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Toward a Critique of Algorithmic Violence International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-03-13 Bellanova R, Irion K, Lindskov Jacobsen K, et al.
AbstractQuestions about how algorithms contribute to (in)security are under discussion across international political sociology. Building upon and adding to these debates, our collective discussion foregrounds questions about algorithmic violence. We argue that it is important to examine how algorithmic systems feed (into) specific forms of violence, and how they justify violent actions or redefine
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Midwives and Humanitarian Bureaucracy: Managing Migration at a Postcolonial Border International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Nina Sahraoui
Drawing on Foucauldian biopolitics, Max Weber's and Hannah Arendt's understandings of bureaucracy, and Achille Mbembe's theoretical insights into necropolitical power, I propose the notion of humanitarian bureaucracy to account for the involvement of medical personnel in the summary deportations of pregnant Comorian women in Mayotte, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. In addition to
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Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and the Politics of Culinary Zionism International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-03-22 Ilan Zvi Baron, Galia Press-Barnathan
The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied, yet central component of everyday international relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through gastronomy, and highlight the dilemma between the different political uses of popular culture in the context of conflict resolution and resistance. Our
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Affect and the Response to Terror: Commemoration and Communities of Sense International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-10-23 Closs Stephens A, Coward M, Merrill S, et al.
AbstractThis article examines affective responses to terror and the emergence of communities of sense in the commemoration of such attacks. We challenge the predominant framing of responses to terror which emphasize security and identity. We focus on the singular response by the city of Manchester in the aftermath of the 2017 Arena bombing, drawing on fieldwork conducted at the 1-year anniversary commemorative
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Extractive Governmentality at Work: Native Appropriations of Oil Labor in the Amazon International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-09-19 Buu-Sao D.
AbstractThis paper analyzes the transformations induced by Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the extractive sector, through an ethnographic study of villages neighboring an oil-drilling site in the Peruvian Amazon. It examines the materialization of a specific CSR device—the communal enterprise—which involves the majority of village members in the extractive industry as workers, owners, and
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International Political Sociology as a Mode of Critique: Fracturing Totalities International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Huysmans J, Nogueira J.
AbstractThis paper asks how international political sociology (IPS) can articulate its criticality so that it can continue to engage with lineages that privilege processes and practices emerging from the always fluid and multiple entanglements of fragments without resorting to totalizing logics. IPS and IR more generally have experienced an intensified interest in situated and micro analyses. Engaging
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Collective Discussion: Toward Critical Approaches to Intelligence as a Social Phenomenon International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-08-03 Hager Ben Jaffel, Alvina Hoffmann, Oliver Kearns, Sebastian Larsson
This collective discussion proposes a novel understanding of intelligence as a social phenomenon, taking place in a social space that increasingly involves actors and professional fields not immediately seen as part of intelligence This discussion is a response to the inherent functionalism in Intelligence Studies (IS) that conceives of intelligence as a cycle serving policymakers Instead, our interventions
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“Supermaids”: Hyper-resilient Subjects in Neoliberal Migration Governance International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-04-26 Liberty Chee
Resilience is a concept in world politics that emerged, in part, as a way to respond to the impossibility of guaranteeing security in an era of complexity. Absent a central authority that provides security, risk is devolved to the individual, and those who cannot secure themselves are enjoined to constantly adapt to the unknown. Where control over complex systems is now thought to be impossible, the
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Reimagining EUrope through the Governance of Migration International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-04-09 Maurice Stierl
In its own tale, EUrope conceives of itself as a post-national and trans-border project, often through tropes of movement and the transgression of borders. In light of this imaginary, the recent mass migrations provoked a serious conundrum. How would this EUropean polity reconcile the dominant idea of itself with its desire to erect barriers to cross-border movements from the ‘Global South’? This article
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Genocide in Sudan as Colonial Ecology International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2020-01-28 Louise Wise
This article presents a novel theoretical and empirical account of the genesis and constitution of genocide in Sudan. To do so, it brings developments in critical genocide studies, notably the colonial and international “turns” and renewed attention to the scholarship of Lemkin, into dialogue with theoretical arguments about processual ontologies, complexity theory, and assemblage thinking. The latter
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Requiem for Risk: Non-knowledge and Domination in the Governance of Weapons Circulation International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-12-16 Anna Stavrianakis
Analyses of risk in international political sociology and critical security studies have unpicked its operation as a preventive and pre-emptive political technology. This article examines the counter-case of the governance of weapons circulation, in which risk has been mobilised as a permissive technology. Examining UK arms exports to Saudi Arabia and the war in Yemen, I demonstrate how risk assessment
