Valentina Carraro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Carraro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Carraro |
| SIGNATURE | CARRARO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4739-3281 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The choice is none: AI and the militarization of European research
The era of the peace dividend is long gone’, announced the President of the European Commission, (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, in a March 2025 speech to the Royal Danish Military Academy cadets. ‘The age of spheres of influence and power competition is well and truly back’, she continued. ‘Do we keep reacting to each challenge in an incremental and cautious way? Or are we ready to grasp this opportunity to build a more secure Europe? One that is pr…
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters
Purpose This forum article discusses the concept of slow disasters from Latin America, presenting different perspectives and experiences of practical research using this notion. It discusses the extent to which a focus on the “slow” temporality of disasters advances our understanding of socio-environmental processes in the region. Design/methodology/approach The article emerges from a pilot project to explore the relevance of temporality to analy…
National Human Rights Institutions as Expert Actors in Global Human Rights Governance: The Case of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Despite governments investing considerable resources in the establishment and use of expert bodies, not all expert groups are able to successfully fulfill their role, facing limitations to different aspects of operation. Drawing on a politics of expertise approach, we explore how the setup of expert bodies affects their daily functioning. We contend that, to successfully perform its expert role, a body’s expertise in practice must indeed match th…
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining
Security and Global Affairs
The C-word: How critical cartography, critical GIS and critical data studies can repoliticise disaster-related maps
Purpose Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used in disaster research and practice. While, in some cases, these practices incorporate methods inspired by critical cartography and critical GIS, they rarely engage with the theoretical discussions that animate those fields. Design/methodology/approach In this commentary, the author considers three such discussions, and draws out their relevance for disaster studies: the turn …
Of fixes and glitches: Mixing metaphors for platform urbanism
The growing influence of digital platforms on cities has captured the attention of urban scholars, marking a ‘platform pivot’ in digital geography and urban research. This article reviews emerging literature on platform urbanism, using the metaphors of the fix and the glitch as starting points from which to discuss two contrasting perspectives on the phenomenon. Rooted in Marxist political economy, fix-thinking highlights how platforms generate n…
National human rights institutions: Independent actors in global human rights governance
In an increasingly complex global human rights regime, international governmental organizations like the United Nations remain concerned with closing the human rights governance gap. In this context, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) are uniquely equipped regulatory intermediaries—they have the mandated powers to support and monitor national governments' human rights compliance, but require government cooperation to operate effectively. …
Resiliencia comunitaria en contexto de desastre por Covid-19: Resurgimiento y territorialización de las ollas comunes, el caso de Puente Alto
This paper examines the resurgence of 'ollas comunes' in the context of slow disaster for COVID-19 in Puente Alto, a municipality in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. Using the DROP model to conceptualise community disaster resilience, we investigate how local characteristics (namely, vulnerability levels and the natural, social and built environment) contribute to the development of these initiatives. First, using ArcGIS, we geolocate the ollas …
The more the better? The complementarity of United Nations institutions in the fight against torture
When the United Nations Universal Periodic Review was established in 2007, it was stressed that it should complement the work of the United Nations treaty bodies. At the same time, fears were expressed that similarities between the two procedures might lead to potentially problematic duplications or contradictions among them. To shed light on whether this is the case, this article devises a framework to assess the degree to which human rights bod…
Undoing disaster colonialism: A pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile
Purpose The authors use media research and crowdsourced mapping to document how the first wave of the pandemic (April–August 2020) affected the Mapuche, focussing on seven categories of events: territorial control, spiritual defence, food sovereignty, traditional health practices, political violence, territorial needs and solidarity, and extractivist expansion. Design/methodology/approach Research on the effects of the pandemic on the Mapuche and…
Reimagining the cartographic nation: In praise of risk taking
I read Rossetto and Lo Presti's article, ‘Reimagining the National Map’, as an invitation to develop what I call, following Eve Sedgwick, a reparative study of national cartographies. In this commentary, I enthusiastically support their call but also argue for the need to move from an appreciation of maps’ fundamental instability to a more daring engagement with the normative dimension of national mapping. Like many scholars working from a post-r…
Neoliberal urbanism and disaster vulnerability on the Chilean central coast
Grounding the digital: A comparison of Waze ‘avoid dangerous areas’ feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US
Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies
What mechanisms facilitate state compliance with human rights? This article proposes and applies a model to assess the extent to which two United Nations human rights mechanisms—the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the state reporting procedure of the treaty bodies—are perceived as capable of stimulating compliance with human rights, and why. It does so by identifying a set of goals potentially achieved by these organizations—generating pressu…
Fears of peers? Explaining peer and public shaming in global governance
This article conducts a comparative analysis of peer and public pressure in peer reviews among states. Arguing that such pressure is one increasingly important form of shaming in global politics, we seek to understand the extent to which five different peer reviews exert peer and public pressure and how possible variation among them can be explained. Our findings are based on responses to an original survey and semi-structured interviews among pa…
