ABSTRACT
This chapter draws attention to an important consequence of the critique operated by the local turn. It shows that a tension exists between the need to pluralise peacebuilding along non-linear lines and the linearity provided to the local turn by its claims regarding the possibility of identifying and accessing a more 'authentic' form of everyday agency. The chapter discusses the problem of the everyday brings to the fore a tension between the local turn's attempt to pluralise and fragment governance in order to reflect the contingent, heterogeneous materiality of the everyday, and the framework of peacebuilding which assigns particular identities and positions to the agents within the interventionist paradigm. It suggests that the normative contours of the latest shift reveal the limits of the local turn's ability to deliver a non-linear, pluralisation of peace-thinking without resorting to traditional dichotomies and binaries, and with no small amount of ambiguity and lack of clarity.
