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- Aalders, Johannes Theodor, et al.
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Blogal Studies in 2020 and Beyond
- 2020
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Ingår i: School of Blogal Studies.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Aalders, Johannes Theodor, et al.
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Why we blog and you should too!
- 2019
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Ingår i: School of Blogal Studies.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Abedi Dunia, Oscar, et al.
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Visibilising hidden realities and uncertainties : the ‘post-covid’ move towards decolonized and ethical field research practices
- 2023
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Ingår i: International Journal of Social Research Methodology. - : Routledge. - 1364-5579 .- 1464-5300. ; 26:5, s. 549-564
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article seeks to move beyond the Euro/North-centrism recurrent in methodological discussions on what we may learn from the COVID-19 pandemic. Such debates often centre on uncertainty and involuntary immobility – aspects which are hardly new for many researchers. In this article, we argue that the pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink research relations between what we term ‘contracting researchers’ in the Global North and ‘facilitating researchers’ in the Global South. Such relations are often marked by rampant inequalities in remuneration, working conditions, and visibility/authorship. Drawing upon experiences in DR Congo, Sierra Leone, and India, we argue that the pandemic increased the dependence on – and highlighted the invaluable contributions and skills of – facilitating researchers, in part slightly refiguring bargaining power. We also propose pathways for change, arguing for a strong collaborative approach and the need for institutional change, without discarding the responsibilities of individual researchers.
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- Abedi, Oscar, et al.
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The Covid-19 Opportunity: Creating More Ethical and Sustainable Research Practices
- 2020
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Contributing to the “Covid-19 and the Social Sciences” essay series, Oscar Abedi, Maria Eriksson Baaz, David Mwambari, Swati Parashar, Anju Oseema Maria Toppo, and James Vincent outline various paths toward reducing field research’s potential for exploitation, especially that of Global South collaborators. The pandemic has highlighted inequalities and immobility that differently affect facilitating researchers and contracting researchers. In response, the authors identify key issues that institutions, publishers, and individual researchers must reflect on in order to counteract these imbalances—and take advantage of an opportunity to fundamentally transform field research into collaborative knowledge production.
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- Bajpai, Ravi Dutt, et al.
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India in the ‘Asian Century’: Thinking like a hegemon?
- 2020
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Ingår i: Hegemony and World Order: Reimagining Power in Global Politics, edited by Tom Casier, Piotr Dutkiewicz and Jan Aart Scholte. - London : Routledge. - 9781003037231 ; , s. 208-223
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The rise of some of the Asian states in the global order has prompted the call for the current century to be labelled as the ‘Asian Century’. This chapter explores the concept of hegemony in this emerging global order, especially focusing on the role of India in this new configuration. India witnessed colonial rule under the British imperial project. The Indian independence movement was, in fact, an assortment of several contradictory yet complementary counter-hegemonic struggles of the historically oppressed classes and social groups. The postcolonial state of India has faced a different dynamic of multiple hegemonies and struggles of counter-hegemonies often intersecting with one another, both in contestation and collaboration. India offers a distinct case study to explore how the hegemonic contestations among various elite groups and counter-hegemonic resistance can be explained by being attentive to both the colonial legacies and the intricacies of postcolonial state formation. We explore India’s track record in the global community in challenging the existing hegemonic order and then situate how India with its specific experiences with multiple hegemonies could participate in imagining an alternative framing of the global order.
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- Delatolla, A., et al.
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Challenging Institutional Racism in International Relations and Our Profession: Reflections, Experiences, and Strategies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Millennium-Journal of International Studies. - : SAGE Publications. - 0305-8298 .- 1477-9021. ; 50:1, s. 110-148
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Attempts to create a more inclusive discipline and profession have been commended by many and derided by some. While these attempts have pushed for change, particularly with regards to more equal representation of gender and race among faculty, policies aimed at creating a more inclusive environment are often tokenistic, administrative and bureaucratic, and fail to address structural and institutional practices and norms. Moreover, the administrative and bureaucratic policies put into place are generally targeted at a single categorical group, failing to take into account the manner in which identities are intersecting and overlapping. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion often gets driven by Human Resources and Marketing rather than owned by the wider university. This forum draws from a variety of contributions that focus on describing the lived realities of institutional racism, its intersections with other forms of discrimination, and strategies for change. In putting together this forum, we do not aim to create a checklist of practical steps. Instead, we hope to signpost and make visible the successes and failures of previous challenges and future possibilities that must be taken by both faculty and administrations.
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- Dutt Bajpai, Ravi, 1965, et al.
