Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional (RBPI)
Institution:
Instituto Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (IBRI)
Abstract:
The aim of this paper is to analyze how there are spatiotemporal factors that
can disable/enable local agency capacities in peacebuilding processes. Those
local agency capacities depend on the context, which are shaped both by
time and space. The traditional conception of time and space allows only a
narrow understanding that reduces the possibilities of agency, and to rethink
and broaden the concept of time and space I rely on History of the Present
Time and Critical Geography. This paper illustrates the theoretical debate
through the women’s agency capacities in the Mozambican peace process. This
example demonstrates the complexities and multifaceted disabling/enabling
capacity of spatiotemporal factors for the exercise of agency and provide
some guidelines to identify them.