Parades, parties and pests: contradictions of everyday life in peacekeeping economies

Marsha Henry

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Abstract: Based on research studies conducted in the UN peacekeeping mission in Liberia in 2006, 2012 and 2013, this article argues that peacekeepers’ everyday experiences reflect a series of contradictory identities and performances with regard to nation, work and gender. Peacekeepers straddle paradoxical worlds simultaneously and manage oppositional demands and obligations, although it is often assumed that they inhabit peacekeeping economies in homogenous ways. Importantly, the experiences provide opportunities for peacekeepers to invest in, accumulate and deploy military capital; to consolidate their military identities; and to favourably and tactically position themselves as deserving and useful subjects within the peacekeeping landscape.

Keywords: peacekeeping; gender; everyday; performance; peacekeeping economy; Liberia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J01 R14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-08-27
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Published in Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 27, August, 2015, 9(3), pp. 372 - 390. ISSN: 1750-2977

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