Inside and Out: Violence against Women and Spatiality in Timor‑Leste

Grenfell, Damian

doi:10.22459/hgpd.03.2018.14

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“…Hybridity has also been conceptualised as a space where international and local actors produce constitutive and competitive interactions with each other. For example, hybridity has been used to interrogate the ability of local actors to resist the top-down approaches of liberalinternational actors (Jackson and Albrecht 2018), analyse the relational aspects of peacebuilding between local and international actors (Boege 2018), and consider the ways in which hybridised environments have impinged on gendered powers relations (Grenfell 2018).…”

Section: Hybrid Peacebuilding and Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Frictional Binaries: Hybridity, Civil Society, and Liberal-Local Peacebuilding in Mindanao

Manaysay

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2021

Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia

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International and local civil society organisations have usually been identified amongst the key actors for the conceptual and practical development of liberal and post-liberal peace approaches. The concept of hybrid peacebuilding, for example, has highlighted the need to empower local civil society groups. Critics of the ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding, however, argue against the conceptual idealisation of hybridity. Using examples from Mindanao, this chapter contends that the debates on liberal-local hybridity can most meaningfully gain from asking questions not only about the processes of internationalisation and localisation, but also about the ways in which hybrid mechanisms are able to produce more or less stable outcomes. By turning into the agency of civil society actors, it suggests that the concept of hybridity, which is often represented using dichotomised categories (e.g. ‘liberal-international’ and ‘illiberal-local’), tends to oversimplify the conceptual intricacies and dynamic processes between top-down and bottom-up approaches. The analysis in the chapter aims to contribute to the discussions on hybridity by illustrating the manner civil society actors are able to negotiate their complexities within the frictional binaries of liberal ideas, institutions and resources vis-à-vis local practices, power relations and norms.

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Section: Hybrid Peacebuilding and Civil Societymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Gender inequality has emerged as one of the leading issues within the hybrid peacebuilding literature (see Grenfell 2018;George 2018). In the issue of the Mindanao peace process, the international community has often lauded the presence of the women in the negotiating team of the Philippines.…”

Section: Women Empowermentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Frictional Binaries: Hybridity, Civil Society, and Liberal-Local Peacebuilding in Mindanao

Manaysay

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2021

Operationalisation of Hybrid Peacebuilding in Asia

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“…That is to say, space is socially constructed – the ‘product of interrelations’ (Massey, 2005: 9). Space is profoundly linked to the relational, and not fixed but ‘in a constant state of reproduction’ (Grenfell, 2018: 242). Consequently, this helps us to reveal or grapple with spaces that have more layers of meaning or relationships to other places than immediately meet the eye – similar to what Foucault referred to as heterotopia (Foucault, 1986 [1967]).…”

Section: Spatial Approaches To Peace and Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

On ‘travelling traditions’: Emplaced security in Liberia and Vanuatu

Boege¹,

Hunt²

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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Important sources of everyday security – variously labelled as customary, informal, traditional or autochthonous – are commonly associated with rural spaces and attributed to the lack of presence or traction of state institutions. However, these practices are not limited to peripheries; they can travel. Their structures, authority and legitimacy can be re-produced in new settings, often in response to the perturbations caused by conflict, while also changing in the course of travel. Consequently, in urban spaces – the supposed ‘centre’ of the modern state – people’s sense of security can be profoundly influenced and shaped by the ordering logics of such ‘travelling traditions’. This has ramifications for ‘emplaced security’ – both short-term responses to acute vulnerability of displaced communities and emergent longer-term forms of order. This article explores the utility of the ‘spatial turn’ in peacebuilding theory for better understanding this phenomenon. It uses the cases of Vanuatu and Liberia to demonstrate how more nuanced understandings of the (re)construction of authority between and across places and scales may help comprehend how people generate everyday emplaced security. A spatial approach provides analytical leverage that can help to highlight how a phenomenon such as travelling traditions contributes to the formation and substance of emplaced security.

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“…Within the national level, Solomon Islander public servants, civil society and church leaders become co-opted into dominant narratives, or into the modern, statist and developmentalist ‘space’ as this is where interventions occur and where resources are allocated. Grenfell (2018: 243) describes this space as ‘secular, empty, commodifiable, transferable, unifiable and homogenous’ and one which ‘tends to be sharply delineated’ from the prevalent forms of social and political order which are operating in place. When existent forms of social and political order are considered, this often takes the form of platitudes such as the need for ‘cultural sensitivity’ or fostering ‘local ownership’ or being ‘contextually relevant’.…”

Section: Emplaced Security In Solomon Islands?mentioning

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“…These conflict challenges dominate discourses of (in)security produced about Solomon Islands in much scholarly and policy literature, while ongoing forms of external intervention continue to influence understandings of what security is. Meanwhile, within the places which make up Solomon Islands – both rural and urban locales – narratives of peace and security operate in a different space (Grenfell, 2018: 243). Here, place-based narratives of conflict and peace are tied to different knowledges, practices, processes and institutions which have emerged from different local and external sites, and which have now become embedded in place through historical interaction.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Place, peace and security in Solomon Islands

Higgins¹

2020

Cooperation and Conflict

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This article examines the relationship between place and peace and security in Solomon Islands. Place is understood not only as a geographical location, but as a social, material and symbolic arena where constructions of what constitutes peace and security are continually remade. Place-based constructions of peace and security challenge pervasive spatial assumptions which underpin dominate security discourses about post-conflict Solomon Islands, assumptions which view security as a public good delivered by centralised state institutions to the peripheries. Employing a case study of one particular place, the Gela Group of Islands, this article describes place-based practices, processes, institutions and ideals of peace in contrast to a state ideal of security and argues that far from existing in separate spaces, both place-based and state-based forms of security are in constant interaction and shape each other over time. This article suggests that a way forward in increasing peace and security outcomes in Solomon Islands is to focus on the relationship between place-based forms of security and the state. Doing so acknowledges the political, relational and spiritual worlds of people of place, worlds which fundamentally shape peace and livelihood outcomes, and which require a different understanding of the spatial make-up of the state.

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Inside and Out: Violence against Women and Spatiality in Timor‑Leste

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Frictional Binaries: Hybridity, Civil Society, and Liberal-Local Peacebuilding in Mindanao

Frictional Binaries: Hybridity, Civil Society, and Liberal-Local Peacebuilding in Mindanao

On ‘travelling traditions’: Emplaced security in Liberia and Vanuatu

Place, peace and security in Solomon Islands

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