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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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When the World Is an Object: On the Governmental Promise of a Digital Twin Earth 当世界成为一个物体数字双子地球的政府承诺

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-27 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae022

Delf Rothe

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Apprenticeship in Diplomacy, or How I Became Another Replaceable Intern at the OECD 外交学徒，或我如何成为经合组织又一名可被替换的实习生

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae018

Frederik Carl Windfeld

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Securitization of Energy Transitions in Estonia, Finland and Norway 爱沙尼亚、芬兰和挪威能源过渡的安全化

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae017

Marja Helena Sivonen, Paula Kivimaa

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From Security-Space to Time-Race: Reimagining Borders and Migration in Global Politics 从安全空间到时间竞赛：重新认识全球政治中的边界和移民问题

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-22 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae019

Maja Zehfuss, Nick Vaughan-Williams

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Cucktales: Race, Sex, and Enjoyment in the Reactionary Memescape 绿帽子故事反动记忆景观中的种族、性和享受

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae026

Uygar Baspehlivan

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Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion 监视下的个人脆弱性和集体抵抗：针对歧视性怀疑主张生存权

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-21 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae023

Simon Hogue

{"title":"Individual Vulnerability and Collective Resistance Under Surveillance: Claiming the Right to Existence against Discriminatory Suspicion","authors":"Simon Hogue","doi":"10.1093/ips/olae023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae023","url":null,"abstract":"Hasan Elahi’s Tracking Transience (2003–2020) was an artistic performance of hypervisibility. Initiated in response to being misidentified as a terrorist, preemptively arrested, and interrogated by the FBI, the artist created a comprehensive life log documenting his everyday life for all to see. Despite transformations to the surveillance environment, the performance raised a question that remains relevant today: How can ubiquitous surveillance be resisted when the technologies of capture and control are pervasive, but being visible is normalized? I argue that through his performance of countervisual aesthetics, Elahi claimed the right to existence and reassessed the need for the collective refusal of surveillance. I make two contributions to the theorization of aesthetic resistance. First, against the tendency to romanticize resistance, I reaffirm the impossibility of evasion. Surveillance is ubiquitous in the current datafied society, and being under surveillance generates vulnerability. Yet it is from this located, contingent position that we need to theorize resistance. Second, by theorizing how aesthetic performance mobilizes its public, I demonstrate that resistance to surveillance needs to move beyond the individualism of privacy. Through rereading Tracking Transience, I show how visibility enables collective resistance to the normalization of surveillance control and hierarchies.","PeriodicalId":47361,"journal":{"name":"International Political Sociology","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141448558","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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Communicating through Protocols: The Case of Diplomatic Credential Ceremonies 通过礼仪进行交流：外交证书颁发仪式案例

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-06-14 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae013

Roni Berkowitz, Gadi Heimann, Zohar Kampf

{"title":"Communicating through Protocols: The Case of Diplomatic Credential Ceremonies","authors":"Roni Berkowitz, Gadi Heimann, Zohar Kampf","doi":"10.1093/ips/olae013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olae013","url":null,"abstract":"This study questions to what extent state agents invest efforts in building interpersonal relations with their counterparts. It is based on data collected during two years of ethnographic fieldwork at the Israeli president’s residence, where we observed credential ceremonies involving ambassadors from twenty-three states and interviewed the president’s advisors. We consider the credential ceremony an extreme case study regulated by highly formalized protocol, including the strictest guidelines existing in the world of diplomacy. We assume that if relation-building between statespersons takes place in the most unexpected spaces of international politics, we can detect it in all sites of diplomacy. Adopting a relational practice approach, we identified two methods of positive signaling for relationship building: preplanned by the organizers “from above,” directed at the individual-as-state-representative, and conveyed by participants “from below,” targeting the individual-as-guest/host. We conclude by discussing the implications of the prevalence of interpersonal relation-building in international politics, the role of diplomatic protocols as a communicative resource that affects the diplomatic environment, and how the concept of affordances provides a fresh look at one of the most fundamental debates in the field of IR: the relationship between agency and structure.","PeriodicalId":47361,"journal":{"name":"International Political Sociology","volume":"118 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141333767","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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Animacy and the Agency of Spiritual Beings in Pluriversal Societies 多元社会中的灵性和灵性的作用

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-05-31 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae012

Amaya Querejazu

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Playing with the News on Reddit: The Politics Game on r/The_Donald 玩转 Reddit 上的新闻：r/The_Donald上的政治游戏

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International Political Sociology Pub Date : 2024-05-30 DOI: 10.1093/ips/olae015

Robert Topinka, Cassian Osborne-Carey, Alan Finlayson

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