Annabelle Littoz‐monnet
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153354 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annabelle Littoz‐monnet |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annabelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Littoz‐monnet |
| SIGNATURE | MONNET A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 208 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Bringing the Economic Back! Thinking about the Politics of Expertise Within and Beyond the Social
International Political Sociology has played a crucial role in foregrounding the question of expertise in global politics, bringing under critical scrutiny the social processes that are central to the politics of expertise. In doing so, however, questions pertaining to the political–economic conditions that intersect with these have often been left aside. We show that attending to the political–economic conditions that contain and shape the polit…
The pluralization of expertise: The good, the glamorous, and the political
In the realm of global governance, the unique status and authority of expertise have traditionally been associated with its claims to rely on science and its often-associated qualities of ‘neutrality’, ‘impartiality’, and ‘objectivity’. Policymakers and technocratic experts have widely resorted to these attributes to render their knowledge credible and authoritative. While such claims to scientificity remain significant, we contend that contempor…
Political-epistemic disciplining in global governance: Producing ‘global’ Indigenous knowledges
International Relations scholarship has shown that persisting epistemic hierarchies rooted in colonial domination continue to exclude, silence, or sideline alternative knowledges in global governance, even as International Organizations increasingly open up to formally marginalized groups and attempt to pluralize their expertise. While building on such accounts, this article argues that epistemic hierarchies are deeply entangled with political-ec…
Knowledge Machineries and Their Objects of Expertise. Knowing Bodies, Moves, and Moods through “Mobile Health” Data
This article argues that the politics of socio-material objects should be examined in relationship with the machineries of knowing these objects are embedded in and also sustain. Objects of expertise are embedded in discursive constructs, material infrastructures, and relationships that “surround” and permeate their production. In turn, such objects give traction to the machineries of knowing that enable their emergence. The article uses the conc…
Knowledge politics in global governance: Philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health
Existing research points to the presence of philanthropists in global governance as funders of programmes and partners. Through an in-depth exploration of global health governance, we highlight that philanthropic organizations now shape governance by acting as producers of knowledge. Practicing ‘knowledge philanthropism’, they collect, produce and assemble the data, calculations and research which is used by International Organizations (IOs) to g…
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health
This article opens up the blackbox through which evidence is selected and assessed in the making of guidelines and recommendations in global governance, through an exploration of 'methods regimes.' Methods regimes are a special kind of sociomaterial arrangement, which govern the production and validation of knowledge, by establishing a clear hierachy between alternative forms of research designs. When such regimes become inscribed in processes of…
Exclusivity and Circularity in the Production of Global Governance Expertise: The Making of 'Global Mental Health' Knowledge
Global mental health expertise favors biomedical explanations of mental disorders that conceive such disorders as stable entities, which can be diagnosed according to universal categories. Following this logic, universal and standardized solutions can also be applied throughout the world, regardless of context. Despite its assumptions and data being contested within the field of psychiatry itself, global mental health expertise has been highly st…
Expanding without much ado. International bureaucratic expansion tactics in the case of bioethics
International bureaucracies can expand their activities into new domains, even when these are remote from their formal mandates. Asking how they do this, this article reveals that expansion often goes unnoticed, because international secretariats typically start new activities in a way which is informal, mundane and depoliticized. Through an examination of UNESCO's and WHO's expansion into the domain of bioethics, the article argues that internat…
Expert Knowledge as a Strategic Resource: International Bureaucrats and the Shaping of Bioethical Standards
This article asks how international secretariats can sometimes expand their authority in areas that relate neither to their mandate, nor to their sphere of expert authority. Existing explanations of mission creep assume that IOs act autonomously and expand in those areas that connect with their mandates, sense of organizational mission, and sphere of expert authority. The claim here is that entrepreneurial bureaucrats can succeed—in the absence o…
Encapsulating EU Cultural Policy into the EU’s Growth and Competiveness Agenda: Explaining the Success of a Paradigmatic Shift in Brussels
A new discourse, in which cultural policy is increasingly integrated into a policy agenda dealing with the promotion of creativity, innovation policy, and the fostering of growth and economic competitiveness more generally, has recently gained ground in Brussels. In December 2013, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (Council) adopted the new Creative Europe programme (European Parliament and Council, 2013a). The European…
