ABSTRACT
The dynamics of peace and conflict are a long-standing concern for geographers and have received increased attention within the discipline in recent years. In this chapter, we focus on the former; in particular, the development of a distinct “peace geographies” literature over the past decade. We begin by discussing criticisms of existing scholarship in the discipline in the early 2010s that called for reorienting research away from conflict and toward peace. Following this, we outline four significant foci in the peace geographies literature: peace as a set of place-specific processes; political practices and ideologies that animate peace projects; the development of a holistic peace agenda; and everyday peace. We then identify two areas that would enrich peace geographies scholarship in the future: first, more productive engagement with parallel conversations in the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies, which is experiencing a “spatial turn” whereby geographic ideas are increasingly engaged; and second, greater attention to the multiple spatialities and temporalities of peace.
