Alex Manby
Biographic Data
| ID | 3082136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Manby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Manby |
| SIGNATURE | MANBY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3894-388X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The political and legal geographies of archives
This paper establishes a framework for political and legal geographies of archives. Moving beyond catch-all definitions of ‘the archive’, it interrogates the specific practices and spaces by which materials become archival, the professional expertise required to do so, and the evidentiary authority this bestows. Marginalised groups – including Indigenous communities, unrepresented nations, and racial and religious minorities – must navigate a par…
Geographies of Naga (Inter)Nationalism
For Naga communities across Northeast India, colonialism’s administrative end did not represent political emancipation. The 1947 transfer of power instead heralded a decades-long struggle for Naga statehood. However, while the Nagas’ self-determination campaign is well documented, there has been less analysis of how the Nagas themselves envisioned postcoloniality. Accordingly, this paper describes the geopolitical thought and practice of Naga sta…
Archiving and the aspirational politics of self-determination
Archives are paradigmatic state institutions. However, states are not the only actors to construct national archives: Indigenous, minority, and stateless groups also engage in archival practices. Yet, there is little analysis of how archives support these communities' geopolitical projects. To what extent can these groups harness archival power to produce subjectivities and legitimate political claims? What is the relationship between official st…
Digital Diplomacy and Non-Governmental and Transnational Organizations
This chapter considers how digital diplomacy is being reworked by three kinds of ‘new’ diplomatic actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), transnational advocacy networks (TANs), and diaspora organizations. In doing so, the chapter advances the following four arguments. First, the digitalization of diplomacy is inextricably tied to the pluralization of diplomacy, such that digital technologies have facilitated an expansion in the number of …
Digital geographies of diplomacy
In Spring 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the globe, diplomats embraced the digital as a means of continuing to practise statecraft. Drawing on online observations of the (resumed) 43rd, 44th and 45th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2020, and 23 interviews with representatives who participated in these sessions, this paper addresses two lacuna in the existing literature: the under-theorisation of the role of the spati…
Rethinking self-determination
This paper argues for a geographical analysis of self-determination by bringing literature on self-determination into dialogue with scholarship on postcolonial geographies and relational space. First, we draw from scholarship that conceptualises colonialism, including non-European colonialism, as playing out differently in different places. This shines a spotlight on a set of self-determination claims, which are resolutely anti-colonial but do no…
Rethinking self-determination
This paper argues for a geographical analysis of self-determination by bringing literature on self-determination into dialogue with scholarship on postcolonial geographies and relational space. First, we draw from scholarship that conceptualises colonialism, including non-European colonialism, as playing out differently in different places. This shines a spotlight on a set of self-determination claims, which are resolutely anti-colonial but do no…
Archiving and the aspirational politics of self-determination
Archives are paradigmatic state institutions. However, states are not the only actors to construct national archives: Indigenous, minority, and stateless groups also engage in archival practices. Yet, there is little analysis of how archives support these communities' geopolitical projects. To what extent can these groups harness archival power to produce subjectivities and legitimate political claims? What is the relationship between official st…
Rethinking self-determination
This paper argues for a geographical analysis of self-determination by bringing literature on self-determination into dialogue with scholarship on postcolonial geographies and relational space. First, we draw from scholarship that conceptualises colonialism, including non-European colonialism, as playing out differently in different places. This shines a spotlight on a set of self-determination claims, which are resolutely anti-colonial but do no…
Digital Diplomacy and Non-Governmental and Transnational Organizations
This chapter considers how digital diplomacy is being reworked by three kinds of ‘new’ diplomatic actors: non-governmental organizations (NGOs), transnational advocacy networks (TANs), and diaspora organizations. In doing so, the chapter advances the following four arguments. First, the digitalization of diplomacy is inextricably tied to the pluralization of diplomacy, such that digital technologies have facilitated an expansion in the number of …
Digital geographies of diplomacy
In Spring 2020, as COVID-19 spread across the globe, diplomats embraced the digital as a means of continuing to practise statecraft. Drawing on online observations of the (resumed) 43rd, 44th and 45th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) in 2020, and 23 interviews with representatives who participated in these sessions, this paper addresses two lacuna in the existing literature: the under-theorisation of the role of the spati…
Archiving and the aspirational politics of self-determination
Archives are paradigmatic state institutions. However, states are not the only actors to construct national archives: Indigenous, minority, and stateless groups also engage in archival practices. Yet, there is little analysis of how archives support these communities' geopolitical projects. To what extent can these groups harness archival power to produce subjectivities and legitimate political claims? What is the relationship between official st…
The political and legal geographies of archives
This paper establishes a framework for political and legal geographies of archives. Moving beyond catch-all definitions of ‘the archive’, it interrogates the specific practices and spaces by which materials become archival, the professional expertise required to do so, and the evidentiary authority this bestows. Marginalised groups – including Indigenous communities, unrepresented nations, and racial and religious minorities – must navigate a par…
Geographies of Naga (Inter)Nationalism
For Naga communities across Northeast India, colonialism’s administrative end did not represent political emancipation. The 1947 transfer of power instead heralded a decades-long struggle for Naga statehood. However, while the Nagas’ self-determination campaign is well documented, there has been less analysis of how the Nagas themselves envisioned postcoloniality. Accordingly, this paper describes the geopolitical thought and practice of Naga sta…
Politics (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Scholarship (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Diplomacy (2 works) · Legitimacy (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Public relations (2 works)