Maïka Sondarjee
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2220340 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Maïka Sondarjee |
| PRENOMES | Maïka |
| SOBRENOME | Sondarjee |
| ASSINATURA | SONDARJEE M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1393-7436 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Maternal White savior narratives in Louise Linton's In Congo's Shadow
In 2016, Scottish actress Louise Linton released her self-published memoir entitled In Congo's Shadow: One Girl's Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa , detailing her few months volunteering in Zambia in 1999. Zambian observers quickly critiqued an excerpt of her book for its White savior undertones. After reviewing the controversy surrounding Linton's romanticized biography using grey literature from the Global South, we analyze one of the on…
Forum
International practice theory (IPT) is now firmly established as a key theoretical and methodological framework for International Relations (IR), offering novel ways to address the oversight around the ‘everyday’ in global politics. Yet, the presumed novelty of such an approach is surprising to feminist, race, and postcolonial IR scholars who have thought deeply about the problem of the everyday. Surprisingly, these approaches have been footnotes…
Are We There Yet? Revisiting the Old and New Postcolonialism(s) in IR
Postcolonialism stands as a synergy between new and old sets of literature that have come together unevenly and in different ways. Postcolonial interventions have contended with IR core themes over the past four decades. Over the last two decades, there has also been a boom in the scholarship that examines non-Western IR, with some emerging from the contributions of critical theorists who sought to question the dominance of mainstream perspective…
White Savior Narratives in International Development
This article defines the concept of White savior narratives for a development studies audience by weaving in research on racial hierarchies and inquiries on White saviorism in various disciplines. It then applies the concept to the advocacy campaign Kony 2012, led by the American organization Invisible Children. After describing the case and its socio-political context, the article defines the concept of White savior narratives by formulating thr…
A Feminist Critique of International Practices
Feminist social theories, especially intersectional and decolonial ones, have been footnotes at best in practice-oriented research in international relations. This disciplinary exclusion of gender studies’ concepts from “international practice theories” (IPTs) or the "practice turn" has marginalized inquiries into power and reflexivity in action. As a result, IPTs have failed to theorize how practitioners’ reflexivity is shaped by local manifesta…
Practice Contestation in and between Communities of Practice
By focusing on like-mindedness, community of practice (CoP) scholars are often accused of downgrading issues of power and contestation. This article theorizes practice contestation as an integral part of participation in a community. Building on a relational ontology and the concept of epistemic power, I define practice contestation as tacit (practical) or discursive interventions challenging the shared background knowledge of a CoP. This process…
Communities of Practice in World Politics
This special forum focuses on international communities of practice (CoP) as a concept and an object of inquiry in International Relations (IR). The Introduction discusses the concept’s origins and how it has entered the field of IR. It addresses why and how CoPs matter to IR scholars by looking at how structure, agency, processes, institutions, and knowledge manifest themselves in communities. This special forum’s main contributions are: (1) cap…
Coloniality of Epistemic Power in International Practices
Are international organisations' inclusive practices better than top-down ones? This article analyses an attempt to dismantle formal hierarchies to integrate civil society actors in development policymaking at the World Bank. It argues that inclusive practices have not fully challenged the coloniality of epistemic power in North/South relationships because they did not democratise the capacity to influence meaning negotiation. Not only did the Ba…
Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations
Over the past few decades, International Relations (IR) scholars started to acknowledge the field’s racist and colonial legacy. However, only a few studies examined ethnocentricity in the Western IR classroom, and whereas most studied textbooks and graduate training, they seldom looked at undergraduate courses. This article demonstrates that the discipline is taught to IR scholars-to-be by centring Western experience, epistemes, history and agenc…
Perspectives féministes en relations internationales
« La politique internationale est un monde d'hommes », disait en 1988 la féministe étatsunienne Ann Tickner, théoricienne des relations internationales. Il semble que cette constatation soit toujours d'actualité quelque trente années plus tard. Dès la création de la première chaire de recherche dans ce domaine, en 1919, c'est une vision masculine et occidentale du monde qui a prédominé. Les choses sont en train de changer, lentement, avec la plac…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies
Over the past decade, there has been a new "decolonial turn," albeit less related than before to land and political independence. "To decolonize" is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression "decolonizing" by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political…
We Are a Community of Practice, Not a Paradigm! How to Meaningfully Integrate Gender and Feminist Approaches in IR Syllabi
The most frequent practice in teaching western undergraduate students about international relations (IR) is either to avoid gender studies altogether or at best to compartmentalize them to a single week. This practice marginalizes feminist research by amalgamating highly heterogeneous publications under the pretense that “they look at gender.” Rather than treating gender studies as a unified research program, they should be linked to the full ran…
Change and stability at the World Bank