Ethics Experts as an Instrument of Technocratic Governance: Evidence from EU Medical Biotechnology Policy
This article challenges the assumption that ethics committees introduce democratic control in policy areas where scientific expertise and ethical concerns collide. The claim is that politicians or bureaucrats are likely to resort to the use of ethical expertise when they face a specific type of dilemma: the impossibility, on the one hand, of yielding a consensus on controversial value‐based issues via the democratic route and the need, on the oth…
Legitimisation and regulation of and through values
Le numéro analyse l’ampleur, les modalités et les effets de l’émergence des valeurs dans le jeu politique, les politiques publiques et le système politique de l’UE. L’introduction présente la montée en puissance des valeurs sur l’agenda européens ; les différentes formes qu’elles peuvent prendre ; leurs effets comme facteurs de conflit, coopération ou légitimation ; les dispositifs et processus mis en place pour les réguler. Des articles thématiq…
The role of independent regulators in policy making: Venue‐shopping and framing strategies in the EU regulation of old wives cures
This article addresses debates on the formulation of public policy, building upon a body of literature which has focused on the interconnectedness between the venues of policy action and the way issues are defined. It does so by focusing on the strategic role of policy actors in a policy subfield and their attempts at manipulating either frames or venues in order to shape policy. The novelty here consists in pointing to the involvement of regulat…
European Union and Culture: Between Economic Regulation and European Cultural Policy
This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is a comprehensive account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to…
Agenda-Setting Dynamics at the EU Level: The Case of the EU Cultural Policy
A new discourse in which culture is increasingly integrated into a policy agenda dealing with innovation policy, and the fostering of growth and economic competitiveness more generally, is currently gaining ground at the EU level. Surprisingly, it is the Directorate-General for Culture, Youth and Education (DG Culture) of the European Commission that has initiated and promoted this policy agenda in an attempt to gain control over policy. The new …
The EU Politics of Remembrance: Can Europeans Remember Together
Over the last few years, EU institutions have taken on the task of promoting an 'active European remembrance' of Europe's twentieth century totalitarian experiences. At stake in this process is the possibility of constructing an EU-wide historical narrative. However, EU-level debates on the remembrance of European history are permeated by struggles between policy actors who vie for control over the telling of Europe's past. Using insights from th…
Explaining Policy Conflict across Institutional Venues: E uropean U nion‐Level Struggles over the Memory of the H olocaust
After the 2004 eastern enlargement, the E uropean U nion has become a terrain of competition between different memory narratives. At the core of the debate is the status of the H olocaust and its role in the identity‐definition process of E uropean societies. This article asks why similar memory debates have resulted in different policy outcomes when taking place in different institutional settings at the EU level. It finds, along with Schattschn…
Will individual attachments amongst EU citizens turn them into europeans: Mismatch between the EU institutional context and deliberative democracy
Les attachements individuels entre citoyens de l’Union européenne les transformeront-ils en Européens? Discordance entre démocratie délibérative et contexte institutionnel européen A travers une lecture approfondie du modèle de patriotisme constitutionnel d’Habermas, cet article tente d’élucider le lien entre développements institutionnels européens, l’émergence possible d’une sphère publique européenne – conçue par Habermas comme la seule source…
The European Union and Culture: Between Economic Regulation and European Cultural Policy
This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is a comprehensive account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to…
Copyright in the EU: Droit d'auteur or right to copy
The European Union (EU) began to develop copyright policies as early as the 1980s even though no competence existed in the Treaties. The formulation of EU policies in the area of intellectual property has been the object of heated policy debates between a diverse range of stakeholders, at the heart of which are some fundamentally different conceptions about the nature of intellectual property and its role in the information economy. Thus, EU copy…
The European Politics of Book Pricing
Scholars are increasingly concerned with the phenomenon by which successive policy areas in Europe become 'communitarised' - by which we mean that the sector's governance increasingly takes place at the supranational level. As was the case for the environment or the telecommunications sector, no formal competence on book policy, and more generally on cultural policy, appeared in the original treaty, and hence I seek to explain why and how the com…
European Cultural Policy: A French Creation
The EU Politics of Remembrance: Can Europeans Remember Together
Over the last few years, EU institutions have taken on the task of promoting an 'active European remembrance' of Europe's twentieth century totalitarian experiences. At stake in this process is the possibility of constructing an EU-wide historical narrative. However, EU-level debates on the remembrance of European history are permeated by struggles between policy actors who vie for control over the telling of Europe's past. Using insights from th…
