Agnes Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3823709 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agnes Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agnes |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YÜ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Uncounted Dead
Quantitative research on violence against civilians relies extensively on “off-the-shelf” data, such as the widely cited Uppsala Conflict Data Program's (UCDP) One-Sided Violence dataset. We show that, due to data collection and coding protocols that privilege government narratives of violence, such data often reproduces statist biases pervasive in the international system. These dynamics are particularly visible when civilian deaths result from …
The politics of descriptive inference
Descriptive research is sometimes understood as simply compiling and presenting objective facts, or ‘telling it like it is.’ We challenge this understanding, arguing that description involves a series of subjective, value-laden decisions that may reflect, reinforce, or alternatively undermine, existing narratives and power structures; accordingly, description is fundamentally, and unavoidably, political. We illustrate this argument with respect t…
Toward a fuller appreciation of codeswitching
Toward a fuller appreciation of codeswitching
The politics of descriptive inference
Descriptive research is sometimes understood as simply compiling and presenting objective facts, or ‘telling it like it is.’ We challenge this understanding, arguing that description involves a series of subjective, value-laden decisions that may reflect, reinforce, or alternatively undermine, existing narratives and power structures; accordingly, description is fundamentally, and unavoidably, political. We illustrate this argument with respect t…
Toward a fuller appreciation of codeswitching
The politics of descriptive inference
Descriptive research is sometimes understood as simply compiling and presenting objective facts, or ‘telling it like it is.’ We challenge this understanding, arguing that description involves a series of subjective, value-laden decisions that may reflect, reinforce, or alternatively undermine, existing narratives and power structures; accordingly, description is fundamentally, and unavoidably, political. We illustrate this argument with respect t…
The Uncounted Dead
Quantitative research on violence against civilians relies extensively on “off-the-shelf” data, such as the widely cited Uppsala Conflict Data Program's (UCDP) One-Sided Violence dataset. We show that, due to data collection and coding protocols that privilege government narratives of violence, such data often reproduces statist biases pervasive in the international system. These dynamics are particularly visible when civilian deaths result from …
Sociology (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Social science (2 works) · Battle (1 work) · Classical Studies and Philology (1 work) · Coding (social sciences (1 work)