Mauro J Caraccioli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4220358 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mauro J Caraccioli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mauro J |
| FAMILY NAME | Caraccioli |
| SIGNATURE | CARACCIOLI M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6583-6242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Book Forum
Learning how to count
This article examines the pedagogical politics at play in the quantification of faculty labor in contemporary U.S. academia. It focuses on the author’s experiences at a large, land-grant, R1 university, going through the Promotion and Tenure (P&T) review process and reflecting on the various kinds of responsibilities that emerged from structural and personal transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic. By developing a pedagogy of accountability …
Author’s Response
Published version
Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping @ 20
In this Introduction, I discuss the motivations underlying this Special Issue in honor of the 20th Anniversary of François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology . Highlighting the contextual relevance of the text, I discuss the role Debrix’s work has played in the broader interrogation of disciplinary logics within the field of International Relations and beyond, as discussed by the accompanying…
Early (Modern) Empires
Contemporary studies of imperialism have long focused on representations of the past. Yet the history of empire itself is a product of how aspiring political powers saw and wished to be seen by their current and future rivals. To take on the project of imperial domination is to walk on the shoulders of giants, particularly earlier endeavours to transform how political conquest has been legitimized. To that end, this chapter looks at the logics of…
Forum
At stake in this forum are the politics of translation in the study of global politics. More specifically, the following interventions aim to consider the ways that scholars can recenter the utility of language toward more flexible conceptions of relationality. As each contribution reveals, translation is indispensable to individual theorizations of international politics; yet taken together, the forum aims to mitigate the alleged necessity of a …
Anywhere but here
Growing up in Miami, Florida I met people from all over the Americas, especially the great diversity of people from the Caribbean whom I lived with in the African-American and Haitian-American encl
A problem from hell
Pedagogies of Freedom
This article contributes to calls for a reflexive ethnography of academic life by examining the relationship between exile and courage in the work of Paulo Freire. I turn to Freire’s experience of exile and the role it plays in his critical pedagogy in order to develop a reflexive framework linking scholarly encounters with global politics and different forms of courage. I begin my analysis with a portrait of Freire’s life and work, focusing on t…
Seeing Black in Latin America
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
Of Cursed States
In one of the last essays published before his death, the anthropologist Fernando Coronil referred to Latin America as being located within an ‘international division of labor and of nature.’ Arguing against ‘resource curse’ explanations of the region’s volatile mineral markets, Coronil emphasized how ‘resources do not do anything by themselves but through the social relations that make them significant’ (Coronil, 2011, p. 243). Rare earths, lith…
Atlas Swam
Political actors have long drawn on utopian imaginaries of colonizing marine and island spaces as models for idealized libertarian commonwealths. A recent inheritor of this tradition is the seasteading movement, which seeks to “further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities [by] enabling innovations with new political and social systems” on semi‐stationary, floating platforms. Fueled by a cocktail of ideologies (t…
Spatial Structures and the Phenomenology of Inter-National Identity
Spatial abstractions and metaphors are not new to International Relations (IR). Particularly, when we consider the relationship of “international space” with the geopolitical narratives of the early twentieth century, we find that both the theoretical construction and political composition of space are central components of world politics. Space in this sense, as critical scholars of geopolitics have demonstrated, is less the backdrop against whi…
Atlas Swam
Political actors have long drawn on utopian imaginaries of colonizing marine and island spaces as models for idealized libertarian commonwealths. A recent inheritor of this tradition is the seasteading movement, which seeks to “further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities [by] enabling innovations with new political and social systems” on semi‐stationary, floating platforms. Fueled by a cocktail of ideologies (t…
A problem from hell
Pedagogies of Freedom
This article contributes to calls for a reflexive ethnography of academic life by examining the relationship between exile and courage in the work of Paulo Freire. I turn to Freire’s experience of exile and the role it plays in his critical pedagogy in order to develop a reflexive framework linking scholarly encounters with global politics and different forms of courage. I begin my analysis with a portrait of Freire’s life and work, focusing on t…
Forum