Expert Knowledge as a Strategic Resource: International Bureaucrats and the Shaping of Bioethical Standards
This article asks how international secretariats can sometimes expand their authority in areas that relate neither to their mandate, nor to their sphere of expert authority. Existing explanations of mission creep assume that IOs act autonomously and expand in those areas that connect with their mandates, sense of organizational mission, and sphere of expert authority. The claim here is that entrepreneurial bureaucrats can succeed—in the absence o…
Explaining Policy Conflict across Institutional Venues: E uropean U nion‐Level Struggles over the Memory of the H olocaust
After the 2004 eastern enlargement, the E uropean U nion has become a terrain of competition between different memory narratives. At the core of the debate is the status of the H olocaust and its role in the identity‐definition process of E uropean societies. This article asks why similar memory debates have resulted in different policy outcomes when taking place in different institutional settings at the EU level. It finds, along with Schattschn…
Agenda-Setting Dynamics at the EU Level: The Case of the EU Cultural Policy
A new discourse in which culture is increasingly integrated into a policy agenda dealing with innovation policy, and the fostering of growth and economic competitiveness more generally, is currently gaining ground at the EU level. Surprisingly, it is the Directorate-General for Culture, Youth and Education (DG Culture) of the European Commission that has initiated and promoted this policy agenda in an attempt to gain control over policy. The new …
Expanding without much ado. International bureaucratic expansion tactics in the case of bioethics
International bureaucracies can expand their activities into new domains, even when these are remote from their formal mandates. Asking how they do this, this article reveals that expansion often goes unnoticed, because international secretariats typically start new activities in a way which is informal, mundane and depoliticized. Through an examination of UNESCO's and WHO's expansion into the domain of bioethics, the article argues that internat…
The role of independent regulators in policy making: Venue‐shopping and framing strategies in the EU regulation of old wives cures
This article addresses debates on the formulation of public policy, building upon a body of literature which has focused on the interconnectedness between the venues of policy action and the way issues are defined. It does so by focusing on the strategic role of policy actors in a policy subfield and their attempts at manipulating either frames or venues in order to shape policy. The novelty here consists in pointing to the involvement of regulat…
Ethics Experts as an Instrument of Technocratic Governance: Evidence from EU Medical Biotechnology Policy
This article challenges the assumption that ethics committees introduce democratic control in policy areas where scientific expertise and ethical concerns collide. The claim is that politicians or bureaucrats are likely to resort to the use of ethical expertise when they face a specific type of dilemma: the impossibility, on the one hand, of yielding a consensus on controversial value‐based issues via the democratic route and the need, on the oth…
Exclusivity and Circularity in the Production of Global Governance Expertise: The Making of 'Global Mental Health' Knowledge
Global mental health expertise favors biomedical explanations of mental disorders that conceive such disorders as stable entities, which can be diagnosed according to universal categories. Following this logic, universal and standardized solutions can also be applied throughout the world, regardless of context. Despite its assumptions and data being contested within the field of psychiatry itself, global mental health expertise has been highly st…
Knowledge Machineries and Their Objects of Expertise. Knowing Bodies, Moves, and Moods through “Mobile Health” Data
This article argues that the politics of socio-material objects should be examined in relationship with the machineries of knowing these objects are embedded in and also sustain. Objects of expertise are embedded in discursive constructs, material infrastructures, and relationships that “surround” and permeate their production. In turn, such objects give traction to the machineries of knowing that enable their emergence. The article uses the conc…
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health
This article opens up the blackbox through which evidence is selected and assessed in the making of guidelines and recommendations in global governance, through an exploration of 'methods regimes.' Methods regimes are a special kind of sociomaterial arrangement, which govern the production and validation of knowledge, by establishing a clear hierachy between alternative forms of research designs. When such regimes become inscribed in processes of…
Knowledge politics in global governance: Philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health
Existing research points to the presence of philanthropists in global governance as funders of programmes and partners. Through an in-depth exploration of global health governance, we highlight that philanthropic organizations now shape governance by acting as producers of knowledge. Practicing ‘knowledge philanthropism’, they collect, produce and assemble the data, calculations and research which is used by International Organizations (IOs) to g…
European Cultural Policy: A French Creation
Legitimisation and regulation of and through values
