About the authors

Acknowledgements

Acronyms and abbreviations

Maps

Introduction

Background

Critical peacekeeping theory: a short introduction

Insecure spaces

Organization of the book

1 | From conflict to peacekeeping: Haiti, Kosovo and Liberia

Political histories and spatial feels

Haiti

Kosovo

Liberia

Conclusion

2 | Space, power and peace

Security and post-conflict space

The UN: conquering geography

NATO: expanding spaces of morality

Creating securityscapes: the UN/NATO franchise

Conclusion

3 | Zones and enclaves

From slum to zone

Kosovo and the enclave

Conclusion

4 | Free to move?

Traversing spaces: security, movement and roads

Kosovo: ethnic identity and ‘parallel travel’

Roads, meanings, security

Conclusion

5 | Contesting and consuming: space and success in Liberia

Contesting space: the ‘integrated mission’

Ex-combatants and peacekeepers’ ‘response’: spaces of inaction

Liberal market democracy: Liberia and the third space of consumption

Conclusion

6 | Performing spaces of security

Performing social life

From performance to performativity: what is expected from peacekeepers?

‘Tourista’ peacekeepers

The peacekeeper body: performing space and security

Bodies, props, performance

Conclusion

7 | Stereotyping performance: peacekeeping and imagined identities

National identity and national ‘character’: framing peacekeepers

Performing national identities

Conclusion

8 | Women, men and gender space

Feminist geopolitics and gender relations

Context: women, war and after

Men and masculinity: after the war

Women and gender space

Towards a ‘feminization’ of the mission space?

Concluding thoughts: the UN, NATO and the problem of gender

Conclusion | Locating power in peacekeeping

Notes

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

References

Index