Papers by Stefanie Kappler
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2019
In the age of globalization, local memories of past violence are often dislocated from their mate... more In the age of globalization, local memories of past violence are often dislocated from their material places as remembrance is transpiring in transnational memory spaces. Historical events and commemorative memory practices increasingly transcend national boundaries and change the way memories of historical violence, atrocity, and genocide are represented in the transnational memoryscape. This article explores how the professionalization and commercialization of museums and memorials of genocide and crimes against humanity are modes of "making the past present" and "the local global". Furthermore, professionalization and commercialization are processes through which local memories are translated into global discourses that are comprehensible to and recognizable by a global audience. In this article, we disentangle local memory places (understood as material, physical sites) from transnational memory spaces (understood as immaterial, ideational spaces) in order to investigate the transformation of local places of memory into transnational spaces of memory. At the same time, we show that, while these processes are often understood interchangeably, professionalization and commercialization are separate mechanisms and tend to be used strategically to translate memory discourses to specific audiences. These two processes can be seen as producing a standardized memorial site and a homogenization of memory in the transnational memory space. The article illustrates this theoretical reasoning with empirical findings from fieldwork in South Africa, where we zoom in on Robben Island outside Cape Town, and Bosnia-Herzegovina, where we focus on the Galerija 11/07/95 in Sarajevo, which commemorates the atrocities committed in Srebrenica in 1995.
Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding , 2021
Peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationships and s... more Peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationships and symbolic notions of community reconciliation, paying limited attention to the material causes of violence. In South Africa, the historical structural economic violence has been maintained, and after the formal end of apartheid, a lack of equitable distribution of resources is ongoing. This article conceptually and empirically argues that distributive justice measures are a way of compensating those affected by structural economic violence and addressing structural inequalities. Spatial reparations, we argue, could support readjustment of the socio-economic causes and consequences of violence in conjunction with promoting social justice.
Political Geography, 2018
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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
ABSTRACT Peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationsh... more ABSTRACT Peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationships and symbolic notions of community reconciliation, paying limited attention to the material causes of violence. In South Africa, the historical structural economic violence has been maintained, and after the formal end of apartheid, a lack of equitable distribution of resources is ongoing. This article conceptually and empirically argues that distributive justice measures are a way of compensating those affected by structural economic violence and addressing structural inequalities. Spatial reparations, we argue, could support readjustment of the socio-economic causes and consequences of violence in conjunction with promoting social justice.
This chapter shows that war-making and peace-making “take place” and that sometimes the legacy of... more This chapter shows that war-making and peace-making “take place” and that sometimes the legacy of conflict obscures manifestations of peacebuilding. The analysis of a “bridge that divides” in the city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo and a “wall that unites” in Belfast, Northern Ireland, casts light on the benefits that a spatial reading of peace can provide to understand the ways in which spatial infrastructures are lived by the people who use them. The process of space-making (the generation of meanings from a material location) will help explain the agency that emerges by the creators, users, and inhabitants of (post)conflict spaces.
The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, 2019
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Dieser Beitrag widmet sich den besonderen Schwangerschaften, die medizinisch auffällig sind und a... more Dieser Beitrag widmet sich den besonderen Schwangerschaften, die medizinisch auffällig sind und als solchemedizinisch eng überwachtfortgesetzt werden. Er perspektiviert diese besonderen Schwangerschaften mithilfe dreier theoretischer Zugänge. Sozialwissenschaftlich interessiert, welche Themen in dieser sozial neuartigen Situation des Zur-Welt-Kommens für die betroffenen Familien relevant werden. Die risikosoziologische Analyse von besonderen Schwangerschaften zeigt auf, wie sich das Schwangerschaftsrisiko individualisiert, wie Gewissheitsäquivalente gebildet werden und Wertaspekte eine zunehmende Bedeutung erlangen. Die wissenssoziologische Perspektivierung nimmt die alltagsweltlichen Sinnzusammenhänge in den Blick und fokussiert hierbei den elterlichen Umgang mit Ungewissheit, das Problem stellvertretender Deutungen und die Relevanz von Grenzsituationen für die elterliche Erfahrungsbildung. Kultursoziologisch wird die Bedeutung des inwändigen Sterbens bei Fehl-bzw.
Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding, 2019
Post-Liberal Peace Transitions, Feb 1, 2016
This chapter discusses the controversial impact of the liberal peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina (herea... more This chapter discusses the controversial impact of the liberal peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina (hereafter Bosnia). Despite a massive international commitment, or perhaps because of it, Bosnia since the end of the war in 1995 has evolved towards a situation characterized by presence of internationally supported domestic institutions with limited local legitimacy. Rather than endorsing the various tenets of the liberal peace, Bosnians have increasingly protested against what many of them consider a failed statebuilding effort unable to meet their economic, political, social and cultural needs. This chapter traces this failure in three steps: it highlights the emergence of "spaces of agency" among civil society organizations and cultural groups and institutions which has long been overlooked, it explains how dissatisfaction has spread to involve economic and social issues and, finally, how international liberal agents have turned into the primary defenders of a political and economic system which preserves only a facade of liberalism.
Cooperation and Conflict, 2015
Despite the volume of research exploring the use of information and communication technologies (I... more Despite the volume of research exploring the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for destructive purposes (terrorism, crime, war propaganda) on the one hand, and development (ICT4D) on the other hand, very little has been said about the role that traditional, and especially new social media, can play for the transformation and prevention of conflicts. This paper recognises ICTs as a tool, thus accepting their multi-level and multi-dimensional potential in the transformation as well as the intransigence and promotion of conflict. The paper seeks to explore: (a) whether ICTs can empower marginalised actors to transcend the peacebuilding and statebuilding processes, and lead to a more locally-owned, more representative transformation of the conflict; (b) whether ICTs can foster more hybrid forms of peace; and (c) whether they can be co-opted as a platform by donors to promote their agendas and impede resistance.
Cooperation and Conflict
Michael Lessac's 2014 documentary "A snake gives Birth to a Snake" from 2014 discusses a less exp... more Michael Lessac's 2014 documentary "A snake gives Birth to a Snake" from 2014 discusses a less explored topic: the relationship between the work of truth commissions (following the example of South Africa) and the ways art can help do this work of conflict resolution through a in various places where there were serious violations of human rights
Securitization in Statebuilding and Intervention
After the often-proclaimed 'death' of the ontologies of liberal peacebuilding, its associated ide... more After the often-proclaimed 'death' of the ontologies of liberal peacebuilding, its associated ideas seem to increasingly discursively translate into a security framework. This can be read as an attempt of the main agents of international peacebuilding to ensure the survival of their approaches, institutions and infrastructures through a new framing of the concept. At the same time, this new framing of peace-related ideas has come to redefine 'peace' as 'security', however not necessarily for the intervened upon, but instead for its own agents and agenda-setters. Against this background, this chapter investigates the agents of securitised peacebuilding and argues that the question 'Whose peace?' (Pugh et al, 2008) can increasingly be read as 'Whose security?'. In that sense, the chapter suggests that peace has come to represent a concern regarding the security of the dominant actors in the international system. The chapter thus asks: a) who has the power to frame peace as security, b) how are these agents reframing peacebuilding and c) what does the merging of the peacebuilding and securitisation agenda mean for the ownership of peace, both locally and globally.
Hybrid Forms of Peace, 2012
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