Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace: Interrogating Peace and Peacemaking

✍ Scribed by Carmel Borg; Michael Grech

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Series: Bloomsbury Critical Education
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil life and of international relations. Coming from different areas of study, the contributors to this volume discuss peace and critical peace education from a range of perspectives. The nature of peace, myths related to peace, the logistics of peace and peacemaking as well as the relation of peace and pedagogy in the broadest meaning of the term constitute the main themes of the book. The common thread that binds the chapters together is the distinction between genuine/authentic and false peace and the importance of critical reflection on actions that contribute to genuine peace.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Foreword
Notes
Introduction
Part 1 The Contents of Peace
Chapter 1 Where does True Peace Dwell?
Introduction
Wilderness
Peace, the comedy
The causes of war
Peace’s dwelling place
Homelessness
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 2 A Gramscian Analysis of Passive Revolution and its Contribution to the Study of Peace
Introduction
Peace and passive revolution
The Risorgimento: State formation, geopolitics and social class
Capitalist consolidation in Italy – Fordism and Fascism
Extending the concept of passive revolution to ­post-war Republican Italy and economic integration in Western Europe
Passive revolution at a European level
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 3 Breathing Peace, Relating with the Other and the Maternal
Introduction
Women and peace
Irigaray and the question of sexual difference
The makings of a hostile culture and the hospitable feminine
Breath
Shortcomings of Irigaray’s characterization of peace and sexuality
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 4 The Limits of Exogenous Initiatives in Peacemaking, Focusing on Iraq after the US Invasion
Introduction
Exogenous peace
Peacemaking in Iraq since 2003: A statement of the central problematique
The crisis of the constitution
The Sunni–Shia divide
The result
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 5 Critical Peace in the Digital Era of Austerity and Crisis
Introduction
On the meaning of peace: A critical engagement
Alternative envisioning: Towards critical peace
Peacemaking instruments of the neo-liberal era
Challenges ahead: A research agenda for critical peace
Digital socialities, peace and commons: Building alternatives?
Conclusion
Notes
References
Part 2 Challenges to Peace Education
Chapter 6 Dreaming of Peace in a Culture of War
The hidden curriculum of violence
Peace: A critical moral imperative
Making a peacefully just world possible
Of revolution and dreams
Notes
References
Chapter 7 The Myth of the Inevitability of War
Introduction: Western thought and the culture of war
The multidimensionality of discourse: A Wittgensteinian perspective
Structure and content analysis of the discourse of Myth and the discourse of History
Analysis of the discourse of myth
The structure of myth – Thematic necessity
The content of myth – Interpretative possibility
The discourse of history – The parting of the ways
The transformation of discourse
The hybridization of myth and history
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 8 Liberal Peace and Media Debates around the Cases of Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo
Introduction
Selling war: The rise of propaganda and political communication strategies
The media in the era of liberal peace
Media and the anti-terror ideology
Clashes over Jyllands-Posten and Charlie Hebdo
Different models
Conclusion: Challenges for the media
Notes
References
Part 3 Pedagogy of Peace
Chapter 9 Some Reflections on Critical Peace Education
Introduction
Lack of criticality in peace education
Critiquing psychologized assumptions
Our proposition
Conclusion
References
Chapter 10 School Textbooks and Entanglements of the ‘Colonial Present’ in Israel and Palestine1
Introduction
Positioning
Whither textbooks?
War zones, curricular fields, textbook sites
‘Visual orders’ and constructions of the body politic
Power geometries and inter-textualities
School textbooks as performed spectacles
Notes
References
Chapter 11 The Long Shadow Thrown over the Actions of Men
Introduction
The shadow
Advaita
Re(an)nunciation
Participation
Conclusion
Notes
References
Chapter 12 Schooling for Democracy: Music and Critical Pedagogy in Egypt
Introduction
Life history and educational practice
Educating beyond nationalism
‘A perfect state of mind’: The education of an educator
Towards a humanistic and critical pedagogy
Pluralism does not deny politics
A school for life
Notes
References
Epilogue
Introduction
Peace, pacification and passive resistance
Women – inclusion and a new paradigm
‘Liberal peace’ from above
Cementing common sense
The myths of peace and war
Reading the world in the word
Critical education for peace – the basics
From myths to music
Portraying and creating realities
Re(an)nouncing and participating
Notes
References
Index