Framing Post-conflict Societies: international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the pathologisation of post-conflict societies through a comparison of the framing of the Cambodian and post-Yugoslav states. The notion of failed states fixes culpability for war on the societies in question, rendering the domestic populations dysfunctional while casting international rescue interventions as functional. The article suggests that the discourse of pathologisation can be understood primarily not as a means of explaining state crisis so much as legitimising an indefinite international presence and deferring self-government.
Source: Third World Quarterly
Authors: Caroline Hughes, Vanessa Pupavac
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1965022503