Arguing that international development policymaking is technocratic is not new. However, examining technocracy as a political rationality sheds new light on intentionality, on the evolution of policymaking practices, and on change and stability as part of a single process. In short, the meaningful adoption of new inclusive practices (change) has stabilised World Bank employees’ mode of thought and action (stability). My overall argument is that W…
Vijay Prashad, Une histoire politique du tiers-monde, (Montréal)
L’ordre mondial dans un monde post-croissance devra être décolonial
Collective Learning at the Boundaries of Communities of Practice
This article explains the emergence of inclusive practices at the World Bank as a collective learning process between communities of practice. Contributing to the literature on practices and cognitive evolution in International Relations, this theory of learning goes beyond socialisation or meaning negotiation in communities in focusing on the translation of knowledge at the boundaries of communities of practice. This article also contributes to …
Communities of Practice in World Politics
This special forum focuses on international communities of practice (CoP) as a concept and an object of inquiry in International Relations (IR). The Introduction discusses the concept’s origins and how it has entered the field of IR. It addresses why and how CoPs matter to IR scholars by looking at how structure, agency, processes, institutions, and knowledge manifest themselves in communities. This special forum’s main contributions are: (1) cap…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies
Over the past decade, there has been a new "decolonial turn," albeit less related than before to land and political independence. "To decolonize" is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression "decolonizing" by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political…
Collective Learning at the Boundaries of Communities of Practice
This article explains the emergence of inclusive practices at the World Bank as a collective learning process between communities of practice. Contributing to the literature on practices and cognitive evolution in International Relations, this theory of learning goes beyond socialisation or meaning negotiation in communities in focusing on the translation of knowledge at the boundaries of communities of practice. This article also contributes to …
Coloniality of Epistemic Power in International Practices
Are international organisations' inclusive practices better than top-down ones? This article analyses an attempt to dismantle formal hierarchies to integrate civil society actors in development policymaking at the World Bank. It argues that inclusive practices have not fully challenged the coloniality of epistemic power in North/South relationships because they did not democratise the capacity to influence meaning negotiation. Not only did the Ba…
Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations
Over the past few decades, International Relations (IR) scholars started to acknowledge the field’s racist and colonial legacy. However, only a few studies examined ethnocentricity in the Western IR classroom, and whereas most studied textbooks and graduate training, they seldom looked at undergraduate courses. This article demonstrates that the discipline is taught to IR scholars-to-be by centring Western experience, epistemes, history and agenc…
A Feminist Critique of International Practices
Feminist social theories, especially intersectional and decolonial ones, have been footnotes at best in practice-oriented research in international relations. This disciplinary exclusion of gender studies’ concepts from “international practice theories” (IPTs) or the "practice turn" has marginalized inquiries into power and reflexivity in action. As a result, IPTs have failed to theorize how practitioners’ reflexivity is shaped by local manifesta…
Practice Contestation in and between Communities of Practice
By focusing on like-mindedness, community of practice (CoP) scholars are often accused of downgrading issues of power and contestation. This article theorizes practice contestation as an integral part of participation in a community. Building on a relational ontology and the concept of epistemic power, I define practice contestation as tacit (practical) or discursive interventions challenging the shared background knowledge of a CoP. This process…
We Are a Community of Practice, Not a Paradigm! How to Meaningfully Integrate Gender and Feminist Approaches in IR Syllabi
The most frequent practice in teaching western undergraduate students about international relations (IR) is either to avoid gender studies altogether or at best to compartmentalize them to a single week. This practice marginalizes feminist research by amalgamating highly heterogeneous publications under the pretense that “they look at gender.” Rather than treating gender studies as a unified research program, they should be linked to the full ran…
Change and stability at the World Bank
Arguing that international development policymaking is technocratic is not new. However, examining technocracy as a political rationality sheds new light on intentionality, on the evolution of policymaking practices, and on change and stability as part of a single process. In short, the meaningful adoption of new inclusive practices (change) has stabilised World Bank employees’ mode of thought and action (stability). My overall argument is that W…
L’ordre mondial dans un monde post-croissance devra être décolonial
Collective Learning at the Boundaries of Communities of Practice
This article explains the emergence of inclusive practices at the World Bank as a collective learning process between communities of practice. Contributing to the literature on practices and cognitive evolution in International Relations, this theory of learning goes beyond socialisation or meaning negotiation in communities in focusing on the translation of knowledge at the boundaries of communities of practice. This article also contributes to …
We Are a Community of Practice, Not a Paradigm! How to Meaningfully Integrate Gender and Feminist Approaches in IR Syllabi
The most frequent practice in teaching western undergraduate students about international relations (IR) is either to avoid gender studies altogether or at best to compartmentalize them to a single week. This practice marginalizes feminist research by amalgamating highly heterogeneous publications under the pretense that “they look at gender.” Rather than treating gender studies as a unified research program, they should be linked to the full ran…
