Corporeal Peacebuilding

Tarja Väyrynen is Professor in Peace and Conflict Research at the Tampere Peace Research Institute, University of Tampere, Finland.  Her research in the field of peace and conflict focuses on gender and post-conflict peacebuilding. Her research draws from feminist theory and critical political theory.

• Introduction: Corporeal Peacebuilding.- Thinking and Theorizing Peace: Corporeal and Mundane Dimensions.- Relational and Connecting Body on the Home Front.- Returning Body: Transferring Violence Across Time and Space.- Abjected and Silenced Bodies.- Peacebuilding as a Corporeal, Temporal and Mneumonic Site.- Peacebuilding in Colonial Relations.- Conclusions: Corporeal and Response-able Peacebuilding.