Suzan Ilcan
Biographic Data
| ID | 235392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzan Ilcan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ilcan |
| SIGNATURE | ILCAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Windsor |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3809-261X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 650 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments
Many displaced people experience interminable vulnerability, protracted waiting, and persistent frictions and uncertainties during their migratory journeys to seek protection. These journeys also comprise little‐studied practices that displaced people use to mediate the atmospheres of hostile border environments. I refer to these practices as ‘mediating atmospheric bordering’. The paper contributes to conversations on affective atmospheres and bo…
Nested Borders: Migration, Sovereignty and Liminality along the Green Line in Cyprus
Cyprus’ 2004 accession to the European Union (EU) transformed the significance of the ‘Green Line’ – the United Nations (UN)-monitored buffer zone that has separated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since the island’s 1974 partition. Today, this zone serves as a de facto external EU border, dividing the Republic of Cyprus (RoC) from the unrecognised Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). This paper adopts a multiscalar approach to study the geopol…
Transversal Community-Building: Fostering Women's Collaboration and Solidarity Across Differences in Cyprus
This article addresses the transversal dimensions of community-building in the European migration context that are responses to refugees' inadequate access to rights and resources. The main argument is that women-led community-building underlines how women refugees and women volunteers supporting refugees engage their agency to foster dialogue, collaboration, and solidarity across power imbalances and social differences. We refer to these process…
Bordering human rights: Displaced peoples’ experiences of containment and human rights violations
Contributing to debates in human rights and critical migration and border studies, this article focuses on how certain bordering practices limit displaced people from accessing universally recognised human rights. Specifically, it draws attention to some key bordering practices that restrict the physical mobility of displaced people in Turkey and Mexico. These two countries have become responsible for offering protection to many displaced people …
Borderland Porosities: Migratory Journeys and Migrant Politics in Lebanon and Turkey
This article focuses on displaced peoples’ migratory journeys to the borderlands of Lebanon and Turkey. Building on a selection of ethnographic, interview, policy, and programme materials, it advances the argument that Syrian encounters with these borderlands encompass multidirectional movements and context-specific and fluid processes imbricated in relations of power that often stimulate migrant politics, processes that involve, what we term, bo…
Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away
Migration, Culture and Identity: Making Home Away
The Precarious Lives of Syrians: Migration, Citizenship, and Temporary Protection in Turkey
On Critical Localism and the Privatisation of Refuge: The Resettlement of Syrian Newcomers in Canada
Increases in displacement and forced migration is an enduring feature of many countries. Resettlement is a policy response to displacement, that relocates refugees from a country of asylum to a safe third country. Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program is noteworthy. It allows non-profit organizations and volunteer groups to support newcomers during their first year in Canada and has especially aided resettlement of Syrian refugees on a…
Magic and Social Domination in a Rural Turkish Community
A striking feature of social relations in a northwestern Turkish community occurs in the sphere of moral or religious life. While there are many accounts of religious life in the context of official Islamic doctrine, a wide range of less official beliefs and activities are practised along with formai Islam in the community of Sakli. Magic or büyü designates a range of activities with aims and purposes which do not emanate from the authority of or…
The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations
Building on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the Syrian civil war. It advances the argument that during peoples' fragmented journeys to seek safety and protection within and outside of Syria, which are often punctuated by stops and starts, they encou…
The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict
The past several decades have witnessed diverse techniques of border control and migrant experiences and negotiations of border controls. This article focusses on the spatio-temporal dimensions of border control that underscore the deceleration of migration movements and stimulate certain kinds of agency, processes that bring attention to what is referred to as the borderization of waiting. Drawing on and contributing to critical migration and bo…
The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: Leaving No-one Behind?
