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Back to the future: Promoting peace through international law
- 2017
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Ingår i: Leiden Journal of International Law. - 0922-1565 .- 1478-9698. ; 30, s. 775-792
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The world as a whole has not been at peace since 1914, and it is definitely not at peace today. David J. Dunn argues that this state of affairs may be due, in no small part, to aspects of the conventional wisdom that informs practical foreign policy and diplomacy. For example, the ancient notion si vis pacem, para bellum [if you desire peace, prepare for war] (Vegetius) or the nineteenth century idea that argues ‘[w]e have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow’ (Lord Palmerston). These ‘insights’ neatly summarize the intellectual core of political realism; in particular, the ‘balance-of-power’ doctrine.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Borders in the mind and on the ground - (Re)categorization as “peace-building resistance”in the Preah Vihear Temple conflict
- 2019
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Ingår i: Heritage and borders. Editor: Anna Källén.. - Stockholm : Kungliga Vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien. - 0348-1433. - 9789188763143 ; , s. 83-104
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Borders now seem to be everywhere, just like it is often said in heritage studies that the past is everywhere. In this edited volume a multidisciplinary group of scholars explore what happens, philosophically and in practice, when these two concepts and phenomena, heritage and borders, are combined. The findings show that heritage, as well as borders, exist just as much in the mind as on the ground. Heritage and borders can be understood both in terms of roots and routes. They are matters of administration, but they are also matters of consideration, matters of competition, and matters of contention. They are defended in the name of security and protection, longing for belonging, and good will. And they are contested in the name of philosophical critique, or political and artistic activism. In six articles and a joint conversation, the volume addresses key issues and entangled complexities in discussions on heritage and borders that take place in and across academic disciplines today.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Defining and Analyzing “Resistance”: Possible Entrances to the Study of Subversive Practices
- 2016
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Ingår i: Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. - THOUSAND OAKS, CA 91320 USA : SAGE Publications. - 0304-3754 .- 2163-3150. ; 41:3, s. 137-153
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article explores the meaning of “resistance” and suggests a new path for “resistance studies,” which is an emerging and interdisciplinary field of the social sciences that is still relatively fragmented and heterogeneous. Resistance has often been connected with antisocial attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence, and emotional outbursts. However, we wish to add to this conceptualization by arguing that resistance also has the potential to be productive, plural and fluid, and integrated into everyday social life. The first major part of the article is devoted to discuss existing understandings of resistance with the aim of seeking to capture distinctive features and boundaries of this social phenomenon. Among other things, we will explore resistance in relation to other key concepts and related research fields. We then, in the article’s second major part, propose a number of analytical categories and possible entrances aiming at inspire more in-depth studies of resistance.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966
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Dissident Voices in International Criminal Law
- 2015
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Ingår i: Leiden Journal of International Law. - 0922-1565. ; 28:3, s. 673-689
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Since the end of the Cold War, societies from the former Soviet Union and others throughout Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America have overthrown dictators and other authoritative rulers in the hope of allowing democracy, the rule of law, and human rights. In some cases, the change has been violent and drawn out, while in other cases the change has been quick and (more or less) non-violent. Regardless of whether the change has been violent or not, a crucial question during and after transition is: In what ways should post-authoritarian and/or post-conflict societies deal with their ‘evil’ past in order to ‘enable the state itself to [once again] function as a moral agent’? This question constitutes the very core of what is known as ‘transitional justice’ (TJ).
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Emotions and resistance: An introduction
- 2018
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Ingår i: Resistance and Emotions: interrogating Crossroads and Social change. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 9781138482531
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966
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Harold D. Lasswell and the Social Study of Personal Insecurity
- 2017
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Ingår i: In Cochran M., Navari C. (eds) Progressivism and US Foreign Policy between the World Wars. The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought.. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137584335 ; , s. 193-217
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The productivity of the American political scientist Harold D. Lasswell (1902–1978) was legendary. He has written, co-authored, edited, and co-edited about 60 books. He has also contributed to more than 300 articles on a diverse range of subjects and has written several hundred reviews and comments to a variety of different academic journals. In total, his scholarly writing, which spanned over some five decades, resulted in no less than four million published words. Already in his 20s, Lasswell planned and carried out an “interdisciplinary” research program that emphasized the significance of culture, social structures, and personality in order to understand various political phenomena. In a discipline, at the time still dominated by historical, legal, and philosophical methods, he was an innovator, who developed various methodologies during the course of his work, qualitative as well as quantitative ones, including traditional and non-experimental methods, such as content analysis and in-depth interviews, but also different experimental and clinical methods as well as various statistical techniques.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966
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International law is different in different places: Russian interpretations and outlooks : Lauri Mälksoo . Russian Approaches to International Law . Oxford University Press, 2015, Pp. 240. £60.00. ISBN: 9780198723042
- 2016
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Ingår i: International Journal of Constitutional Law. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 1474-2640 .- 1474-2659. ; 14:1, s. 262-276
