Table of Contents

Introduction: A Genealogy of Bottom-up Peace-building in the Age of Non-linearity

1. From Liberalisation to Institutionalisation: The Birth of the Critical Turn in Peace-building

2. The Problematisation of the ‘Liberal Peace’ and the End of Top-down Peace-building

3. Reflections on Kosovo: Shifting Discourses and Paradigms of Peace-building

4. What ‘Local’ in Kosovo? Exploring the Plurality of Kosovo’s local Agency

5. The ‘Emancipatory’ Local Turn? The Limits and Paradoxes of the Local Turn’s Normative Project of Re-conceptualisation6. The ‘Uncritical’ Turn: Between Modernity and Non-linearity

Conclusion: Life after Critique?

About the Author

Elisa Randazzo is Teaching Fellow in Security Studies at University College London and holds a PhD from the University of Westminster, UK.