! Gender & Change'Empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated! Helen Berents' latest contribution on young people's thoughtful and creative navigations of insecurity develops important insights into peacebuilding in the midst of conflict and violence. More broadly! it is exemplary not only of what can be brought to light by taking children and youth seriously as agents of change but also how to sustain affirmation of both their agency and relative powerlessness in ways that hold them productively in tension.' - J. Marshall Beier! Professor of Political Science! McMaster University'Young People and Everyday Peace is a groundbreaking contribution to (re)populating IR that integrates ethnographic fieldwork with a focus on the meanings of peace constructed by people in their everyday lives. Berents listens carefully to the perspectives of young people on the margins of a complexly violent society. Drawing on feminist and embodiment theories! she centers young people's experience! knowledge! and aspirations! showing how they imagine and forge an "embodied-everyday-peace-amidst-violence." Berents' book is a must-read for anyone interested in how peacebuilding can be more genuinely inclusive! locally responsive! just and realistic. This book comes at just the right time for scholars and practitioners concerned about Colombia's peace process.' - Siobhan McEvoy-Levy! Professor! Butler University Informationen zum Autor Helen Berents is a lecturer in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Helen’s research is centrally concerned with representations of youth in political events, and engagement with the lived experiences of violence-affected young people with a particular focus on Latin America. More broadly, she is interested in questions of how people are rendered insecure by institutions of authority and power, how young people are politicised but not seen as political, and how feminist methodologies open space to find the everyday within these explorations. Her work has been published in journals including International Feminist Journal of Politics, Peacebuilding, Critical Studies on Security , and Signs . Zusammenfassung Building on contemporary debates in International Relations about post-liberal, everyday peace, Helen Berents draws on feminist International Relations and embodiment theory to pay meaningful attention to those on the margins. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Embodied Everyday Peace Amidst Violence 2. Half a Century of Struggles for Peace 3. Space, Power, and Terrains of Insecurity 4. Embodied Everyday Violences 5. Resilience and Resistance 6. Notions of Everyday Peace Conclusion ...
