Overview
- Explores violent conflict from the perspectives of the local people who experience it, especially marginalized groups
- Draws from extensive fieldwork in a post-conflict environment
- Offers an innovative critical discourse analysis approach
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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About this book
This book explores the powerful role of ordinary people's agency in times of violent conflict. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a Critical Discourse Analysis, the author draws out the motivations, drivers and strategies at individual and community levels. With a focus on people’s own voices, this research highlights rich findings showing a wide range of experiences and actions that people engaged in during the violent conflict, and dimensions that are often missed in dominant explanations of violent conflict. Therefore, while looking at peace and conflict from an everyday perspective, the question of power and the meaning of peace knowledge become central. This monograph addresses the power of people’s agency not only in shaping the politics and dynamics of violence, but also in redefining what ‘peace’ and ‘change’ ought to look like. Essential reading for researchers and students of Peace and Conflict Studies, and also International Relations, Security Studies, Resistance Studies, Anthropology, Politics, International Development.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: How People Respond to Violence
Book Subtitle: Everyday Peace and the Maoist Conflict in India
Authors: Monica Carrer
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11342-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11341-3Published: 20 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11344-4Published: 21 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11342-0Published: 19 September 2022
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 275
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Relations, Terrorism and Political Violence, Anthropology