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[Preprint] Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace
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posted on 2021-12-08, 00:00 authored by Anna K. Johnson, Caroline Hughes, Josephine Lechartre, Mark D. Robison, Sehrazat G. MartThe ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding has focused attention on the importance of cultural resources available for peacemaking in ‘local’ conflict-affected contexts, and particularly in non-Western countries. Growing attention is now also paid to establishing whether the academic field of peace studies itself is inclusive of non-Western voices and perspectives. This article presents a new dataset of 4318 journal articles on peace indexed in Web of Science between 2015 and 2018 to discover asymmetric patterns of publication and scholarly gatekeeping between higher-income and lower-income countries. Analysis of the data collected suggests that, fifteen years after the ‘local turn,’ higher-income countries continue to dominate the field across the domains of publishing institutions; scholarship about non-high-income countries; the conduct and focus of research collaborations; claims to theorization; and the discourse of the field. However, positive change is being driven by a proliferation of scholarship in upper-middle-income countries, characterized by intra-national collaborations between scholars writing about their own countries in their own national journals. **NOTE: This is a preprint version** of a forthcoming article in the Journal of Peace Research.
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2021-12-08Language
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Keough School of Global AffairsAdditional Groups
- Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
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