Peacebuilding debates increasingly revolve around questions about knowledge and expertise. Of particular interest is what (and whose) knowledge(s) ends up authoritative in interventions. This article addresses a problem in the literature on the epistemics and epistemic authority of peacebuilding interventions: the acknowledgement of but lacking attention to plural knowledges, the transgressive character of expertise, and knowledge struggles. It does this by discussing recent suggestions that peacebuilding epistemic authority can be fruitfully analysed as a Bourdieusian field. The article identifies a tension in Bourdieu's own thinking about fields, which has shaped some of these recent proposals. This tension, nevertheless, also enables a reconsideration of fields and struggles, and thereby an analysis that takes plurality and transgressiveness into account. By developing such an alternative conceptual position, the article sees peacebuilding epistemic authority as object- and struggle-bound; conditioned and dependent on dynamics that go beyond peacebuilding as a distinct field of practice. This position is illustrated in an analysis of the emergence and (temporary) establishment of epistemic authority in peacebuilding interventions on informal economies.

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在后/冲突干预中重新概念化知识权威的政治：从建设和平领域到干预对象的跨国领域

建设和平的辩论越来越多地围绕有关知识和专业知识的问题展开。特别感兴趣的是什么（以及谁的）知识最终在干预中具有权威性。本文解决了关于建设和平干预的认识论和认识权威的文献中的一个问题：承认但缺乏对多元知识的关注、专业知识的越界特征和知识斗争。它通过讨论最近的建议来做到这一点，即建设和平的认知权威可以作为一个布迪厄斯领域进行富有成效的分析。这篇文章指出了布迪厄自己对领域的思考中的一种张力，这种张力塑造了一些最近的提议。然而，这种紧张局势也使人们能够重新考虑领域和斗争，因此是一种将多元性和越界性考虑在内的分析。通过发展这种另类的概念立场，本文将建设和平的认知权威视为对象和斗争的约束；条件和依赖于超越作为一个独特实践领域的建设和平的动力。这一立场在对非正规经济建设和平干预中认知权威的出现和（临时）建立的分析中得到了说明。