Jaakko Heiskanen
Biographic Data
| ID | 269174 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaakko Heiskanen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaakko |
| FAMILY NAME | Heiskanen |
| SIGNATURE | HEISKANEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen Mary University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4547-5985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Motioning the International: Thinking International Relations with Movement
The “mobilities turn” across the social sciences has inspired critical engagements with the movement of people and things in international political sociology, as well as critical international relations (IR) more broadly. Yet, these engagements with the politics of varied (im)mobilities have paid less attention to the theoretical implications of motion, mobility, and movement as analytical and political tools. This article brings together a set …
Introduction: The International between History and Theory
Concept formation in historical International Relations
For a long time, International Relations’ (IR) spatiotemporal parameters could be summarized in two words: Western and modern. The recent growth of Historical IR has contributed to a dramatic extension of these spatiotemporal coordinates, extending the discipline’s gaze to places and times that had previously been neglected. A key challenge that this ‘historical turn’ presents for IR theory, and that we take up in this article, is the proper form…
Nomads and international relations: Post-Sedentarist Dialogues
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives CC BY-NC-ND licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Reflex to turn: The rise of turn-talk in International Relations
The field of International Relations (IR) is being spun around by a seemingly endless number of ‘turns’. Existing analyses of turning are few in number and predominantly concerned with the most prominent recent turns. By excavating the forgotten history of IR’s earliest turns from the 1980s and tracing the evolution of turn-talk over time, this article reveals a crucial yet overlooked internalist driver behind the phenomenon: the rise of reflexiv…
Encountering Nations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Nomads' Land: Exploring the Social and Political Life of the Nomad Category
The category of the nomad has gained a newfound salience in recent decades, ranging from public interest in 'digital nomadism' to academic debates about 'nomadic theory.' Faced with this upsurge of interest in nomadism, this collective discussion brings together five scholars of diverse theoretical and academic backgrounds to investigate the pasts, presents, and possible futures of the nomad category. The contributions excavate the conditions und…
Mind the gap: The nation form and the Kohn dichotomy
The dichotomy between civic Western nationalism and ethnic non‐Western nationalism (also known as “the Kohn dichotomy” after the historian of nationalism Hans Kohn) remains one of the most influential frameworks for understanding nationalism. It is also one of the most controversial: The binary schema has been criticised not only for its conceptual inconsistencies but also for entrenching an ethnocentric hierarchy that depicts Western nations as …
The nationalism-populism matrix
Nationalism and populism are frequently confused in popular and academic discourse alike. The aim of this article is to shed some light on the mutual entanglement of nationalism and populism by delineating the historical and structural conditions out of which the two discourses arise. Specifically, I demonstrate that nationalism and populism are symptomatic of the coupling of two political principles within the territorial frame of the modern sta…
In the Shadow of Genocide: Ethnocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and International Order
Internationally regarded as “the crime of crimes” in both legal and moral terms, the concept of genocide has towered over discussions of ethnic conflict and mass violence since the Second World War. This article shifts the focus away from genocide and onto the neglected yet illuminating conceptual politics that have unfolded in the shadow of genocide. I begin by recasting the post-war criminalization of genocide as a “strategy of containment” tha…
Found in translation: The global constitution of the modern international order
This paper brings the notion of translation into dialogue with the growing literature on international hierarchies and the historical origins of the modern international order. Leveraging on the writings of Karl Marx, I draw parallels between the exchange of commodities and the translation of linguistic signs in order to unmask the inequalities and asymmetries that pervade the practice of translation. I then deploy these theoretical insights to i…
Liminal sovereignty practices: Rethinking the inside/outside dichotomy
Sovereignty is the core concept of international relations. Almost without exception, approaches to sovereignty in IR have followed a binary framing where sovereignty is seen to consist of two components: ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ sovereignty, ‘positive’ versus ‘negative’ sovereignty, and so on. These dichotomies stem from the prevailing understanding of sovereignty as the boundary between the inside and the outside of the state. This article …
Spectra of Sovereignty: Nationalism and International Relations
This article furthers our understanding of the ontology of modern international relations by foregrounding the neglected structuring role of nationalism. Most accounts of nationalism in international relations reduce the phenomenon to a peripheral threat, whereby nationalism only seems to become relevant in moments when the international order is in crisis. In contrast, I argue that the ontology of modern international relations is inherently par…
Liminal sovereignty practices: Rethinking the inside/outside dichotomy
Sovereignty is the core concept of international relations. Almost without exception, approaches to sovereignty in IR have followed a binary framing where sovereignty is seen to consist of two components: ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ sovereignty, ‘positive’ versus ‘negative’ sovereignty, and so on. These dichotomies stem from the prevailing understanding of sovereignty as the boundary between the inside and the outside of the state. This article …
The nationalism-populism matrix
Nationalism and populism are frequently confused in popular and academic discourse alike. The aim of this article is to shed some light on the mutual entanglement of nationalism and populism by delineating the historical and structural conditions out of which the two discourses arise. Specifically, I demonstrate that nationalism and populism are symptomatic of the coupling of two political principles within the territorial frame of the modern sta…
In the Shadow of Genocide: Ethnocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and International Order
Internationally regarded as “the crime of crimes” in both legal and moral terms, the concept of genocide has towered over discussions of ethnic conflict and mass violence since the Second World War. This article shifts the focus away from genocide and onto the neglected yet illuminating conceptual politics that have unfolded in the shadow of genocide. I begin by recasting the post-war criminalization of genocide as a “strategy of containment” tha…
Reflex to turn: The rise of turn-talk in International Relations
