Reconstructing Conflict: Integrating War and Post-War Geographies

by Colin Flint, Scott Kirsch, Alan Ingram, Merje Kuus, Chih Yuan Woon

Overview

This volume brings together an internationally diverse range of studies by leading scholars to examine the relationship between conflict and reconstruction. They look at how periods of war and other forms of political violence have been justified as processes of necessary and valid reconstruction as well as the role of war in catalyzing the construction of new and socially progressive institutions and destroying old regimes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781409490111
Publisher:	Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date:	11/28/2012
Series:	Critical Geopolitics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Scott Kirsch is associate professor of Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Colin Flint is Professor of Geography and Political Science at Utah State University.

Table of Contents

I: Introduction; 1: Introduction: Reconstruction and the Worlds that War Makes; II: Geographies of War and Reconstruction; 2: Intertwined Spaces of Peace and War: The Perpetual Dynamism of Geopolitical Landscapes; 3: Genocide as Reconstruction: The Political Geography of Democratic Kampuchea; 4: Salient versus Silent Disasters in Post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia; 5: Not Peace, Not War: The Myriad Spaces of Sovereignty, Peace and Conflict in Myanmar/Burma 1; 6: Reconstructing the Colonial Present in British Soldiers' Accounts of the Afghanistan Conflict; 7: Militarising Spaces: A Geographical Exploration of Cyprus; 8: Paying the Price for Freedom: From Destruction toward Reconstruction in Northern France, 1940–1960; III: Hegemony and Conflict: Rethinking Peace; 9: Breaking Iraq: Reconstruction as War; 10: Object Lessons: War and American Democracy in the Philippines; 11: Mapping Intelligence: American Geographers and the Office of Strategic Services and GHQ/SCAP (Tokyo); 12: The US Militarization of a ‘Host' Civilian Society: The Case of Postwar Okinawa, Japan; 13: War as Emergency? Constructing and Deconstructing the California Agricultural Landscape; 14: The Hidden War: The “Risk” to Female Soldiers in the US Military; 15: Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

'Scott Kirsch and Colin Flint, with their smart contributors, reveal the falseness of the all-too-easy dichotomies between war and peace. In doing so, they collectively help us all to be far more realistically nuanced in how we think about - and practice - the "post-war" rebuilding of trust and social fabric along with roads and bureaucracies. I learned a lot from reading Reconstructing Conflict.' Cynthia Enloe, Clark University, USA, author of Nimo's War, Emma's War: Making Feminist Sense of the Iraq War 'Reconstructing Conflict is a powerful examination of the violence that remains in place after the bombs have stopped falling or the guns have been silenced. What makes the book work so well is that the detailed empirical studies always have broader questions in mind while remaining faithful to the particularity of sites.' Stuart Elden, Durham University, UK

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