The Politics of Protection: The Right to Food in Protracted Refugee Situations
This article focuses on the politics of refugee protection, with attention given to issues of the right to food and food insecurity in two protracted refugee camps: Osire in Namibia and Nakivale in Uganda. In our analysis, we identify a key tension at the heart of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and its partners’ understanding and practices of protection: between a minimalist understanding of human rights (the right to live or s…
The humanitarian-citizenship nexus: The politics of citizenship training in self-reliance strategies for refugees
Drawing on and contributing to critical citizenship and migration studies literature, this paper focuses on humanitarian aid and citizenship training in self-reliance schemes, and pays particular attention to Uganda’s self-reliance strategy and the case of Nakivale Refugee Settlement (hereafter Nakivale) in South West Uganda. I argue that citizenship training through self-reliance schemes is incompletely forged in Nakivale, and is indicative of t…
Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
The Affective Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership, Capacity-Building, and Big Data
In this article, we argue that whilst international studies broadly construed has benefitted in recent years from a turn to theories of affect, a notable absentee in this regard has been critical accounts of international development. We suggest that theories of affect have much to contribute to an understanding of a set of international policies and practices that seek to remake individual and collective capacities to act in the pursuit of ‘deve…
Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
We are in the age of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). Two years ago this journal published a special forum on the transition away from the previous UN millennium development
Syrian refugees in Turkey: Pathways to Precarity, Differential Inclusion, and Negotiated Citizenship Rights
This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity, differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey has become host to over 2.7 million Syrian refugees who live in government-run refugee camps and urban centres. Drawing on critical citizenship and migration studies literature, the paper emphasises the Turkish government's central legal and policy frameworks that pr…
The Syrian refugee crisis: The EU-Turkey ‘deal’ and temporary protection
Living with insecurity: Food security, resilience, and the World Food Programme (WFP)
As the world’s largest humanitarian organization fighting hunger, and primary expositor of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Food Programme’s (WFP) activities offer a unique opportunity to examine the contemporary food-security nexus. In this article, we examine the ‘turn’ toward resilience in the practices and policies of the WFP. Our analysis emphasizes that resilience is one of a family of security strategies through which the W…
Enacting the Millennium Development Goals: Political Technologies of Calculation and the Counter-calculation of Poverty in Namibia
This paper advances that the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) act as a governmentality that brings with them assemblages of international and national policies and practices of poverty reduction. These assemblages are characterized by neoliberal rationalities that shape relationships and practices with and of the poor themselves by repositioning and deploying the values and norms of the market as the principal means for the establishment of de…
Resiliency Humanitarianism: Responsibilizing Refugees through Humanitarian Emergency Governance in the Camp
Scholarly interest in the camp has grown over recent years, inspired in part by Giorgio Agamben's (1995; Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life) work. Scholarship in this area has built on Agamben's view of the camp as an abject space of exception and bare life but also, in reaction to this view, has theorized the camp as a political and social space which constitutes refugees and displaced persons as political subjects, active in demanding ri…
Tourism for development and the new global aid regime
This article analyses the new global aid regime’s championing of tourism as a solution to poverty as a continuum of colonial governmentalities. A key focus is an examination of tourism for development in Namibia, particularly the role of conservancies and the Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) programme in this promotion. We argue that this tourism promotion in Namibia is a vital example of tourism for development and part of an …
Governing failure: Development, aid and audit in Haiti
This paper analyses practices for monitoring, tracking and assessing the international aid and reconstruction efforts in Haiti in an attempt to ‘build back better’ from the devastation of the January 2010 earthquake. We suggest that aid and reconstruction efforts filter through an international network of development organisations. This network also acts as a governing auspice, overseeing the transformation of Haiti from a ‘failed state’ to a str…
Syrian refugees in Turkey: Pathways to Precarity, Differential Inclusion, and Negotiated Citizenship Rights
This article addresses the question of how to understand the relation among precarity, differential inclusion, and citizenship status with regard to Syrian refugees in Turkey. Turkey has become host to over 2.7 million Syrian refugees who live in government-run refugee camps and urban centres. Drawing on critical citizenship and migration studies literature, the paper emphasises the Turkish government's central legal and policy frameworks that pr…