Le numéro analyse l’ampleur, les modalités et les effets de l’émergence des valeurs dans le jeu politique, les politiques publiques et le système politique de l’UE. L’introduction présente la montée en puissance des valeurs sur l’agenda européens ; les différentes formes qu’elles peuvent prendre ; leurs effets comme facteurs de conflit, coopération ou légitimation ; les dispositifs et processus mis en place pour les réguler. Des articles thématiq…
European Cultural Policy: A French Creation
The European Politics of Book Pricing
Scholars are increasingly concerned with the phenomenon by which successive policy areas in Europe become 'communitarised' - by which we mean that the sector's governance increasingly takes place at the supranational level. As was the case for the environment or the telecommunications sector, no formal competence on book policy, and more generally on cultural policy, appeared in the original treaty, and hence I seek to explain why and how the com…
Copyright in the EU: Droit d'auteur or right to copy
The European Union (EU) began to develop copyright policies as early as the 1980s even though no competence existed in the Treaties. The formulation of EU policies in the area of intellectual property has been the object of heated policy debates between a diverse range of stakeholders, at the heart of which are some fundamentally different conceptions about the nature of intellectual property and its role in the information economy. Thus, EU copy…
The European Union and Culture: Between Economic Regulation and European Cultural Policy
This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is a comprehensive account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to…
Will individual attachments amongst EU citizens turn them into europeans: Mismatch between the EU institutional context and deliberative democracy
Les attachements individuels entre citoyens de l’Union européenne les transformeront-ils en Européens? Discordance entre démocratie délibérative et contexte institutionnel européen A travers une lecture approfondie du modèle de patriotisme constitutionnel d’Habermas, cet article tente d’élucider le lien entre développements institutionnels européens, l’émergence possible d’une sphère publique européenne – conçue par Habermas comme la seule source…
Agenda-Setting Dynamics at the EU Level: The Case of the EU Cultural Policy
A new discourse in which culture is increasingly integrated into a policy agenda dealing with innovation policy, and the fostering of growth and economic competitiveness more generally, is currently gaining ground at the EU level. Surprisingly, it is the Directorate-General for Culture, Youth and Education (DG Culture) of the European Commission that has initiated and promoted this policy agenda in an attempt to gain control over policy. The new …
The EU Politics of Remembrance: Can Europeans Remember Together
Over the last few years, EU institutions have taken on the task of promoting an 'active European remembrance' of Europe's twentieth century totalitarian experiences. At stake in this process is the possibility of constructing an EU-wide historical narrative. However, EU-level debates on the remembrance of European history are permeated by struggles between policy actors who vie for control over the telling of Europe's past. Using insights from th…
Explaining Policy Conflict across Institutional Venues: E uropean U nion‐Level Struggles over the Memory of the H olocaust
After the 2004 eastern enlargement, the E uropean U nion has become a terrain of competition between different memory narratives. At the core of the debate is the status of the H olocaust and its role in the identity‐definition process of E uropean societies. This article asks why similar memory debates have resulted in different policy outcomes when taking place in different institutional settings at the EU level. It finds, along with Schattschn…
European Union and Culture: Between Economic Regulation and European Cultural Policy
This book explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector—understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is a comprehensive account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to…
Legitimisation and regulation of and through values
Le numéro analyse l’ampleur, les modalités et les effets de l’émergence des valeurs dans le jeu politique, les politiques publiques et le système politique de l’UE. L’introduction présente la montée en puissance des valeurs sur l’agenda européens ; les différentes formes qu’elles peuvent prendre ; leurs effets comme facteurs de conflit, coopération ou légitimation ; les dispositifs et processus mis en place pour les réguler. Des articles thématiq…
The role of independent regulators in policy making: Venue‐shopping and framing strategies in the EU regulation of old wives cures
This article addresses debates on the formulation of public policy, building upon a body of literature which has focused on the interconnectedness between the venues of policy action and the way issues are defined. It does so by focusing on the strategic role of policy actors in a policy subfield and their attempts at manipulating either frames or venues in order to shape policy. The novelty here consists in pointing to the involvement of regulat…
Encapsulating EU Cultural Policy into the EU’s Growth and Competiveness Agenda: Explaining the Success of a Paradigmatic Shift in Brussels
A new discourse, in which cultural policy is increasingly integrated into a policy agenda dealing with the promotion of creativity, innovation policy, and the fostering of growth and economic competitiveness more generally, has recently gained ground in Brussels. In December 2013, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (Council) adopted the new Creative Europe programme (European Parliament and Council, 2013a). The European…
