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The Urbanity of Peacebuilding: Urban Environments as Objects and Sites of Peacebuilding Knowledge Production

ABSTRACT This article diagnoses a representational bias in current scholarship on the materiality and spatiality of urban peacebuilding. The bias reduces peacebuilding knowledge production to situated processes that unfold in urban environments but that are not constituted by them. To counter this, the article draws on ‘more-than-representational’ thinking to develop a research agenda that reframes the study of urban peacebuilding epistemics. The agenda reconceptualises post-/conflict urban environments as ‘governance objects’ that need to be made known and made ‘governable’. Further, the agenda approaches the peacebuilding production of such objects as a process in itself situated in and (co-)constituted by urban environments.