CONPEACE – From Conflict Actors to Architects of Peace

LASA 2021 | Vancouver, Canada | Hybrid Congress
26 – 29 May 2021

Panel title: Changing Security Landscapes at the Margins – Bridging the Centre-Periphery Gap
Session type: Double panel
Panel organisers: Annette Idler, Markus Hochmüller, Dáire McGill: CONPEACE, University of Oxford

Abstract: For most of the post-Cold War period, Latin American security studies have focused predominantly on violence, crime, and conflict in the political centres of the region’s states. Aiming to overcome this bias (and balance the ‘urbanisation’ of the security research agenda), recent scholarship has given more attention to (in)security in the state’s margins. This double panel, organised by the University of Oxford’s CONPEACE Programme, builds upon this ‘periphery turn’ in Latin American security studies. It aims to advance theory-building from the margins by bridging the centre-periphery divide, shifting from state-centred towards local, transnational, and human-centred analytical perspectives, and providing more analytical weight to marginalised spaces and people. The double panel brings together an interdisciplinary group of early-career and established security scholars working in and on some of the most peripheral areas in South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. Participants present original empirical work on conflict, crime, violence, order-making, and governance in the margins, and provide novel analytical, conceptual, and theoretical perspectives that will advance this emerging field of study.

Submission:
Submission deadline for paper title, abstract (max. 250 words), and short bio: 16th August 2020

Please send your submission to: Markus Hochmüller (markus.hochmuller@pmb.ox.ac.uk) and Dáire McGill (daire.mcgill@pmb.ox.ac.uk)

We will notify interested presenters of their paper’s acceptance by 24th August 2020.

For further information on CONPEACE – From Conflict Actors to Architects of Peace please visit; https://conpeace.ccw.ox.ac.uk/