Catherine Goetze
Biographic Data
| ID | 3479622 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Goetze |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Goetze |
| SIGNATURE | GOETZE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tasmania |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5027-7874 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
R alph B unche and the C olour of S overeignty
Ralph Bunche, the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, was a committed anti‐imperialist, a fighter against racism and for civil rights. And yet, his action and appearance as special representative of the United Nations Secretary‐General in the Congo, made him appear as hostile to African independence and as a (neo‐colonial) “blanc,” questioning the sincerity of his anti‐imperialism as well as his anti‐racism. The article argue…
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace
What feelings foster peace? This question is rarely asked in International Relations. This article, therefore, sets out to analyse the way people involved in peace processes speak about feeling by using one particular set of metaphors and allegories, namely, such tropes that refer to family in any way. The article presumes that family metaphors are particularly well suited to speak about difficult feelings since they are inherently ambiguous: on …
Father state and its migrant daughters
The article argues that states discipline migrants into the role of ideal migrants along categorical social division lines (gender, race, age, able-bodiness etc), and that they do so because the nomothetic principle of modern, European-origin statehood is patrimonial reproduction which slates people into social roles associated with their contribution to the state’s material, demographic, socio-cultural and socio-economic reproduction. Controllin…
When the State Shatters Families. The US Family Separation Policy of 2018, Cruelty and Patrimonial Sovereignty
In 2018, the Trump administration separated thousands of families arriving at the US–Mexico border to ask for asylum in the framework of its “zero-tolerance” policy. This extraordinary act of cruelty violated several provisions of international human rights, refugee, and family protections, many of which the United States itself had drafted, initiated, and championed. The article asks about the understanding of sovereignty that underscored the ze…
Political Sociology of Peacebuilding Organizations. Introduction
This special section turns its gaze inwards to explore how legitimate authority is constructed in the field of peacebuilding. Authority building in peacebuilding has attracted much research interest since peacebuilding efforts have become unending ‘transitions' from war to peace. Commonly, the main reference point of these debates is Max Weber’s distinction between bureaucratic, traditional and charismatic legitimacy. Drawing on the articles in t…
Learning in Peacebuilding – Mission Impossible
A common recommendation in the peacebuilding literature is that missions must learn from experiences on the local ground. Yet, if often remains unclear who has the authority to propose and diffuse new or critical knowledge. The article argues that peacebuilding can be understood as a socio-professional field in which education and professional careers condition the legitimacy to author new or critical insights. Hence, peacebuilding privileges kno…
Response to Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley’s review of The Distinction of Peace
Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsleys review confirms myinitial thought that our books fall on opposite sides ofRobert Coxs distinction between policy-oriented andcritical research. While Karim and Beardsley wish to solvepolicy problems as they present themselves in the givenworld order (how can we keep, lets say, French peacekeepers in Central Africa from prostituting refugee girls)the aim of my book is to ask how we even come to thinkthat it would …
Securing Peace
Twenty-five years have passed since then UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's optimistic ‘Agenda for Peace’ seemed to herald a new age for international peacekeeping and peacebuilding. From
Distinction of Peace
The Distinction of Peace
“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake—or even in the midst—of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In The Distinction of Peace, Catherine Goetze investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professiona…
Distinction of Peace
The Distinction of Peace
Peacebuilding serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and even agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wakeor even in the midstof conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In this study, Catherine Goetze investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of ex…
The Same Old Story of Peacebuilding
The year 2015 marks the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the hybrid stateof Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), half international administration, half federalstate. For almost 20 years the Office of the High Representative (OHR) has beeneffectively ruling over a state that does not want to be one. In its annual report tothe UN, the OHR repeats the same refrain every year: Bosnia and Herzegovinahas come a long way since then [the war] [ ] Howev…
Spaces of Aid, How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism
When I was a consultant for the German Red Cross in former Yugoslavia we would pass our timebetween visits to donors and beneficiaries with a silly game: each of us three consultants wouldlook out of our white jeep window and count the other jeeps on the road. Red Cross or UN jeepscounted five points, with any other logo three points and without logo, indicating temporaryrentals or ad hoc buys by small and poor NGOs, one point. Whoever had the mo…
Cosmopolitanism and the culture of peacebuilding
Cosmopolitanism has been argued to be a crucial component of peacebuilding, both with regard to its aims as well as its staff. In a universalist-liberal understanding of the concept, cosmopolitanism is the optimal mind frame for peacebuilders to rebuild post-war societies, due to the tolerance, justice-orientation, and neutrality regarding local cleavages that the concept entails in theory. This article argues, however, that cosmopolitanism canno…
The Responsibility to Protect, Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention
The Responsibility to Protect, Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention." International Peacekeeping, 20(3), pp. 396–397
The UN and Human Rights, Who Guards the Guardians