The field of International Relations (IR) is being spun around by a seemingly endless number of ‘turns’. Existing analyses of turning are few in number and predominantly concerned with the most prominent recent turns. By excavating the forgotten history of IR’s earliest turns from the 1980s and tracing the evolution of turn-talk over time, this article reveals a crucial yet overlooked internalist driver behind the phenomenon: the rise of reflexiv…
Found in translation: The global constitution of the modern international order
This paper brings the notion of translation into dialogue with the growing literature on international hierarchies and the historical origins of the modern international order. Leveraging on the writings of Karl Marx, I draw parallels between the exchange of commodities and the translation of linguistic signs in order to unmask the inequalities and asymmetries that pervade the practice of translation. I then deploy these theoretical insights to i…
Spectra of Sovereignty: Nationalism and International Relations
This article furthers our understanding of the ontology of modern international relations by foregrounding the neglected structuring role of nationalism. Most accounts of nationalism in international relations reduce the phenomenon to a peripheral threat, whereby nationalism only seems to become relevant in moments when the international order is in crisis. In contrast, I argue that the ontology of modern international relations is inherently par…
Concept formation in historical International Relations
For a long time, International Relations’ (IR) spatiotemporal parameters could be summarized in two words: Western and modern. The recent growth of Historical IR has contributed to a dramatic extension of these spatiotemporal coordinates, extending the discipline’s gaze to places and times that had previously been neglected. A key challenge that this ‘historical turn’ presents for IR theory, and that we take up in this article, is the proper form…
Nomads and international relations: Post-Sedentarist Dialogues
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives CC BY-NC-ND licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Spectra of Sovereignty: Nationalism and International Relations
This article furthers our understanding of the ontology of modern international relations by foregrounding the neglected structuring role of nationalism. Most accounts of nationalism in international relations reduce the phenomenon to a peripheral threat, whereby nationalism only seems to become relevant in moments when the international order is in crisis. In contrast, I argue that the ontology of modern international relations is inherently par…
Found in translation: The global constitution of the modern international order
This paper brings the notion of translation into dialogue with the growing literature on international hierarchies and the historical origins of the modern international order. Leveraging on the writings of Karl Marx, I draw parallels between the exchange of commodities and the translation of linguistic signs in order to unmask the inequalities and asymmetries that pervade the practice of translation. I then deploy these theoretical insights to i…
Liminal sovereignty practices: Rethinking the inside/outside dichotomy
Sovereignty is the core concept of international relations. Almost without exception, approaches to sovereignty in IR have followed a binary framing where sovereignty is seen to consist of two components: ‘internal’ versus ‘external’ sovereignty, ‘positive’ versus ‘negative’ sovereignty, and so on. These dichotomies stem from the prevailing understanding of sovereignty as the boundary between the inside and the outside of the state. This article …
The nationalism-populism matrix
Nationalism and populism are frequently confused in popular and academic discourse alike. The aim of this article is to shed some light on the mutual entanglement of nationalism and populism by delineating the historical and structural conditions out of which the two discourses arise. Specifically, I demonstrate that nationalism and populism are symptomatic of the coupling of two political principles within the territorial frame of the modern sta…
In the Shadow of Genocide: Ethnocide, Ethnic Cleansing, and International Order
Internationally regarded as “the crime of crimes” in both legal and moral terms, the concept of genocide has towered over discussions of ethnic conflict and mass violence since the Second World War. This article shifts the focus away from genocide and onto the neglected yet illuminating conceptual politics that have unfolded in the shadow of genocide. I begin by recasting the post-war criminalization of genocide as a “strategy of containment” tha…
Mind the gap: The nation form and the Kohn dichotomy
The dichotomy between civic Western nationalism and ethnic non‐Western nationalism (also known as “the Kohn dichotomy” after the historian of nationalism Hans Kohn) remains one of the most influential frameworks for understanding nationalism. It is also one of the most controversial: The binary schema has been criticised not only for its conceptual inconsistencies but also for entrenching an ethnocentric hierarchy that depicts Western nations as …
Nomads and international relations: Post-Sedentarist Dialogues
© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an open access article under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives CC BY-NC-ND licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Reflex to turn: The rise of turn-talk in International Relations
The field of International Relations (IR) is being spun around by a seemingly endless number of ‘turns’. Existing analyses of turning are few in number and predominantly concerned with the most prominent recent turns. By excavating the forgotten history of IR’s earliest turns from the 1980s and tracing the evolution of turn-talk over time, this article reveals a crucial yet overlooked internalist driver behind the phenomenon: the rise of reflexiv…
Encountering Nations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Nomads' Land: Exploring the Social and Political Life of the Nomad Category
The category of the nomad has gained a newfound salience in recent decades, ranging from public interest in 'digital nomadism' to academic debates about 'nomadic theory.' Faced with this upsurge of interest in nomadism, this collective discussion brings together five scholars of diverse theoretical and academic backgrounds to investigate the pasts, presents, and possible futures of the nomad category. The contributions excavate the conditions und…
Introduction: The International between History and Theory
Concept formation in historical International Relations
For a long time, International Relations’ (IR) spatiotemporal parameters could be summarized in two words: Western and modern. The recent growth of Historical IR has contributed to a dramatic extension of these spatiotemporal coordinates, extending the discipline’s gaze to places and times that had previously been neglected. A key challenge that this ‘historical turn’ presents for IR theory, and that we take up in this article, is the proper form…
Motioning the International: Thinking International Relations with Movement
The “mobilities turn” across the social sciences has inspired critical engagements with the movement of people and things in international political sociology, as well as critical international relations (IR) more broadly. Yet, these engagements with the politics of varied (im)mobilities have paid less attention to the theoretical implications of motion, mobility, and movement as analytical and political tools. This article brings together a set …
Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (8 works) · International relations (7 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sovereignty (4 works)