Electing the experts: Expertise and independence in the UN human rights treaty bodies
Independent experts are employed in international organizations to carry out a variety of functions, including conducting independent evaluations of state performance in a given policy area. In the field of human rights, a well-known example of the use of independent expertise in public organizations is that of the United Nations treaty bodies, committees of independent experts in charge of monitoring state compliance with the major United Nation…
Leaving the Doors Open or Keeping Them Closed? The Impact of Transparency on the Authority of Peer Reviews in International Organizations
Although transparency is frequently employed to enhance the legitimacy of public organizations, several scholars point to its potentially negative implications. This study analyzes the impact of transparency on the authority of peer reviews in international organizations. Authority, here conceived as rooted in legitimacy beliefs, is crucial for peer reviews to produce effects. This research is based on results from an online survey and forty-thre…
Participation and marginality on the geoweb: The politics of non-mapping on OpenStreetMap Jerusalem
Our Digital Rights to the City
‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is a small collection of articles about digital technology, data and the city. It covers a range of topics relating to the political and economic power of technologies that are now almost inescapable within the urban environment. This includes discussions surrounding security, mapping, real estate, smartphone applications and the broader idea of a ‘right to the city’ in a post-digital world. The collection is edit…
Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies
What mechanisms facilitate state compliance with human rights? This article proposes and applies a model to assess the extent to which two United Nations human rights mechanisms—the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the state reporting procedure of the treaty bodies—are perceived as capable of stimulating compliance with human rights, and why. It does so by identifying a set of goals potentially achieved by these organizations—generating pressu…
Fears of peers? Explaining peer and public shaming in global governance
This article conducts a comparative analysis of peer and public pressure in peer reviews among states. Arguing that such pressure is one increasingly important form of shaming in global politics, we seek to understand the extent to which five different peer reviews exert peer and public pressure and how possible variation among them can be explained. Our findings are based on responses to an original survey and semi-structured interviews among pa…
Of fixes and glitches: Mixing metaphors for platform urbanism
The growing influence of digital platforms on cities has captured the attention of urban scholars, marking a ‘platform pivot’ in digital geography and urban research. This article reviews emerging literature on platform urbanism, using the metaphors of the fix and the glitch as starting points from which to discuss two contrasting perspectives on the phenomenon. Rooted in Marxist political economy, fix-thinking highlights how platforms generate n…
Neoliberal urbanism and disaster vulnerability on the Chilean central coast
Participation and marginality on the geoweb: The politics of non-mapping on OpenStreetMap Jerusalem
Leaving the Doors Open or Keeping Them Closed? The Impact of Transparency on the Authority of Peer Reviews in International Organizations
Although transparency is frequently employed to enhance the legitimacy of public organizations, several scholars point to its potentially negative implications. This study analyzes the impact of transparency on the authority of peer reviews in international organizations. Authority, here conceived as rooted in legitimacy beliefs, is crucial for peer reviews to produce effects. This research is based on results from an online survey and forty-thre…
National human rights institutions: Independent actors in global human rights governance
In an increasingly complex global human rights regime, international governmental organizations like the United Nations remain concerned with closing the human rights governance gap. In this context, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) are uniquely equipped regulatory intermediaries—they have the mandated powers to support and monitor national governments' human rights compliance, but require government cooperation to operate effectively. …
The more the better? The complementarity of United Nations institutions in the fight against torture
When the United Nations Universal Periodic Review was established in 2007, it was stressed that it should complement the work of the United Nations treaty bodies. At the same time, fears were expressed that similarities between the two procedures might lead to potentially problematic duplications or contradictions among them. To shed light on whether this is the case, this article devises a framework to assess the degree to which human rights bod…
Grounding the digital: A comparison of Waze ‘avoid dangerous areas’ feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US
Our Digital Rights to the City
‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is a small collection of articles about digital technology, data and the city. It covers a range of topics relating to the political and economic power of technologies that are now almost inescapable within the urban environment. This includes discussions surrounding security, mapping, real estate, smartphone applications and the broader idea of a ‘right to the city’ in a post-digital world. The collection is edit…
Leaving the Doors Open or Keeping Them Closed? The Impact of Transparency on the Authority of Peer Reviews in International Organizations
Although transparency is frequently employed to enhance the legitimacy of public organizations, several scholars point to its potentially negative implications. This study analyzes the impact of transparency on the authority of peer reviews in international organizations. Authority, here conceived as rooted in legitimacy beliefs, is crucial for peer reviews to produce effects. This research is based on results from an online survey and forty-thre…
Participation and marginality on the geoweb: The politics of non-mapping on OpenStreetMap Jerusalem
Grounding the digital: A comparison of Waze ‘avoid dangerous areas’ feature in Jerusalem, Rio de Janeiro and the US
Promoting Compliance with Human Rights: The Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies
What mechanisms facilitate state compliance with human rights? This article proposes and applies a model to assess the extent to which two United Nations human rights mechanisms—the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and the state reporting procedure of the treaty bodies—are perceived as capable of stimulating compliance with human rights, and why. It does so by identifying a set of goals potentially achieved by these organizations—generating pressu…
