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Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace

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  • Anna K Johnson

    (Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame)

  • Joséphine Lechartre

    (Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame)

  • Åžehrazat G Mart

    (Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame)

  • Mark D Robison

    (Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame)

  • Caroline Hughes

    (Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame)

Abstract
The ‘local turn’ in peacebuilding has focused attention on the importance of cultural resources available for peacemaking in ‘local’ conflict-affected contexts, and particularly in non-Western countries. Growing attention is now also paid to establishing whether the academic field of peace studies itself is inclusive of non-Western voices and perspectives. This article presents a new dataset of 4,318 journal articles on peace indexed in Web of Science between 2015 and 2018 to discover asymmetric patterns of publication and scholarly gatekeeping between higher-income and lower-income countries. Analysis of the data collected suggests that 15 years after the ‘local turn,’ higher-income countries continue to dominate the field across the domains of publishing institutions; scholarship about non-high-income countries; the conduct and focus of research collaborations; claims to theorization; and the discourse of the field. However, positive change is being driven by a proliferation of scholarship in upper-middle-income countries, characterized by intranational collaborations between scholars writing about their own countries in their own national journals.

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  • Anna K Johnson & Joséphine Lechartre & Åžehrazat G Mart & Mark D Robison & Caroline Hughes, 2023. "Peace scholarship and the local turn: Hierarchies in the production of knowledge about peace," Journal of Peace Research, Peace Research Institute Oslo, vol. 60(4), pages 675-690, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:joupea:v:60:y:2023:i:4:p:675-690
    DOI: 10.1177/00223433221088035
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