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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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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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Thinking through 1492: IR's Historiographic Operation(s) and the Politics of Benchmark Dates 思考 1492 年：IR 的历史学运作与基准日期政治学

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae032

Julia Costa López, Zeynep Gülşah Çapan, Ayşe Zarakol, Atsuko Watanabe, Adhemar Mercado

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Counter-Archiving Migration: Tracing the Records of Protests against UNHCR 反记录移民：追踪抗议联合国难民署的记录

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae035

Rachel Ibreck, Peter Rees, Martina Tazzioli

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Establishing the Health Governance of Flows: Authority Performances and Expertise at the International Sanitary Conference of 1892 建立流动的卫生管理：1892 年国际卫生会议上的权威表现与专业知识

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-10-04 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae037

Luis Aue

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The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity 封闭生活世界的共同本体证券：晚期现代性下的大气与泡沫免疫学

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae028

Jaroslav Weinfurter

{"title":"The Co-Ontological Securities of Gated Lifeworlds: Atmospheres and Foamed Immunologies under Late Modernity","authors":"Jaroslav Weinfurter","doi":"10.1093/ips/olae028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae028","url":null,"abstract":"This article returns to the existentialist roots of ontological security theory (OST) and proposes a phenomenological re-reading of ontological security through the theoretical language of spherology and immunology in order to bring OST into a more substantive engagement with the spatial and immunological realities and practices of the globalizing world. Departing from the work of Peter Sloterdijk, the article advances three principal claims. Firstly, it shows that under the spatio-immunological dislocations of late modernity, the processes of ontological security are better understood as matters of “co-ontological security,” reflecting the highly relational and co-dependent character by which human lifeworlds are organized and juxtaposed. Secondly, it explores the ways in which technologies and life-support systems of ontological security may have negative ramifications for the ontological integrities of other neighboring lifeworlds. And lastly, the article investigates the autoimmunological processes that are at work in all immunological systems and that are capable of turning the mechanisms of ontological security into the very sources of insecurity. In exploring these themes, the text examines the retirement community known as The Villages to show how protected living in an expanding and gated lifestyle community produces the very conditions of ontological insecurity for the self and for others.","PeriodicalId":47361,"journal":{"name":"International Political Sociology","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141877355","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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The Politics of Foreign Terrorist Fighters in Europe: The Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization of Citizens? 欧洲的外国恐怖主义战斗人员政治：公民的威慑化与再威慑化？

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae020

Elisabeth Johansson-Nogués, Aitor Bonsoms

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