This panel asks what it means to research, conceptualise, and practise everyday peace at a historical conjuncture marked by the visible rupturing of the liberal international order, with a specialist focus on Asia and the Pacific. The erosion of liberal assumptions is often narrated through institutional decline, great-power rivalry, democratic backsliding, norm contestation, migration politics, environmental stress, and the weakening authority of multilateral governance. Yet these transformations are not experienced only at the level of states, alliances, and international organisations. They are also lived through the ordinary routines by which people seek safety, maintain relationships, manage difference, cooperate over resources, remember violence, and make sense of belonging in communities shaped by war, displacement, nationalist resurgence, ecological insecurity, and uneven political recognition.
The panel welcomes papers that examine everyday peace not as a residual or apolitical domain, but as a consequential terrain where global disorder is translated, negotiated, resisted, and sometimes reproduced. It invites theoretically informed and empirically grounded contributions that explore how peace is made, unmade, embodied, mediated, and contested across diverse Asia-Pacific contexts.
Panel Themes
Everyday peace as lived, embodied, and mediated politics. Papers may examine how peace is produced, strained, or withheld through ordinary routines, embodied relations, memories, affects, digital encounters, livelihoods, and practices of care.
Rupture, scale, and the local embedding of global disorder. Contributions may explore how the fracturing of liberal order becomes visible in everyday life through migration politics, nationalist backlash, institutional failure, contested sovereignty, environmental insecurity, and post-agreement governance gaps.
Plural agencies, community knowledge, and more-than-human peace. The panel encourages work on the actors, practices, and forms of knowledge through which everyday peace is sustained beyond elite settlements and formal institutions, including local authorities, Indigenous communities, civil society, businesses, ecological systems, and more-than-human relations.
Reconceptualising everyday peace: methods, affect, materiality, and ambivalence. Papers may contribute conceptual and methodological innovations that foreground ethnography, interviews, participatory and creative methods, digital diaries, documentary and legal materials, practice-oriented analysis, affect, materiality, and the ambivalent politics of coexistence.