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Europe Has Never Been Modern: Recasting Historical Narratives of Migration Control International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-10-24 Darshan Vigneswaran
Our understanding of contemporary international relations rests on flawed images of the past. One of the most problematic dimensions of this history is the idea that the core institutions and practices of modern territorial sovereignty originated in Europe before being gradually extended to other parts of the globe. A key dimension of this Euro-centric historiography is the story that the territorial
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Policing Reality: Urban Disorder, Failure, and Expert Undoings International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-10-01 Rhys Machold
This article intervenes in discussions about the circulation of policing knowledge and the politics of expertise. As part of a broader conversation about transnational reconfigurations of state power, critical scholars have drawn attention to the influence of global policing “models” and “private” experts in shaping policy. They show how such figures and forms of knowhow symbolically enforce urban
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Norms Are What Machines Make of Them: Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Normative Implications of Human-Machine Interactions International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-09-25 Hendrik Huelss
The emergence of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) is increasingly in the academic and public focus. Research largely focuses on the legal and ethical implications of AWS as a new weapons category set to revolutionise the use of force. However, the debate on AWS neglects the question what introducing these weapons systems could mean for how decisions are made. Pursuing this from a theoretical-conceptual
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Borders, Detention, and the Disruptive Power of the Noisy-Subject International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-09-23 Umut Ozguc
Violent borders are one of the most pressing ethical and political questions of our time. This article seeks to challenge the violent construction of borders through the concept of noise. Drawing on Michel Serres's philosophy of noise and Marie Thompson's emphasis on its affectiveness, the article shows the generative, disruptive, and affective power of noise at the border. I argue that noise creates
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Neoliberalism as Religion: Sacralization of the Market and Post-truth Politics International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-09-20 Luca Mavelli
In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, depictions of neoliberalism as religion, system of belief, and “kind of faith” have multiplied in an attempt to explain neoliberalism’s remarkable power and resilience. These accounts, however, have remained largely impressionistic. In this article, I interrogate the meanings, implications, and value of conceptualizing neoliberalism as religion and advance
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The “Enemization” of Criminal Law? An Inquiry into the Sociology of a Legal Doctrine and its Political and Moral Underpinnings International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-09-03 Dominique Linhardt, Cédric Moreau de Bellaing
The fight against terrorism has undergone major changes over the past thirty years. These changes have often been interpreted as a manifestation of “exceptionalism,” a trend that should be criticized for undermining the rule of law. We agree with this diagnosis but want to take a further step by acknowledging that this critical relationship to developments in counterterrorism is an integral part of
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Refugees’ Debit Cards, Subjectivities, and Data Circuits: Financial-Humanitarianism in the Greek Migration Laboratory International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-07-26 Martina Tazzioli
This paper focuses on the financialization of refugee humanitarianism in Greece, bringing attention to the Cash Assistance Programme, which is the first European Union–funded project in Europe providing financial support to asylum seekers, coordinated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. This program consists of the delivery and monthly recharge of prepaid debit cards to asylum seekers
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The Lure of Novelty: “Targeted Killing” and Its Older Terminological Siblings International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-06-03 Elisabeth Schweiger
The concept ‘targeted killing’ has been increasingly adopted in scholarship, policy and media discourses, particularly in the context of US armed drone attacks. While ‘targeted killing’ is often understood as something new, there are strong historical continuities with more traditional concepts such as ‘assassination’ and ‘extra-judicial execution’, as well as with the colonial concept ‘police bombing’
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The Politics of Method: Taming the New, Making Data Official International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-05-06 Evelyn Ruppert, Stephan Scheel
Statisticians are under pressure to innovate, partly due to shrinking budgets and the call to do more with less, but also due to technological advances and emergence of new actors promising to produce more accurate and timely statistics with what has come to be known as “big data”. This raises the question, how do new forms of data and methods become legitimate and official? We approach this question
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Apprehending the “Telegenic Dead”: Considering Images of Dead Children in Global Politics International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2019-01-03 Helen Berents
Images of suffering children have long been used to illustrate the violence and horror of conflict. In recent years, it is images of dead children that have garnered attention from media audiences around the world. In response to the deaths of four children killed by the Israeli army while playing on a Gazan beach, Israeli PrimeMinister Netenyahu accused Hamas of generating "telegenically dead" Palestinian
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Collective Discussion: Piecing-Up Feminist Peace Research1 International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-12-29 Annick T R Wibben, Catia Cecilia Confortini, Sanam Roohi, Sarai B Aharoni, Leena Vastapuu, Tiina Vaittinen
Feminist peace research is an emerging field of social sciences that is transdisciplinary, intersectional, and normative—as well as transnational. Although it draws from disciplines such as peace a ...
