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Donor Love Will Tear Us Apart: How Complexity and Learning Marginalize Accountability in Peacebuilding Interventions 捐助之爱将撕裂我们:建设和平干预措施的复杂性和学习如何使问责制边缘化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-06 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olab022

Stefan Bächtold

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引用次数: 2

Practice Theory and Postsocialist Civil Society: Toward a New Analytical Framework 实践理论与后社会主义市民社会：走向一个新的分析框架

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-09-03 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olab021

Bojan Baća

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引用次数: 5

Outsourcing Hotspot Governance within the EU: Cultural Mediators as Humanitarian–Border Workers in Greece 欧盟内部外包热点治理：作为人道主义者的文化调解员——希腊边境工人

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI: 10.1093/IPS/OLAB017

A. Spathopoulou, K. P. Kallio, J. Häkli

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引用次数: 6

Political Subjectivation and the In/Visible Politics of Migrant Youth Organizing in Germany and the United States 政治主体化与德国和美国移民青年组织的内/可见政治

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olab016

Helge Schwiertz

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引用次数: 1

Contributors 贡献者

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olab020

引用次数: 0

“Videogames Saved My Life”: Everyday Resistance and Ludic Recovery among US Military Veterans “电子游戏救了我的命”:美国退伍军人的日常抵抗和滑稽恢复

IF 2.4 2区社会学

International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-07-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olab018

Aggie Hirst

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引用次数: 4

Secrecy and Subjectivity: Double Agents and the Dark Underside of the International System 秘密与主体性:双重间谍与国际体系的阴暗面

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-06-14 DOI: 10.1093/IPS/OLAB014

T. Lundborg

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引用次数: 1

Telling Stories about Sexual Violence, Victimization, and Agency in Militarized Settings 讲述军事环境中的性暴力、受害者和代理的故事

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-06-08 DOI: 10.1093/IPS/OLAB015

Jill Steans

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引用次数: 1

Colonial Lives of the Carceral Archipelago: Rethinking the Neoliberal Security State 死亡群岛的殖民生活：对新自由主义安全国家的反思

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI: 10.1093/IPS/OLAB013

Sabrina Axster, Ida Danewid, A. Goldstein, Matt Mahmoudi, Cemal Burak Tansel, Lauren Wilcox

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引用次数: 23

Occupation, Sight, Landscape: Visibility and the Normalization of Israeli Settlements 占领、视野、景观:以色列定居点的能见度和正常化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2021-05-29 DOI: 10.1093/IPS/OLAB012

J. Záhora

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引用次数: 2