Wolfgang Minatti
Biographic Data
| ID | 296437 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Minatti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Minatti |
| SIGNATURE | MINATTI W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5374-9950 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
It takes three to tango
Why do civilians’ perceptions of the legitimacy of armed actors vary locally during civil war? Existing scholarship grounds legitimacy in the resonance between armed actors’ justifications and civilians’ beliefs, but struggles to explain why legitimacy frequently diverges across villages facing similar actors and conditions. This article argues that understanding wartime legitimacy requires attention to how legitimation processes are shaped by ar…
Self-Legitimation as a Bureaucratic Tool
Starting from the early 2000s, the European Union (EU) has increasingly portrayed itself as a global champion for children’s rights. At the same time, in its initial agenda setting, the organisation focused mainly on children’s rights outside the EU. Only recently, it fully committed itself to ensuring children’s rights within the union, for instance, with the adoption of the European Child Guarantee in 2021. What explains this shift? Combining p…
Beyond vulnerable populations
This introductory note to the special issue on vulnerability and fieldwork provides a critical overview of how the concept of vulnerability has been employed in fieldwork literature and argues for a deeper exploration of its implications. Moving away from the notion of 'vulnerable populations' as the primary angle of approach, we emphasise that vulnerability is not a static trait but a dynamic and contextual experience. We then highlight its crit…
Being affected
As ethics of fieldwork gain prominence, discussions in qualitative methods have increasingly focused on the relationship between vulnerability and fieldwork practices. Existing literature provides ethical prescriptions and safety recommendations for fieldworkers in 'dangerous places'. However, it falls short of addressing the analytic stakes created by experiences of vulnerability in the field. This is problematic because it limits the fieldworke…
Legitimate governance in international politics
How do governing actors in international politics become legitimised? Current approaches to the study of legitimation do not fully account for the complexities of governance in contemporary international and global politics because they pre-specify ‘sources’ of legitimacy and treat change in audience expectations towards rightful rule as exogenous to legitimation processes. Instead, this article synthesises existing models of legitimation with re…
Whither Willkommenskultur ? National identity discourses and the arrival of refugees in Germany in 2015/16
Published online: 08 January 2024
On assistants and researchers
As field researchers have increasingly explored the methodological 'backstage' of their fieldwork, the relationship between researcher and assistant has come to the fore. While the literature has discussed gender, coloniality, and exploitation inherent to such work arrangements, less has been written about how the relation conditions and is conditioned by experiences of vulnerability. In this article, an assistant and a researcher address this ga…
A Key Success Factor
Published online: 20 October 2023
Concepts of Legitimacy
Revisiting the US-led counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, we examine to what extent the concepts of legitimacy of the Taliban and the US counterinsurgents showed congruence with pre-existing Afghan notions of legitimacy. We move beyond dominant approaches of social contract theory and materialist legitimacy by using a threefold model of legitimacy to assess the different concepts of legitimacy. Both the Taliban and the US, we argue, diverg…
Being affected
As ethics of fieldwork gain prominence, discussions in qualitative methods have increasingly focused on the relationship between vulnerability and fieldwork practices. Existing literature provides ethical prescriptions and safety recommendations for fieldworkers in 'dangerous places'. However, it falls short of addressing the analytic stakes created by experiences of vulnerability in the field. This is problematic because it limits the fieldworke…
A Key Success Factor
Published online: 20 October 2023
Legitimate governance in international politics
How do governing actors in international politics become legitimised? Current approaches to the study of legitimation do not fully account for the complexities of governance in contemporary international and global politics because they pre-specify ‘sources’ of legitimacy and treat change in audience expectations towards rightful rule as exogenous to legitimation processes. Instead, this article synthesises existing models of legitimation with re…
Concepts of Legitimacy
Revisiting the US-led counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, we examine to what extent the concepts of legitimacy of the Taliban and the US counterinsurgents showed congruence with pre-existing Afghan notions of legitimacy. We move beyond dominant approaches of social contract theory and materialist legitimacy by using a threefold model of legitimacy to assess the different concepts of legitimacy. Both the Taliban and the US, we argue, diverg…
Whither Willkommenskultur ? National identity discourses and the arrival of refugees in Germany in 2015/16
Published online: 08 January 2024
On assistants and researchers
As field researchers have increasingly explored the methodological 'backstage' of their fieldwork, the relationship between researcher and assistant has come to the fore. While the literature has discussed gender, coloniality, and exploitation inherent to such work arrangements, less has been written about how the relation conditions and is conditioned by experiences of vulnerability. In this article, an assistant and a researcher address this ga…
Concepts of Legitimacy
Revisiting the US-led counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan, we examine to what extent the concepts of legitimacy of the Taliban and the US counterinsurgents showed congruence with pre-existing Afghan notions of legitimacy. We move beyond dominant approaches of social contract theory and materialist legitimacy by using a threefold model of legitimacy to assess the different concepts of legitimacy. Both the Taliban and the US, we argue, diverg…
A Key Success Factor
Published online: 20 October 2023
Legitimate governance in international politics
How do governing actors in international politics become legitimised? Current approaches to the study of legitimation do not fully account for the complexities of governance in contemporary international and global politics because they pre-specify ‘sources’ of legitimacy and treat change in audience expectations towards rightful rule as exogenous to legitimation processes. Instead, this article synthesises existing models of legitimation with re…
Whither Willkommenskultur ? National identity discourses and the arrival of refugees in Germany in 2015/16
Published online: 08 January 2024
On assistants and researchers
As field researchers have increasingly explored the methodological 'backstage' of their fieldwork, the relationship between researcher and assistant has come to the fore. While the literature has discussed gender, coloniality, and exploitation inherent to such work arrangements, less has been written about how the relation conditions and is conditioned by experiences of vulnerability. In this article, an assistant and a researcher address this ga…
Self-Legitimation as a Bureaucratic Tool
Starting from the early 2000s, the European Union (EU) has increasingly portrayed itself as a global champion for children’s rights. At the same time, in its initial agenda setting, the organisation focused mainly on children’s rights outside the EU. Only recently, it fully committed itself to ensuring children’s rights within the union, for instance, with the adoption of the European Child Guarantee in 2021. What explains this shift? Combining p…
Beyond vulnerable populations
This introductory note to the special issue on vulnerability and fieldwork provides a critical overview of how the concept of vulnerability has been employed in fieldwork literature and argues for a deeper exploration of its implications. Moving away from the notion of 'vulnerable populations' as the primary angle of approach, we emphasise that vulnerability is not a static trait but a dynamic and contextual experience. We then highlight its crit…
Being affected
As ethics of fieldwork gain prominence, discussions in qualitative methods have increasingly focused on the relationship between vulnerability and fieldwork practices. Existing literature provides ethical prescriptions and safety recommendations for fieldworkers in 'dangerous places'. However, it falls short of addressing the analytic stakes created by experiences of vulnerability in the field. This is problematic because it limits the fieldworke…
It takes three to tango
Why do civilians’ perceptions of the legitimacy of armed actors vary locally during civil war? Existing scholarship grounds legitimacy in the resonance between armed actors’ justifications and civilians’ beliefs, but struggles to explain why legitimacy frequently diverges across villages facing similar actors and conditions. This article argues that understanding wartime legitimacy requires attention to how legitimation processes are shaped by ar…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Legitimacy (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (3 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (3 works)