New article on “Mobilities and Peace” by Oliver Richmond and myself. Email me at roger.macginty@durham.ac.uk if you would like a pdf copy.

Mobilities and Peace

Abstract

This article considers how an increasingly visible set of mobilities has implications for how peace and conflict are imagined and responded to. We are particularly interested in how these mobilities take form in everyday actions and shape new forms of peace and challenge existing ones. The article considers fixed categories associated with orthodox peace such as the international, borders and the state that are predicated on territorialism, centralized governance, and static citizenship. The article can be read as a critique of liberal peacebuilding and a contribution to current debates on migration, space and the everyday. Through conceptual scoping we develop the notion of mobile peace to characterize the fluid ways in which is being constructed through the mobilitiy of people and ideas.

KEYWORDS: Mobility, peace, peacebuilding, migration, sovereignty, states system

The link to the article is here.