Heloise Weber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3686511 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Heloise Weber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Heloise |
| FAMILY NAME | Weber |
| SIGNATURE | WEBER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3583-354X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Legacies and futures for Global South research
Intervention before interventionism
Poverty is not ‘another culture’
Well-being and protection of all children have widely been associated with universal rights. Simultaneously, though, there is growing advocacy for a right of children to work to live. Drawing on cultural relativist premises, such advocacy strongly correlates with an acceptance of poverty as a condition that is inevitable or simply ‘given’. We advance an argument against a right of children to work to live. The fact that only poor children are com…
Racist origins of IR
The intellectual and ethical sensibilities on display in South Africa, Race, and the Making of International Relations by Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale are captured poignantly when they note that th
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations
The case of the first genocide of the 20th century, committed by German colonial troops against Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia, poses a significant ethical and political challenge not only in practice but also for International Relations theory and theorising. We develop our critical analysis by building on postcolonial critiques of eurocentrism in IR and world politics, and on critical historiographies of the discipline. In …
Recognition and Redistribution
Introduction: Beyond International Development Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber * Keeping the World Safe for Primary Colors: Area Studies, Development Studies, International Studies, and the Vicissitudes of Nation-Building Mark T. Berger * Social Regulation in the Time of War: Constituting the Current Crisis Shelley Feldman * On the Critique of the Subject of Development: Beyond Proprietary and Methodological Individualism Martin Weber *'Failed S…
Global development and precarity
Precarity as a concept has come to be conceived as a distinctive experience of neoliberal development, especially in the European context. The experience of precarity, according to some, has influenced efforts aimed at living otherwise from the precepts of neoliberal development. Yet, for others, precarity is producing a ‘new dangerous class’. However, despite different perspectives of the effects and implications of precarity, the analytical pur…
Collective Discussion
As students and scholars of global politics, we have been witnessing, participating in, and feeling the effects of recent global upheavals. These include specific events, such as the election of Trump and the vote for Brexit, but are better understood through their resulting political effects (e.g., pushing back on migration, hardening national borders, denying climate change, reneging on trade deals, gutting the welfare state, increasing resourc…
Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’
In this article, I develop a critical analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda and its commitment to ‘leave no one behind’. The Preamble to the Resolution on the SDGs adopted by the United Nations General Assembly stated the following: ‘We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. (...) As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left b…
The ‘Bandung spirit’ and solidarist internationalism
It must come as no surprise that traces of any continuing relevance of the ‘Bandung spirit’ are enthusiastically being sought in the wake of the sixtieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference. It was the first high-profile formal conference of newly independent (or ‘about-to-be independent’) post-colonial states at a rather momentous historical conjuncture: the continuing struggles for decolonisation were pronounced in the context of the Co…
Reproducing Inequalities through Development
This article is a critical inquiry into particular methodological means underlying analyses of development, inequalities, and poverty in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) discourse. A populist approach to poverty reduction, the MDG initiative has gained much exposure at the expense of a closer scrutiny of the specific methodological premises (and their implications) underlining the development frameworks through which the goa…
Is IPE just 'boring',1 or committed to problematic meta-theoretic|al assumptions? A critical engagement with the politics of method
In my contribution to this forum on IPE, my aim is to add further to the critical interventions in the debate ignited by Benjamin Cohen. The call to discuss the state of IPE has been timely, though not only because (some) IPE journals have indeed become uninteresting; much more is at stake. Intellectual debate in the field has now not only narrowed, but has also shifted away from engaging the underlying premises of (global) development, inequalit…
Rethinking the Third World
Third World Rising
Global Politics of Microfinancing Poverty in Asia
This article offers a critical and systematic political analysis of microfinance schemes linking international, national and local development policy. It substantiates the argument that microfinance schemes are a neoliberal development strategy, primarily advanced to realise a dual purpose: (1) financial sector liberalisation and commercialisation, while extending microfinance as a means to “poverty reduction”, and (2) the dampening and undermini…
Politics of global social relations
This article offers a political analysis of development and poverty reduction initiatives from a social-relational perspective. More specifically, the author draws on the example of microfinance schemes to illustrate the way in which poverty reduction policy is increasingly advanced in response to social resistance to experiences of destitution, which is itself produced through development. The perspective the author advances disrupts conventiona…
Human (In)Security and Development in the 21st Century
In this contribution we focus on the political merits as well as limitations of the project of Third Worldism. Through critical historical analysis we identify the difference that Third Worldism made to world politics. At the same time it was without a doubt beset with contradictions from its inception. By foregrounding the contexts of development struggles, we hope to illustrate-at least minimally-these contradictions. From our perspective these…