Fears of peers? Explaining peer and public shaming in global governance
This article conducts a comparative analysis of peer and public pressure in peer reviews among states. Arguing that such pressure is one increasingly important form of shaming in global politics, we seek to understand the extent to which five different peer reviews exert peer and public pressure and how possible variation among them can be explained. Our findings are based on responses to an original survey and semi-structured interviews among pa…
Electing the experts: Expertise and independence in the UN human rights treaty bodies
Independent experts are employed in international organizations to carry out a variety of functions, including conducting independent evaluations of state performance in a given policy area. In the field of human rights, a well-known example of the use of independent expertise in public organizations is that of the United Nations treaty bodies, committees of independent experts in charge of monitoring state compliance with the major United Nation…
Undoing disaster colonialism: A pilot map of the pandemic's first wave in the Mapuche territories of Southern Chile
Purpose The authors use media research and crowdsourced mapping to document how the first wave of the pandemic (April–August 2020) affected the Mapuche, focussing on seven categories of events: territorial control, spiritual defence, food sovereignty, traditional health practices, political violence, territorial needs and solidarity, and extractivist expansion. Design/methodology/approach Research on the effects of the pandemic on the Mapuche and…
Reimagining the cartographic nation: In praise of risk taking
I read Rossetto and Lo Presti's article, ‘Reimagining the National Map’, as an invitation to develop what I call, following Eve Sedgwick, a reparative study of national cartographies. In this commentary, I enthusiastically support their call but also argue for the need to move from an appreciation of maps’ fundamental instability to a more daring engagement with the normative dimension of national mapping. Like many scholars working from a post-r…
Neoliberal urbanism and disaster vulnerability on the Chilean central coast
The more the better? The complementarity of United Nations institutions in the fight against torture
When the United Nations Universal Periodic Review was established in 2007, it was stressed that it should complement the work of the United Nations treaty bodies. At the same time, fears were expressed that similarities between the two procedures might lead to potentially problematic duplications or contradictions among them. To shed light on whether this is the case, this article devises a framework to assess the degree to which human rights bod…
The C-word: How critical cartography, critical GIS and critical data studies can repoliticise disaster-related maps
Purpose Mapping and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are widely used in disaster research and practice. While, in some cases, these practices incorporate methods inspired by critical cartography and critical GIS, they rarely engage with the theoretical discussions that animate those fields. Design/methodology/approach In this commentary, the author considers three such discussions, and draws out their relevance for disaster studies: the turn …
Of fixes and glitches: Mixing metaphors for platform urbanism
The growing influence of digital platforms on cities has captured the attention of urban scholars, marking a ‘platform pivot’ in digital geography and urban research. This article reviews emerging literature on platform urbanism, using the metaphors of the fix and the glitch as starting points from which to discuss two contrasting perspectives on the phenomenon. Rooted in Marxist political economy, fix-thinking highlights how platforms generate n…
National human rights institutions: Independent actors in global human rights governance
In an increasingly complex global human rights regime, international governmental organizations like the United Nations remain concerned with closing the human rights governance gap. In this context, national human rights institutions (NHRIs) are uniquely equipped regulatory intermediaries—they have the mandated powers to support and monitor national governments' human rights compliance, but require government cooperation to operate effectively. …
Resiliencia comunitaria en contexto de desastre por Covid-19: Resurgimiento y territorialización de las ollas comunes, el caso de Puente Alto
This paper examines the resurgence of 'ollas comunes' in the context of slow disaster for COVID-19 in Puente Alto, a municipality in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. Using the DROP model to conceptualise community disaster resilience, we investigate how local characteristics (namely, vulnerability levels and the natural, social and built environment) contribute to the development of these initiatives. First, using ArcGIS, we geolocate the ollas …
Latin American perspectives on slow disasters
Purpose This forum article discusses the concept of slow disasters from Latin America, presenting different perspectives and experiences of practical research using this notion. It discusses the extent to which a focus on the “slow” temporality of disasters advances our understanding of socio-environmental processes in the region. Design/methodology/approach The article emerges from a pilot project to explore the relevance of temporality to analy…
National Human Rights Institutions as Expert Actors in Global Human Rights Governance: The Case of the UN Universal Periodic Review
Despite governments investing considerable resources in the establishment and use of expert bodies, not all expert groups are able to successfully fulfill their role, facing limitations to different aspects of operation. Drawing on a politics of expertise approach, we explore how the setup of expert bodies affects their daily functioning. We contend that, to successfully perform its expert role, a body’s expertise in practice must indeed match th…
Overlapping institutions in the UN human rights system: Mutually strengthening or undermining
Security and Global Affairs
The choice is none: AI and the militarization of European research
The era of the peace dividend is long gone’, announced the President of the European Commission, (EC), Ursula von der Leyen, in a March 2025 speech to the Royal Danish Military Academy cadets. ‘The age of spheres of influence and power competition is well and truly back’, she continued. ‘Do we keep reacting to each challenge in an incremental and cautious way? Or are we ready to grasp this opportunity to build a more secure Europe? One that is pr…
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