Professor Stefanie Kappler's Outputs (51)

Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives (2025)
Journal Article
Kappler, S., Gunter, A., & Truter, L. (in press). Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives. Memory Studies,

This article is drawn from findings of the research project “Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa”. It analyses a collaborative sound art project in Johannesburg, investigating how sound art can act as conduit for the transmission of community... Read More about Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives.

Reconciliation and Justice in the Western Balkans (2024)
Report
Kappler, S., & Ramović, J. (2024). Reconciliation and Justice in the Western Balkans. Aspen Institute Germany

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

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.

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

Introduction to Artpeace: Arts-based Social Movements, Peace Formation and Curation (2024)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S., Richmond, O. P., & Vogel, B. (2024). Introduction to Artpeace: Arts-based Social Movements, Peace Formation and Curation. 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

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.

Working with the cultural heritage of conflict for peacebuilding: Lessons learned from the Western Balkans (2021)
Digital Artefact
Kappler, S., & Mannergren Selimovic, J. (2021). Working with the cultural heritage of conflict for peacebuilding: Lessons learned from the Western Balkans. [[Media unknown]]

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.

From Power-Blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies (2021)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S., & Lemay-Hebert, N. (2021). From Power-Blind Binaries to the Intersectionality of Peace: Connecting Feminism and Critical Peace and Conflict Studies. In L. McLeod, & M. O'Reilly (Eds.), Feminist Interventions in Critical Peace and Conflict Studies. Routledge

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.

Peacebuilding as a Self-Legitimising System: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina (2020)
Book Chapter
Kappler, S. (2020). Peacebuilding as a Self-Legitimising System: The Case of Bosnia-Herzegovina. In O. Richmond, & R. Mac Ginty (Eds.), Local legitimacy and international peacebuilding. Edinburgh University Press

Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance (2020)
Journal Article
Kappler, S. (online). Cities at War: Global Insecurity and Urban Resistance. Global Policy,

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.