{"product_id":"master-peace-9781512826753","title":"Master Peace","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in postcivil war Lebanon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as far as Switzerland and the United States, \u003ci\u003eMaster Peace\u003c\/i\u003e examines the politics of expertise in the application of metropolitan theories of violence and practices of peacemaking in postcivil war Lebanon. Through ethnographic encounters, archival research, and interviews that shed light on the worlds of academic research, UN agencies, NGOs, and think tanks, Nikolas Kosmatopoulos argues that so-called experts, from violence researchers to peace professionals, have often misrepresented and exacerbated the violence they claim to be tackling, through their deployment of racialized tropes of conflict and communalizing peace practices.\u003cbr\u003eThe assemblage of these tropes and practices, which Kosmatopoulos calls master peace, naturalizes social and structural inequalities by collaps\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50059043242327,"sku":"9781512826753","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781512826753.jpg?v=1740454373","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/master-peace-9781512826753","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}