Knowledge and expertise in international interventions : the politics of facts, truth and authenticity
Berit Bliesemann de Guevara (Editor), Roland Kostić (Editor)
Knowledge about violent conflict and international intervention is political. It involves power struggles over the objects of knowing (problematization/silencing), how they are known (epistemic practices), and what interpretations are taken into account in policymaking and implementation. This book unearths the politics, power and performances involved in the social construction of seemingly neutral concepts such as facts, truth and authenticity in knowing about violent conflict and international intervention. Contributors foreground problems of physical and social access to information, explore practices generating knowledge actors? authority and legitimacy, and analyse struggles over competing policy narratives
eBook, English, 2017
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Routledge, London, 2017