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Worlding Encounters: Indian Spirituality and Anti-Colonialism in the Life and Thoughts of "the Mother" (Mirra Alfassa)
- 2023
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Ingår i: Global Studies Quarterly. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 2634-3797. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Colonialisms of the nineteenth century resulted in lasting encounters between the East and West. Indian spiritual and religious renaissance, along with social reform movements during this period (inspired by Bhakti or personal devotion to God and self-realization in Vedanta teachings), attracted several western seekers and thinkers to India. Among them was Mirra Alfassa (February 21, 1878-November 17, 1973), a French woman, who was attracted to Eastern philosophy. She joined the revolutionary turned spiritual master, Sri Aurobindo, at Pondicherry, a French enclave, and continued to live in post-independent India for 26 years after 1947. In this paper, we trace Mirra Alfassa's journey from a spiritual seeker to being anointed as "the Mother", the head of the Aurobindo Ashram. We explore how her pursuit of internationalism, cosmopolitanism, and universal values aligned her with the cultural, religious, and spiritual dimensions of India's nationalist movement and postcolonial nation-building. We hope to contribute to the wider discussions about women in international thought and how such international collaborations (as in the case of Mirra Alfassa) worked to achieve the nationalist goals for political, social, and cultural revival both during and after the independence movement in India.
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971-, et al.
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Moving Out of the Backstage : How Can We Decolonize Research?
- 2019
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Research here in the DRC is like the coltan and other minerals. Other countries that don’t have access to it claim it and benefit from it. It is the same with research. The research would not be possible without us. Still it is people from the outside who profit from it, get visibility, funding and are called experts. At the same time we – the ones who provide access, adapt the methodology and questions and collect the data in very precarious circumstances – get little compensation and are not acknowledged. It is sort of a continuation of colonial relations.
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971-, et al.
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Race and racism in narratives of insecurity : from the visceral to the global
- 2021
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Ingår i: Critical Studies on Security. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2162-4887 .- 2162-4909. ; 9:1, s. 2-6
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This introductory text frames the contributions of this forum, bringing together, scholars who have been working for a long time to dismantle knowledge systems that sustain whiteness, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy, in the context of recent developments. It first provides a brief overview of well-established knowledges on the various ways in which racism and racial inequalities remain deeply embedded within academia. This is followed by a snapshot of all the different essays that together make up this intervention forum.
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971-, et al.
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Sexuellt våld och ett kontinuum mellan krig och fred
- 2021
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Ingår i: Feministiska perspektiv på global politik, edited by Emil Edenborg, Sofie Tornhill and Cecilia Åse.. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144140209
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Eriksson Baaz, Maria, 1971-, et al.
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The master’s ‘outlook’ shall never dismantle the master’s house
- 2021
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Ingår i: International Politics Reviews. - : Springer. - 2050-2982 .- 2050-2990. ; 9, s. 286-291
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Not surprisingly, most critique of the Eurocentrism of IR focus on (a construed notion of) ‘mainstream IR’and is delivered by self-proclaimed critical scholars (like ourselves). In this text, we instead seek to turn our attention to critical, or more precisely postcolonial or decolonial IR. We argue that much postcolonial/decolonial IR is doing the same as the mainstream, taking the Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-American departure point as the departure point of IR, thus reproducing Eurocentrism—albeit in a different manner.
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- Lisimba, A. F., et al.
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The 'state' of postcolonial development: China-Rwanda 'dependency' in perspective
- 2021
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; 42:5, s. 1105-1123
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper aims to investigate the impact of China's aid, trade and investments on the development trajectories in postcolonial Africa, focussed on Rwanda. The analytical framework of this study is informed by Helen Milner's observation that 'International political economy is a growth industry'. Furthermore, the study deploys dependency theory and world systems theory to examine how the global economic configuration operates though the hierarchy of core, semi-periphery and periphery among the states. Our focus on Rwanda is based on our observation that this small, landlocked, natural resources-deficient, aid-dependent country is an atypical destination for Chinese patronage and investments. We argue that as a non-resource rich country, Rwanda presents an anomaly, thus, underlining the gap in the existing knowledge on China-Africa engagements. We discuss the inherent dependency in the neoliberal economic structure and present a case for using dependency theory to understand and explain the contemporary globalised economy and emerging South-South cooperation. We conclude with a call for more in-depth cross-comparative research on China-Africa relations to grasp the magnitude of dependencies and economic transformations within postcolonial African states.
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- Orjuela, Camilla, 1972, et al.
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Memory and justice after famines: an introduction
- 2023
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; 45:2, s. 247-258
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Famines in the Global South have claimed staggering numbers of lives, but are rarely the focus of scholarship on, or practices of, memorialisation and justice. The articles in this collection investigate how past famines have been dealt with – or silenced – in Cabo Verde, China, Brazil, East Timor/Timor-Leste, Ethiopia, India, Iran, Nigeria and Rwanda. This introductory essay first discusses why famines and hunger should be conceptualised as violence and mass atrocities, caused by human action. Thereafter, we outline some of the main insights that have emerged from the collection of articles. We show how and why mass starvation is often written out of official accounts of history, famine victims are rarely publicly commemorated and those responsible are not brought to justice. Yet the contributions also highlight that efforts to represent and commemorate famines, and to seek justice, take place in many – sometimes unexpected – spaces. The silence around historical famines may be broken in official justice processes or statements by powerholders, or through initiatives and practices ‘from below’, including in social media, songs and artistic work.
