Eva Johais
Biographic Data
| ID | 881460 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eva Johais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eva |
| FAMILY NAME | Johais |
| SIGNATURE | JOHAIS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chr. Michelsen Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6211-0879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Schlagfertigkeit. A soldier skill
Introduction to the special issue
In this text, we introduce the Special Issue 'War and Fun: Exploring the Plurality of Experiences and Emotional Articulations of Warfare and Soldiering' by highlighting the need to challenge, expand, and reorient public and scholarly debates in order to address the complex interplay of emotions, moralities and agency that characterise the human experience of war from the perspective of those who fight
The Warfun taboo
The WARFUN taboo rules out the association of war with fun. This article explains why the taboo is particularly entrenched in Germany and demonstrates its effects: the taboo forms part of an anti-militarist political culture and has created soldier models that omit any soldierly qualities that contradict this culture. Oriented towards these models, German soldiers have internalised the taboo as well. However, this contradicts their experience of …
Preserving interventionism
As long as 20 years ago, electoral authorities in African states had apparently gained the capacity to manage electoral operations on their own. However, the continent still accounts for the largest share of electoral assistance. The article argues that electoral assistance survived because it contributed to the institutionalisation of the election profession on the continent. The article highlights the role of key knowledge projects in this dyna…
Unleash the hounds
Forum
Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence of the status quo, give room for multiple experiences and worldviews, and place itself in the service of emancipation and social transformation. The forum does not define what critical ethnography is but brings together a r…
Roberto J. González. War Virtually
Militarization, factionalism and political transitions
Why do some fragile states collapse while others do not? This article presents results from a comparative analysis of the causes of state collapse. Using a dataset of 15 cases of state collapse between 1960 and 2007, we conduct both synchronic and diachronic comparisons with two different control groups of fragile states using crisp-set QCA. The results support our hypothesis that state collapse has multiple causes. The militarization of politica…
How do states collapse? Towards a model of causal mechanisms
State collapse is a highly consequential event. But we know very little about the reasons why and how states lose their capacities of violence control, rule-making and taxation. In order to explore the underlying causal mechanisms, we use a nested analysis combining Qualitative Comparative Analysis and comparative process-tracing. While the mobilisation of armed opposition groups is a necessary condition for state collapse, it only works in concu…
Warum Staaten zusammenbrechen
Warum Staaten Zusammenbrechen
Warum Staaten zusammenbrechen
Conceptualising state collapse
This paper proposes a theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous conceptualisation of state collapse. It seeks to overcome several key deficits of research into fragile, failed and collapsed states, which is often criticised as normatively problematic and methodologically deficient. We argue that this is a worthwhile topic to study but that scholarly inquiry needs to become more systematic and focus on extreme cases of state collapse. F…
How do states collapse? Towards a model of causal mechanisms
State collapse is a highly consequential event. But we know very little about the reasons why and how states lose their capacities of violence control, rule-making and taxation. In order to explore the underlying causal mechanisms, we use a nested analysis combining Qualitative Comparative Analysis and comparative process-tracing. While the mobilisation of armed opposition groups is a necessary condition for state collapse, it only works in concu…
The Warfun taboo
The WARFUN taboo rules out the association of war with fun. This article explains why the taboo is particularly entrenched in Germany and demonstrates its effects: the taboo forms part of an anti-militarist political culture and has created soldier models that omit any soldierly qualities that contradict this culture. Oriented towards these models, German soldiers have internalised the taboo as well. However, this contradicts their experience of …
Preserving interventionism
As long as 20 years ago, electoral authorities in African states had apparently gained the capacity to manage electoral operations on their own. However, the continent still accounts for the largest share of electoral assistance. The article argues that electoral assistance survived because it contributed to the institutionalisation of the election profession on the continent. The article highlights the role of key knowledge projects in this dyna…
Forum
Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence of the status quo, give room for multiple experiences and worldviews, and place itself in the service of emancipation and social transformation. The forum does not define what critical ethnography is but brings together a r…
Conceptualising state collapse
This paper proposes a theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous conceptualisation of state collapse. It seeks to overcome several key deficits of research into fragile, failed and collapsed states, which is often criticised as normatively problematic and methodologically deficient. We argue that this is a worthwhile topic to study but that scholarly inquiry needs to become more systematic and focus on extreme cases of state collapse. F…
Conceptualising state collapse
This paper proposes a theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous conceptualisation of state collapse. It seeks to overcome several key deficits of research into fragile, failed and collapsed states, which is often criticised as normatively problematic and methodologically deficient. We argue that this is a worthwhile topic to study but that scholarly inquiry needs to become more systematic and focus on extreme cases of state collapse. F…
Warum Staaten zusammenbrechen
Warum Staaten Zusammenbrechen
Warum Staaten zusammenbrechen
Militarization, factionalism and political transitions
Why do some fragile states collapse while others do not? This article presents results from a comparative analysis of the causes of state collapse. Using a dataset of 15 cases of state collapse between 1960 and 2007, we conduct both synchronic and diachronic comparisons with two different control groups of fragile states using crisp-set QCA. The results support our hypothesis that state collapse has multiple causes. The militarization of politica…
How do states collapse? Towards a model of causal mechanisms
State collapse is a highly consequential event. But we know very little about the reasons why and how states lose their capacities of violence control, rule-making and taxation. In order to explore the underlying causal mechanisms, we use a nested analysis combining Qualitative Comparative Analysis and comparative process-tracing. While the mobilisation of armed opposition groups is a necessary condition for state collapse, it only works in concu…
Roberto J. González. War Virtually
Introduction to the special issue
In this text, we introduce the Special Issue 'War and Fun: Exploring the Plurality of Experiences and Emotional Articulations of Warfare and Soldiering' by highlighting the need to challenge, expand, and reorient public and scholarly debates in order to address the complex interplay of emotions, moralities and agency that characterise the human experience of war from the perspective of those who fight
The Warfun taboo
The WARFUN taboo rules out the association of war with fun. This article explains why the taboo is particularly entrenched in Germany and demonstrates its effects: the taboo forms part of an anti-militarist political culture and has created soldier models that omit any soldierly qualities that contradict this culture. Oriented towards these models, German soldiers have internalised the taboo as well. However, this contradicts their experience of …
Preserving interventionism
As long as 20 years ago, electoral authorities in African states had apparently gained the capacity to manage electoral operations on their own. However, the continent still accounts for the largest share of electoral assistance. The article argues that electoral assistance survived because it contributed to the institutionalisation of the election profession on the continent. The article highlights the role of key knowledge projects in this dyna…
Unleash the hounds
Forum
Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence of the status quo, give room for multiple experiences and worldviews, and place itself in the service of emancipation and social transformation. The forum does not define what critical ethnography is but brings together a r…
Schlagfertigkeit. A soldier skill
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