Kristin Anabel Eggeling
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 193314 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kristin Anabel Eggeling |
| PRENOMES | Kristin Anabel |
| SOBRENOME | Eggeling |
| ASSINATURA | EGGELING K A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3987-5301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Evocative Screens
How is diplomacy, a profession long premised on face-to-face interactions, adjusting to life with and on the screen? In this article, I present insights from 5 years of fieldwork (2018-2023) focused on the diplomatic scene in Brussels. I approach this material through Sherry Turkle's concept of the 'evocative object' to theorize how digitalization relates to diplomatic practice. In contrast to most existing scholarship that works with remotely co…
Diplomatic Negotiations in the Digital Context
This chapter considers how diplomatic negotiations unfold in the digital context. It asks how digital devices, such as mobile phones, screens, or social media apps, challenge core diplomatic norms and procedures; and, more radically, considers what happens to diplomatic negotiations when the interaction itself is conducted virtually or in hybrid formats. Moving beyond an overview of how diplomatic negotiations can be theorized and studied empiric…
China’s Rising Foreign Ministry Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy, written by Dylan M.H Loh
The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty
This article explores the struggle for ‘digital sovereignty’ in the European Union (EU). A seeming contradiction – the internet, after all, spans the globe – digital sovereignty is portrayed as the winning geoeconomic formula to keep the EU secure, competitive and democratic in the digital future. Approaching digital sovereignty as a discursive claim and analysing it through a case study of the European cloud project Gaia‐X, we show that there is…
Politics and power in the global tennis circuit
Like most global sports, professional tennis is eager to claim that politics has no place on its playing field. On closer investigation, however, this 'myth of autonomy' soon cracks. In addition to adding tennis as a much-needed case to the study of sport and international affairs, this article develops the concept of 'the circuit' to approach phenomena that criss-cross traditional levels of analysis in international relations. In its first part,…
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes
Documents play a vital role in constructing political regimes and their geopolitical relations. In this article, we analyse a particular type of document – the 21st century national vision – and examine its political work. Often glossy (digital) documents featuring simple slogans, fantastic plans, and claims to global relevance and prestige, national visions make specific futures present and close off room for alternative interpretations. Combini…
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…
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy
This article presents a theory and analysis of the social aesthetics of digital diplomacy. Drawing inspiration from the sociology of taste and visual theory, we conceptualize social aesthetics as the encoding of social norms and hierarchies into visual representations. Through this lens, we examine how the multitude of images uploaded by diplomats on social media daily contribute to the symbolic authority of their profession, ritually conveying i…
Taking trust online
Can trust – a core element of diplomacy – be taken online and if so, how? This article starts form the concern that trust is tied to face-to-face diplomacy, which is challenged in digitalising settings. We adopt a practice theoretical lens and study diplomatic information sharing in the Council of the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018–2021, we find that digital tools are indispensable for trust's enactment and, contrary to commonly h…
Embracing the 'inverted commas', or How Covid-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic 'fieldwork
Qualitative researchers often refer to the sites they study as a 'field' and the work they do there as 'fieldwork'. Setting both terms in inverted commas implies that their meaning stretches beyond clean categorisation of places or methods. Taking the example of ethnographic research during the coronavirus pandemic, I argue that embracing this excess meaning opens new research perspectives when fieldwork gets disrupted. As a more hopeful interven…
Doing global fieldwork
With this book, Jesse Driscoll opens a door to the backstage of fieldwork in political science, comparative politics and International Relations. As an ‘advice book’ (p. xi), a ‘how-to practitioner guide’ (p. 205) and a professional reflection written to a ‘younger version of [him]self’ (p. xiii), Driscoll has written a book that—as he puts it—especially the ‘young, directionless, and honest about the fact that they do not actually know what they…
Blended Diplomacy
