Examines the mythology of the peacekeeper and how it functions to sustain militarism in global politics
This is a not a book about peacekeeping practices. This is a book about storytelling, fantasies, and the ways that people connect emotionally to myths about peacekeeping. The celebration of peacekeeping as a legitimate and desirable use of military force is expressed through the unproblematized acceptance of militarism. Introducing a novel framework-martial peace-the book offers an in-depth examination of the Canadian Armed Forces missions to Afghanistan and the use of police violence against Indigenous protests in Canada as case examples where military violence has been justified in the name of peace. It critically investigates the peacekeeper myth and challenges the academic, government, and popular beliefs that martial violence is required to sustain peace.
"Through a nuanced and wide-ranging discourse analysis, Nicole Wegner derives the concept of martial peace", produced and reproduced in/through the mythology of peacekeeping. In turn, martial peace performs a key role in legitimising militarisation and war. With resonance far beyond the case of Canada, which is the focus of Wegner's meticulous analysis here, critical engagement with how peace is martialled to justify violence is a necessary precursor to the imagining of anti-militarist and anti-oppressive futures."" -Laura Shepherd, University of Sydney
Nicole Wegner is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland
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