Everyday peace in a ‘post‐conflict’ African metropolis

Radio encounters, indeterminacy, fugitivity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8963992
AutoresFabien Cante (0000-0002-3871-6317, Department of Geography University College London London UK, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen48
Número3
Páginas619-633
Fecha de publicación2023-03-16
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0020-2754 • E-ISSN: 1475-5661
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/tran.12609
OpenAlexW4327621026
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas74

Drawing on the ethnography of a multi‐ethnic local radio listeners' club in post‐war Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the article provides an original account of everyday peace in an African metropolis. It bridges peace geographies and African urban studies to document the informal and often invisibilised practices through which residents re‐make the city in the wake of war. In doing so, the article expands existing understandings of everyday peace while reaffirming the concept's radical, decolonial proposition: to seek peace in subaltern lifeworlds, rather than in institutional and interventionist programmes that too often reproduce violent power asymmetries. Through the story of the UFARA listeners' club, emerging out of radio encounters, the article shows how everyday peace articulates a response to different forms of conjunctural and structural violence, including precarity and territorial control. It also points to indeterminacy and fugitivity as lived, affective and political figurations of peace which, while eschewing the trappings of resistance, nonetheless point to the need to imagine peace otherwise

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