Peace Teams in the Protest-Repression Nexus: A Sociomaterial Perspective of De-escalatory Tactics

dc.contributor.author Canevez, Richard
dc.contributor.author Winter, Jenifer
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-24T18:23:09Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-24T18:23:09Z
dc.date.issued 2022-01-04
dc.description.abstract Peace teams work in the trenches of demonstration in liberal democracies. When situations between different parties can escalate to violence, they deploy various tactics and tools to de-escalate the situation. Their work navigates a web of institutions and actors, as well as tools that introduce their materiality into de-escalatory practices. Depicting this system stands to highlight how Peace Teams an maximize their capacities both socially and technologically. However, to date there is no cohesive social and material account of Peace Team work. This study adopts a sociomaterial perspective of demonstrations through the eyes of Peace Teams and their de-escalatory tactics, using semi-structured interview and focus groups. We provide theoretical insights about the sociomaterial nature of de-escalation as being a confluence of social and material intra-actions, and argue for bases of trust as an underlying mechanism to account for the configuration of particular sociomaterial assemblages as manifest in the protest-repression nexus.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2022.835
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-5-7
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/80175
dc.language.iso eng
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 55th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Social Impact and Information Systems
dc.subject intra-actions
dc.subject nonviolence
dc.subject qualitative analysis
dc.subject social movements
dc.subject sociomaterial assemblage
dc.title Peace Teams in the Protest-Repression Nexus: A Sociomaterial Perspective of De-escalatory Tactics
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