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Democracy and Breach of Contract Risk: An Assessment of How Different Dimensions of Democracy Weigh on Postcolonial States Global Society Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Abdulaziz G. Almuslem, Nourah Shuaibi
This article compares different measures of democracy to determine how they impact breach of contract risk, especially in postcolonial states that are more likely to suffer from neopatrimonialism w...
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ASEAN versus ECOWAS: Sovereignty Construction and Its Impact on Governance and Institutional Structures Global Society Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Abubakar Abubakar Usman, Muhammad Umar Muhammad
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are prominent regional organisations in the global South. However, their divergence bec...
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Speaking the Right Language: Transnational Rule and Symbolic Power in Dialogue Forums Global Society Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Christiane Cromm
This article argues that the opening up of international organisations (IOs) to the participation of civil society organisations (CSOs) has not only failed to dismantle structures of rule. Rather, ...
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More Democracy, More Security? Regionalism and Political [In]Security in East and Southern Africa Global Society Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Mopeli L. Moshoeshoe, Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
This article assesses African Union (AU) normative frameworks and practicalities of interlocking democracy and security in specific African sub-regions. Following an Africa-focused brief, historici...
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Human/Machine(-Learning) Interactions, Human Agency and the International Humanitarian Law Proportionality Standard Global Society Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Taylor Kate Woodcock
Developments in machine learning prompt questions about algorithmic decision-support systems (DSS) in warfare. This article explores how the use of these technologies impact practices of legal reas...
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Algorithms and Decision-Making in Military Artificial Intelligence Global Society Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Denise Garcia
Along the line of exploring the implications of algorithmic decision-making for international law, Garcia highlights the growing dehumanization process in the military domain that reduces humans to...
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Algorithmic Warfare: Taking Stock of a Research Programme Global Society Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Ingvild Bode, Hendrik Huelss, Anna Nadibaidze, Guangyu Qiao-Franco, Tom F. A. Watts
This article takes stock of the ongoing debates on algorithmic warfare in the social sciences. It seeks to equip scholars in International Relations and beyond with a critical review of both the em...
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Innovating Algorithmic Warfare: Experimentation with Information Manoeuvre beyond the Boundaries of the Law Global Society Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Lauren Gould, Marijn Hoijtink, Martine Jaarsma, Jack Davies
This article analyses how algorithmic innovation in contemporary warfare unfolds through new alliances and contestations among civil and military actors in the face of an overarching rhetoric aroun...
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Political Representation Practice in Global Environmental Politics. Feminist Representation Theory and the Claims of Marginalized Youth Groups Global Society Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Henrike Knappe
The climate movement has mobilised unprecedented numbers of people to address the issue of climate change. Notably, this movement has seen significant participation from young people who, as they w...
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Global Citizenship: Towards a Concept for Participatory Environmental Protection Global Society Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Diego Hernández Guzmán, Judith Hernández García de Velazco
The global environmental crisis demands urgent attention and comprehensive action. While governments must prioritise environmental protection and climate change mitigation, the continued depletion ...
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The Prospects of the G20’s Support of Liberalism: International Order and the Sustainable Development Goals Global Society Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Steven Slaughter
This article examines the question of whether the G20 can support liberal notions of international order. It contends that the contribution of the G20 to promote order has not been fully considered...
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The Rise and Fall of Diplomacy from Below: The Rebel Cooperation of Ya Basta! Global Society Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Dario Ghilarducci, Giulio Levorato
Under what conditions are radical alternatives to state-led diplomacy feasible? Diplomatic studies have so far denied attention to those diplomatic practices taking place without national mediation...
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The Making of “Passengers”: The Pre-Departure Subjectivation of Sri Lanka’s Aspiring Migrant Domestic Workers Heading to the Arabian Gulf Global Society Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Wasana S. Handapangoda
In this paper, I examine the process of migrant subject-making prior to departure based on the experiences of Sri Lankan women aspiring to become migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in the Arabian Gulf...
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The Attributability of Combatant Status to Military AI Technologies under International Humanitarian Law Global Society Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Mustafa Can Sati
The concepts of means of warfare and combatants are not comparable or on the same scale in IHL. Yet the human-like performances of AI technologies, such as independent decision-making, may blur the...
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Artificial Intelligence and Cross-Domain Warfare: Balance of Power and Unintended Escalation Global Society Pub Date : 2023-08-27 Nori Katagiri
In what ways are Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and traditional military conflict are connected? I examine how AI affects the relationship between cyber and military operations that s...
