Paul Higate is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. Prior to that, he spent eight years in the Royal Air Force, before becoming involved in critical military sociology. Since then, his academic research has focused on various aspects of the gendered culture of the military. In his future work he plans to look at how the militarization of military sociology in recent years means that it has lost its critical edge.Marsha Henry is a Lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Bristol. Her research has looked at various aspects of gender in South Asia, focusing on connections between the 'developed' and 'developing' worlds. Her recent research examines gender relations and perceptions of security in peacekeeping missions.

Working in a genuinely interdisciplinary framework, Higate and Henry are to be commended for this nuanced exploration of power relations in 'everyday' international peacekeeping practices. They provide an array of interesting empirical and theoretical insights into how 'secure' and 'insecure' spaces are constructed and percieved in the interplay of external actors and local populations.

• AcknowledgmentsAcronyms & AbbreviationsIntroduction1. From Conflict to Peacekeeping: Haiti, Kosovo & Liberia2. Space, Power and Peace3. Zones and Enclaves4. Free to Move?5. Contesting and Consuming: Space and Success in Liberia6. Performing Spaces of Security7. Stereotyping Performance: Peacekeeping and Imagined Identities8. Women, Men and Gender SpaceConclusion - Locating Power in Peacekeeping: Unintended Consequences and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex

Paul Higate is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. Prior to that, he spent eight years in the Royal Air Force, before becoming involved in critical military sociology. Since then, his academic research has focused on various aspects of the gendered culture of the military. In his future work he plans to look at how the militarization of military sociology in recent years means that it has lost its critical edge.Marsha Henry is a Lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Bristol. Her research has looked at various aspects of gender in South Asia, focusing on connections between the 'developed' and 'developing' worlds. Her recent research examines gender relations and perceptions of security in peacekeeping missions.

Working in a genuinely interdisciplinary framework, Higate and Henry are to be commended for this nuanced exploration of power relations in 'everyday' international peacekeeping practices. They provide an array of interesting empirical and theoretical insights into how 'secure' and 'insecure' spaces are constructed and percieved in the interplay of external actors and local populations.

• AcknowledgmentsAcronyms & AbbreviationsIntroduction1. From Conflict to Peacekeeping: Haiti, Kosovo & Liberia2. Space, Power and Peace3. Zones and Enclaves4. Free to Move?5. Contesting and Consuming: Space and Success in Liberia6. Performing Spaces of Security7. Stereotyping Performance: Peacekeeping and Imagined Identities8. Women, Men and Gender SpaceConclusion - Locating Power in Peacekeeping: Unintended Consequences and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex

Paul Higate is a Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Bristol. Prior to that, he spent eight years in the Royal Air Force, before becoming involved in critical military sociology. Since then, his academic research has focused on various aspects of the gendered culture of the military. In his future work he plans to look at how the militarization of military sociology in recent years means that it has lost its critical edge.Marsha Henry is a Lecturer in the Politics Department at the University of Bristol. Her research has looked at various aspects of gender in South Asia, focusing on connections between the 'developed' and 'developing' worlds. Her recent research examines gender relations and perceptions of security in peacekeeping missions.

Working in a genuinely interdisciplinary framework, Higate and Henry are to be commended for this nuanced exploration of power relations in 'everyday' international peacekeeping practices. They provide an array of interesting empirical and theoretical insights into how 'secure' and 'insecure' spaces are constructed and percieved in the interplay of external actors and local populations.

• AcknowledgmentsAcronyms & AbbreviationsIntroduction1. From Conflict to Peacekeeping: Haiti, Kosovo & Liberia2. Space, Power and Peace3. Zones and Enclaves4. Free to Move?5. Contesting and Consuming: Space and Success in Liberia6. Performing Spaces of Security7. Stereotyping Performance: Peacekeeping and Imagined Identities8. Women, Men and Gender SpaceConclusion - Locating Power in Peacekeeping: Unintended Consequences and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex