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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.

Precarity, Mobility and the City: Introduction to the Special Issue (2021)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J., Kappler, S., Nag, E., & 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.