Quite a lot of recent peacebuilding scholarship has deployed the concept of ‘the everyday’. In an extension of the local turn’s emphasis on agency and resistance, much of this scholarship interprets the everyday as inherently a site of politics. It does so either by interpreting every act (no matter how motivated) as an agentic political act, or by equating agentic political acts (at the local level) with the quotidian activities which define the everyday. This article argues, however, that representing the everyday in this way interprets both forms of activity in ways which have critical implications for peacebuilding theory, because both moves inadvertently strip everyday acts of the emergent creativity and innovation inherent to ‘everyday-ness’. Alternative understandings of and engagement with different forms of agency would encourage peace scholars to acknowledge the overtly political nature of peace projects and so to reserve ‘the everyday’ label for pre-political forms of action which may contribute to peace, but in a more unintentional, organic or emergent fashion. This is not to argue that everyday acts are a-political or non-political, but only that they do not have political motivations and are not themselves products of conscious will to power, or even to peace itself.

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维护日常：建设和平理论中的政治前代理

最近，很多建设和平奖学金都采用了“每天”的概念。为了扩大当地人对代理和抵制的重视，这项奖学金的大部分内容将每天都固有地解释为政治场所。它通过将每一种行为（无论其动机如何）解释为代理政治行为，或者通过将代理政治行为（在地方一级）等同于定义日常活动的日常活动来做到这一点。然而，本文认为，以这种方式代表日常活动，以对建设和平理论具有关键意义的方式解释了两种形式的活动，因为这两种举动都无意间剥夺了“日常性”所固有的新兴创造​​力和创新的日常行为。对不同形式的机构的另类理解和参与将鼓励和平学者承认和平项目的公开政治性质，从而为可能促成和平的政治前行动形式保留“日常”标签，但其意图并非偶然。 ，有机或新兴时尚。这并不是说日常行为是非政治性的或非政治性的，而只是说它们没有政治动机，本身不是权力的自觉意志的产物，甚至不是和平本身的产物。