This article develops a new theoretical approach to digitalisation in diplomacy, resituating conventional understandings of the relationship between diplomacy and technological transformation. Challenging the conception that ‘traditional’ diplomacy is being supplemented or challenged by new forms of ‘digital diplomacy’, we show how the ubiquity of digital devices and technologies makes disentangling analogue from digital diplomatic practices prac…
At Work with Practice Theory, ‘Failed’ Fieldwork, or How to See International Politics in An Empty Chair
IR practice theorists advocate studying international relations through its manifold practices. On the question of methodology, they thus promote a simple slogan: start with practices! But how do we first capture an international practice? Surprisingly, this crucial question often remains abstract or hidden in methodological metaphors like ‘leaving the armchair’. Reflecting on a supposedly failed fieldwork experiment, I introduce two heuristics i…
The Synthetic Situation in Diplomacy
What happens to the diplomatic encounter when it is digitally mediated? This article investigates how multilateral diplomats, who understand themselves as bringing people and polities together, cope with and resist the move to online settings, replacing handshakes with touchless greetings in videoconferences. Our starting point is the Covid-19 pandemic, but the article theorizes the effects of digital technological mediation already under way yea…
Machine Anthropology
International relations are made up of thick layers of meaning and big streams of data. How can we capture the nuances and scales of increasingly digitalised world politics, taking advantage of the possibilities that come with 'big data' and 'digital methods' in our discipline of International Relations (IR)? What is needed, we argue, is a methodological twin-move of making big data thick and thick data big. Taking diplomacy, one of IR's core pra…
Cultural diplomacy in Qatar
This paper analyses how the government of Qatar has over the last years used practices of cultural diplomacy to enhance its standing abroad, and consolidate its legitimacy at home. Looking in particular at key initiatives of international collaboration of the Qatar Foundation and Qatar Museums, I argue that the Qatari government strategically uses cultural diplomacy to first produce and then disseminate an elite identity narrative of Qatar being …
The Synthetic Situation in Diplomacy
What happens to the diplomatic encounter when it is digitally mediated? This article investigates how multilateral diplomats, who understand themselves as bringing people and polities together, cope with and resist the move to online settings, replacing handshakes with touchless greetings in videoconferences. Our starting point is the Covid-19 pandemic, but the article theorizes the effects of digital technological mediation already under way yea…
The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty
This article explores the struggle for ‘digital sovereignty’ in the European Union (EU). A seeming contradiction – the internet, after all, spans the globe – digital sovereignty is portrayed as the winning geoeconomic formula to keep the EU secure, competitive and democratic in the digital future. Approaching digital sovereignty as a discursive claim and analysing it through a case study of the European cloud project Gaia‐X, we show that there is…
Embracing the 'inverted commas', or How Covid-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic 'fieldwork
Qualitative researchers often refer to the sites they study as a 'field' and the work they do there as 'fieldwork'. Setting both terms in inverted commas implies that their meaning stretches beyond clean categorisation of places or methods. Taking the example of ethnographic research during the coronavirus pandemic, I argue that embracing this excess meaning opens new research perspectives when fieldwork gets disrupted. As a more hopeful interven…
At Work with Practice Theory, ‘Failed’ Fieldwork, or How to See International Politics in An Empty Chair
IR practice theorists advocate studying international relations through its manifold practices. On the question of methodology, they thus promote a simple slogan: start with practices! But how do we first capture an international practice? Surprisingly, this crucial question often remains abstract or hidden in methodological metaphors like ‘leaving the armchair’. Reflecting on a supposedly failed fieldwork experiment, I introduce two heuristics i…
Blended Diplomacy
This article develops a new theoretical approach to digitalisation in diplomacy, resituating conventional understandings of the relationship between diplomacy and technological transformation. Challenging the conception that ‘traditional’ diplomacy is being supplemented or challenged by new forms of ‘digital diplomacy’, we show how the ubiquity of digital devices and technologies makes disentangling analogue from digital diplomatic practices prac…
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy
