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Rethinking Authoritarian Power: The Logistics Space and Authoritarian Practices in and between Secondary Port Cities of the Global South
International Studies Quarterly ( IF 2.799 ) Pub Date : 2020-11-23 , DOI: 10.1093/isq/sqaa083
Alke Jenss 1 , Benjamin Schuetze 2
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Abstract
How to rethink authoritarian power in ways that better account for authoritarian connections beyond nation-state boundaries? By reconceptualizing the context in which to analyze authoritarian power, we bring to light transregional authoritarian connections between the secondary port cities Aqaba/Jordan and Buenaventura/Colombia. We demonstrate that processes of privatization and a continuum of pre-emptive, technocratizing, and repressive authoritarian practices with the overall purpose of enabling capital accumulation occur in a remarkably entangled manner in both locales, even if located at seemingly unconnected geographical sites. By thinking of Aqaba and Buenaventura as occupying the same “transregional authoritarian logistics space” (TALS), we understand Buenaventura through Aqaba, and vice versa. This crisscrossing of established notions of context has important implications for our understanding of authoritarianism and future transregional research designs. As a unit of analysis, the TALS allows us to highlight the role of global logistics players and “developmental aid” agencies—actors rarely discussed in literature on authoritarianism—in rearticulating boundaries within and beyond the nation-state based on class and race. Our contribution calls for an understanding of authoritarian power as transregionally entangled, rather than separate and limited to the nation-state and builds on literatures on authoritarian practices, authoritarian neoliberalism, critical logistics, and transregional connections.


中文翻译:

重新思考威权主义:全球南方二级港口城市及其之间的物流空间和威权实践

摘要
如何以能更好地解释民族国家边界之外的威权联系的方式重新思考威权?通过重新概念化分析威权主义权力的背景,我们揭示了二级港口城市亚喀巴/约旦和布埃纳文图拉/哥伦比亚之间的跨地区威权主义联系。我们证明,私有化进程以及先发制人,技术专家化和专制压制的专制做法的连续性,以实现资本积累的总体目的,即使在看似无关的地理位置上,在两个地方都发生了明显的纠缠。通过将亚喀巴和布埃纳文图拉视为占领相同的“跨区域威权主义后勤空间”(TALS),我们可以通过亚喀巴了解布埃纳文图拉,反之亦然。既定的上下文概念的这种交叉对我们对威权主义和未来跨地区研究设计的理解具有重要的意义。作为分析的一个单元,TALS使我们能够强调全球物流参与者和“发展援助”机构(在关于威权主义的文献中很少讨论的行为者)在基于阶级和种族重新划分民族国家内部和外部的界限方面的作用。我们的贡献要求对跨地区纠缠的威权政权的理解,而不是分离并局限于民族国家,并以关于威权实践,威权新自由主义,批判后勤和跨地区联系的文献为基础。作为分析的一个单元,TALS使我们能够强调全球物流参与者和“发展援助”机构(在关于威权主义的文献中很少讨论的行为者)在基于阶级和种族重新划分民族国家内部和外部的界限方面的作用。我们的贡献要求对跨地区纠缠的威权政权的理解,而不是分离并局限于民族国家,并以关于威权实践,威权新自由主义,批判后勤和跨地区联系的文献为基础。作为分析的一个单元,TALS使我们能够强调全球物流参与者和“发展援助”机构(在关于威权主义的文献中很少讨论的行为者)在基于阶级和种族重新划分民族国家内部和外部的界限方面的作用。我们的贡献要求对跨地区纠缠的威权政权的理解,而不是分离并仅限于民族国家,并以关于威权主义实践,威权主义新自由主义,批判后勤和跨地区联系的文献为基础。
更新日期:2020-11-23
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