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The Spectacular Politics of the United Kingdom’s “Small Boats Crisis”

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf003

Jan Dobbernack

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Evocative Screens: Ethnographic Insights into the Digitalization of Diplomacy

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-03-11 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae046

Kristin Anabel Eggeling

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Liminal Strategies in the Margins of International Politics: The State-Like Power of Non-State Greenland

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae045

Ulrik Pram Gad, Kristian Søby Kristensen

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Secession or Sense of Belonging? Marginalization in the Context of Transnationality 分离还是归属感？跨国性背景下的边缘化

IF 2.4 2区社会学

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-11-25 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae044

Annette Idler, Dáire McGill

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“I Flip, Therefore I Am”: Smartphone Detoxing as a Practice of Sovereignty "我翻转，故我在"：智能手机排毒是一种主权实践

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae040

Håvard Rustad Markussen

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Bio/Necropolitical Capture and Evasion on Africa–Europe Migrant Journeys 非洲-欧洲移民旅途中的生物/生态政治捕获与规避

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae039

Özgün Erdener Topak

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Justice “to Come”? Decolonial Deconstruction, from Postmodern Policymaking to the Black Horizon 正义 "来临"？非殖民化解构，从后现代决策到黑色地平线

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae041

Farai Chipato, David Chandler

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Nomads’ Land: Exploring the Social and Political Life of the Nomad Category 游牧民族的土地探索游牧民族的社会和政治生活

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae034

Anthony Howarth, Jaakko Heiskanen, Sina Steglich, Nivi Manchanda, Adib Bencherif

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Keep Calm and Carry on? Fissure, Perception, and Narrative Contestation Following the Demise of the Crown 保持冷静，继续前行？王权消亡后的裂痕、感知和叙事争论

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae042

C Nicolai L Gellwitzki, Anne-Marie Houde, Lauren Rogers, Ben Rosher

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Still Engaging, Not Avoiding, Contradictions: Conceptualizing Cooperative Research in Practical, Structural and Epistemic Terms 仍在参与而非回避矛盾：从实践、结构和认识论角度构思合作研究

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae033

Philipp Lottholz, Karolina Kluczewska

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