War, Peace and Progress
The theory and practice of development has a complicated relationship to the history of war and peace in the 20th century. Efforts to realise the promise of progress have been played out against the backdrop of the crisis of colonialism, national liberation, decolonisation and the rise and fall of Third Worldism. Third Worldism, conceptualised as a specific project to realise the promises of progress, was also affected by the transformation and o…
A Political Analysis of the Formal Comparative Method
A large number of international institutions and policy makers advocate for the potential of globalization to deliver on the promises of development, and have reorganized development and poverty reduction strategies in a comprehensive way. This is reflected, for example, in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) initiatives. These strategies are globally constituted, although they are to be implemented within …
Introduction
Conclusion
A political analysis of the PRSP initiative
The current global development project appears to be premised on the assumption that underlying political debates over development have been settled. An upshot of this is that development is reduced to the theoretical, ideological and legal framework of a neo-liberal political order. However, implicit, and sometimes explicit, political dynamics of development can be rendered from a perspective that foregrounds social struggles. I offer a politica…
Beyond state-building
Gats in context
As the hub of the organization for world trade, the WTO has been subject to critical scrutiny from various political and theoretical persuasions. Beyond merely the exchange of goods across borders, the complex and expansive WTO framework is one that encompasses juridical and political capacity to oversee and facilitate the regulation of ‘property rights’ on a global scale. Therefore, it is not surprising that the social and political organization…
The ‘new economy’ and social risk
The rise of the ‘new economy’ in many of the advanced capitalist states since the 1970s has entailed a re-organization of global social and political relations generally. These changes become apparent in analyses that focus on trends and shifts in the global political economy. In the context of these adjustments, discourses of ‘poverty reduction’ have come to prominence, with a particular financially steered strategy emerging as a key approach to…
Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’
In this article, I develop a critical analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda and its commitment to ‘leave no one behind’. The Preamble to the Resolution on the SDGs adopted by the United Nations General Assembly stated the following: ‘We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. (...) As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left b…
The imposition of a global development architecture
Poverty reduction is now a prime concern of global policymakers. Renewed global efforts for poverty reduction are presented as the post -Washington Consensus. In this context, I identify an emerging ‘global development architecture’ that entails new patterns of interlinkages between the WTO, IMF, World Bank, Regional Development Banks and Bilateral and Multilateral Development Agencies. Through the example of microcredit and poverty reduction I a…
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory
Is IPE just 'boring',1 or committed to problematic meta-theoretic|al assumptions? A critical engagement with the politics of method
In my contribution to this forum on IPE, my aim is to add further to the critical interventions in the debate ignited by Benjamin Cohen. The call to discuss the state of IPE has been timely, though not only because (some) IPE journals have indeed become uninteresting; much more is at stake. Intellectual debate in the field has now not only narrowed, but has also shifted away from engaging the underlying premises of (global) development, inequalit…
A Political Analysis of the Formal Comparative Method
A large number of international institutions and policy makers advocate for the potential of globalization to deliver on the promises of development, and have reorganized development and poverty reduction strategies in a comprehensive way. This is reflected, for example, in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) initiatives. These strategies are globally constituted, although they are to be implemented within …
Reproducing Inequalities through Development
This article is a critical inquiry into particular methodological means underlying analyses of development, inequalities, and poverty in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) discourse. A populist approach to poverty reduction, the MDG initiative has gained much exposure at the expense of a closer scrutiny of the specific methodological premises (and their implications) underlining the development frameworks through which the goa…
A political analysis of the PRSP initiative
The current global development project appears to be premised on the assumption that underlying political debates over development have been settled. An upshot of this is that development is reduced to the theoretical, ideological and legal framework of a neo-liberal political order. However, implicit, and sometimes explicit, political dynamics of development can be rendered from a perspective that foregrounds social struggles. I offer a politica…
Global development and precarity
Precarity as a concept has come to be conceived as a distinctive experience of neoliberal development, especially in the European context. The experience of precarity, according to some, has influenced efforts aimed at living otherwise from the precepts of neoliberal development. Yet, for others, precarity is producing a ‘new dangerous class’. However, despite different perspectives of the effects and implications of precarity, the analytical pur…
The ‘Bandung spirit’ and solidarist internationalism
It must come as no surprise that traces of any continuing relevance of the ‘Bandung spirit’ are enthusiastically being sought in the wake of the sixtieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference. It was the first high-profile formal conference of newly independent (or ‘about-to-be independent’) post-colonial states at a rather momentous historical conjuncture: the continuing struggles for decolonisation were pronounced in the context of the Co…