Community government: Voluntary Agencies, Social Justice, and the Responsibilization of Citizens1
This paper analyzes the ways in which the Canadian voluntary sector has been created as a 'community of service providers'. Drawing upon a governmentality perspective, we illustrate how governmental interventions have been largely successful in carrying out the voluntary agencies' responsibilization efforts within the sector. We trace this responsibilization project through fiscal policies and programmatic schemes, characteristic of advanced libe…
Privatizing Responsibility: Public Sector Reform under Neoliberal Government
À la lumière des réformes du secteur public au Canada et ailleurs, l'auteure se concentre sur le déplacement des priorités des responsabilités sociales vers les responsabilités privées et soulève de nouvelles questions sur les forces de l'entreprise privée et des partenariats reposant sur les mécanismes du marché. D'après elle, dans les programmes néo-libéraux du gouvernement, la responsabilité de la privatisation est liée à trois principaux amén…
Resiliency Humanitarianism: Responsibilizing Refugees through Humanitarian Emergency Governance in the Camp
Scholarly interest in the camp has grown over recent years, inspired in part by Giorgio Agamben's (1995; Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life) work. Scholarship in this area has built on Agamben's view of the camp as an abject space of exception and bare life but also, in reaction to this view, has theorized the camp as a political and social space which constitutes refugees and displaced persons as political subjects, active in demanding ri…
The Syrian refugee crisis: The EU-Turkey ‘deal’ and temporary protection
Developmentalities and Calculative Practices: The Millennium Development Goals
This paper focuses on wide‐ranging governmental discourses that enable new ways of shaping social and economic affairs in the field of development. Directing particular attention to the Millennium Development Goals, we refer to these discourses as developmentalities. As a form of governmentality produced through these Goals, developmentalities draw on the turn of the century to recast certain development problems and offer reformulated solutions …
Voluntary Labor, Responsible Citizenship, and International NGOs
This article focuses on the relationship between volunteer labor and responsible citizenship in an international NGO context. Situated within critical assessments of the voluntary sector, the article examines how voluntary labor is increasingly shaped and steered by the initiatives of advanced liberalism. Under advanced liberalism, diverse tasks of government are redirected from state bureaucracy and distributed to various organizations, agencies…
Capacity-Building: The Neoliberal Governance of Development
In the post-cold war era of trade liberalization, a wide range of new economic and social processes is influencing the mechanisms of policy decision-making and the transformations of governance at international, national, and local levels. We consider many of these developments as taking place within a form of governance that can be referred to as "neoliberal governance." This form of governance involves new ways of thinking about governing popul…
Making Food Count: Expert Knowledge and Global Technologies of Government
Un grand nombre d'agences internationales ont mis sur pied des « rationalités » et des programmes mondiaux pour gérer des conduites sociales et économiques. En prenant comme point de mire L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour L'alimentation et L'agriculture, cet article examine la gestion à L'échelle mondiale de 1'agro‐alimentaire dans le cadre de ce que nous appelons les technologies mondiales de gouvernance. Nous nous appuyons sur les idées de …
A World Free From Hunger: Global Imagination and Governance in the Age of Scientific Management
Taking the study of food governance beyond the nation-state, this paper shows how food and agriculture have been globally re-imagined and ruled 'at a distance' by the mandates of scientific management. The authors explore how, in the early post-war period, food became mobilized and reassembled across borders in ways that not only met the new demands of international markets but also fed the expansion and authority of international organizations t…
Governing through empowerment: Oxfam's global reform and trade campaigns
Within the context of globalization and governmentality studies, this essay analyses Oxfam's global reform and trade campaigns as a form of governance. These campaigns are based on advanced liberal programmes of empowerment which aim to shape poverty relations and the conduct of the poor in the ‘developing’ world. Oxfam's campaign to ‘Make Trade Fair’ and its influential report on ‘Rigged rules and double standards’ serve as a basis from which to…
Spaces of Governance: Gender and public sector restructuring in Canada
While the literature on economic restructuring tends to understand neoliberalism as a uniform governance ideology or economic-political reality, we suggest that it is more useful to understand neoliberalism as a loosely knit assemblage of programmatic efforts that consist of various political rationalities and practices of rule that aim to manage social conduct. The paper focuses on the various ways that these efforts are connected to complex sta…
Marriage Regulation and the Rhetoric of Alliance in Northwestern Turkey