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Racism in Foucauldian Security Studies: Biopolitics, Liberal War, and the Whitewashing of Colonial and Racial Violence International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-12-28 Alison Howell, Melanie Richter-Montpetit
This article argues that while Foucauldian security studies (FSS) scholarship on the biopolitics of security and liberal war has not ignored racism, these works largely replicate Foucault's whitewashing of the raciality and coloniality of modern power and violence. Drawing on Black, indigenous, postcolonial and decolonial studies, we show how Foucault's genealogy of biopower rests on an unspecified
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In the Shadow of Asylum Decision-Making: The Knowledge Politics of Country-of-Origin Information International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-12-05 Jasper van der Kist, Huub Dijstelbloem, Marieke de Goede
Country-of-origin information has secured a central place in European asylum systems, underpinning state decisions on the asylum status of refugee populations. All European states produce this type of information, and dedicated country-of-origin information units are increasingly common. This article analyzes the knowledge politics of country-of-origin information, with a focus on the relation between
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War Ink: Sense-Making and Curating War through Military Tattoos International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Synne L Dyvik, Julia Welland
Veterans have long sought to make sense of and capture their wartime experiences through a variety of aesthetic means such as novels, memoirs, films, poetry and art. Increasingly, scholars of IR are turning to these sources as a means to study war experience. In this article we analyze one such sense-making practice that has, despite its long association with war, largely gone unnoticed: military tattoos
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Technocratic Exceptionalism: Monetary Policy and the Fear of Democracy International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-12-01 Jacqueline Best
What do border guards and central bankers have in common? Both operate, on a day-to-day basis, in political spaces exempt from many of the norms of liberal democratic politics and yet have the power to define and constrain them. In order to understand the role of such routine suspensions in the norms of liberal politics, we need to move beyond analyses that focus narrowly on security exceptionalism
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Farmer Suicides and the Function of Death in Neoliberal Biopolitics International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-11-29 Suvi Alt
The farmer suicides that have taken place in India since the 1990s constitute the largest wave of recorded suicides in human history. While existing research largely focuses on explaining the causes that lead farmers to take their own lives, this paper examines the biopolitical governing function that the suicides have. The paper argues that the farmer suicides have functioned to legitimate intervention
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Professionalizing Protest: Scientific Capital and Advocacy in Trade Politics International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-06-13 Matthew Eagleton-Pierce
A range of socio-economic dislocations have spawned renewed interest in the capitalist system and its critiques. Within these trends, the politics of international trade has often been a flashpoint for civil society organisations (CSOs) concerned with social justice. This paper uncovers a neglected feature of this landscape: how, since the 1980s, certain CSOs have shifted from being ‘radical outsiders’
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Transnational Citizenship Capacity-Building: Moving the Conversation in New Directions International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-06-13 Melissa Finn, Michael Opatowski, Bessma Momani
Challenging statist understandings of citizenship neglectful of their own ironies, we explore the literature on circulation to argue that political actors build citizenship capacities through the transfer of various technologies, ideas, and modes of organization and by enhancing selfunderstanding across and within borders. This work is largely conceptual. Although we focus on transnational activist
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Contested States, Hybrid Diplomatic Practices, and the Everyday Quest for Recognition International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-06-05 Dimitris Bouris, Irene Fernández-Molina
This article examines the diplomatic practices of contested states with the aim to challenge structural legal-institutional accounts of these actors’ international engagement, which are unsatisfactory in explaining change and acknowledging their agency. Considering contested states as liminal international actors, their diplomatic practices stand out for their hybridity in transcending the state versus
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Seeing Like Bureaucracies: Rearranging Knowledge and Ignorance in Somalia International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-05-29 Jutta Bakonyi
Development promotes bureaucratization, and bureaucracies are based on knowledge and produce knowledge. Failures of development are therefore regularly attributed to a lack of knowledge. The article argues that the quest for knowledge is embedded in the managerial rationality of interventions. This rationality also structures the developmental knowledge field and thereby generates ignorance. The example
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Sending States and Diaspora Positionality in International Relations International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-05-23 Maria Koinova
