Mac Ginty, Roger (2021) 'Temporality and contextualisation in Peace and Conflict Studies: The forgotten value of war memoirs and personal diaries.', Cooperation and Conflict .
Abstract
This article contributes to debates on appropriate levels of analysis, temporality, and the utility of fieldwork in relation to Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS), and International Relations more generally. It observes a recentism or privileging of the recent past in our studies and a consequent overlooking of the longer term. As a corrective, the article investigates the extent to which wartime memoirs and personal diaries (specifically from World War I and World War II) can help inform the study of contemporary peace and conflict. In essence, the article is a reflection on the epistemologies and methodologies employed by PCS and an investigation of the need for greater contextualisation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Download PDF (301Kb) |
| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (136Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367211027605 |
| Publisher statement: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
| Date accepted: | 08 April 2021 |
| Date deposited: | 10 June 2021 |
| Date of first online publication: | 21 October 2021 |
| Date first made open access: | 10 June 2021 |
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