Research on Turkish marriage practices emphasizes the importance of endogamy (i.e., marriage within the same clan or lineage, sect, community, group, village, or neighborhood) to protect common assets, preserve household alliances, or lessen frictions (e.g., Kagitcibasi(2) 1982:6-7; Meeker 1976; Magnarella and Turkdogan 1973; Magnarella 1974, 1979; Keyser 1974; Stirling 1965). In a study of a northwestem Turkish community (Sakli, pseudonym), I fo…
The borderization of waiting: Negotiating borders and migration in the 2011 Syrian civil conflict
The past several decades have witnessed diverse techniques of border control and migrant experiences and negotiations of border controls. This article focusses on the spatio-temporal dimensions of border control that underscore the deceleration of migration movements and stimulate certain kinds of agency, processes that bring attention to what is referred to as the borderization of waiting. Drawing on and contributing to critical migration and bo…
Citizenship, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Despite continuous struggles on the part of disenfranchised and marginalized peoples throughout the world, and various initiatives undertaken by national states and international organizations, soc
Global Governing Organizations: Order-Building and Waste Management
This article concerns how particular global governing organizations are involved in global order-building. Drawing upon studies of globalization and governmentality, it suggests that global governing organizations generate multi faceted connections among peoples and territories, and engender new dislocations and social injustices for various groups and populations. Through the use of archival research, policy documents and field interviews with U…
The humanitarian-citizenship nexus: The politics of citizenship training in self-reliance strategies for refugees
Drawing on and contributing to critical citizenship and migration studies literature, this paper focuses on humanitarian aid and citizenship training in self-reliance schemes, and pays particular attention to Uganda’s self-reliance strategy and the case of Nakivale Refugee Settlement (hereafter Nakivale) in South West Uganda. I argue that citizenship training through self-reliance schemes is incompletely forged in Nakivale, and is indicative of t…
The Affective Politics of the Sustainable Development Goals: Partnership, Capacity-Building, and Big Data
In this article, we argue that whilst international studies broadly construed has benefitted in recent years from a turn to theories of affect, a notable absentee in this regard has been critical accounts of international development. We suggest that theories of affect have much to contribute to an understanding of a set of international policies and practices that seek to remake individual and collective capacities to act in the pursuit of ‘deve…
Responsible Expertise: Governing the Uncertain Subjects of Biotechnology
Viewing biotechnology as a lens through which to analyse new ways of governing populations, in this article we consider how the United Nations has globally communicated biotechnology's risks, uncertainties and opportunities to develop and expand what we refer to as 'responsible expertise'. We specifically examine the activities of UNESCO and the FAO to show how these organizations operate as agencies of rule by, on the one hand, marshalling exper…
The Border Harms of Human Displacement: Harsh Landscapes and Human Rights Violations
Building on the work of critical migration and border studies, particularly the scholarship on the suffering of displaced people through border-related violence, the article focuses on bordering practices and human rights violations relating to the Syrian civil war. It advances the argument that during peoples' fragmented journeys to seek safety and protection within and outside of Syria, which are often punctuated by stops and starts, they encou…
Leaving No-one Behind? The Politics of Destination in the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
We are in the age of the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). Two years ago this journal published a special forum on the transition away from the previous UN millennium development
In the Name of Human Rights: Global Organizations and Participating Citizens
As a contribution to the growing literature on citizenship and advanced liberal governance, this paper focuses on how citizens—especially the poor—are brought into new policy platforms and new social relationships of responsibility, accountability, and participation. In making specific empirical reference to a range of global organizations and their poverty reduction initiatives, the analysis emphasizes the diverse ways in which individuals are g…
The Folding of Liberal Government: Contract Governance and the Transformation of the Public Service in Canada
“Supply correct abstract” Despite renewed interest in the Schmittian problematic of the exception as the constitutive principle of the political, the full significance of Schmitt's political philosophy remains underestimated. Starting from Schmitt's account of the relation between the constituted order and its constitutive principle, the decision on exception
On Critical Localism and the Privatisation of Refuge: The Resettlement of Syrian Newcomers in Canada
Increases in displacement and forced migration is an enduring feature of many countries. Resettlement is a policy response to displacement, that relocates refugees from a country of asylum to a safe third country. Canada’s Private Sponsorship of Refugees Program is noteworthy. It allows non-profit organizations and volunteer groups to support newcomers during their first year in Canada and has especially aided resettlement of Syrian refugees on a…
Governing Peace: Global Rationalities of Security and Unesco's Culture of Peace Campaign
