Happiness
and Post-Conflict
Edited
by Constance Goh and Bernard McGuirk
Year of Publication: 2007
Recent military interventions in Rwanda, Somalia, the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq, amongst others, have placed conflict again at the forefront of international debate. Yet the theoretical analysis of conflicts and of their social and psychological impacts has predictably lagged behind such tumultuous events. Moreover, while scholarship in the areas of strategic studies, international relations and peace studies has addressed the issues in terms of "conflict resolution" and "post-conflict reconstruction", little or no attention has been given to crucial interrelations between conflict and culture, or to what we can learn of those relations from the history of post-conflict.
Bringing together international experts from disciplines as diverse as Communications, Art History, International Relations, Cultural Studies, Geography, Critical Theory and Semiotics, this fourth volume in the Studies in Post-Conflict Cultures series extends its avowedly interdisciplinary approach to tackle contemporary and historical questions around the possibilities and limits of "happiness". In four themed sections - "Theories", "Case Studies", "Histories" and "Literatures" - this collection of essays explores many questions usually excluded from discourses on conflict.
Happiness and Post-Conflict will be of direct interest to scholars and practitioners working in media and communications, international relations and international law, peace studies, human rights, economic geography, cultural studies and cultural memory, psychoanalysis and gender studies, and comparative literature and literary theory.
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Constance Goh has recently completed a Ph.D in Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Nottingham. The thesis explores the intricate philosophical relations pertaining between the two superficially demarcated areas called the East and the West, with particular focus on the multiple conflicts which occurred at Tiananmen Square.
Bernard McGuirk is Professor of Romance Literatures and Literary Theory and Director of the Centre for the Study of Post-Conflict Cultures at the University of Nottingham. He has published widely on literatures in French, Spanish and Portuguese and his most recent books are Latin American Literature: Symptoms, Risks and Strategies of Poststructuralist Criticism (Routledge) and Poesia de Guerra (Memo). His latest book is Falklands-Malvinas: an Unfinished Business (New Ventures).