Diaspora politics is of growing interest to International Relations (IR), yet theorizing about sending states’ engagement of diasporas in different global contexts has been minimal. Central to this article is the question: How do challenges to postconflict statehood shape a sending state’s diaspora engagement? I provide a fresh socio-spatial perspective on “diaspora positionality,” the power diaspora
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Transnational Clientelism, Global (Resource) Governance, and the Disciplining of Dissent International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-05-23 Jana Hönke
Schemes for more responsible global governance have often come with new ways of thwarting meaningful voice, participation and dissent of those they are claimed to be beneficial for. This article argues that these processes extend beyond the more often criticized disciplinary effects of civil society promotion and community participation, which, despite a rhetoric of empowerment and emancipation, also
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Grieving, Valuing, and Viewing Differently: The Global War on Terror's American Toll International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-05-23 Kandida Purnell
In March 2003 (the eve of Iraq’s invasion) the George W. Bush Administration reissued, extended, and enforced a Directive prohibiting the publication and broadcast of images and videos capturing the ritual repatriation of America’s war dead. This Directive (known as the Dover Ban) is exemplary of a wider set of more subtle processes and practices of American statecraft working to move suffering and
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Fatherhood, Gender, and Interventions in the Geopolitical: Analyzing Paternal Peace, Masculinities, and War International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-02-24 Joanna Tidy
War and peace are gendered and gendering geopolitical processes, constituting particular configurations of masculinity and femininity. When men are considered in relation to war and peace the majority of scholarly accounts focus on soldiers and perpetrators, typically observing their place in the gendered geopolitical solely through military/ized masculinities. In contrast, this article examines fatherhood
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Saving the Saviors: Security Practices and Professional Struggles in the Humanitarian Space International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-02-22 Monique J Beerli
Tracing transformations in the way that humanitarian organizations respond to insecurity in the field, this article examines the bureaucratization and professionalization of security in relation to intraorganizational struggles between humanitarian professionals. Whereas some advocate for the triumph of remoteness and bunkerization as organizing principles of humanitarian action, others challenge the
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Crafting the “Well-Rounded Citizen”: Empowerment and the Government of Counterradicalization International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-02-21 Niklas Altermark, Hampus Nilsson
In recent years, counterradicalization work has come to focus on empowering vulnerable communities and individuals through programs implemented by local governments and welfare services. This article examines this new regime of counterradicalization, focusing on how such programs seek to immunize people allegedly susceptible to radicalization by making them "active citizens." In contrast to the stated
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Collective Discussion: Diagnosing the Present International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2018-02-21 R B J Walker, Robbie Shilliam, Heloise Weber, Gitte Du Plessis
As students and scholars of global politics, we have been witnessing, participating in, and feeling the effects of recent global upheavals. These include specific events, such as the election of Trump and the vote for Brexit, but are better understood through their resulting political effects (e.g., pushing back on migration, hardening national borders, denying climate change, reneging on trade deals
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Everyday Ontological Security: Emotion and Migration in British Soaps International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-10-13 Alexandria J Innes
Work on affect has made significant contributions to how international relations (IR) scholars understand the high politics of international affairs, capturing political reactions to the horrific, the spectacular, and the exceptional. However, the turn to affect has been less inclined to offer comprehensive insight into the importance of emotion in banal or everyday international politics. The theory
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Sketching Geopolitics: Comics and the Case of the Cheonan Sinking International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-09-26 David Shim
Recent scholarship in International Relations (IR) and International Political Sociology (IPS) has made significant contributions to the study of images. Chief among such studies on visual politics has been the focus on popular visual media including cartoons, film, photography and video games. This paper takes a look at another prominent medium: the comic. Comics provide ample potential starting points
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Affecting Terrorism: Laughter, Lamentation, and Detestation as Drives to Terrorism Knowledge International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-09-01 Charlotte Heath-Kelly, Lee Jarvis
The contemporary fascination with terrorism in Anglo-American popular culture, political discourse, news reportage and beyond is boundless and well-documented. In this article we explore contemporary productions of terrorism as the outcome of three drives to knowledge: laugher, lamentation and detestation. Drawing on a range of social and cultural practices – including jokes, street art, film, memorial