IntroductionThis essay is concerned with the relationship between governance and peace, and explores how campaigns for are being developed on scales. Keeping in mind that international agencies have history of rendering legitimacy for the deportment of other powerful agents, we examine one international organization that mobilizes initiatives. We illustrate how these initiatives constitute multitude of plans to shape the conduct of individuals, g…
Peasant Struggles and Social Change: Migration, Households and Gender in a Rural Turkish Society
Peasant Struggles and Social Change: Migration, Households and Gender in a Rural Turkish Society
This article sheds light on the interrelationship of seasonal migration, subsistence production and peasant relations in a community (Sakli) located in Turkey's northwestern countryside. Most studies argue that rural outmigration is either an adaptation to persistent unemployment or a phenomenon resulting from pressures and counterpressures in the social relations of production. These approaches tend to overlook the specific features of rural cul…
Marriage Regulation and the Rhetoric of Alliance in Northwestern Turkey
Research on Turkish marriage practices emphasizes the importance of endogamy (i.e., marriage within the same clan or lineage, sect, community, group, village, or neighborhood) to protect common assets, preserve household alliances, or lessen frictions (e.g., Kagitcibasi(2) 1982:6-7; Meeker 1976; Magnarella and Turkdogan 1973; Magnarella 1974, 1979; Keyser 1974; Stirling 1965). In a study of a northwestem Turkish community (Sakli, pseudonym), I fo…
Fragmentary Encounters in a Moral World: Household Power Relations and Gender Politics
Despite numerous studies of the interrelations among households, gender politics, and power contestations, more attention needs to be given to how specific cultural beliefs and practices influence these social spheres. This article aims to shed light on how moral values in rural Turkey shape household processes and mask relations of domination and subordination. The concept of moral values(2) is used here to refer to commonly held beliefs concern…
Occupying the Margins On Spacing Gender and Gendering Space
The traditional enclosures of households, schools, and factories are well-known sites of discipline and confinement. In counter-distinction to these sites, this paper analyzes the marginal spaces of gender practices and habitable relations. The notion of marginal space generally supposes that we think in terms of relations of liminality. Conceptualizing gender relations in the context of liminality not only renews an awareness of space as a dynam…
Social Spaces and the Micropolitics of Differentiation: An Example from Northwestern Turkey
Through a focus on the forging of social spaces through difference, this essay shows how the concept of stranger looms large and forms a critical part of people's lives in the ethnographic context of northwestern Turkey. It explores how the unfamiliar is thought of in diverse ways, through the methodological techniques of either vision, reason, or empathy. In this regard, encounters with strangers are not merely about relations between self and o…
Mapping Populations: The United Nations, Globalization, and Engendered Spaces, 1948–1960
Over the last hundred years, we in the more favored parts of the world have been doing all that we could to displace [the] attitude of resignation and feeling of inability to do anything about such circumstances [“poverty and disease and ignorance”]. We sent missionaries throughout the world preaching the gospel of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man and converting a lot of people in the underdeveloped areas of the world to a convict…
Assemblages: Space and Sociation
Longing in Belonging: The Cultural Politics of Settlement
The mobilization of people, populations, and places—and the social interrelations of space and time, memory and longing, and the global and local—are uniquely analyzed in this fascinating study. Instead of viewing social and cultural relations through the lenses of rigid institutions, fixed territories, or rooted communities, Ilcan focuses on mobile sites to explore the cultural politics of settlement. This book examines the social relations of l…
Making Food Count: Expert Knowledge and Global Technologies of Government
Un grand nombre d'agences internationales ont mis sur pied des « rationalités » et des programmes mondiaux pour gérer des conduites sociales et économiques. En prenant comme point de mire L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour L'alimentation et L'agriculture, cet article examine la gestion à L'échelle mondiale de 1'agro‐alimentaire dans le cadre de ce que nous appelons les technologies mondiales de gouvernance. Nous nous appuyons sur les idées de …
A World Free From Hunger: Global Imagination and Governance in the Age of Scientific Management
Taking the study of food governance beyond the nation-state, this paper shows how food and agriculture have been globally re-imagined and ruled 'at a distance' by the mandates of scientific management. The authors explore how, in the early post-war period, food became mobilized and reassembled across borders in ways that not only met the new demands of international markets but also fed the expansion and authority of international organizations t…
Post-Modernism and the Ethical Subject
Writing across the disciplines of sociology, literature, film, anthropology, and museology, the contributors examine the way in which radical postmodern shifts around knowledge and value have mobilized new relations between ourselves and others and transformed a range of cultural practices. This volume includes philosophical reflections and essays on museums and memory, visual culture, and relations with the other. Postmodernism and the Ethical S…