This article presents a theory and analysis of the social aesthetics of digital diplomacy. Drawing inspiration from the sociology of taste and visual theory, we conceptualize social aesthetics as the encoding of social norms and hierarchies into visual representations. Through this lens, we examine how the multitude of images uploaded by diplomats on social media daily contribute to the symbolic authority of their profession, ritually conveying i…
Cultural diplomacy in Qatar
This paper analyses how the government of Qatar has over the last years used practices of cultural diplomacy to enhance its standing abroad, and consolidate its legitimacy at home. Looking in particular at key initiatives of international collaboration of the Qatar Foundation and Qatar Museums, I argue that the Qatari government strategically uses cultural diplomacy to first produce and then disseminate an elite identity narrative of Qatar being …
Taking trust online
Can trust – a core element of diplomacy – be taken online and if so, how? This article starts form the concern that trust is tied to face-to-face diplomacy, which is challenged in digitalising settings. We adopt a practice theoretical lens and study diplomatic information sharing in the Council of the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018–2021, we find that digital tools are indispensable for trust's enactment and, contrary to commonly h…
Evocative Screens
How is diplomacy, a profession long premised on face-to-face interactions, adjusting to life with and on the screen? In this article, I present insights from 5 years of fieldwork (2018-2023) focused on the diplomatic scene in Brussels. I approach this material through Sherry Turkle's concept of the 'evocative object' to theorize how digitalization relates to diplomatic practice. In contrast to most existing scholarship that works with remotely co…
Machine Anthropology
International relations are made up of thick layers of meaning and big streams of data. How can we capture the nuances and scales of increasingly digitalised world politics, taking advantage of the possibilities that come with 'big data' and 'digital methods' in our discipline of International Relations (IR)? What is needed, we argue, is a methodological twin-move of making big data thick and thick data big. Taking diplomacy, one of IR's core pra…
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes
Documents play a vital role in constructing political regimes and their geopolitical relations. In this article, we analyse a particular type of document – the 21st century national vision – and examine its political work. Often glossy (digital) documents featuring simple slogans, fantastic plans, and claims to global relevance and prestige, national visions make specific futures present and close off room for alternative interpretations. Combini…
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…
Doing global fieldwork
With this book, Jesse Driscoll opens a door to the backstage of fieldwork in political science, comparative politics and International Relations. As an ‘advice book’ (p. xi), a ‘how-to practitioner guide’ (p. 205) and a professional reflection written to a ‘younger version of [him]self’ (p. xiii), Driscoll has written a book that—as he puts it—especially the ‘young, directionless, and honest about the fact that they do not actually know what they…
Cultural diplomacy in Qatar
This paper analyses how the government of Qatar has over the last years used practices of cultural diplomacy to enhance its standing abroad, and consolidate its legitimacy at home. Looking in particular at key initiatives of international collaboration of the Qatar Foundation and Qatar Museums, I argue that the Qatari government strategically uses cultural diplomacy to first produce and then disseminate an elite identity narrative of Qatar being …
At Work with Practice Theory, ‘Failed’ Fieldwork, or How to See International Politics in An Empty Chair
IR practice theorists advocate studying international relations through its manifold practices. On the question of methodology, they thus promote a simple slogan: start with practices! But how do we first capture an international practice? Surprisingly, this crucial question often remains abstract or hidden in methodological metaphors like ‘leaving the armchair’. Reflecting on a supposedly failed fieldwork experiment, I introduce two heuristics i…
The Synthetic Situation in Diplomacy
What happens to the diplomatic encounter when it is digitally mediated? This article investigates how multilateral diplomats, who understand themselves as bringing people and polities together, cope with and resist the move to online settings, replacing handshakes with touchless greetings in videoconferences. Our starting point is the Covid-19 pandemic, but the article theorizes the effects of digital technological mediation already under way yea…
Machine Anthropology
International relations are made up of thick layers of meaning and big streams of data. How can we capture the nuances and scales of increasingly digitalised world politics, taking advantage of the possibilities that come with 'big data' and 'digital methods' in our discipline of International Relations (IR)? What is needed, we argue, is a methodological twin-move of making big data thick and thick data big. Taking diplomacy, one of IR's core pra…
