International actors’ promotion of peacebuilding in Colombia through online subsidies: the role of spatial framing

Montoya Londoño, Catalina (2024) International actors’ promotion of peacebuilding in Colombia through online subsidies: the role of spatial framing. Critical Studies on Security. ISSN 2162-4909 (Accepted for Publication)

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Abstract

This paper explores the geographical nature of the promotion of peacebuilding efforts by international actors cooperating in Colombia through information published daily in their newsrooms online. This article contends that such promotion is spatially rooted as it links to narratives about places targeted for intervention, and how these places ought to be transformed. Accordingly, the notion of spatial framing is put forward as a methodological way to assess the promotion of meanings about targeted places for peace transformation. Drawing on qualitative spatial framing analysis of online subsidies analysed with the help of NVivo software, the work explores the ways in which key post-conflict donors (United States, European Union, the United Kingdom) promoted a narrative about national and local spaces of peacebuilding transformation in the transitional period in two periods between November 2016 and February 2024. The article argues that the international actors depicted spaces in function of a normative continuum between rural (less developed) and urban (more developed) spaces and promoted spatial transformation consistent with principles of state-building and market development.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	public mediated diplomacy, online information subsidies, spatial framing, peacebuilding cooperation, Colombia
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Creative Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities
Depositing User:	Catalina Montoya Londono
Date Deposited:	09 Dec 2024 09:45
Last Modified:	09 Dec 2024 09:45
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4473

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