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Following the end of the Cold War, it became a widely held belief that, after more than 70 years in exile, Russia would finally “return” to Europe—a sphere to which it had belonged since the time of Peter the Great—politically as well as normatively. Quite early on, however, it became clear that the country was choosing its own way, in ideological terms but also, by extension, in its understanding of international law—what the law of nations is for and what it is about. Lauri Mälksoo’s, Russian Approaches, is, particularly considering its heuristic value, the most informative, interesting and innovative book written to date regarding (i) what the philosophy of international law in Russia is and how it has evolved over time, and (ii) how international law has been reflected in post-Soviet Russian state practice. The essay presents some of the weaknesses in Mälksoo’s answers to these questions, including the disproportionate weight given to some explanatory factors and, by extension, the omission of others. It also argues, inspired by Martti Koskenniemi, for the importance of acknowledging “international law as a political project” in order to enable it to function both as an instrument for advancing various claims and as a relatively autonomous formal technique.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966
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Law and Politics in the International Society
- 2019
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- International law and international politics are closely linked. Despite this, the phenomena are most often studied in isolation, not only within the sub-fields of e.g. International Law and International Politics but also within multi- or interdisciplinary fields such as Global Studies, International Studies, International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Peace as well as Peace and Development Studies. This is an unfortunate state of affairs, as the understanding of today"s increasingly globalized international society then becomes compartmentalized and, by extension, fractured and incomplete. The starting point in this book is that international law must be understood in its political context and that international politics must be understood in its legal context. With the ultimate aim of seeking to understand law and politics in the current international society, this book contains theoretical discussions of the entanglements between law and politics as well as analyses of a number of international political and legal issues. The book not only introduces the most productive theories of international law and politics existing today, but it also seeks to integrate some of them into a multi-disciplinary framework to study law and politics in the current international society. The book also introduces a method for practical legal problem-solving: "the method of social welfare". More detailed analyses are provided of, among other things, (the differences between) American and European foreign policy, human rights, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect. The various issues are analyzed from historical, contemporary and forward-looking perspectives.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Legal Pluralism, Gendered Discourses and Hybridity in Land-Titling Practices in Cambodia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of law and society (Print). - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0263-323X .- 1467-6478. ; 44:2, s. 220-227
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article describes and analyses the tensions, ambivalence, and hybridity that prevail in the nexus between discourses of gender and the legal pluralism of the new, formalized, and customary ways of handling land titles. Based on empirical research in Cambodia, it reveals a number of mechanisms, challenges, and inconsistencies in the practice of land-titling. Foremost, the practice of titling seems to be highly informed by local discourses of marriage, family, gender, and age, which all affect to whom land is assigned; this leaves a hybrid construction in the nexus between statutory law and customary practices. The article departs from this observation and adds three contributions on a theoretical level to existing research: by incorporating the dimensions of discourse analysis and legal hybridity, by linking the concept of legal pluralism to the process of hybridization, and by introducing the notion of hybridity of implementation as a supplement to hybridity of law.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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(Re)categorisation as resistance : Civil society mobilisations around the Preah Vihear Temple
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. - New York, NY, USA : Springer-Verlag New York. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 30:3, s. 295-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with civil society mobilizations and resistance in relation to a world heritage site—the ninth-century Khmer temple Preah Vihear, which is located in the northern province of Cambodia and borders eastern Thailand. In particular, the paper explores resistance in terms of (re)categorizations from a historical and discursive–materialistic perspective. The field of resistance studies has mainly been preoccupied with entities such as texts, signs, symbols, identity, and language. In this article, however, we bring in physical and material entities in order to display the ways in which matter is of importance in the (re)construction of discourses and thereby for resistance.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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(Re)categorization as Resistance: Civil Society Mobilizations Around the Preah Vihear Temple
- 2017
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. - New York, NY, USA : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 30:3, s. 295-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper deals with civil society mobilizations and resistance in relation toaworld heritage site—the ninth-century Khmer temple Preah Vihear, which is located in the northern province of Cambodia and borders eastern Thailand. In particular, the paper explores resis- tance in terms of (re)categorizations from a historical and discursive–materialistic perspective. The field of resistance studies has mainly been preoccupied with entities such as texts, signs, symbols, identity, and language. In this article, however, we bring in physical and material entities in order to display the ways in which matter is of importance in the (re)construction of discourses and thereby for resistance.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Researching Resistance and Social Change: A Critical Approach to Theory and Practice
- 2017
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Resistance has often been connected with anti-social attitudes, destructiveness, reactionary or revolutionary ideologies, unusual and sudden explosions of violence and emotional outbursts. This book goes beyond these conventions. Exploring various key questions, ranging from concept definitions of affect and temporality, to complex entanglements of various social dimensions and ethical questions, this accessible guide provides a robust theoretical and methodological framework for researching of resistance and social change. By drawing connections between resistance and politics, between performance and everyday strategies, and between the juridical and its counter-strategies, this book provides students with a transdisciplinary understanding of contemporary debates in this emerging field.