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- Parashar, Swati, 1978, et al.
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Colonial legacies, postcolonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un)doing of Africa
- 2021
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Ingår i: Third World Quarterly. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0143-6597 .- 1360-2241. ; 42:5, s. 867-881
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The debate triggered by recent publications and research justifying colonialism demands an intellectual engagement with the histories of colonialism, and their impact on postcolonial trajectories of development, peace and conflict. The argument that colonialism inspired development in societies that embraced its modernity project, enlightened governance and efficient administration–which in turn inspired national consciousness embedded in anti-colonial struggles–has been extensively critiqued. However, less attention has been paid to colonialism’s enduring everyday impact and visible continuities. We argue that the present political moment defined by right-wing, conservative and insular nationalisms and racisms–particularly in Western polities–requires deeper critique. It demands an intensive re-engagement with colonialism’s legacies, the politics of race and racism and the postcolonial (un)making of ‘selfhood’ and ‘nation-statehood’ evidenced in many parts of the world. This collection revisits the impact of colonialism on the postcolonial politics and decolonial developments in Africa; its focus is to reinvestigate the endurance and efficacy of the power relations devised and propagated by the European colonial projects and their continued presence in African states and societies.
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- Parashar, Swati, 1978
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Discursive (in)securities and postcolonial anxiety: Enabling excessive militarism in India
- 2018
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Ingår i: Security Dialogue. - : SAGE Publications. - 0967-0106 .- 1460-3640. ; 49:1-2, s. 123-135
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article queries the intimate relationship between militarism and the state, which is seen as the by-product of postcolonial anxiety' (Krishna, 1999) related to the survival of the nation-state in the Third World. This anxiety enables militarism at various levels of governance and state interventions in the everyday lives of the citizenry. The article engages with the historical trajectory of the Indian state to argue that its postcolonial anxiety' engenders militarism not in the immediate aftermath of independence from colonial rule, as in other postcolonial states, but as an anomaly since the end of the Cold War and the advent of globalization. The Indian state rejected militarism immediately after independence, but subsequently used it sporadically to deal with armed insurgencies in the 1970s and 1980s. The popular endorsement of militarism in India coincides with the globalized world order of the 1990s, the move to democratize security' in discourse and practice, and the adoption of neoliberal developmentalism to catch up' with the modern' trajectory of the European nation-states. I argue that this has led to excessive militarism' that thrives on the shared consensus between the state and citizens that security is a collective enterprise in which the material and affective labour of militarism must be performed by both sides. Citizens embrace military logics and military ethos, both to contest the state's violence and to confer legitimacy on the state and secure development benefits. The article concludes that militarism opens up new spaces for understanding the complex statebuilding processes of postcolonial societies, the fraught and textured relationship between the state and citizens, and the constant tensions and negotiations between civilian lives and military culture.
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- Parashar, Swati, 1978
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Don’t blame the mandate
- 2019
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Ingår i: Indian Express.
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Tidskriftsartikel (populärvet., debatt m.m.)
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- Parashar, Swati, 1978, et al.
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(En)Gendering the Maoist Insurgency in India: Between Rhetoric and Reality
- 2016
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Ingår i: Postcolonial Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1368-8790 .- 1466-1888. ; 19:4, s. 445-462
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper attempts a gendered analysis of the ongoing Maoist insurgency in India, particularly focused on women's position within the movement, the continuum of gender based violence that they experience and the potential for transformative politics. The contemporary Maoist movement in India has been informed by a stated commitment to 'progressive' gender politics and social transformations; in that it marks a departure from the Naxalite movement of the 60s and 70s. Yet women remain concentrated in the group's lower ranks and are absent from leadership positions. In addition, sexual and gender based violence and discrimination within the movement further undermine the commitment of the revolution to create opportunities for transformative politics including gender justice and equality. We consider it important that women's lived experiences of the conflict - as combatants, supporters as well as civilians affected by it - are brought to the foreground. Drawing from postcolonial feminist approaches, we reflect on the challenges and possibilities for feminist politics and ethics within the Indian Maoist movement. We conclude that the rhetoric and reality of gender equality within the Maoist movement provides a unique opportunity to further investigate and analyze the ways in which feminist activism and the women's movement in India have alienated the concerns of marginalized women from dalit and adivasi communities.
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