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Precarity, Mobility and the City: Introduction to the Special Issue (2021)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J., Kappler, S., Nag, E.-M., & Opfermann, L. S. (2021). Precarity, Mobility and the City: Introduction to the Special Issue. Global Policy, 12(S2), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12946

Drawing on empirically rich and theoretically grounded case studies, the articles in this issue explore ways in which global governmental processes affect mobility and, similarly, how seemingly local movements impact upon global processes.

Peacebuilding, Structural Violence & Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa (2021)
Journal Article
Forde, S., Kappler, S., & Björkdahl, A. (2021). Peacebuilding, Structural Violence & Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 15(3), 327-346. https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2021.1909297

Traditionally, peacebuilding approaches have placed emphasis on the restoration of political relationships as well as more symbolic notions of community reconciliation and dialogue, resulting in limited attention to the material causes of violence. O... Read More about Peacebuilding, Structural Violence & Spatial Reparations in Post-Colonial South Africa.

Privilege (2020)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S. (2021). Privilege. In R. Mac Ginty, R. Brett, & B. Vogel (Eds.), The companion to peace and conflict fieldwork (421-432). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46433-2_29

This chapter zooms in on the various, intersectional levels of privilege as they arise during field research processes. Primarily referring to the author’s experiences in conducting research in Bosnia-Herzegovina and South Africa, it suggests that ma... Read More about Privilege.

Curating (im)mobility: Peri-urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum (2020)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (2021). Curating (im)mobility: Peri-urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum. Global Policy, 12(S2), 53-62. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.12832

This article focuses on the ways in which museums perform peri‐urban agency in urban peripheries. The latter are defined as meeting points between rural and urban economies and zones of transition and precariousness, shaped by intersectional inequali... Read More about Curating (im)mobility: Peri-urban agency in the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum.

‘Post-Conflict Curating’: the Arts and Politics of Belfast’s Peace Walls (2019)
Journal Article
Kappler, S., & McKane, A. (2019). ‘Post-Conflict Curating’: the Arts and Politics of Belfast’s Peace Walls. de arte, 54(2), 4-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/00043389.2019.1613747

This article conceptualises the challenges that curators of the visual arts working in post-conflict contexts face in terms of doing justice to the competing narratives and representations of past violence. To do so, the article first proposes the co... Read More about ‘Post-Conflict Curating’: the Arts and Politics of Belfast’s Peace Walls.

The creation of transnational memory spaces: professionalization and commercialization (2019)
Journal Article
Björkdahl, A., & Kappler, S. (2019). The creation of transnational memory spaces: professionalization and commercialization. International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 32(4), 383-401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10767-019-09334-7

In the age of globalization, local memories of past violence are often dislocated from their material places as remembrance is transpiring in transnational memory spaces. Historical events and commemorative memory practices increasingly transcend nat... Read More about The creation of transnational memory spaces: professionalization and commercialization.

From Power-Blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies (2019)
Journal Article
Kappler, S., & Lemay-Hébert, N. (2019). From Power-Blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies. Peacebuilding, 7(2), 160-177. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2019.1588456

Critical Peace and Conflict Studies scholars have increasingly sought to overcome binary approaches to engage more fully the ways in which peacebuilding missions are designed, implemented and contested. In doing so, scholars have tried to understand... Read More about From Power-Blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies.