Katja Freistein

Studying Narratives in International Relations Abstract. Many scholars in international relations (IR) share an interest in narratives. With few, notable exceptions, IR scholars seem to lack clear metho

Finally, in the practice category we have two articles. The first, by @ksailormoon.bsky.social @gadinsky.bsky.social & Stefan Groth, provides a framework for how to conceptualize the use of narratives in international studies.

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The article makes the case for scrutinising international organisations (IOs) as key sites and agents of inequality reproduction and transformation in international society. Drawing on sociological inequality research and institutionalist approaches to International Relations, we argue that IOs reproduce and transform broader stratification patterns in their global social environment through intertwined processes of categorisation and distribution. We propose to capture these twin processes from three observation points, which highlight different material and symbolic practices operating within IOs and at the interface between IOs and their environment.

Our 2nd pick for November is the #OpenAccess article "Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society" by @carolinefehl.bsky.social (@prif.org) and @ksailormoon.bsky.social (Duisburg-Essen)!

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🌍 AIA NRW @ EISA Pan-European Conference (Bologna, 25–29 Aug)

Fellows Chiung-Chiu Huang and Anna Shpakovskaya with our colleague @ksailormoon.bsky.social joined panels on postcolonial relations, international hierarchies & critical IR.

🔗 More: www.aia-nrw.org/en/aia-nrw-p...

Wenn Nationalstaaten mit ihren "starken Männern" die Autokratisierung vorantreiben und Kriege anzetteln, müssen wir erst recht die subnationale Demokratie und insb die Städte stärken: Summer Academy @aia-nrw.bsky.social "Subnational Diplomacy. Shaping Global Affairs": www.aia-nrw.org/de/e/subnati...

Abstract to the article "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" : How does social actors’ engagement with the technical dimensions of world politics—from material infrastructures to modeling, engineering, bureaucracy, and discourses of expertise—bring about specific social configurations and political effects? To answer this research problem, International Relations scholars have growingly mobilized the idea of technicization to investigate the relationship between knowledge, governance, socio-political reproduction, and social change. However, despite this interest, technicization has been neither conceptualized nor theorized. I argue that this absence limits our understanding of how technicality affects world politics and leads to the literature taking depoliticization as the default interpretation. To address this issue, this article develops three conceptualizations of technicization by distinguishing between the theoretical traditions underpinning this idea across social sciences. I introduce to International Relations the concept of technicization as desociologization based on the Habermassian concepts of technique and practice, which I distinguish from technicization as depoliticization (Weberian) and technicization as disciplinarization (Foucauldian) most commonly encountered in the literature. I illustrate the utility of disentangling these approaches through the case study of the history of the medicalization of male circumcision and its use as a global health anti-HIV policy since 2007. Overall, this article lays solid theoretical foundations for a more structured conversation about knowledge- and discourse-related processes dealing with the technical dimensions of world politics and beyond.

🔥 New article "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" published with @ejir.bsky.social in #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@lsemethodology.bsky.social

#Technique #malecircumcision #expertise #Weber #Foucault #Habermas #VMMC

Thank you so much for being with us - and good luck on your space mission 👽 Let‘s meet again soon! 💞

Studying Narratives in International Relations Abstract. Many scholars in international relations (IR) share an interest in narratives. With few, notable exceptions, IR scholars seem to lack clear metho

⚡️New article on how to study narratives in IR ⚡️This article by @ksailormoon.bsky.social, Stefan Groth and myself might be helpful in showing how narrative analysis can be applied to questions within IR. Interesting for all practice, visuality and discourse scholars!!
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Studying Narratives in International Relations Abstract. Many scholars in international relations (IR) share an interest in narratives. With few, notable exceptions, IR scholars seem to lack clear metho

During our next meeting, coming Friday January 10, we will discuss a recently published paper by @ksailormoon.bsky.social , @gadinsky.bsky.social, and Stefan Groth, Studying Narratives in International Relations—with the authors! 3/

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Three people standing side by side smiling in front of a panel platform and large screen that reads "Sustainable Space for Sustainability on Earth"

At the UN World Space Forum, conveniently here in Bonn. The Academy of International Affairs organized a nice side event with former ESA astronaut Gerhard Thiele, Raúl González Muñoz, Adam Bower, and myself on the panel to talk about responsibility in space

Photo credit: @ksailormoon.bsky.social

A starter pack for people interested in discourse in World Politics / International Relations. Please let me know if you would like to be added and don't hesitate to recommend underrepresented scholars and scholars from the "global south" 💫
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Okay, let's test the power of 🦋 (where I have more followers than I have ever had on X). Here is a fantastic graphic novel on a sad topic, the global environmental crisis, produced by the YAS @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social with the help of Ellery Studio.
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Status Orders: Toward a Local Understanding of Status Dynamics in World Politics Abstract. This analytical essay highlights the importance of status orders in the study of status and prestige in world politics. Drawing on recent researc

