Peace as Liberation

This edited volume highlights a type of violence largely overlooked by peace psychologists; it explores 'epistemic violence' which refers to the silencing of the marginalized, racialized and colonized people in the process of knowledge production. This book celebrates the voices and the agency of the subalterns, honoring their visions, testimonies and struggles to push boundaries and create spaces for peace within oppressive environments. Visions and Praxis from below refers to peace visions and struggles of the people who live below the vital ability of shaping the world according to their own vision. It is a challenge to the hegemonic perspective that 'credible' thinking on peace can only be done by the people 'from above'. This perspective will add to the understanding of not only peace psychologists, but all those who work toward social justice.

Features subaltern peace agenda Highlights the lived experience of marginalized groups Explores epistemic violence

Auteur
Fatima Waqi Sajjad is the founding Director of the Centre for Critical Peace Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Management and Technology Lahore. Her work questions epistemic violence and injustice in Peace Studies and beyond. She is the author of 'A subaltern gaze on White ignorance, (in) security and the possibility of educating the White rescue plans' (2023). Security Dialogue; 'On the delusion of disobedience amid coloniality: location Pakistan' (2023). Third World Quarterly; 'Rethinking education to counter violent extremism: a critical review of policy and practice' (2022). Ethics and Education, 17(1).

Contenu

Introduction: Let me be fully Human.- Part One: Reimagining Peace from below.- Restoring Peace as if our Life Depends on it (as it does!).- Iqbalian Liberation Theology: Spiritual Self-Affirmation, Meritocratic Democracy and Non-Hegemonic International Orders.- Part Two: Transformational Resistance to undo Oppression.- The Liberatory Effects of Indigenous Ceremonies in the Aftermath of Mass Trauma.- What do we resist when we resist? Peasants' land rights movement and the emergence of new social life in Pakistani Punjab.- Searching for Liberation in Higher Education: Testimonio from Miami-Dade.- What is Peace for Palestine/inians under Israeli Settler Colonial Occupation? Counterstory Imaginings of Peace through Transformational Resistance to Erasure.- Postcolonial Legacies of Conflict: Educational Language Policies and Resource Exploitation.- Part Three: Problematizing Hegemonic Discourses.- TheJune 1981 coup: The stolen narrative of the Iranian revolution.- Decolonizing Pakistani International Relations.- Beyond Westphalia and Aberystwyth: Decolonial Reflections on the Origins of International Relations Discipline.

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