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- Manigart, Philippe, et al.
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Why young people are not interested in a job in armed forces
- 2017
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With the demographic change taking place all over European societies, the number of young people entering the labor market is declining. As a result, the armed forces of Westernpostindustrial societies are facing severe recruitment problems and find themselves in ever more direct competition with the private sector to attract the best candidates. To offset the shrinking base of recruitment, they have to become more attractive to potential recruits and to increase the number of candidates in previously under-represented segments, particularly women. The paper presents selected results from an online survey carried out between Spring 2015 and December 2016 in 6 countries (Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland) among samples of young people. Following previous papers which dealt with the attractiveness of a military career among young people in general, and women and ethnic-cultural minorities in particular, this paper analyzes various factors that, presently, deter a lot of young women to consider joining the armed forces. The multinational survey on which the analyses are based is part of a collaborative research project conducted within the framework of the European Defense Agency on the impact of demographic change on the recruitment and retention of personnel in European armed forces.
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- Mannergren Selimovic, Johanna
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Articulating Presence of Absence : Everyday Memory and the Performance of Silence in Sarajevo
- 2021. - 1
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Ingår i: Post-Conflict Memorialization. - Cham : Springer. ; , s. 15-34
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter is interested in the tension between lived silences in the post-war everyday and public commemoration. The concept of ‘presence of absence’ is developed in order to capture the complex ways that the traumatic past is embedded in the present. Silence is understood as an articulation of this presence of absence and the chapter explores silence as a practice and performance in the everyday of post-war Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The chapter reflects upon how such everyday silent memory work can be represented through public commemoration. It looks to the importance of art as an alternative realm that does not necessarily strive for closure through speech, but rather embraces a state of suspension. Aesthetic representations of presence of absence may be, the chapter concludes, a powerful means to articulate everyday memory work of silence.
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- Mannergren Selimovic, Johanna
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Everyday agency and transformation : Place, body and story in the divided city
- 2019
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Ingår i: Cooperation and Conflict. - : Sage Publications. - 0010-8367 .- 1460-3691. ; 54:2, s. 131-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How do we identify and understand transformative agency in the quotidian that is not contained in formal, or even informal structures? This article investigates the ordinary agency of Palestinian inhabitants in the violent context of the divided city of Jerusalem. Through a close reading of three ethnographic moments I identify creative micropractices of negotiating the separation barrier that slices through the city. To conduct this analytical work I propose a conceptual grid of place, body and story through which the everyday can be grasped, accessed and understood. ‘Place’ encompasses the understanding that the everyday is always located and grounded in materiality; ‘body’ takes into account the embodied experience of subjects moving through this place; and ‘story’ refers to the narrative work conducted by human beings in order to make sense of our place in the world. I argue that people can engage in actions that function both as coping mechanisms (and may even support the upholding of status quo), and as moments of formulating and enacting agential projects with a more or less intentional transformative purpose. This insight is key to understanding the generative capacity of everyday agency and its importance for the macropolitics of peace and conflict.
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| 21055. |
- Mannergren Selimovic, Johanna
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Gendered silences in post-conflict societies : a typology
- 2020
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Ingår i: Peacebuilding. - : Routledge. - 2164-7259 .- 2164-7267. ; 8:1, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article offers new theoretical insights into the relationship between silence, gender and agency. Bridging feminist research and critical peace research, the article considers the gendered practices of making and breaking silence in the aftermath of war and armed conflict. A typology is proposed along the axes of (a) disabling and enabling silences, and (b) social remembering and forgetting. Drawing on a number of illustrative cases, the typology is used to identify and categorise modes and functions of gendered silence, and show how oxymoronic fluctuations between silence and speech play out in the everyday. Silence can be employed for subordination and erasure, but can also be a strategy for coping with a precarious everyday, a form of tacit communication of ambiguity as well as a claim-making strategy. Unpacking the gendered dimensions of silence reveals power dynamics with deep implications for societies transitioning from war.
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| 21056. |
- Mannergren Selimovic, Johanna
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Searching For Security
- 2020
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Ingår i: Whose future is here?. - : Metrolab Series. ; , s. 107-114
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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| 21057. |
- Manners, Ian
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Achieving European Communion in the Planetary Organic Crisis : How Dominance and Differentiation affects the sharing of Genuine Democracy
- 2023
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Ingår i: SSRN Electronic Journal. - : Elsevier BV. - 1556-5068.
