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Peace and the Politics of Memory (2024)
Book
Mannergren, J., Björkdahl, A., Buckley-Zistel, S., Kappler, S., & Williams, T. (2024). Peace and the Politics of Memory. Manchester: Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526178329

This book explores memory politics and its impact on the quality of peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. Situating the book in the literature of critical Peace Research and Memory Studies, the authors introduce the idea that the qual... Read More about Peace and the Politics of Memory.

Theorising Peace Formation and the Arts (2024)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S., Richmond, O. P., & Vogel, B. (2024). Theorising Peace Formation and the Arts. In B. Vogel, S. Kappler, & O. P. Richmond (Eds.), The Art of Peace Formation: Arts-based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Conclusion: Artpeace and its Potential for Peacemaking (2024)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S., & Richmond, O. P. (2024). Conclusion: Artpeace and its Potential for Peacemaking. In B. Vogel, S. Kappler, & O. P. Richmond (Eds.), The Art of Peace Formation: Arts-based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

The Art of Peace Formation. Arts-based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages (2024)
Book
Vogel, B., Kappler, S., & Richmond, O. P. (Eds.). (2024). The Art of Peace Formation. Arts-based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

This edited collection explores the relationship between the arts, political agency, and peace formation. Developing the concept of artpeace, the book investigates to what extent local art projects have played a role in broader national peace project... Read More about The Art of Peace Formation. Arts-based Social Movements, Opportunities and Blockages.

Soundscapes of Mostar: Space and art beyond the divided city (2022)
Journal Article
Cole, L. C., & Kappler, S. (2022). Soundscapes of Mostar: Space and art beyond the divided city. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 16(5), 641-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2022.2128592

The ‘spatial turn’ in peace research has primarily highlighted the visuality of the spaces in which peace takes place. In this article, however, we argue that ‘sound’ can challenge rigid visual markers, which are particularly prominent in divided cit... Read More about Soundscapes of Mostar: Space and art beyond the divided city.

Negotiating binaries in curatorial practice: modality, temporality, and materiality in Cape Town's community-led urban history museums (2021)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S., & McKane, A. (2022). Negotiating binaries in curatorial practice: modality, temporality, and materiality in Cape Town's community-led urban history museums. In U. Capdepon, & S. Dornhof (Eds.), Contested Urban Spaces. Monuments, Traces, and Decentered Memories (65-82). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87505-3_4

This chapter investigates the ways in which curatorial interventions interpret and shape urban space as it is marked by legacies of colonial violence and historical injustice. Focusing on Cape Town, South Africa, we suggest that the curatorial proces... Read More about Negotiating binaries in curatorial practice: modality, temporality, and materiality in Cape Town's community-led urban history museums.

Spaces of Peace (2021)
Book Chapter
Björkdahl, A., & Kappler, S. (2021). Spaces of Peace. In O. P. Richmond, & G. Visoka (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation (139-151). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190904418.013.9

This chapter shows that war-making and peace-making “take place” and that sometimes the legacy of conflict obscures manifestations of peacebuilding. The analysis of a “bridge that divides” in the city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo and a “wall that... Read More about Spaces of Peace.