Ethics Experts as an Instrument of Technocratic Governance: Evidence from EU Medical Biotechnology Policy
This article challenges the assumption that ethics committees introduce democratic control in policy areas where scientific expertise and ethical concerns collide. The claim is that politicians or bureaucrats are likely to resort to the use of ethical expertise when they face a specific type of dilemma: the impossibility, on the one hand, of yielding a consensus on controversial value‐based issues via the democratic route and the need, on the oth…
Expert Knowledge as a Strategic Resource: International Bureaucrats and the Shaping of Bioethical Standards
This article asks how international secretariats can sometimes expand their authority in areas that relate neither to their mandate, nor to their sphere of expert authority. Existing explanations of mission creep assume that IOs act autonomously and expand in those areas that connect with their mandates, sense of organizational mission, and sphere of expert authority. The claim here is that entrepreneurial bureaucrats can succeed—in the absence o…
Expanding without much ado. International bureaucratic expansion tactics in the case of bioethics
International bureaucracies can expand their activities into new domains, even when these are remote from their formal mandates. Asking how they do this, this article reveals that expansion often goes unnoticed, because international secretariats typically start new activities in a way which is informal, mundane and depoliticized. Through an examination of UNESCO's and WHO's expansion into the domain of bioethics, the article argues that internat…
Exclusivity and Circularity in the Production of Global Governance Expertise: The Making of 'Global Mental Health' Knowledge
Global mental health expertise favors biomedical explanations of mental disorders that conceive such disorders as stable entities, which can be diagnosed according to universal categories. Following this logic, universal and standardized solutions can also be applied throughout the world, regardless of context. Despite its assumptions and data being contested within the field of psychiatry itself, global mental health expertise has been highly st…
Knowledge politics in global governance: Philanthropists’ knowledge-making practices in global health
Existing research points to the presence of philanthropists in global governance as funders of programmes and partners. Through an in-depth exploration of global health governance, we highlight that philanthropic organizations now shape governance by acting as producers of knowledge. Practicing ‘knowledge philanthropism’, they collect, produce and assemble the data, calculations and research which is used by International Organizations (IOs) to g…
Methods Regimes in Global Governance: The Politics of Evidence-Making in Global Health
This article opens up the blackbox through which evidence is selected and assessed in the making of guidelines and recommendations in global governance, through an exploration of 'methods regimes.' Methods regimes are a special kind of sociomaterial arrangement, which govern the production and validation of knowledge, by establishing a clear hierachy between alternative forms of research designs. When such regimes become inscribed in processes of…
Knowledge Machineries and Their Objects of Expertise. Knowing Bodies, Moves, and Moods through “Mobile Health” Data
This article argues that the politics of socio-material objects should be examined in relationship with the machineries of knowing these objects are embedded in and also sustain. Objects of expertise are embedded in discursive constructs, material infrastructures, and relationships that “surround” and permeate their production. In turn, such objects give traction to the machineries of knowing that enable their emergence. The article uses the conc…
Bringing the Economic Back! Thinking about the Politics of Expertise Within and Beyond the Social
International Political Sociology has played a crucial role in foregrounding the question of expertise in global politics, bringing under critical scrutiny the social processes that are central to the politics of expertise. In doing so, however, questions pertaining to the political–economic conditions that intersect with these have often been left aside. We show that attending to the political–economic conditions that contain and shape the polit…
The pluralization of expertise: The good, the glamorous, and the political
In the realm of global governance, the unique status and authority of expertise have traditionally been associated with its claims to rely on science and its often-associated qualities of ‘neutrality’, ‘impartiality’, and ‘objectivity’. Policymakers and technocratic experts have widely resorted to these attributes to render their knowledge credible and authoritative. While such claims to scientificity remain significant, we contend that contempor…
Political-epistemic disciplining in global governance: Producing ‘global’ Indigenous knowledges
International Relations scholarship has shown that persisting epistemic hierarchies rooted in colonial domination continue to exclude, silence, or sideline alternative knowledges in global governance, even as International Organizations increasingly open up to formally marginalized groups and attempt to pluralize their expertise. While building on such accounts, this article argues that epistemic hierarchies are deeply entangled with political-ec…
Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Law (11 works) · European union (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Corporate governance (8 works) · Political economy (7 works)