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Coloniality of Epistemic Power in International Practices: NGO Inclusion in World Bank Policymaking Global Society Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Maïka Sondarjee
ABSTRACT Are international organisations’ inclusive practices better than top-down ones? This article analyses an attempt to dismantle formal hierarchies to integrate civil society actors in development policymaking at the World Bank. It argues that inclusive practices have not fully challenged the coloniality of epistemic power in North/South relationships because they did not democratise the capacity
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Militarisation and State Capacity in Zimbabwe: The Limits of the Human Security Paradigm Global Society Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Enock Ndawana, Fritz Nganje
This article uses the case of Zimbabwe to explore the interface between militarisation and state capacity, and through that critique the emancipatory potential of the human security concept. It arg...
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Democratic Practices in MERCOSUR and the OAS: What Space for Transnational Civil Society? Global Society Pub Date : 2023-07-20 Gordon Mace
ABSTRACT Democratic theory asserts that the legitimacy of contemporary international and regional organisations rests on a degree of consensus expressed by various actors. The quest for diffuse support now extends beyond member states and explains the opening up of IOs/ROs to transnational civil society’s participation. Despite both notions being familiar to IR scholars, a more precise understanding
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Encoding the Enemy: The Politics Within and Around Ethical Algorithmic War Global Society Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Jeremy Moses, Geoffrey Ford
This article develops a critique of the politics of algorithmic war and autonomous weapons systems. While much of the existing debate is focused on whether algorithmic weapons technologies can sati...
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Imagining Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous Weapons and the (De-) Legitimisation of Future Warfare Global Society Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Anna-Katharina Ferl
The concept of meaningful human control has taken centre stage in the debate on autonomous weapons systems (AWS). While the precise meaning of the concept remains contested, convergence is emerging...
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White Women Filming Kurdish Women: The Instrumentalisation of the Kurdish Armed Struggle Global Society Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Morgane Desoutter (She, her, hers)
This paper looks at the gendered representations of female soldiers in war films and reflects on how the role of women in war is imagined. In particular, it questions the media and popular cultural...
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Play and Counter-Conduct: Migrant Domestic Workers on TikTok Global Society Pub Date : 2023-06-08 Liberty Chee
ABSTRACT This paper examines how migrant domestic workers subvert domination, exploitation and subjection through performances in TikTok videos. Through this medium, workers exercise autonomy in severely restrictive employment and living conditions, where collective action may not only be improbable but also illegal. I argue that these videos demonstrate Foucauldian counter-conduct or the “art of not
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Finding AI Faces in the Moon and Armies in the Clouds: Anthropomorphising Artificial Intelligence in Military Human-Machine Interactions Global Society Pub Date : 2023-04-27 James Johnson
Why are we likely to see anthropomorphisms in military artificial intelligence (AI) human-machine interactions (HMIs)? And what are the potential consequences of this phenomena? Since its inception...
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Acknowledgement to Global Society Peer Reviewers Global Society Pub Date : 2023-04-03
Published in Global Society (Vol. 37, No. 2, 2023)
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Watch Out for Peace: The Polemic Nature of a Horizon Desired Global Society Pub Date : 2023-03-23 Jaap de Wilde
ABSTRACT This article provides a critical perspective to look at one of the most basic concepts in life: peace. By reflecting on a wide range of literature on peace, the aim is to make sense of the way in which the longing for peace is part of the violence it hopes to overcome. Understanding peace requires understanding its polemic functions in world politics (both internationally and domestically)
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Roads of Europe—On Infrastructural Time, Near, Distant, and Past Futures Global Society Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Senka Neuman Stanivuković
ABSTRACT This paper studies the temporalities of EU investments into Southeast European (SEE) roads. Road construction and maintenance and related institutional frameworks, regulation, and project planning signify different modes of infrastructural time. Roads carry narratives of development and progress, but they also confront visions of desired futures with ruins of forgotten pasts. Promises of infrastructural
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Inclusion of IMF in Eurozone Crisis Management: Legitimacy Through External Expertise and Internal Depoliticisation Global Society Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Laura Nordström, Teivo Teivainen
ABSTRACT A new technocratic knowledge regime emerged in Europe in 2010. Known as the Troika, it included the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the IMF. The Greek Stand-By Arrangement was the IMF’s first Eurozone financial assistance involvement, controversial for both the EU and the IMF. We trace how the IMF entered the process, focusing on why EU institutions involved it. We used