Change and stability at the World Bank
Arguing that international development policymaking is technocratic is not new. However, examining technocracy as a political rationality sheds new light on intentionality, on the evolution of policymaking practices, and on change and stability as part of a single process. In short, the meaningful adoption of new inclusive practices (change) has stabilised World Bank employees’ mode of thought and action (stability). My overall argument is that W…
Vijay Prashad, Une histoire politique du tiers-monde, (Montréal)
Perspectives féministes en relations internationales
« La politique internationale est un monde d'hommes », disait en 1988 la féministe étatsunienne Ann Tickner, théoricienne des relations internationales. Il semble que cette constatation soit toujours d'actualité quelque trente années plus tard. Dès la création de la première chaire de recherche dans ce domaine, en 1919, c'est une vision masculine et occidentale du monde qui a prédominé. Les choses sont en train de changer, lentement, avec la plac…
Decolonizing International Relations and Development Studies
Over the past decade, there has been a new "decolonial turn," albeit less related than before to land and political independence. "To decolonize" is now associated with something less tangible and often under-defined. We argue that scholars, especially Western ones, should avoid depoliticizing the expression "decolonizing" by using it as a buzzword. Scholars and policymakers should use the expression only if it is closely related to the political…
Coloniality of Epistemic Power in International Practices
Are international organisations' inclusive practices better than top-down ones? This article analyses an attempt to dismantle formal hierarchies to integrate civil society actors in development policymaking at the World Bank. It argues that inclusive practices have not fully challenged the coloniality of epistemic power in North/South relationships because they did not democratise the capacity to influence meaning negotiation. Not only did the Ba…
Decentring the Western Gaze in International Relations
Over the past few decades, International Relations (IR) scholars started to acknowledge the field’s racist and colonial legacy. However, only a few studies examined ethnocentricity in the Western IR classroom, and whereas most studied textbooks and graduate training, they seldom looked at undergraduate courses. This article demonstrates that the discipline is taught to IR scholars-to-be by centring Western experience, epistemes, history and agenc…
A Feminist Critique of International Practices
Feminist social theories, especially intersectional and decolonial ones, have been footnotes at best in practice-oriented research in international relations. This disciplinary exclusion of gender studies’ concepts from “international practice theories” (IPTs) or the "practice turn" has marginalized inquiries into power and reflexivity in action. As a result, IPTs have failed to theorize how practitioners’ reflexivity is shaped by local manifesta…
Practice Contestation in and between Communities of Practice
By focusing on like-mindedness, community of practice (CoP) scholars are often accused of downgrading issues of power and contestation. This article theorizes practice contestation as an integral part of participation in a community. Building on a relational ontology and the concept of epistemic power, I define practice contestation as tacit (practical) or discursive interventions challenging the shared background knowledge of a CoP. This process…
Communities of Practice in World Politics
This special forum focuses on international communities of practice (CoP) as a concept and an object of inquiry in International Relations (IR). The Introduction discusses the concept’s origins and how it has entered the field of IR. It addresses why and how CoPs matter to IR scholars by looking at how structure, agency, processes, institutions, and knowledge manifest themselves in communities. This special forum’s main contributions are: (1) cap…
Are We There Yet? Revisiting the Old and New Postcolonialism(s) in IR
Postcolonialism stands as a synergy between new and old sets of literature that have come together unevenly and in different ways. Postcolonial interventions have contended with IR core themes over the past four decades. Over the last two decades, there has also been a boom in the scholarship that examines non-Western IR, with some emerging from the contributions of critical theorists who sought to question the dominance of mainstream perspective…
White Savior Narratives in International Development
This article defines the concept of White savior narratives for a development studies audience by weaving in research on racial hierarchies and inquiries on White saviorism in various disciplines. It then applies the concept to the advocacy campaign Kony 2012, led by the American organization Invisible Children. After describing the case and its socio-political context, the article defines the concept of White savior narratives by formulating thr…
Maternal White savior narratives in Louise Linton's In Congo's Shadow
In 2016, Scottish actress Louise Linton released her self-published memoir entitled In Congo's Shadow: One Girl's Perilous Journey to the Heart of Africa , detailing her few months volunteering in Zambia in 1999. Zambian observers quickly critiqued an excerpt of her book for its White savior undertones. After reviewing the controversy surrounding Linton's romanticized biography using grey literature from the Global South, we analyze one of the on…
Forum
International practice theory (IPT) is now firmly established as a key theoretical and methodological framework for International Relations (IR), offering novel ways to address the oversight around the ‘everyday’ in global politics. Yet, the presumed novelty of such an approach is surprising to feminist, race, and postcolonial IR scholars who have thought deeply about the problem of the everyday. Surprisingly, these approaches have been footnotes…
Political science (12 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Law (7 obras) · International Development and Aid (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Politics (5 obras) · Social science (5 obras) · Gender Politics and Representation (4 obras) · Gender Studies (3 obras)