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

Anna K Johnson, Joséphine Lechartre, Şehrazat G Mart, Mark D Robison and Caroline Hughes
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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

Journal of Peace Research, 2023, vol. 60, issue 4, 675-690

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.

Keywords: bibliometrics; coloniality; gatekeeping; knowledge production; local turn; peace studies; web of science (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00223433221088035

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