Wanda Vrasti
Biographic Data
| ID | 1370077 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wanda Vrasti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wanda |
| FAMILY NAME | Vrasti |
| SIGNATURE | VRASTI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 155 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Introduction
In this introduction to the special section on Resilience and Solidarity, Vrasti and Michelsen explore the ambiguous and mobile relationship between these concepts, drawing on resources from political theory, before setting out the challenges that arise out of our current and apparently post-political moment. They argue that thinking through the relationship between resilience and solidarity constitutes a space for interrogation into political po…
Ethnography/Autoethnography/Autobiography
Auto/ethnography has encouraged more transparent, egalitarian and collaborative knowledge-producing practices, a sort of re-enchantment of the world of global politics with a greater diversity of voices, characters and stories. The meaning of ethnography is not entirely stable. Originating in anthropology, it quickly migrated into sociology, cultural studies and later political science, with each discipline adapting and reinterpreting its meaning…
Working in Prenzlau
Despatches from the frontline of job-market restructuring in the former GDR Länder, as residual social-democratic structures ease the downward passage of redundant workers into a newly fractious class experience
Cityzenship
How can we retain the political category of citizenship, a concept instituted firmly at the heart of European politics since the French revolution while shedding its anti-progressive baggage of exclusivity? Cityzenship, we argue, is one such possibility. It is the right to the city, the urban commons, extended to all residents, regardless of origin, identity or legality, based on the principle of ‘rightful presence,’ as expressed in slogans like …
A convergent genealogy? Space, time and the promise of horizontal politics today
While the surge in horizontalist activism of the last few years has drawn upon both Marxist and anarchist traditions, post-Marxist literature offers a useful guide for evaluating the strategic opportunities available to the movements today. Focusing on the camp and the event as its conceptual reference points, this article contrasts the relative merits of the spatial and chronological strategies of the movements, concluding ultimately in favour o…
No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded
This article focuses on the value of volunteering in producing, sustaining and legitimising forms of subjectivity and social relations congruent with the ethos of neoliberal capital. Rather than treat it as a spontaneous act of virtue, we insist that volunteerism is a carefully designed technology of government the purpose of which is to align individual conduct with neoliberal capital's double injunction of market rationality and social responsi…
"Caring" Capitalism and the Duplicity of Critique
How do individuals become emotionally invested in neoliberal ideology? Why do people passionately attach themselves to formations that are ultimately domineering and destructive? This paper brings together Foucauldian governmentality critique with autonomist Marxist writings on post-Fordist capitalism to contribute to the on-going conversation on the social reproduction of neoliberal capital. While, both bodies of theory grant subjectivity a cons…
Universal but not truly 'global
This article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of 'scaling up' a concept originally designed to describe the politics of advanced liberal societies to the international realm. In response to these charges, I argue that critics have failed to take full stock of Foucault's contribution to the study of global liberalism, which owes m…
Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Methodology and Love Writing
This rejoinder pays special attention to two of Jason Rancatore’s main points of criticism: that I advance a purist notion of ethnography and that ethnography is a data-collection method like any other. Firstly, I defend my earlier interdisciplinary reading of ethnography, arguing that, while anthropology does not maintain a monopoly over the ‘pure’ or ‘proper’ dispensation of ethnography, the history and complexity of this practice cannot be gra…
The Strange Case of Ethnography and International Relations
Over the past couple of decades a growing number of International Relations (IR) scholars have adapted and adopted ethnographic research and writing modes, hoping that ethnography would introduce an emancipatory research agenda and refurbish the discipline's parochial vestiges. This article discusses the promising and problematic implications of this move. It argues that the `ethnographic turn' in IR ignores recent anthropological literature on t…
The Strange Case of Ethnography and International Relations
Over the past couple of decades a growing number of International Relations (IR) scholars have adapted and adopted ethnographic research and writing modes, hoping that ethnography would introduce an emancipatory research agenda and refurbish the discipline's parochial vestiges. This article discusses the promising and problematic implications of this move. It argues that the `ethnographic turn' in IR ignores recent anthropological literature on t…
Cityzenship
How can we retain the political category of citizenship, a concept instituted firmly at the heart of European politics since the French revolution while shedding its anti-progressive baggage of exclusivity? Cityzenship, we argue, is one such possibility. It is the right to the city, the urban commons, extended to all residents, regardless of origin, identity or legality, based on the principle of ‘rightful presence,’ as expressed in slogans like …
Universal but not truly 'global
