Miriam Wenner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1398993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Wenner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Wenner |
| SIGNATURE | WENNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2840-4280 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea
The mechanisms through which voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) become effective as means of private governance and how they influence power relations in global production networks (GPNs) of certified goods are not well understood. Focussing on the last mile of VSS’ travel, we scrutinize the discursive dimension of power as it operates through the translation of Fairtrade in a local contact zone, namely Fairtrade trainings with workers at I…
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance
This article analyses the relationships between legitimacy, leadership and stability of hybrid orders in spaces of contested state authority. Complementing studies on public authority, the analysis builds on the observation that hybrid orders are often violent and unstable. The article goes beyond the one-sided views of legitimacy that focus on the legitimating registers of non-state governing authorities and which ignore for the most part the pe…
What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands
This paper seeks to understand how elites utilize toponyms to either underscore territorial claims and belonging to a nation or to undermine those claims. Analyzing the names of the Nepali flatlands, Tarai and Madhes with a focus on the latter, it shows how ambivalent meanings attached to the toponyms became instrumental in symbolic resistance against an exclusionary idea of the Nepali nation and the struggle for belonging to it. Drawing on inter…
Functions of sovereign violence
Breaking Bad’ or being good? Moral conflict and political conduct in Darjeeling/India
This paper explores the effects of moral pluralism and moral conflict on political conduct and subjectivities. Challenging cultural relativist and monist positions, but going beyond a solely pragmatist reading of South Asian politics, it displays how actors navigate between conflicting roles, domains, commitments, and values. These contradictions, I argue, have a structuring effect on politics. This is not only because attempts to juggle differen…
Legitimization through patronage? Strategies for political control beyond ethno-regional claims in Darjeeling, India
Rival Claims
Legitimization through patronage? Strategies for political control beyond ethno-regional claims in Darjeeling, India
Breaking Bad’ or being good? Moral conflict and political conduct in Darjeeling/India
This paper explores the effects of moral pluralism and moral conflict on political conduct and subjectivities. Challenging cultural relativist and monist positions, but going beyond a solely pragmatist reading of South Asian politics, it displays how actors navigate between conflicting roles, domains, commitments, and values. These contradictions, I argue, have a structuring effect on politics. This is not only because attempts to juggle differen…
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance
This article analyses the relationships between legitimacy, leadership and stability of hybrid orders in spaces of contested state authority. Complementing studies on public authority, the analysis builds on the observation that hybrid orders are often violent and unstable. The article goes beyond the one-sided views of legitimacy that focus on the legitimating registers of non-state governing authorities and which ignore for the most part the pe…
Functions of sovereign violence
Legitimization through patronage? Strategies for political control beyond ethno-regional claims in Darjeeling, India
Breaking Bad’ or being good? Moral conflict and political conduct in Darjeeling/India
This paper explores the effects of moral pluralism and moral conflict on political conduct and subjectivities. Challenging cultural relativist and monist positions, but going beyond a solely pragmatist reading of South Asian politics, it displays how actors navigate between conflicting roles, domains, commitments, and values. These contradictions, I argue, have a structuring effect on politics. This is not only because attempts to juggle differen…
What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands
This paper seeks to understand how elites utilize toponyms to either underscore territorial claims and belonging to a nation or to undermine those claims. Analyzing the names of the Nepali flatlands, Tarai and Madhes with a focus on the latter, it shows how ambivalent meanings attached to the toponyms became instrumental in symbolic resistance against an exclusionary idea of the Nepali nation and the struggle for belonging to it. Drawing on inter…
Functions of sovereign violence
Trajectories of Hybrid Governance
This article analyses the relationships between legitimacy, leadership and stability of hybrid orders in spaces of contested state authority. Complementing studies on public authority, the analysis builds on the observation that hybrid orders are often violent and unstable. The article goes beyond the one-sided views of legitimacy that focus on the legitimating registers of non-state governing authorities and which ignore for the most part the pe…
Rival Claims
Translating Fairtrade. Contact zones and discursive power in the global production network of certified Darjeeling tea
The mechanisms through which voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) become effective as means of private governance and how they influence power relations in global production networks (GPNs) of certified goods are not well understood. Focussing on the last mile of VSS’ travel, we scrutinize the discursive dimension of power as it operates through the translation of Fairtrade in a local contact zone, namely Fairtrade trainings with workers at I…
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Autonomy (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Legitimacy (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)