At stake in this forum are the politics of translation in the study of global politics. More specifically, the following interventions aim to consider the ways that scholars can recenter the utility of language toward more flexible conceptions of relationality. As each contribution reveals, translation is indispensable to individual theorizations of international politics; yet taken together, the forum aims to mitigate the alleged necessity of a …
Spatial Structures and the Phenomenology of Inter-National Identity
Spatial abstractions and metaphors are not new to International Relations (IR). Particularly, when we consider the relationship of “international space” with the geopolitical narratives of the early twentieth century, we find that both the theoretical construction and political composition of space are central components of world politics. Space in this sense, as critical scholars of geopolitics have demonstrated, is less the backdrop against whi…
Spatial Structures and the Phenomenology of Inter-National Identity
Spatial abstractions and metaphors are not new to International Relations (IR). Particularly, when we consider the relationship of “international space” with the geopolitical narratives of the early twentieth century, we find that both the theoretical construction and political composition of space are central components of world politics. Space in this sense, as critical scholars of geopolitics have demonstrated, is less the backdrop against whi…
Atlas Swam
Political actors have long drawn on utopian imaginaries of colonizing marine and island spaces as models for idealized libertarian commonwealths. A recent inheritor of this tradition is the seasteading movement, which seeks to “further the establishment and growth of permanent, autonomous ocean communities [by] enabling innovations with new political and social systems” on semi‐stationary, floating platforms. Fueled by a cocktail of ideologies (t…
Human Beings in International Relations
Since the 1980s, the discipline of International Relations has seen a series of disputes over its foundations. However, there has been one core concept that, although addressed in various guises, had never been explicitly and systematically engaged with in these debates: the human. This volume is the first to address comprehensively the topic of the human in world politics. It comprises cutting-edge accounts by leading scholars of how the human i…
Of Cursed States
In one of the last essays published before his death, the anthropologist Fernando Coronil referred to Latin America as being located within an ‘international division of labor and of nature.’ Arguing against ‘resource curse’ explanations of the region’s volatile mineral markets, Coronil emphasized how ‘resources do not do anything by themselves but through the social relations that make them significant’ (Coronil, 2011, p. 243). Rare earths, lith…
Pedagogies of Freedom
This article contributes to calls for a reflexive ethnography of academic life by examining the relationship between exile and courage in the work of Paulo Freire. I turn to Freire’s experience of exile and the role it plays in his critical pedagogy in order to develop a reflexive framework linking scholarly encounters with global politics and different forms of courage. I begin my analysis with a portrait of Freire’s life and work, focusing on t…
Seeing Black in Latin America
Anywhere but here
Growing up in Miami, Florida I met people from all over the Americas, especially the great diversity of people from the Caribbean whom I lived with in the African-American and Haitian-American encl
A problem from hell
Forum
At stake in this forum are the politics of translation in the study of global politics. More specifically, the following interventions aim to consider the ways that scholars can recenter the utility of language toward more flexible conceptions of relationality. As each contribution reveals, translation is indispensable to individual theorizations of international politics; yet taken together, the forum aims to mitigate the alleged necessity of a …
Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping @ 20
In this Introduction, I discuss the motivations underlying this Special Issue in honor of the 20th Anniversary of François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping: The United Nations and the Mobilization of Ideology . Highlighting the contextual relevance of the text, I discuss the role Debrix’s work has played in the broader interrogation of disciplinary logics within the field of International Relations and beyond, as discussed by the accompanying…
Early (Modern) Empires
Contemporary studies of imperialism have long focused on representations of the past. Yet the history of empire itself is a product of how aspiring political powers saw and wished to be seen by their current and future rivals. To take on the project of imperial domination is to walk on the shoulders of giants, particularly earlier endeavours to transform how political conquest has been legitimized. To that end, this chapter looks at the logics of…
Learning how to count
This article examines the pedagogical politics at play in the quantification of faculty labor in contemporary U.S. academia. It focuses on the author’s experiences at a large, land-grant, R1 university, going through the Promotion and Tenure (P&T) review process and reflecting on the various kinds of responsibilities that emerged from structural and personal transformations during the COVID-19 pandemic. By developing a pedagogy of accountability …
Author’s Response
Published version
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