Shuar Geographies of Peace

‘Tsankurnaerar Pujustin’ (to live in peace)

buen vivir, coloniality, decolonial theory, peace, pluriverse

 

Deconstructing the coloniality of peace through the eyes of the Indigenous Shuar community unveils the power relations often inherent in theories of peace and spaces for peace. Western-centric definitions allow states to determine who can experience peace and who cannot — narrowly defining it through the absence of violence holds up a curtain over other more invisible or ‘slow violence’ that occurs over time, through systematic oppression and degradations to all forms of life (both human and the more-than-human).

Martina is a PhD-candidate at the Department of Geography and Planning, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada and works together with the Shuar Kakaram de Buena Esperanza, which is a collective name to represent the intellectual contributions and leadership from the advisory committee in the community of Buena Esperanza.

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Classic Approaches to Security

Traditionally, only states were actors of security in security research. This meant that states were seen as the ones who act and who were capable of performing security in the international arena, at least in the eyes of International Relations canon and particularly in terms of military security (Morgenthau, 1954; Waltz, 2001, 2010). However, after the end of the Cold War and the subsequent widening of the security agenda, new research laid more emphasis on the social construction of security (Katzenstein, 1996), and since the development of these new approaches to security the field has made substantial progress in understanding, conceptualising and utilising empirical and conceptual insights in the dynamics of producing, ordering and maintaining security within and beyond the state’s framework. These further developments range from security communities (Adler & Barnett, 1996, 2008) to the various constructions, controversies and (re-)negotiation of security and order in public-private relations (Abrahamsen & Williams, 2009, 2010) and hybrid security governance (Schröder, Chappuis, & Kocak, 2014).

How to cite this entry:

Ketzmerick-Calandrino 2024: “Security. Speaking with Fanon?”. Virtual Encyclopaedia – Rewriting Peace and Conflict. 08.10.2024. https://rewritingpeaceandconflict.net/security-speaking-with-fanon/.

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