📢 New article 🌟
👤 Pål Kriachko Røren @palroren.bsky.social
🔎 Status Orders: Toward a Local Understanding of Status Dynamics in World Politics
📖 Open Access in International Studies Review
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The Globalization of Foreign Aid | Developing Consensus | Liam Swiss | Why do aid agencies from wealthy donor countries with diverse domestic political and economic contexts arrive at very similar positions on a wide array of aid

Thanks to the Centre for Global Cooperation Research and the publisher for making my book, and the rest of the Global Cooperation series available to all via open access: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

📮Hello IR people and everyone interested in subnational diplomacy! AIA NRW is looking for applications from academics and practitioners with projects on international politics. The call for fellowships has been extended until June 28th. Have a look!

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📣 Now open: Call for fellowships in 2025/26 in the field of international politics & subnational diplomacy @ the Academy of International Affairs, situated in Bonn, Germany.
If you are interested in applying, get in touch! Deadline for applications: 14 June 2024.

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Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability Abstract. European Union (EU) diplomatic representation in third countries is performed by both the Member States and by the EU Delegation. This hybrid sys

Pleased to finally see my article ‘Diplomatic Representation and Online/Offline Interactions: EU Coordination and Digital Sociability’ published in International Studies Quarterly available open access: t.co/4sh6GGRldx

**Job alert**
I am hiring a PhD researcher (fully funded) to study social distance in relation to state foreign policy making. Focus: #ForeignPolicy, #Narratives, #Interpretivism.
 
Spread the word! Deadline: April 26.
With Matthew Longo and Daniel Thomas

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Going to #EISAPEC24? Why not submit your paper/panel proposals to the ST08 International Society section! We love all things international society-related, and welcome diverse methodological and theoretical perpsectives.

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@europeanisa.bsky.social #polisky

The submission deadline for EISAPEC24 is coming closer and since @werdis.bsky.social and I loved our section programme last year, we are very much looking forward to receiving your proposals for ST21 “Knowledge in International Relations. Epistemic Struggles in a Complex 🌎”! @europeanisa.bsky.social

EISA PEC 2024 – ST02 Doing International Political Sociology – call for panels and papers — DoingIPS

📢 We are inviting panel, roundtable, and paper proposals for the #DoingIPS standing section ‘Doing International Political Sociology’ at the @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC24 (convenors: Jef Huysmans and Renata Summa). Send in your ideas until 13 March!
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Frauen bilden das Rückgrat der informellen Pflege in Deutschland. Neue DIW-Studie zeigt, wie Ausbau der formellen Pflege Gender Care Gap verringern könnte, z.B. sollte Politik Ehegattensplitting abschaffen und mit familienpol. Anreizen Frauen-Erwerbsbeteiligung stärken.

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#Postdoc vacancy (3 yrs + 3) available in International/Global Political Sociology with a focus on the Global South (preferably #Africa): uni-bayreuth.de/stelle-kennwor… . Proposed start in August, German required. Please get in touch with any questions. #IPS #GlobalSociology #IR

Foto von den Rheinwiesen in Düsseldorf voll mit Demonstrierenden

Düsseldorf!!

100.000 demonstrieren gegen Rechts!

ZUSAMMEN GEGEN DEN FASCHISMUS!✊

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Es existiert ein neuer Feed mit dem Namen "TerminDemoGegenRechts" und speist sich über den Hashtag

#TerminDemoGegenRechts

Unter diesem Hashtag können alle bekannten Termine von Demos gegen Rechts gepostet und gefunden werden.

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Beschwerdemechanismen in globalen Lieferketten müssen lokal verankert sein • Table.Media Politikwissenschaftler Christian Scheper: "Missstände in den Beschwerdeverfahren spiegeln die allgemeinen Missstände in den Lieferkettenbeziehungen

#Beschwerdemechanismen in globalen #Lieferketten müssen lokal verankert sein. Mein Standpunkt @table.media table.media/esg/standpun...

Adopting rightwing policies ‘does not help centre-left win votes’ Study of European electoral data suggests social democratic parties alienate supporters by moving towards the political centre

Study after study comes to similar conclusions, but somehow it isn't enough to blunt the instinct to appease racists among social democratic politicians

Das Jahr 2023 geht zu Ende, hier ein kleiner persönlicher Rüclblick #Rb23! Wissenschaftlich war es ein gutes Jahr. Im September erschien der von mir herausgegebene Sammelband "#Erinnerungskämpfe. Neues deutsches Geschichtsbewusstsein" im @reclamverlag.bsky.social. /2
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