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Peace that antagonizes: Reading Colombia’s peace process as hegemonic crisis
| Content Provider | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| Author | Georgi, Richard |
| Copyright Year | 2022 |
| Abstract | This article explores how disruptive political conflicts evolve in peace processes by studying Colombian human rights defenders’ discourses about the peace process with the FARC-EP. While post-conflict scholarship has predominantly discussed violence and societal frictions as caused by legacies of war or flawed peace governance, I focus on the confrontations over political imaginaries that are endemic to peace processes. Through the lens of post-foundational discourse theory, I read the peace process as hegemonic crisis. This allows me to unpack the entanglement of political change and conflict, to which my discussions with human rights defenders allude: On the one hand, the peace agreement opened a political moment, in which it seemed possible to leave behind the hitherto hegemonic imaginary of the conflict as terrorism that had protracted the ‘state of war’; the advocacy for peace with social justice, on the other hand, it restaged historical confrontations with elites of the political right as antagonistic conflict over the meaning of peace. My analysis not only challenges the paradigm of war-to-peace transition, but also defines discursive conditions under which disruptive conflicts turn a peace process into an enduring interregnum, where the dawn of the post-conflict epoch is perpetually deferred and activist lives are threatened. |
| Related Links | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09670106221084444?download=true |
| Starting Page | 173 |
| Ending Page | 191 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| ISSN | 09670106 |
| Issue Number | 2 |
| Volume Number | 54 |
| Journal | Security Dialogue (SDI) |
| e-ISSN | 14603640 |
| DOI | 10.1177/09670106221084444 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Sage Publications UK |
| Publisher Date | 2022-05-24 |
| Publisher Place | London |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © The Author(s) 2022 |
| Subject Keyword | Colombia conflict post-conflict violence human rights peace process Laclau |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations |