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Governing in the Space of the “Seam”: Airport Security after the Liquid Bomb Plot International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-05-26 Marijn Hoijtink
This paper provides a detailed study of the liquid bomb plot from 2006, focusing on the ways in which the plot was constituted as “an event unlike others” (Adey, Anderson, and Lobo Guerrero 2011, 340). Engaging with a critical body of scholarship that examines how events are assembled and governed as emergencies, disasters, or catastrophes, the paper explores two sets of questions. First, the paper
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Becoming Refugee in Cairo: The Political in Performativity International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-03-21 Jouni Häkli, Elisa Pascucci, Kirsi Pauliina Kallio
Global mobility continues to challenge and unsettle forms of citizenship, political engagement, and belonging in various ways. Within this voluminous and wide-ranging movement, it is particularly the figure of the ‘refugee’ that has come to question the “national order of things” (Malkki 1995). Paradoxically, refugees both disrupt this order by simply existing and depend on it to exist in the first
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Fear as a Political Factor International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-03-07 Henrik Enroth
In past decades, social and cultural theory as well as international relations theory and political theory have been preoccupied with the subject of fear. In this article, I return the conversation ...
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Collective Discussion: Fracturing Politics (Or, How to Avoid the Tacit Reproduction of Modern/Colonial Ontologies in Critical Thought) International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-03-02 Leonie Ansems de Vries, Lara Montesinos Coleman, Doerthe Rosenow, Martina Tazzioli, Rolando Vázquez
This article engages in an experiment that aims to push critical/post-structuralist thought beyond its comfort zone. Despite its commitment to critiquing modern, liberal ontologies, the article claims that these same ontologies are often tacitly reproduced, resulting in a failure to grasp contemporary structures and histories of violence and domination. The article brings into conversation five selected
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The Snowden Files Made Public: A Material Politics of Contesting Surveillance International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-02-16 Valentin Gros, Marieke de Goede, Beste İşleyen
In the wake of the disclosures by Edward Snowden about NSA surveillance practices, a series of public hearings was held before the Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee of the European Parliament in 2013–2014. These hearings offer a wealth of information concerning the details of Snowden’s claims, their implications for privacy rights, and the way in which the transatlantic political
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Struggling to Perform the State: The Politics of Bread in the Syrian Civil War International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2017-01-09 José Ciro Martínez, Brent Eng
Recent studies of civil war have problematized frameworks that rely on a strict binary between state-sanctioned order and anarchy. This paper extends these insights and combines them with theories of performativity to examine welfare practices during the Syrian conflict (2011-2015). Specifically, we argue that conceptualizing the state as a construct—as an effect of power—can expand the study of civil
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Waiting for International Political Sociology: A Field Guide to Living In-Between International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-12-01 Debbie Lisle
This paper uses the work of Samuel Beckett to reflect on the in-between positionality of International Political Sociology (IPS) and offers a field guide to help scholars, students, and thinkers embrace this disposition more energetically. It makes the case for a more balanced transdisciplinarity that keeps the field of inquiry open while attending to the international, the political, and the social
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Narrating Entanglements: Rethinking the Local/Global Divide in Ethnographic Migration Research International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-12-01 Heather L. Johnson
This paper interrogates the emerging practices of narrative methods in research that focuses on mobility and migration. It seeks to understand how these methods enable a conceptualization of global politics that challenges the global/local divide, revealing instead complex entanglements through which the local and the global are mutually constituted. Focusing in particular on the primacy of narrative
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Ten Years of IPS: Fracturing IR International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-12-01 Jef Huysmans, Joao Pontes Nogueira
In the past few years the relative success of international political sociology as an intellectual project has stimulated debates about its contribution to international studies. With this issue we celebrate ten years of International Political Sociology. The journal was created in 2006, with the first issue published in 2007. It has been an intellectually fascinating ride. Since its beginnings, IPS
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Blasts from the Past: War and Fracture in the International System International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-11-11 Jens Bartelson
This article is a brief inquiry into the changing meaning of war in Western political thought, with special reference to its role in fracturing the contemporary international system. I argue that contemporary debates about the changing nature of war have failed to note what I take to be the most important change in our understanding of war in recent decades—the return of the long-suppressed view that
