Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states

Hughes, Caroline; Pupavac, Vanessa

Authors

Caroline Hughes



Abstract

The 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 societies in question, rendering the domestic populations dysfunational while casting international rescue interventions as functional. The article suggests that the discourse of pathologisation can be understood not as a means of explaining state crisis so much as legitimising an indefinite international presence and deferring self-government.

Citation

Hughes, C., & Pupavac, V. (2005). Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states. Third World Quarterly, 26(6), https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590500089232

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jan 1, 2005
Deposit Date Jan 27, 2012
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Third World Quarterly
Print ISSN 0143-6597
Electronic ISSN 1360-2241
Publisher Routledge
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 26
Issue 6
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590500089232
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1020426
Publisher URL http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01436590500089232
Additional Information This is an electronic version of an article published in: Hughes, C. & Pupavac, V., Framing post-conflict societies: an analysis of the international pathologisation of Cambodia and the post-Yugoslav states, Third World Quarterly, 26(6), 2005, 873-899. Third World Quarterly is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=article&issn=1360-2241&volume=26&issue=6&spage=873

Files





You might also like



Downloadable Citations