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    Beyond International Intervention

    Politics of Improvement in Serbia

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    Author(s)
    Kušic, Katarina
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    Studies of statebuilding and peacebuilding have been criticized for their disregard of people living the consequences of intervention projects. Beyond International Intervention takes on the task of engaging with spaces and peoples not usually present in IR scholarship to rethink the very concept of “intervention” by paying close attention to how people actually experience and make sense of those efforts. In particular, the book offers a detailed engagement with ethnographic fieldwork in two policy areas in Serbia—agricultural policy and non-formal youth education. By engaging with subjects, the book not only enhances our understanding of intervention, but also uncovers the limitations of the concept. Katarina Kušić argues that the concept limits what we can observe and theorize, and it prevents researchers from engaging with the people living in spaces of intervention as coeval political subjects. As an alternative, she proposes to foreground improvement over “intervention.” This reorientation enables researchers to trace hierarchies beyond the local/international dichotomy, expands fields of visibility beyond those prescribed by interventions themselves, and seriously considers the contradictions at the heart of liberalism.
    URI
    https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/100092
    Keywords
    international intervention, peacebuilding, statebuilding, Serbia, Balkans, Southeast Europe, ethnography, agriculture, rural development, youth politics, political education, interpretive methods, international relations, Yugoslavia
    DOI
    10.3998/mpub.12876501
    ISBN
    9780472077359, 9780472057351, 9780472904952
    Publisher
    University of Michigan Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.press.umich.edu/
    Publication date and place
    2025
    Grantor
    • Economic and Social Research Council
    Series
    Configurations: Critical Studies Of World Politics,
    Classification
    Politics and government
    Peace studies and conflict resolution
    International relations
    Pages
    249
    Rights
    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    • This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 683680, 810640, 871069 and 964352.

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