Peace, War, and Social Conflict Panel Session: After War

Session Submission Type: Paper Session (90 minute)

Description

Much social science studies how wars break out and unfold, but what happens after wars end? What happens to material structures, cultural constructs, social relations, and collective practices in the wake of war’s devastation (even if a country is victorious)? This panel asks important questions and provides important insights into this issue: how internal strife in Columbia shaped a post-war movement for finding the disappeared; how the Yugoslav wars shaped post-war meaning in Serbia; a convergence between practices and logics of warmaking and peacemaking (which one would think at first have great distance between them); and race and responses to American Civil War memorials and the meanings they imply for that war.

Sub Unit

• Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section / Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section Open Call Paper Session

Presider

• Weijun Yuan, The University of Chicago

Individual Presentations

• A Theory of War-Peace Convergence in Cultural Processes of Meaning Making and its Conflict-Perpetuating Qualities - Nicolas Torres-Echeverry, University of Chicago; Laura Acosta, University of California, San Diego

• ‘It Burns My Conscience’: Post-War Meaning Making Among Serbian Citizens - Nikoleta Sremac, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

• Racialized Reactions to Counter-Monuments: Reimagining Civil War Memory in the U.S. South? - Ashley Veronica Reichelmann, Virginia Tech; Heather Avery O'Connell, Louisiana State University; Claire Whitlinger, Furman University

• Unexpected Peacebuilders: Ex-Combatants Expertise and the Search for the Disappeared in Colombia - Daniela Garcia, University of Texas-Austin

Session Organizer

• Jeffrey Hass, University of Richmond