Johanna Mannergren
Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Södertörn University, Sweden. Her research concerns peace processes with a focus on the politics of memory, transitional justice, gender, and everyday peace. Her research concerns peace processes with a focus on the politics of memory, transitional justice, gender, and everyday peace.
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Articles by Johanna Mannergren
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Why is it so easy to remember war and so hard to remember peace? In order to bring forth memories of peace we need to reconceptualize what we mean by peace. I propose the term wild peace as a conceptual and potentially radical move that engage our imagination and capture the lived, embodied and agential dimensions of peace. Memories of wild peace are unruly as they hold the power to unsettle hegemonic narratives and point to alternative futures. I argue that unruly memories of wild peace are important at the present time, when the very idea of peace is contested and undermined.
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Nearly three decades after the end of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, thousands of people are missing and mass graves are regularly found. Relatives still search for knowledge about their loved ones in the midst of secrets, rumors and ethnonationalist denial. As the country struggles to come to terms with this dark legacy of the war, art has emerged as a space for recognition of the lingering presence of absence of the missing.
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