Global Politics of Microfinancing Poverty in Asia
This article offers a critical and systematic political analysis of microfinance schemes linking international, national and local development policy. It substantiates the argument that microfinance schemes are a neoliberal development strategy, primarily advanced to realise a dual purpose: (1) financial sector liberalisation and commercialisation, while extending microfinance as a means to “poverty reduction”, and (2) the dampening and undermini…
Reconstituting the ‘Third World’? poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politics of development
This article explores the relationship between the politics of international development and the reproduction of global inequality. I argue that contemporary discourses about— and the practices of—'development for developing countries' represent an attempt to reconstitute the political utility of the 'Third World'. In an era of globalisation the deployment of the notion of a Third World of 'developing countries' which require immediate, systemic …
Politics of global social relations
This article offers a political analysis of development and poverty reduction initiatives from a social-relational perspective. More specifically, the author draws on the example of microfinance schemes to illustrate the way in which poverty reduction policy is increasingly advanced in response to social resistance to experiences of destitution, which is itself produced through development. The perspective the author advances disrupts conventiona…
Gats in context
As the hub of the organization for world trade, the WTO has been subject to critical scrutiny from various political and theoretical persuasions. Beyond merely the exchange of goods across borders, the complex and expansive WTO framework is one that encompasses juridical and political capacity to oversee and facilitate the regulation of ‘property rights’ on a global scale. Therefore, it is not surprising that the social and political organization…
Beyond state-building
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations
The case of the first genocide of the 20th century, committed by German colonial troops against Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia, poses a significant ethical and political challenge not only in practice but also for International Relations theory and theorising. We develop our critical analysis by building on postcolonial critiques of eurocentrism in IR and world politics, and on critical historiographies of the discipline. In …
War, Peace and Progress
The theory and practice of development has a complicated relationship to the history of war and peace in the 20th century. Efforts to realise the promise of progress have been played out against the backdrop of the crisis of colonialism, national liberation, decolonisation and the rise and fall of Third Worldism. Third Worldism, conceptualised as a specific project to realise the promises of progress, was also affected by the transformation and o…
Human (In)Security and Development in the 21st Century
In this contribution we focus on the political merits as well as limitations of the project of Third Worldism. Through critical historical analysis we identify the difference that Third Worldism made to world politics. At the same time it was without a doubt beset with contradictions from its inception. By foregrounding the contexts of development struggles, we hope to illustrate-at least minimally-these contradictions. From our perspective these…
Legacies and futures for Global South research
The imposition of a global development architecture
Poverty reduction is now a prime concern of global policymakers. Renewed global efforts for poverty reduction are presented as the post -Washington Consensus. In this context, I identify an emerging ‘global development architecture’ that entails new patterns of interlinkages between the WTO, IMF, World Bank, Regional Development Banks and Bilateral and Multilateral Development Agencies. Through the example of microcredit and poverty reduction I a…
The ‘new economy’ and social risk
The rise of the ‘new economy’ in many of the advanced capitalist states since the 1970s has entailed a re-organization of global social and political relations generally. These changes become apparent in analyses that focus on trends and shifts in the global political economy. In the context of these adjustments, discourses of ‘poverty reduction’ have come to prominence, with a particular financially steered strategy emerging as a key approach to…
Reconstituting the ‘Third World’? poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politics of development
This article explores the relationship between the politics of international development and the reproduction of global inequality. I argue that contemporary discourses about— and the practices of—'development for developing countries' represent an attempt to reconstitute the political utility of the 'Third World'. In an era of globalisation the deployment of the notion of a Third World of 'developing countries' which require immediate, systemic …
Gats in context
As the hub of the organization for world trade, the WTO has been subject to critical scrutiny from various political and theoretical persuasions. Beyond merely the exchange of goods across borders, the complex and expansive WTO framework is one that encompasses juridical and political capacity to oversee and facilitate the regulation of ‘property rights’ on a global scale. Therefore, it is not surprising that the social and political organization…
A political analysis of the PRSP initiative
The current global development project appears to be premised on the assumption that underlying political debates over development have been settled. An upshot of this is that development is reduced to the theoretical, ideological and legal framework of a neo-liberal political order. However, implicit, and sometimes explicit, political dynamics of development can be rendered from a perspective that foregrounds social struggles. I offer a politica…
Beyond state-building
A Political Analysis of the Formal Comparative Method
A large number of international institutions and policy makers advocate for the potential of globalization to deliver on the promises of development, and have reorganized development and poverty reduction strategies in a comprehensive way. This is reflected, for example, in the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Millennium Development Goals (MDG) initiatives. These strategies are globally constituted, although they are to be implemented within …