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Contesting the Colonial Logics of the International: Toward a Relational Politics for the Pluriverse International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-11-11 Cristina Rojas
In this article, I offer a critical historical analysis of modernity, identifying tensions between logics of modernity that rely on premises of colonial and capitalist modernity as a universalizing project, and those that instead propose an alternative decolonial project. As part of the latter, I outline the contours of an emergent and distinct political project premised on deep relational ontologies
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An Insurgency of Things: Foray into the World of Improvised Explosive Devices International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-11-01 Jairus Grove
IED attacks in Afghanistan went from 797 attacks in 2006 to 15,222 attacks in 2012. In that time, 53,997 IEDs and their human collaborators injured more than 11,416 US soldiers and killed over 1,298 soldiers in Afghanistan. If you include Iraq, IEDs account for almost two-thirds of all US soldiers wounded and killed in both wars. This article investigates why something as low-tech as an improvised
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Detention-as-Spectacle International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-09-22 Cetta Mainwaring, Stephanie J. Silverman
Using a combination of migration studies, political sociology, and policy studies, this paper explores the contradictions and violence of immigration detention, its architectures, and its audiences. The concept of “detention-as-spectacle” is developed to make sense of detention’s hypervisible and obscured manifestations in the European Union. We focus particularly on two case studies, the United Kingdom
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The Politics of Migrant Resistance amid the Greek Economic Crisis International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-08-21 Dimitris Skleparis
This paper focuses on a particular instance of migrant resistance: the hunger strike of three hundred irregular migrants in 2011 in Greece. It does not conceptualize the politics of migrant resistance as an isolated incidence of mobilization of irregular migrants against the government in support for their rights in existing institutions. By drawing on a set of fifty-two face-to-face semi-structured
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Institutional Relations Rather Than Clashes of Civilizations: When and How Is Religion Compatible with Democracy? International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-07-19 Jocelyne Cesari, Jonathan Fox
This study develops and examines the concept of hegemonic religion and its relationship with democracy. A religion is hegemonic not only when the state grants that religion exclusive material and political privileges and benefits, but also when the religion is a core element of national identity and citizenship. We empirically examine the link between hegemonic religion and democracy using the Religion
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Development by Trial and Error: The Authority of Good Enough Numbers International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-07-11 Isabel Rocha de Siqueira
The quantification of problems that actors decide to understand and fix has become central to policy-making. However, this article suggests that critics of this move miss the point if their critique is limited to inadequate methods or inaccurate results. Dialoguing with recent literature on governance by numbers, the article argues that errors are not the issue. Taking development policy-making as
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Raising an Army: The Geopolitics of Militarizing the Lives of Working-Class Boys in an Age of Austerity International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-07-08 Victoria M. Basham
This article examines the political and social impact of elevating military values in society in a context of austerity. Centering on discussions around two British government “military ethos” initiatives, I consider the idea that military service instills desirable qualities and values in military personnel, making them well suited to educating and socializing children, to the advantage of both children
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On Justification and Critique: Luc Boltanski’s Pragmatic Sociology and International Relations International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-07-08 Frank Gadinger
Luc Boltanski is one of the most important contemporary social theorists. Whether and how his sociology matters for International Relations (IR) theory has, so far, not been explored. Boltanski’s work, as this article demonstrates, can greatly advance international political sociology by further developing a practice theoretical account which reconciles Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network Theory and Pierre
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Big Data: Issues for an International Political Sociology of Data Practices: Table 1. International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2016-06-26 Anders Koed Madsen, Mikkel Flyverbom, Martin Hilbert, Evelyn Ruppert
The claim that big data can revolutionize strategy and governance in the context of international relations is increasingly hard to ignore. Scholars of international political sociology have mainly discussed this development through the themes of security and surveillance. The aim of this paper is to outline a research agenda that can be used to raise a broader set of sociological and practice-oriented
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