A brief update of my publications in 2019.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Maschietto. R.H. (2019) Integrating subjectivities of power and violence in peacebuilding analysis, Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2019.1684191
This articles brings together and deepen a few reflections I made on the blog. Here is the abstract:
Over the last 20 years the local domain has gained widespread attention in the analysis of peacebuilding. While this debate has contributed to an important review of many assumptions underlying peacebuilding practice and analysis, the subjective domain of peacebuilding – how actors experience and make sense of these transformations – still needs to be more methodically explored. In particular, while different narratives of peace have been analysed in this literature, much more rarely has there been a systematic discussion linking peace with power and violence and the different understandings and experiences around these two concepts. In this article I argue that integrating violence and power more systematically in the local turn and exploring their subjective domain can greatly benefit this debate, including by contributing to the elaboration of conceptual and theoretical tools more aligned with Southern epistemologies.
BOOK
Ferreira, M.A.S.V..; Maschietto, R.H.; Kuhlmann, P.R.L. (org.) (2019) Estudos para a Paz: Conceitos e Debates. São Cristovão: Editora da Universidade Federal do Sergipe.
I am particularly happy to announce the launching of this book which I co-organised with two dear colleagues. It is a collaborative effort aimed at propagating Peace Studies in Portuguese, particularly in Brazil. While we have several academics in Brazil engaged with Peace Studies, there is still very little material in Portuguese. Here we have put together, with colleagues from different institutions, including from Portugal, a series of articles discussing key topics in Peace Studies, from basic concepts, to peace education, peacebuilding, gender and feminism and peace, just to name a few. Anyone interested in the book can contact me directly.
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REVIEW ARTICLES
Maschietto, R.H. (2019): What is the Problem with Peacebuilding?, International Peacekeeping, 26(5): 667-675DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2019.1664298.
Here I review the following books:
Peacebuilding in crisis: rethinking paradigms and practices of transnational cooperation, edited by Tobias Debiel, Thomas Held and Ulrich Schneckener, Routledge Global Cooperation Series, London and New York, Routledge, 2016, pp. 256+index, £36.99 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-138- 85859-6
Decolonising intervention: international statebuilding in Mozambique, by Meera Sabaratnam, Series Kilombo: International Relations and Colonial Questions, London and New York, Rowman & Littlefield International, 2017, pp. 146+references+index, £85.00 (hbk), ISBN 987-1-78348-274-0
Understanding quality peace: peacebuilding after civil war, edited by Madhav Joshi and Peter Wallensteen, Series Security and Conflict Management, London and New York, Routledge, 2018, pp. 284+index, £29.99 (pbk), ISBN 987-1-138-30768-1
Maschietto, R.H. (2019) Peacebuilding: Understandings, Practice, and the Way Ahead, International Peacekeeping, 26(4): 511-517, DOI: 10.1080/13533312.2018.1558401.
Here I review of the following books:
Quality Peace. Peacebuilding, Victory, & World Order, by Peter Wallensteen, Series Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding, New York, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 210 + notes + references + index, £29.49 (pbk), ISBN: 978-0-19-021555-2
Peacebuilding, the Twenty Years’ Crisis, 1997–2017, Series Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies, by David Chandler, Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, pp. 210 + references + index, £17.99 (pbk), ISBN: 978-3-319-50321-9
Peace Reflections 