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Global Constitutionalism and the Rise of Authoritarianism: A New Era of “Sad Resignation”? Global Society Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Aydin Atilgan
ABSTRACT Global constitutionalism is a multifaceted discourse with the objective of building up global law by reconstructing international law and constitutional law. It promises much to better comprehend the black holes of globalisation, including its relationship to the rule of law. This discourse’ expansive scope necessitates questioning its relationship to ongoing discourses on the recent global
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The Climate Justice Community: Theoretical Radicals and Practical Pragmatists? Global Society Pub Date : 2022-12-15 Andrea Schapper, Linda Wallbott, Katharina Glaab
ABSTRACT The objective of this paper is to promote a better understanding of the link between normative climate justice claims—originating in Political Theory and Philosophy—and concrete social practices of the climate justice movement active at the international climate negotiations. We argue that the climate justice movement can be understood as a community of practice. Empirically, we zoom into
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Grasping Local Participation: The Implementation of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Western Balkans and North Africa Global Society Pub Date : 2022-12-10 Clara della Valle, Francesco Strazzari
ABSTRACT This article focuses on those “points of fracture” (Kirby and Shepherd 2020, 12) that have manifested in the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) Agenda in the Mediterranean region by examining National Action Plans (NAPs) in two distinct sub-regions – the Western Balkans and North Africa. We develop a comparative framework to shed light on the dimension of participation of
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Domestic Conflict Global Society Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Lance Y. Hunter, Craig Albert, Josh Rutland, Chris Hennigan
ABSTRACT An emerging field of scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and computing posits that AI has the potential to significantly alter political and economic landscapes within states by reconfiguring labor markets, economies, and political alliances, leading to possible societal disruptions. Thus, this study examines the potential destabilizing economic and political effects AI technology
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(Th)reading Rights and Justice: Women and Girls with Disabilities Global Society Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Deborah Stienstra
ABSTRACT Despite calls for no one to be left behind, women and girls with disabilities continue to face systemic marginalisation and gaps in rights protections that limit their access to education, health, public services, and justice. Research in transnational and international relations offers little to help understand this gendered disability injustice. This article examines how discussions of elements
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Civil society and counter-terrorism governance: implementing the WPS agenda in Nigeria Global Society Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Doris Asante
ABSTRACT Women-led civil society activism contributed to the adoption of the WPS Agenda and the Security Council’s recognition of these organisations as key WPS actors. However, civil society organisations (CSOs) are often allocated tokenistic roles during the national implementation of WPS resolutions. Drawing on Sabatier and Jenkin-Smith’s Advocacy Coalition Framework, this study analyses 35 semi-structured
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The role of individuals in social movements: the rise of policy entrepreneurs in Bulgaria during the first Borisov Cabinet Global Society Pub Date : 2022-09-13 Gianfranco Brusaporci, Nissim Cohen
ABSTRACT This article investigates the question of how policy entrepreneurs influence the behaviour of social movements. It does so by presenting a new framework for analyzing social movements or collective action that emphasises the important role of individuals. In particular, it offers a systematic study of social movement leaders using the literature of policy entrepreneurship. We identify five
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Systemic Unreason: A Psychic History of States and Corporations Global Society Pub Date : 2022-08-24 Amin Samman, Ronen Palan
ABSTRACT The history of capitalism has long been told as a story of structural laws and behavioural axioms. In this essay, we sketch a general theory of order and change that instead foregrounds the path-shaping power of the fictive and the irrational. Our key claim is that any collective body is underwritten by psychological investment in a foundational delusion and that this cuts two ways. Visions
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Responding to the global disorder: the EU's quest for open strategic autonomy Global Society Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Joan Miró
ABSTRACT This article traces the emergence of a novel interpretive platform in EU politics, one that understands that an array of post-Great Recession changes in the global political economy are calling for a reassessment of the EU's long-established approach to globalisation. The article argues that this rethinking is organised around the concept of “open strategic autonomy”, by which is meant an
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The Black Horizon: Alterity and Ontology in the Anthropocene Global Society Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Farai Chipato, David Chandler
ABSTRACT This paper makes the case for an approach to International Relations in the Anthropocene, which draws upon resources from critical Black studies. This distinctive perspective is set out in comparison to two, more familiar, sets of critical Anthropocene thought, that have been influential in contemporary discussions of global politics. We heuristically frame these as the “Planetary” - a focus