Postmodernism and the Ethical Subject
Capacity-Building: The Neoliberal Governance of Development
In the post-cold war era of trade liberalization, a wide range of new economic and social processes is influencing the mechanisms of policy decision-making and the transformations of governance at international, national, and local levels. We consider many of these developments as taking place within a form of governance that can be referred to as "neoliberal governance." This form of governance involves new ways of thinking about governing popul…
Community government: Voluntary Agencies, Social Justice, and the Responsibilization of Citizens1
This paper analyzes the ways in which the Canadian voluntary sector has been created as a 'community of service providers'. Drawing upon a governmentality perspective, we illustrate how governmental interventions have been largely successful in carrying out the voluntary agencies' responsibilization efforts within the sector. We trace this responsibilization project through fiscal policies and programmatic schemes, characteristic of advanced libe…
The Folding of Liberal Government: Contract Governance and the Transformation of the Public Service in Canada
“Supply correct abstract” Despite renewed interest in the Schmittian problematic of the exception as the constitutive principle of the political, the full significance of Schmitt's political philosophy remains underestimated. Starting from Schmitt's account of the relation between the constituted order and its constitutive principle, the decision on exception
Governing through empowerment: Oxfam's global reform and trade campaigns
Within the context of globalization and governmentality studies, this essay analyses Oxfam's global reform and trade campaigns as a form of governance. These campaigns are based on advanced liberal programmes of empowerment which aim to shape poverty relations and the conduct of the poor in the ‘developing’ world. Oxfam's campaign to ‘Make Trade Fair’ and its influential report on ‘Rigged rules and double standards’ serve as a basis from which to…
Voluntary Labor, Responsible Citizenship, and International NGOs
This article focuses on the relationship between volunteer labor and responsible citizenship in an international NGO context. Situated within critical assessments of the voluntary sector, the article examines how voluntary labor is increasingly shaped and steered by the initiatives of advanced liberalism. Under advanced liberalism, diverse tasks of government are redirected from state bureaucracy and distributed to various organizations, agencies…
In the Name of Human Rights: Global Organizations and Participating Citizens
As a contribution to the growing literature on citizenship and advanced liberal governance, this paper focuses on how citizens—especially the poor—are brought into new policy platforms and new social relationships of responsibility, accountability, and participation. In making specific empirical reference to a range of global organizations and their poverty reduction initiatives, the analysis emphasizes the diverse ways in which individuals are g…
Citizenship, Human Rights, and Social Justice
Despite continuous struggles on the part of disenfranchised and marginalized peoples throughout the world, and various initiatives undertaken by national states and international organizations, soc
Governing Peace: Global Rationalities of Security and Unesco's Culture of Peace Campaign
IntroductionThis essay is concerned with the relationship between governance and peace, and explores how campaigns for are being developed on scales. Keeping in mind that international agencies have history of rendering legitimacy for the deportment of other powerful agents, we examine one international organization that mobilizes initiatives. We illustrate how these initiatives constitute multitude of plans to shape the conduct of individuals, g…
Global Governing Organizations: Order-Building and Waste Management
This article concerns how particular global governing organizations are involved in global order-building. Drawing upon studies of globalization and governmentality, it suggests that global governing organizations generate multi faceted connections among peoples and territories, and engender new dislocations and social injustices for various groups and populations. Through the use of archival research, policy documents and field interviews with U…
Dedication: Iris Marion Young, 1949-2006
and a pioneering feminist philosopher who made groundbreaking contributions to political philosophy and phenomenology died on
Spaces of Governance: Gender and public sector restructuring in Canada
While the literature on economic restructuring tends to understand neoliberalism as a uniform governance ideology or economic-political reality, we suggest that it is more useful to understand neoliberalism as a loosely knit assemblage of programmatic efforts that consist of various political rationalities and practices of rule that aim to manage social conduct. The paper focuses on the various ways that these efforts are connected to complex sta…
Responsible Expertise: Governing the Uncertain Subjects of Biotechnology
Viewing biotechnology as a lens through which to analyse new ways of governing populations, in this article we consider how the United Nations has globally communicated biotechnology's risks, uncertainties and opportunities to develop and expand what we refer to as 'responsible expertise'. We specifically examine the activities of UNESCO and the FAO to show how these organizations operate as agencies of rule by, on the one hand, marshalling exper…
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