Description
Scholars studying hybridisation in peace and conflict processes practice politics of scale. The knowledge they create in those fields create bounded containers of what they consider to be the “local” and the “international”. Such a practice could explain the dominant scholarship on liberal peacebuilding and the main understanding of the international attached to West which can be seen as territorializing elements and processes building up the dynamics behind hybridisation. Using the case of Madagascar, this paper uses the concept of scale in political geography to unpack the so-called “international”. It goes beyond the understanding of the international as liberal and explores the intricacies of the construction of the international as a practice by the actors involved in peace and conflict processes in relational and spatial terms. In addition, it unveils how the politics of scales of the actors involved in the dynamics behind the construction of the international.
