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Female Fighters and Male Vulnerabilities. Gendered Depictions in Ukraine’s Visual Narrative of the Russia-Ukraine War 女性战士和男性弱点。乌克兰对俄乌战争视觉叙事中的性别描写

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf031

Elena Dück, Georg Tiroch

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Radical Imagination and Vernacular Security: Creating Spaces for Alternative Security Futures 激进想象与乡土安全：为另类安全未来创造空间

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-09-19 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf033

Nina Perkowski

{"title":"Radical Imagination and Vernacular Security: Creating Spaces for Alternative Security Futures","authors":"Nina Perkowski","doi":"10.1093/ips/olaf033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf033","url":null,"abstract":"While critical scholarship has extensively analyzed the governance of migration as a security issue and has documented its detrimental effects, the securitization of migration has become a successful mobilizing tool for far-right actors. Deeply worried by this development, this study moves beyond critique to explore how ordinary people imagine alternative security futures. Based on ten participatory workshops with 125 residents of Hamburg in 2023, our research examines how participants conceptualize a “secure city for all.” Participants envisioned security through enabling and preventative spaces and infrastructures rather than exclusionary measures: accessible urban spaces, affordable housing, community solidarity, and alternative emergency responses. The findings both confirm existing vernacular security scholarship, showing the fundamental ambivalence of security imaginations, and extend it in two key ways. First, we identify accessibility (physical, linguistic, and informational) as a previously overlooked dimension of vernacular security that affects diverse populations transversally. Second, we demonstrate that imagination constitutes a distinct form of vernacular security knowledge, highlighting how non-elites actively theorize alternative security arrangements. By creating spaces for collective imagination, the study shows how participatory methods can serve as political interventions in an era of shrinking democratic spaces.","PeriodicalId":47361,"journal":{"name":"International Political Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145089667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Everyday Soldiering, Emotions, and the Iraq War: A Visual International Relations Analysis 日常士兵，情感和伊拉克战争：视觉国际关系分析

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-09-02 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf030

Matthias Humer

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Treason and Political Community:Exclusion, Belonging, and Loyalty 叛国罪与政治共同体：排斥、归属与忠诚

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-08-20 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf025

Benjamin de Carvalho

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The Politics of Trust: Emotions and Visual Narratives in Online Climate Change Debates at COP26 信任的政治：COP26在线气候变化辩论中的情感和视觉叙事

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-08-19 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf029

Nicole Doerr, María Florencia Langa

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Multivocal Anti-Feminicide: Aesthetic Frames and the Making of the Women of Ciudad Juarez as a Global Injustice Symbol 多声反女性屠杀：审美框架与华雷斯城女性作为全球不公正象征的塑造

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf016

Ana López Ricoy

{"title":"Multivocal Anti-Feminicide: Aesthetic Frames and the Making of the Women of Ciudad Juarez as a Global Injustice Symbol","authors":"Ana López Ricoy","doi":"10.1093/ips/olaf016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf016","url":null,"abstract":"In the early 2000s, the murders and disappearances of women happening since the 1990s in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, became an issue of global concern, sparking—alongside transnational political mobilizations—a breadth of cultural products addressing these killings. This article analyzes global visual arts pieces about feminicide in Ciudad Juárez to show how artists represented the events through different aesthetic frames, thus rendering it a multivocal issue. I use visual frame analysis of 138 visual art pieces, contextualized by interviews with artists and curators, and secondary texts to examine how artists translated feminicide. First, Western artists appeal to universalistic, humanitarian ideals to make people care about the victims based on a shared humanity. Second, Chicane artists construct feminicide in Ciudad Juárez as the epitome of oppressive global hierarchies. Finally, Mexican artists focus on social loss and mourning produced by the feminicides. By untangling three aesthetic frames, I contribute to discussions on global meaning-making by adding visual analysis and suggesting that complementary aesthetic frames can contribute to the symbolic power of feminicide worldwide.","PeriodicalId":47361,"journal":{"name":"International Political Sociology","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144684578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Resisting the Prevent Duty—A Typology of Everyday Resistance 抵抗预防责任——日常抵抗的类型学

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-15 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf024

Amna Kaleem

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International Relations, Silent Erasure, and the Cruelty of Caste 国际关系，无声的消除，以及种姓的残酷

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-07-10 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf022

Ted Svensson

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Enabling International History Wars: Everyday Mnemonic Foreign Policy in South Korean and Japanese Popular Culture 促成国际历史战争：韩国和日本大众文化中的日常记忆外交政策

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf018

Chris Deacon

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Algorithms, AI, Big Data, and Big Tech: IPS Scholarship on Digital Technologies 算法、人工智能、大数据和大技术：IPS数字技术奖学金

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olaf019

Madeleine Böhm

{"title":"Algorithms, AI, Big Data, and Big Tech: IPS Scholarship on Digital Technologies","authors":"Madeleine Böhm","doi":"10.1093/ips/olaf019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf019","url":null,"abstract":"This paper delves into the debates on digital technologies, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Big Data, and Big Tech in the journal International Political Sociology (IPS). Acknowledging the promises of IPS to challenge the way established problematiqués in international relations (IR) are addressed and reflecting on knowledge production and its implications, it speaks to a general audience in IPS by asking where—and how—phenomena linked to digital technologies are addressed within IPS. I provide a sociology of debates that touch upon digital technologies broadly and link this to the promises of IPS. A citation network and cluster analysis of articles in IPS, therefore, uncovers the orientations within IPS scholarship on digital technologies broadly, showcasing the importance of concepts such as security, surveillance, migration, and risk. It also shows that analytical lenses broaden from Foucault-inspired accounts toward perspectives relying on actor–network theory and practice theories. Drawing from these findings, the paper extrapolates lessons for future research, advocating for a heightened emphasis on including contemporary sociological discussions on digital capitalism. It points to the emphasis of interdisciplinarity and sociology in the name of IPS and offers an illustrative discussion to showcase the potentials that lie in IPS to broaden discussions and perspectives vital for IR generally.","PeriodicalId":47361,"journal":{"name":"International Political Sociology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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