Verdirames question who guards the guardians? is more than timely. As thenumber of UN peacekeeping operations has increased enormously in the past20 years, so has the number of violent acts against populations by peacekeepers.Scandals about peacekeepers violence against exactly those peoplethey are supposed to protect have in recent years tarnished peacekeeping inthe Congo, in Somalia, in Haiti, in Sierra Leone and Liberia and otherplaces. It is,…
Conclusion
The Particularism of Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitan political theorists model their aspirations for global democratic politics on international organisations. But how cosmopolitan are international organisations? Based on a survey of civilian staff of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, the UN headquarters and other organisations working in Kosovo's post-conflict environment, the current article will show that staff in international organisations are not only cosmopolitan. Their wor…
Reflections on Turtles' End
Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Nationbuilding – Turtles All the Way Down
When Democracies Go to War
On what grounds do democratic states wage war? Public opinion is often considered asbeing of crucial importance in the decision to go to war. This article analyses two debatesover war in France. It finds that democracies debate war within a limited range ofarguments from which classical reasons for war such as the geostrategic one areabsent. However, within the limited range of arguments, public support for decisionsto go to war seems to depend s…
Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Nationbuilding – Turtles All the Way Down
Political Sociology of Peacebuilding Organizations. Introduction
This special section turns its gaze inwards to explore how legitimate authority is constructed in the field of peacebuilding. Authority building in peacebuilding has attracted much research interest since peacebuilding efforts have become unending ‘transitions' from war to peace. Commonly, the main reference point of these debates is Max Weber’s distinction between bureaucratic, traditional and charismatic legitimacy. Drawing on the articles in t…
Cosmopolitanism and the culture of peacebuilding
Cosmopolitanism has been argued to be a crucial component of peacebuilding, both with regard to its aims as well as its staff. In a universalist-liberal understanding of the concept, cosmopolitanism is the optimal mind frame for peacebuilders to rebuild post-war societies, due to the tolerance, justice-orientation, and neutrality regarding local cleavages that the concept entails in theory. This article argues, however, that cosmopolitanism canno…
When the State Shatters Families. The US Family Separation Policy of 2018, Cruelty and Patrimonial Sovereignty
In 2018, the Trump administration separated thousands of families arriving at the US–Mexico border to ask for asylum in the framework of its “zero-tolerance” policy. This extraordinary act of cruelty violated several provisions of international human rights, refugee, and family protections, many of which the United States itself had drafted, initiated, and championed. The article asks about the understanding of sovereignty that underscored the ze…
The UN and Human Rights, Who Guards the Guardians
Verdirames question who guards the guardians? is more than timely. As thenumber of UN peacekeeping operations has increased enormously in the past20 years, so has the number of violent acts against populations by peacekeepers.Scandals about peacekeepers violence against exactly those peoplethey are supposed to protect have in recent years tarnished peacekeeping inthe Congo, in Somalia, in Haiti, in Sierra Leone and Liberia and otherplaces. It is,…
When Democracies Go to War
On what grounds do democratic states wage war? Public opinion is often considered asbeing of crucial importance in the decision to go to war. This article analyses two debatesover war in France. It finds that democracies debate war within a limited range ofarguments from which classical reasons for war such as the geostrategic one areabsent. However, within the limited range of arguments, public support for decisionsto go to war seems to depend s…
Learning in Peacebuilding – Mission Impossible
A common recommendation in the peacebuilding literature is that missions must learn from experiences on the local ground. Yet, if often remains unclear who has the authority to propose and diffuse new or critical knowledge. The article argues that peacebuilding can be understood as a socio-professional field in which education and professional careers condition the legitimacy to author new or critical insights. Hence, peacebuilding privileges kno…
The Distinction of Peace
Peacebuilding serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and even agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wakeor even in the midstof conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In this study, Catherine Goetze investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of ex…
The Responsibility to Protect, Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention
The Responsibility to Protect, Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention." International Peacekeeping, 20(3), pp. 396–397
Reflections on Turtles' End
When Democracies Go to War
On what grounds do democratic states wage war? Public opinion is often considered asbeing of crucial importance in the decision to go to war. This article analyses two debatesover war in France. It finds that democracies debate war within a limited range ofarguments from which classical reasons for war such as the geostrategic one areabsent. However, within the limited range of arguments, public support for decisionsto go to war seems to depend s…
Reflections on Turtles' End
Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, Nationbuilding – Turtles All the Way Down
Conclusion
The Particularism of Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitan political theorists model their aspirations for global democratic politics on international organisations. But how cosmopolitan are international organisations? Based on a survey of civilian staff of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo, the UN headquarters and other organisations working in Kosovo's post-conflict environment, the current article will show that staff in international organisations are not only cosmopolitan. Their wor…
The Responsibility to Protect, Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention
The Responsibility to Protect, Rhetoric, Reality and the Future of Humanitarian Intervention." International Peacekeeping, 20(3), pp. 396–397
