The Identity Work of Journalists and Humanitarians in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians Sites

IF 2.3 2区社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding Pub Date : 2023-09-19 DOI:10.1080/17502977.2023.2241753

Rebecca Sutton, Richard Stupart

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Abstract

This article interrogates the simplistic juxtaposition of protectors and protected in South Sudan’s Protection of Civilians (PoC) sites, by asking: who was civilian in South Sudan, and how were civilians being protected? We present a civilian landscape that is much broader and more complex than the dominant PoC imaginary. Drawing attention to civilians who engage in professional tasks, the article considers the everyday practices of humanitarians and journalists. This illustrates that the category of ‘civilian’ is not the bureaucratic or legal certainty suggested by international law or PoC discourse, but unstable, shifting and constructed through everyday practice.

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记者和人道主义工作者在南苏丹保护平民场所中的身份工作

本文质疑在南苏丹保护平民(PoC)地点中，保护者与受保护者的简单并列，并提出以下问题:谁是南苏丹的平民?平民如何受到保护?我们呈现了一个比主流PoC想象的更广泛、更复杂的平民景观。文章关注了从事专业工作的平民，讨论了人道主义工作者和记者的日常行为。这说明，“平民”的范畴不是国际法或PoC话语所暗示的官僚主义或法律确定性，而是不稳定的、变化的、通过日常实践构建的。

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Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS-

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5.20

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20.00%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding is a cross-disciplinary journal devoted to critical analysis of international intervention, focussing on interactions and practices that shape, influence and transform states and societies. In 21st century political practice, states and other actors increasingly strive to transplant what they see as normatively progressive political orders to other contexts. Accordingly, JISB focuses on the complex interconnections and mutually shaping interactions between donor and recipient communities within military, economic, social, or other interventional contexts, and welcomes perspectives on political life of, and beyond, European state-building processes. The journal brings together academics and practitioners from cross-disciplinary backgrounds, including international relations, political science, political economy, sociology, international law, social anthropology, geography, and regional studies. The editors are particularly interested in specific or comparative in-depth analyses of contemporary or historical interventions and state-building processes that are grounded in careful fieldwork and/or innovative methodologies. Multi or cross-disciplinary contributions and theoretically challenging pieces that broaden the study of intervention and state building to encompass processes of decision-making, or the complex interplay between actors on the ground, are especially encouraged.