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- European Union challenges and crises of the past decade, including the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis, refugees, ethno-nationalist/Brexit movements, COVID-19, and Russian invasion of Ukraine are part of a planetary organic crisis (POC) of economy, society, ecology, conflict, and polity. The recognition of the symbiotic relationships between these challenges is crucial for moving from symptoms to causes in order to understand how dominance and differentiation affects the sharing of genuine democracy in the European Union (EU). Instead of terms such as ‘cooperation’ or ‘integration’, the paper uses the concept of ‘European communion’ (the subjective sharing of relationships), understood as the extent to which individuals or groups believe themselves to be sharing relations (or not), and the consequences of these beliefs for European political projects, processes, and products. The paper argues that the POC co-constitutes the democratic decay of European communion which in turn weakens democracy in the EU. Dominance in the EU involves powerful actors structuring social change through differentiation of member states, policy sectors, and social groups. Genuine democracy is social democracy based on equality, rather than hegemonic dominance and social differentiation.
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| 21058. |
- Manners, Ian
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Arrival of Normative Power in Planetary Politics
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Common Market Studies. - 1468-5965. ; 62:3, s. 825-844
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This lead article in a JCMS symposium marking 20 years of normative power provides a prospective intervention into thinking through the rest of the century by taking the language of Arrival, the 2016 speculative fiction film based on Ted Chiang's 1998 short ‘Story of Your Life’ and applying it to normative power by double-decolonising the anthropocentrism of capitalist culture and Eurocentrism in order to arrive at planetary politics. The article will first reflect on the 20-year development of the normative power approach to arrive at a language of comprehension. The subsequent sections will then set out a mode of simultaneous awareness, a medium of sharing relationships and a means for action in concert found in the normative power approach before concluding on how planetary symbiosis is the story of our lives.
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- Manners, Ian, et al.
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European Communion and Planetary Organic Crisis
- 2021
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Ingår i: Theorising the Crises of the European Union. - : Routledge. - 9780367431402 - 9780367431266 - 9781003001423 ; , s. 159-182
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The most common way of theorising the European Union’s crises is to see them as, at best, a run of ‘bad luck’, or at worst as ‘multiple challenges’. This chapter brings two very different perspectives to the study of the European Union (EU) and its crises by theorising European (dis)integration using the Critical Social Theory (CST) of ‘European communion’ (Manners, 2013a) within the context of ‘planetary organic crisis’ (Gill and Benatar, 2020). These perspectives mark a radical break from ‘classical integration theories’ in using CST; from viewing the crises as distinct from each other; and from seeing the crises as particular to the EU. The rest of this section sets out the main arguments for a European communion theory of planetary organic crisis. The following five sections focus on European communion in the context of the neoliberal economic, demographic social, climatic ecological, proxy conflict, and ethno-nationalist political crises of the 21st century. The final section concludes on making sense of European communion and planetary organic crisis.
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- Manners, Ian, et al.
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Normative Power Approach to European Union External Action
- 2021
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Ingår i: The External Action of the European Union : Concepts, Approaches, Theories - Concepts, Approaches, Theories. - 9781352012125 - 9781352012187 - 9781352012132 ; , s. 61-76
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The field of studying EU external relations/actions has embraced and endorsed mainstream International Relations and European Integration theoretical orthodoxy over the past three decades. This ideological orthodoxy is proving catastrophic as the accumulation of economic, social, environmental, conflictual, and political crises are increasingly demonstrating. As Joseph Stiglitz succinctly puts it, ‘neoliberalism will literally bring an end to our civilization’ as the ecological and climate catastrophe accelerates through the 21st century. In contrast, the Normative Power Approach (NPA) to the EU sets out a radically different means of studying and changing planetary politics. The NPA uses normative theory, theories of explanation and understanding, and practical theories, all at the same time. First, the NPA brings normative theory to the field through the critical social theory of agonistic cosmopolitics that challenges the ideological common sense of existing notions of power, the EU, and international affairs. Second, the NPA advocates critical thinking of explanatory concepts and theories of understanding through the idea of European communion. Third, the NPA sets out empirical-practical innovations in EU external actions that have grown from normative political theory since the end of the Cold War. In conclusion, the chapter clarifies how the NPA’s radical re-envisioning of the field of EU external actions provides a theoretical innovation that has not only shaped EU studies, but has a wider spread impact on the study of foreign policy and international relations beyond Europe.
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