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Prudence as an Antidote to Foreign Policy Adventurism: The Case of Turkey in the Syrian Crisis Global Society Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Eray Alim
ABSTRACT Although International Relations experts acknowledge the importance of prudence in policy-making processes, the term has not been properly operationalised in scholarly works. This work seeks to fill the existing gap in the literature by offering a conceptual and analytical framework of this idea. In addressing the question of what is means to act prudently in foreign affairs, this article
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“Reverse Discourse” Revisited: Cracks, Formations, and a Complex Understanding of Power Global Society Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
Published in Global Society (Vol. 36, No. 3, 2022)
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Anticipatory Global Governance: International Organisations and the Politics of the Future Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 John Berten, Matthias Kranke
ABSTRACT This special issue introduction develops the concept of anticipatory global governance by focusing on the practices through which international organisations (IOs) imagine and establish “present futures” across diverse transnational issue areas. Rather than following a conventional chronological stance, the contributors adopt a constructivist perspective on time to detail the logics and effects
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Self-Binding via Benchmarking: Collective Action, Desirable Futures, and NATO’s Two Percent Goal Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Thomas Müller
ABSTRACT How do states use benchmarks to organise their collective action? Although states increasingly rely on benchmarks to steer their collective action towards futures they deem desirable, research in IR has not yet unpacked the ways in which benchmarks alleviate – but also sometimes worsen – collective action problems. I argue that benchmarking enables states to tackle three interrelated problems:
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Guardians of the Future: International Organisations, Anticipatory Governance and Education Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Susan L. Robertson
ABSTRACT This paper is a comparative analysis of the anticipatory practices deployed by two international organisations (IOs), UNESCO and the OECD, to govern education futures. I show how their coordination of education futures is mediated by: (1) their different histories, missions, resources and geo-political alliances; (2) use of different anticipatory practices; (3) ongoing tensions between the
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The Future as Epistemic Condition: How International Organisations Anticipate Futures of Social Policy Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 John Berten
ABSTRACT The welfare state is increasingly challenged and threatened by futures, whose exact realisation remains largely uncertain. The article compares how the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank anticipate and authorise “futures of work” in light of technological transformations and climate change. The article
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Tomorrow's Debt, Today's Duty: Debt Sustainability as Anticipatory Global Governance Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Matthias Kranke
ABSTRACT Sovereign debt projections permeate international economic affairs. While concerns about debt sustainability motivate much policy analysis and commentary, this article unpacks the anticipatory practices through which (un)sustainable future debt is turned into a governance object in the first place. To this end, I examine the joint Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) of the International Monetary
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Governing Techno-Futures: OECD Anticipation of Automation and the Multiplication of Managerialism Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn, Moritz Hütten
ABSTRACT How do international organisations (IOs) govern the present based on claims about the coming impacts of technological change? Drawing on primary documents and participant observation, this article traces how the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) anticipates automation emanating from the growing integration of blockchain technologies in global governance. We find that
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Governing through Anticipatory Norms: How UNIDIR Constructs Knowledge about Autonomous Weapons Systems Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Berenike Prem
ABSTRACT The need for normative change is rarely self-evident but requires the sustained efforts of actors to create a demand for action. With emerging technologies such as autonomous weapons systems (AWS), the challenge is even greater given the early stages of development and use of these systems. This places unusual demands on actors to present evidence for the nature, scale and severity of a problem
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Assembling Transnational Policing: Europol’s Anticipatory Governance Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29 Hans Krause Hansen, Julie Uldam
ABSTRACT Building on studies of transnational policing, security and digitization, we develop an assemblage-theoretical framework to explore perceptions of time in contemporary policing efforts. We use the concepts of techno imaginaries and policing assemblage to examine the articulation of temporality and multi-scalar connections between humans and non-humans in policing, which has become increasingly
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Acknowledgement to Global Society Peer Reviewers Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-29
(2022). Acknowledgement to Global Society Peer Reviewers. Global Society: Vol. 36, Anticipatory Global Governance: International Organisations and the Politics of the Future, pp. i-ii.