Introduction
Conclusion
Human (In)Security and Development in the 21st Century
In this contribution we focus on the political merits as well as limitations of the project of Third Worldism. Through critical historical analysis we identify the difference that Third Worldism made to world politics. At the same time it was without a doubt beset with contradictions from its inception. By foregrounding the contexts of development struggles, we hope to illustrate-at least minimally-these contradictions. From our perspective these…
War, Peace and Progress
The theory and practice of development has a complicated relationship to the history of war and peace in the 20th century. Efforts to realise the promise of progress have been played out against the backdrop of the crisis of colonialism, national liberation, decolonisation and the rise and fall of Third Worldism. Third Worldism, conceptualised as a specific project to realise the promises of progress, was also affected by the transformation and o…
Politics of global social relations
This article offers a political analysis of development and poverty reduction initiatives from a social-relational perspective. More specifically, the author draws on the example of microfinance schemes to illustrate the way in which poverty reduction policy is increasingly advanced in response to social resistance to experiences of destitution, which is itself produced through development. The perspective the author advances disrupts conventiona…
Rethinking the Third World
Third World Rising
Global Politics of Microfinancing Poverty in Asia
This article offers a critical and systematic political analysis of microfinance schemes linking international, national and local development policy. It substantiates the argument that microfinance schemes are a neoliberal development strategy, primarily advanced to realise a dual purpose: (1) financial sector liberalisation and commercialisation, while extending microfinance as a means to “poverty reduction”, and (2) the dampening and undermini…
Reproducing Inequalities through Development
This article is a critical inquiry into particular methodological means underlying analyses of development, inequalities, and poverty in the context of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) discourse. A populist approach to poverty reduction, the MDG initiative has gained much exposure at the expense of a closer scrutiny of the specific methodological premises (and their implications) underlining the development frameworks through which the goa…
Is IPE just 'boring',1 or committed to problematic meta-theoretic|al assumptions? A critical engagement with the politics of method
In my contribution to this forum on IPE, my aim is to add further to the critical interventions in the debate ignited by Benjamin Cohen. The call to discuss the state of IPE has been timely, though not only because (some) IPE journals have indeed become uninteresting; much more is at stake. Intellectual debate in the field has now not only narrowed, but has also shifted away from engaging the underlying premises of (global) development, inequalit…
The ‘Bandung spirit’ and solidarist internationalism
It must come as no surprise that traces of any continuing relevance of the ‘Bandung spirit’ are enthusiastically being sought in the wake of the sixtieth anniversary of the Asian-African Conference. It was the first high-profile formal conference of newly independent (or ‘about-to-be independent’) post-colonial states at a rather momentous historical conjuncture: the continuing struggles for decolonisation were pronounced in the context of the Co…
Politics of ‘Leaving No One Behind’
In this article, I develop a critical analysis of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agenda and its commitment to ‘leave no one behind’. The Preamble to the Resolution on the SDGs adopted by the United Nations General Assembly stated the following: ‘We are resolved to free the human race from the tyranny of poverty and want and to heal and secure our planet. (...) As we embark on this collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left b…
Global development and precarity
Precarity as a concept has come to be conceived as a distinctive experience of neoliberal development, especially in the European context. The experience of precarity, according to some, has influenced efforts aimed at living otherwise from the precepts of neoliberal development. Yet, for others, precarity is producing a ‘new dangerous class’. However, despite different perspectives of the effects and implications of precarity, the analytical pur…
Collective Discussion
As students and scholars of global politics, we have been witnessing, participating in, and feeling the effects of recent global upheavals. These include specific events, such as the election of Trump and the vote for Brexit, but are better understood through their resulting political effects (e.g., pushing back on migration, hardening national borders, denying climate change, reneging on trade deals, gutting the welfare state, increasing resourc…
Recognition and Redistribution
Introduction: Beyond International Development Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber * Keeping the World Safe for Primary Colors: Area Studies, Development Studies, International Studies, and the Vicissitudes of Nation-Building Mark T. Berger * Social Regulation in the Time of War: Constituting the Current Crisis Shelley Feldman * On the Critique of the Subject of Development: Beyond Proprietary and Methodological Individualism Martin Weber *'Failed S…
When means of implementation meet Ecological Modernization Theory
Colonialism, genocide and International Relations
The case of the first genocide of the 20th century, committed by German colonial troops against Ovaherero and Nama peoples in what is today Namibia, poses a significant ethical and political challenge not only in practice but also for International Relations theory and theorising. We develop our critical analysis by building on postcolonial critiques of eurocentrism in IR and world politics, and on critical historiographies of the discipline. In …
Racist origins of IR
The intellectual and ethical sensibilities on display in South Africa, Race, and the Making of International Relations by Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale are captured poignantly when they note that th
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