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“Freeze my Semen and I Will Join the War”: The Masculinization of the Security–Demography Nexus “冷冻我的精液，我将加入战争”：安全-人口关系的男性化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-11 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf020

Arita Holmberg, Aida Alvinius

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Sites of Conscience as Sites of Protest: How Victims Use Place to Advance Their Claims 作为抗议场所的良心场所：受害者如何利用场所来推进他们的诉求

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf021

Claire Greenstein

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Decentering the Study of EU Border Externalization and Why This Matters 欧盟边界外部化及其重要性研究的中心化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf014

Çağla Lüleci-Sula

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Permafrost, Science, and Security: Producing Climate (Non)Knowledge in a Thawing City 永久冻土、科学与安全：在一个正在融化的城市中产生气候（非）知识

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf015

Lin Alexandra Mortensgaard

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Tasting Tears at the Sharjah Biennial: The International Political Economy of Postcolonial and Decolonial Art 在沙迦双年展上品尝眼泪：后殖民和非殖民艺术的国际政治经济

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-21 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf005

Maia Holtermann Entwistle

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Pierre Bourdieu, Colonial Experiences, and Methodological Reflexivity in International Relations 皮埃尔·布迪厄：《国际关系中的殖民经验与方法论反思》

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf013

Leonie Holthaus

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“Protecting” Rights of Smuggled Migrants in the Context of State-Enforced Immobility: Legal Borderwork in Senegal 在国家强制不流动的背景下“保护”偷运移民的权利：塞内加尔的合法边境工作

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-05-19 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf011

Leonie Felicitas Jegen

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Violence as a Constitutive of States 暴力是国家的构成要素

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae038

A M Abozaid

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The Racial Visual Imaginary of International Relations 国际关系中的种族视觉想象

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf008

Yoav Galai

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Necropolitics and Necropolice: Death, Immortality, and Art-Activism in Russia 《死亡政治与死亡警察：俄罗斯的死亡、不朽与艺术行动主义

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-04-21 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf006

Vladimir Ogula

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