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Reversing “Liberal” Aspirations: A View from “Citizen’s” Movements in Africa Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Marta Iñiguez de Heredia
ABSTRACT Since Tahir Square, a series of movements and uprisings have spread around Africa. Redefining themselves as “citizens” movements to emphasise their “rights”, one of the most significant characteristics is their tendency to couch their aspirations in terms that resonate the liberal moral order. Yet in so doing they also create a new subjectivity and redefine democracy, development and human
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When Ideologies Became Dangerous: An Analysis of the Transformation of the Relationship Between Security and Oppositional Ideologies in US Presidential Discourse Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Timo Kivimäki
ABSTRACT This article investigates, by means of computer-assisted qualitative and quantitative discourse analysis, how and when ideology was securitized in US presidential speech. It reveals how securitizing speech justifies methods and targets in the resistance of “dangerous ideologies” that are problematic for democracies. The analysis reveals that the entanglement of oppositional ideologies with
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Reverse Versus Radical Discourse: A Qualified Critique of Butler and Foucault, with an Alternative Interactive Theorisation Global Society Pub Date : 2022-04-01 Mark Haugaard
ABSTRACT This article explores the concept of reverse discourse, as suggested by Foucault and Butler. It is argued that Butler's concept of subject formation is overly determinist, as is Foucault's of discourse. Following Scott's critique, it is argued that there is a strong and a weak conceptualisation of dominant ideology. Discourses are in competition for authority, where dominant ideology is the
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Return of the Amateurs? Comparing Grassroots and Professional Approaches to International Relief Global Society Pub Date : 2022-03-31 Denis Kennedy, François Venne
ABSTRACT International aid is increasingly the domain of professionals, particularly among large international nongovernmental organisations (INGOs), while amateur assistance is largely dismissed (or disparaged) by practitioners and academics. However, strong countervailing trends exist, especially in the United States, with 10,000 grassroots INGOs (GINGOs) established since the 1990s. We explore the
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Theorising Resistance Formations: Reverse Discourses, Spatial Resistance and Networked Dissent Global Society Pub Date : 2022-03-28 Mona Lilja
ABSTRACT By merging the concepts of “formations” and “resistance”, this paper presents a conceptual map of how to “read” resistance movements, which are composed of individual resistance and collective action. I suggest that reverse discourse could be interpreted as one specific resistance formation, by denoting how subjects (re)articulate and re-present themselves and the figure they are expected
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WAW, No Women? Foucault’s Reverse Discourse and Gendered Subjects in Diplomatic Networks Global Society Pub Date : 2022-03-26 Ann E. Towns
ABSTRACT This study has two aims. Empirically, it examines women ambassador networks, hitherto overlooked in diplomacy scholarship. Such women-only networks are fascinating, as they cut across state-based alignments that typically shape diplomatic networks. Using Women Ambassadors of Warsaw (WAW) as a case, the analysis is based on interviews with its members in 2020. Theoretically, the aim is to draw
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“No One is Illegal” As a Reverse Discourse Against Deportability Global Society Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Tiina Seppälä
ABSTRACT After 2015, state authorities in many European countries actively stigmatised asylum-seekers and paperless, framing them as “illegal”. In Finland, this illegality discourse was countered by resistant non-citizen and citizen subjects at multiple levels. This article examines the ways in which the arguments presented in the “No one is illegal” campaign can be considered to constitute a reverse
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I Felt a Little Homosexual Today, So I Called in Sick: The Formation of “Reverse Discourse” by Swedish Gay Activists in the 1970s Global Society Pub Date : 2022-03-23 Mikael Baaz, Mona Lilja
ABSTRACT This article revolves around the legal and epistemic battles around “homosexuality” in Sweden in 1979, which led to the abolition of homosexuality being classified as a “disease”. Among other things, gay activists “called in sick” to the Social Insurance Agency (SIA) and claimed that they were unable to work because they were homosexuals (read as mentally disordered). The phone calls can be
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Non-liberal Internationalism: The Field of International Mission Agencies Global Society Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Monika Krause, Katherine Robinson
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of the variegated ties established across national borders by non-state actors by offering an account of the field of international mission agencies. Noting agencies’ specific goal to promote the gospel, we ask how mission agencies shape where missionaries go, whom they are trying to reach and what activities they engage in. Based on in-depth
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The Political Economy of the Weinstein Scandal Global Society Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Liam Stanley, Ellie Gore, Genevieve LeBaron, Sylvie Craig, Remi Edwards, Sophie Wall, Tom Watts
ABSTRACT The scandal surrounding Hollywood mogul and convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein has put gender-based violence (GBV) in the global media spotlight, opening up a wider public conversation about issues of sexual consent, power, and gender in the United States and beyond. In this article, we turn attention to the specific process in which systematic wrongdoing is made public and accountable. How
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Polygyny, Conflict and Gender Inequality: A Cautionary Tale Global Society Pub Date : 2022-02-19 Laura Renner, Tim Krieger
ABSTRACT What is the role of polygyny and gender inequality in explaining violent conflict? Do these variables have distinct effects only or are they also mutually reinforcing? Our paper investigates this controversial question by providing theoretical arguments as well as empirical evidence for direct and combined effects of these two variables on small-scale violent conflict. Our analysis is based
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The Business of Citizenship: Investment Citizenship Firms in Global Governance Global Society Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Sara Kalm
ABSTRACT Since the 2008 financial crisis, more and more states have started to “sell” citizenships and residence permits to the global economic elite in return for investments. This trade is mediated by transnational firms in the investment citizenship industry, who help governments design and reform the programmes, and assist the wealthy in applying for them. The objective of this article is to explore