This article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of 'scaling up' a concept originally designed to describe the politics of advanced liberal societies to the international realm. In response to these charges, I argue that critics have failed to take full stock of Foucault's contribution to the study of global liberalism, which owes m…
No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded
This article focuses on the value of volunteering in producing, sustaining and legitimising forms of subjectivity and social relations congruent with the ethos of neoliberal capital. Rather than treat it as a spontaneous act of virtue, we insist that volunteerism is a carefully designed technology of government the purpose of which is to align individual conduct with neoliberal capital's double injunction of market rationality and social responsi…
Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Methodology and Love Writing
This rejoinder pays special attention to two of Jason Rancatore’s main points of criticism: that I advance a purist notion of ethnography and that ethnography is a data-collection method like any other. Firstly, I defend my earlier interdisciplinary reading of ethnography, arguing that, while anthropology does not maintain a monopoly over the ‘pure’ or ‘proper’ dispensation of ethnography, the history and complexity of this practice cannot be gra…
The Strange Case of Ethnography and International Relations
Over the past couple of decades a growing number of International Relations (IR) scholars have adapted and adopted ethnographic research and writing modes, hoping that ethnography would introduce an emancipatory research agenda and refurbish the discipline's parochial vestiges. This article discusses the promising and problematic implications of this move. It argues that the `ethnographic turn' in IR ignores recent anthropological literature on t…
Dr Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying about Methodology and Love Writing
This rejoinder pays special attention to two of Jason Rancatore’s main points of criticism: that I advance a purist notion of ethnography and that ethnography is a data-collection method like any other. Firstly, I defend my earlier interdisciplinary reading of ethnography, arguing that, while anthropology does not maintain a monopoly over the ‘pure’ or ‘proper’ dispensation of ethnography, the history and complexity of this practice cannot be gra…
"Caring" Capitalism and the Duplicity of Critique
How do individuals become emotionally invested in neoliberal ideology? Why do people passionately attach themselves to formations that are ultimately domineering and destructive? This paper brings together Foucauldian governmentality critique with autonomist Marxist writings on post-Fordist capitalism to contribute to the on-going conversation on the social reproduction of neoliberal capital. While, both bodies of theory grant subjectivity a cons…
Universal but not truly 'global
This article responds to issues raised about global governmentality studies by Jan Selby, Jonathan Joseph, and David Chandler, especially regarding the implications of 'scaling up' a concept originally designed to describe the politics of advanced liberal societies to the international realm. In response to these charges, I argue that critics have failed to take full stock of Foucault's contribution to the study of global liberalism, which owes m…
No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded
This article focuses on the value of volunteering in producing, sustaining and legitimising forms of subjectivity and social relations congruent with the ethos of neoliberal capital. Rather than treat it as a spontaneous act of virtue, we insist that volunteerism is a carefully designed technology of government the purpose of which is to align individual conduct with neoliberal capital's double injunction of market rationality and social responsi…
Ethnography/Autoethnography/Autobiography
Auto/ethnography has encouraged more transparent, egalitarian and collaborative knowledge-producing practices, a sort of re-enchantment of the world of global politics with a greater diversity of voices, characters and stories. The meaning of ethnography is not entirely stable. Originating in anthropology, it quickly migrated into sociology, cultural studies and later political science, with each discipline adapting and reinterpreting its meaning…
Working in Prenzlau
Despatches from the frontline of job-market restructuring in the former GDR Länder, as residual social-democratic structures ease the downward passage of redundant workers into a newly fractious class experience
Cityzenship
How can we retain the political category of citizenship, a concept instituted firmly at the heart of European politics since the French revolution while shedding its anti-progressive baggage of exclusivity? Cityzenship, we argue, is one such possibility. It is the right to the city, the urban commons, extended to all residents, regardless of origin, identity or legality, based on the principle of ‘rightful presence,’ as expressed in slogans like …
A convergent genealogy? Space, time and the promise of horizontal politics today
While the surge in horizontalist activism of the last few years has drawn upon both Marxist and anarchist traditions, post-Marxist literature offers a useful guide for evaluating the strategic opportunities available to the movements today. Focusing on the camp and the event as its conceptual reference points, this article contrasts the relative merits of the spatial and chronological strategies of the movements, concluding ultimately in favour o…
Introduction
In this introduction to the special section on Resilience and Solidarity, Vrasti and Michelsen explore the ambiguous and mobile relationship between these concepts, drawing on resources from political theory, before setting out the challenges that arise out of our current and apparently post-political moment. They argue that thinking through the relationship between resilience and solidarity constitutes a space for interrogation into political po…
Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Political economy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works)