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Indigenous resistance is a crime (as far as settlers are concerned): Adan Tatour, Lana Tatour, ‘The criminalization and racialization of Palestinian resistance to settler colonialism’, in Chris Cunneen, Antje Deckert, Amanda Porter, Juan Tauri, Robert Webb (eds), The Routledge International Handbook on Decolonizing Justice, Routledge, 2023 »

Local decolonisations? Garrett FitzGerald, ‘Unsettling Peace: The Settler-Colonial Challenge to the Local Turn’, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding , 2023

02Jul23

Abstract: The local turn in Peace Studies has raised important practical and normative questions around the ‘liberal peace’ approach that defines post-Cold War international peacebuilding. However, recent critical interventions reveal the limits of the local turn’s engagement with themes including race, gender, class, and colonialism. Engaging Indigenous authors who ground diverse conceptualizations of peace in the restitution of Indigenous land, the following discussion shows how the local turn’s theoretical framing of indigeneity risks erasing decolonial accounts of Indigenous peacebuilding in settler-colonial societies through its conceptual reliance on international intervention and normative prioritization of hybrid peace outcomes.


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