Doing global fieldwork
With this book, Jesse Driscoll opens a door to the backstage of fieldwork in political science, comparative politics and International Relations. As an ‘advice book’ (p. xi), a ‘how-to practitioner guide’ (p. 205) and a professional reflection written to a ‘younger version of [him]self’ (p. xiii), Driscoll has written a book that—as he puts it—especially the ‘young, directionless, and honest about the fact that they do not actually know what they…
Blended Diplomacy
This article develops a new theoretical approach to digitalisation in diplomacy, resituating conventional understandings of the relationship between diplomacy and technological transformation. Challenging the conception that ‘traditional’ diplomacy is being supplemented or challenged by new forms of ‘digital diplomacy’, we show how the ubiquity of digital devices and technologies makes disentangling analogue from digital diplomatic practices prac…
Taking trust online
Can trust – a core element of diplomacy – be taken online and if so, how? This article starts form the concern that trust is tied to face-to-face diplomacy, which is challenged in digitalising settings. We adopt a practice theoretical lens and study diplomatic information sharing in the Council of the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018–2021, we find that digital tools are indispensable for trust's enactment and, contrary to commonly h…
Embracing the 'inverted commas', or How Covid-19 can show us new directions for ethnographic 'fieldwork
Qualitative researchers often refer to the sites they study as a 'field' and the work they do there as 'fieldwork'. Setting both terms in inverted commas implies that their meaning stretches beyond clean categorisation of places or methods. Taking the example of ethnographic research during the coronavirus pandemic, I argue that embracing this excess meaning opens new research perspectives when fieldwork gets disrupted. As a more hopeful interven…
Diplomatic Negotiations in the Digital Context
This chapter considers how diplomatic negotiations unfold in the digital context. It asks how digital devices, such as mobile phones, screens, or social media apps, challenge core diplomatic norms and procedures; and, more radically, considers what happens to diplomatic negotiations when the interaction itself is conducted virtually or in hybrid formats. Moving beyond an overview of how diplomatic negotiations can be theorized and studied empiric…
China’s Rising Foreign Ministry Practices and Representations of Assertive Diplomacy, written by Dylan M.H Loh
The Discursive Struggle for Digital Sovereignty
This article explores the struggle for ‘digital sovereignty’ in the European Union (EU). A seeming contradiction – the internet, after all, spans the globe – digital sovereignty is portrayed as the winning geoeconomic formula to keep the EU secure, competitive and democratic in the digital future. Approaching digital sovereignty as a discursive claim and analysing it through a case study of the European cloud project Gaia‐X, we show that there is…
Politics and power in the global tennis circuit
Like most global sports, professional tennis is eager to claim that politics has no place on its playing field. On closer investigation, however, this 'myth of autonomy' soon cracks. In addition to adding tennis as a much-needed case to the study of sport and international affairs, this article develops the concept of 'the circuit' to approach phenomena that criss-cross traditional levels of analysis in international relations. In its first part,…
Vision Documents, Nation Branding and the Legitimation of Non-democratic Regimes
Documents play a vital role in constructing political regimes and their geopolitical relations. In this article, we analyse a particular type of document – the 21st century national vision – and examine its political work. Often glossy (digital) documents featuring simple slogans, fantastic plans, and claims to global relevance and prestige, national visions make specific futures present and close off room for alternative interpretations. Combini…
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…
The Social Aesthetics of Digital Diplomacy
This article presents a theory and analysis of the social aesthetics of digital diplomacy. Drawing inspiration from the sociology of taste and visual theory, we conceptualize social aesthetics as the encoding of social norms and hierarchies into visual representations. Through this lens, we examine how the multitude of images uploaded by diplomats on social media daily contribute to the symbolic authority of their profession, ritually conveying i…
Evocative Screens
How is diplomacy, a profession long premised on face-to-face interactions, adjusting to life with and on the screen? In this article, I present insights from 5 years of fieldwork (2018-2023) focused on the diplomatic scene in Brussels. I approach this material through Sherry Turkle's concept of the 'evocative object' to theorize how digitalization relates to diplomatic practice. In contrast to most existing scholarship that works with remotely co…
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