The UN and Human Rights, Who Guards the Guardians
Verdirames question who guards the guardians? is more than timely. As thenumber of UN peacekeeping operations has increased enormously in the past20 years, so has the number of violent acts against populations by peacekeepers.Scandals about peacekeepers violence against exactly those peoplethey are supposed to protect have in recent years tarnished peacekeeping inthe Congo, in Somalia, in Haiti, in Sierra Leone and Liberia and otherplaces. It is,…
Cosmopolitanism and the culture of peacebuilding
Cosmopolitanism has been argued to be a crucial component of peacebuilding, both with regard to its aims as well as its staff. In a universalist-liberal understanding of the concept, cosmopolitanism is the optimal mind frame for peacebuilders to rebuild post-war societies, due to the tolerance, justice-orientation, and neutrality regarding local cleavages that the concept entails in theory. This article argues, however, that cosmopolitanism canno…
Spaces of Aid, How Cars, Compounds and Hotels Shape Humanitarianism
When I was a consultant for the German Red Cross in former Yugoslavia we would pass our timebetween visits to donors and beneficiaries with a silly game: each of us three consultants wouldlook out of our white jeep window and count the other jeeps on the road. Red Cross or UN jeepscounted five points, with any other logo three points and without logo, indicating temporaryrentals or ad hoc buys by small and poor NGOs, one point. Whoever had the mo…
The Same Old Story of Peacebuilding
The year 2015 marks the twentieth anniversary of the creation of the hybrid stateof Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), half international administration, half federalstate. For almost 20 years the Office of the High Representative (OHR) has beeneffectively ruling over a state that does not want to be one. In its annual report tothe UN, the OHR repeats the same refrain every year: Bosnia and Herzegovinahas come a long way since then [the war] [ ] Howev…
Distinction of Peace
The Distinction of Peace
“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake—or even in the midst—of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In The Distinction of Peace, Catherine Goetze investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professiona…
Distinction of Peace
The Distinction of Peace
Peacebuilding serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and even agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wakeor even in the midstof conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners consider themselves members of a global profession. In this study, Catherine Goetze investigates the genesis of peacebuilding as a professional field of ex…
Response to Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley’s review of The Distinction of Peace
Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsleys review confirms myinitial thought that our books fall on opposite sides ofRobert Coxs distinction between policy-oriented andcritical research. While Karim and Beardsley wish to solvepolicy problems as they present themselves in the givenworld order (how can we keep, lets say, French peacekeepers in Central Africa from prostituting refugee girls)the aim of my book is to ask how we even come to thinkthat it would …
Securing Peace
Twenty-five years have passed since then UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali's optimistic ‘Agenda for Peace’ seemed to herald a new age for international peacekeeping and peacebuilding. From
Learning in Peacebuilding – Mission Impossible
A common recommendation in the peacebuilding literature is that missions must learn from experiences on the local ground. Yet, if often remains unclear who has the authority to propose and diffuse new or critical knowledge. The article argues that peacebuilding can be understood as a socio-professional field in which education and professional careers condition the legitimacy to author new or critical insights. Hence, peacebuilding privileges kno…
Political Sociology of Peacebuilding Organizations. Introduction
This special section turns its gaze inwards to explore how legitimate authority is constructed in the field of peacebuilding. Authority building in peacebuilding has attracted much research interest since peacebuilding efforts have become unending ‘transitions' from war to peace. Commonly, the main reference point of these debates is Max Weber’s distinction between bureaucratic, traditional and charismatic legitimacy. Drawing on the articles in t…
Father state and its migrant daughters
The article argues that states discipline migrants into the role of ideal migrants along categorical social division lines (gender, race, age, able-bodiness etc), and that they do so because the nomothetic principle of modern, European-origin statehood is patrimonial reproduction which slates people into social roles associated with their contribution to the state’s material, demographic, socio-cultural and socio-economic reproduction. Controllin…
When the State Shatters Families. The US Family Separation Policy of 2018, Cruelty and Patrimonial Sovereignty
In 2018, the Trump administration separated thousands of families arriving at the US–Mexico border to ask for asylum in the framework of its “zero-tolerance” policy. This extraordinary act of cruelty violated several provisions of international human rights, refugee, and family protections, many of which the United States itself had drafted, initiated, and championed. The article asks about the understanding of sovereignty that underscored the ze…
R alph B unche and the C olour of S overeignty
Ralph Bunche, the first African American to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, was a committed anti‐imperialist, a fighter against racism and for civil rights. And yet, his action and appearance as special representative of the United Nations Secretary‐General in the Congo, made him appear as hostile to African independence and as a (neo‐colonial) “blanc,” questioning the sincerity of his anti‐imperialism as well as his anti‐racism. The article argue…
Symbolic stories of family in the language of peace
What feelings foster peace? This question is rarely asked in International Relations. This article, therefore, sets out to analyse the way people involved in peace processes speak about feeling by using one particular set of metaphors and allegories, namely, such tropes that refer to family in any way. The article presumes that family metaphors are particularly well suited to speak about difficult feelings since they are inherently ambiguous: on …
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