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit
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Ingår i: Journal of Resistance Studies. - 2001-9947. ; 3:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Journal of Resistance Studies Number 1 - Volume 3 - 2017 10 Resistance Studies as an Academic Pursuit Baaz 1 , Lilja 2 & Vinthagen 3 ABSTRACT Resistance is both a common and somewhat unusual concept. It appears often in political debates and the media. Members of various non-govern-mental organizations and social movements also frequently use resistance when they refer to their various activities. In spite of the significant growth regarding the use of resistance during recent years, the discussion about the meaning and content of the concept, the ways resistance activities can be understood, as well as their potential impact, et cetera, is still rather divided and under-developed within academia. Hence, in spite of offer-ing a necessary addition to the earlier focus on ‘power’ within the social sciences, the rapidly growing field of resistance studies is still very much in its infancy. This article is an attempt to introduce some of our main ideas on researching resistance in a systematized and structured fashion. One of the main arguments put forward in the article is that what qualifies as resistance is very much dependent on context, as the aim of various resistance practices also varies very much; so, does its different articula-tions as well as the ability of various activities to challenge political, legal, economic, social and cultural structures in society—ultimately to achieve ‘social change’
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Some concluding reflections
- 2018
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Ingår i: Resistance and Emotions: Interrogating Crossroads and social change. - Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge : Routledge. - 9781138482531
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966
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The Use of Force and International Society
- 2017
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book is about political orders, historical ones, the current one but also future alternative ones. An understanding of how the contemporary world order came to be what it is and how it may develop in the future, is an exploration of the expansion of the international society of European states across the rest of the globe, its transformation from a society fashioned in Europe and dominated by Europeans into the global international society of today, with its nearly two hundred states, the great majority of which are not European. Such an understanding requires a sense of how other societies operated and developed in the past. In fact, our present international society is puzzling if looked at in isolation. Of particular interest in the book is the (changing) view on the use of force as a legal/legitimate means in the conduct of international politics. Briefly put: what does the seemingly new attitude towards the use of force as an acceptable means in international relations that we are witnessing today imply for the future world order? The second edition of the book has been updated in its entirety and features an elaborated theoretical and methodological framework as well as a newly written epilogue on the "Obama Years".
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- Baaz, Mikael, 1966, et al.
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Using International Criminal Law to Resist Transitional Justice : Legal Rupture in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Conflict and Society. - : Berghahn Books. - 2164-4543 .- 2164-4551. ; 2:1, s. 142-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An increasing body of literature focuses on negotiations of transitional justice, but not much has been written so far regarding contestations over its practices and the refusal of states and individuals to participate. Given the remaining legalistic dominance, this is particularly true regarding the field of international criminal law. Very little, if any, work in international criminal law engages with the topic of “resistance.” Departing from this gap in research, focusing on Cambodia and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), the objective of this article is to introduce, discuss, and analyze the “strategy of rupture”—as developed by the late French lawyer Jacques Vergès—and the ways in which this legal defense has been applied in practice at the ECCC in order to resist not only the Tribunal per se, but also the entire Cambodian transitional justice process and, by extension, the post–Cold War global liberal project.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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Fighting with and Against the Time: The Japanese Environmental Movement's Queering of Time as Resistance
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Civil Society. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1744-8689 .- 1744-8697. ; 11:4, s. 408-423
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to add to the discussion on civil society, resistance, and environmental politics by departing from the concepts of affects, time, and temporality. In essence, the article suggests two things. Firstly, when theorizing civil society, we argue that we should depart from the idea that the present is not a singular, linear moment, but comprises affective relations to other times and people situated within these times. To support the argument, we will display how the ‘doing’ of various civil societies is performed in relation to people of the past as well as the future—that is, how already deceased people of the past or not-yet-born people of the future contribute to the creation of the present in various ways. Secondly, we will show how civil society actors are carrying out various forms of resistance against global warming by suggesting multiple temporalities that are operating simultaneously. By reviewing interviews with local representatives of the environmental movement in Tokyo, the promotion of another temporality prevails as a form of resistance, or as a means to resist, in order to negotiate current discourses and future prospects. To further understand this embracing of time, the article is inspired by affective theory and takes temporality in queer studies as a starting point to examine different strategies of resistance. Overall, the article highlights the importance of adding the affects/time nexus to the analysis of national and transnational civil societies.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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Gendered Politics of Power in Contemporary Cambodia
- 2017
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Ingår i: Brickell, K. and Simon Springer, S. (Eds.) The handbook of contemporary Cambodia. - London : Routledge. - 9781138831186 ; , s. 306-314
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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Heritage Temples, Replicas, and Repetitions: Theorizing the Significance of Repeats as Resistance
- 2019
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Ingår i: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0891-4486 .- 1573-3416. ; 32:3, s. 323-336
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper discusses the potential of different Preah Vihear temple replicas to resist “discursive orders” that have been used to legitimate war in the border area between Thailand and Cambodia. The replicas of the Preah Vihear temple are embraced as “repeats” of the “original”; by this, we take off from linguistic theorizing of repetitions. The temple replicas could be considered as resistance against the very idea of one, single “original” temple. By consequence, the replicas, understood as “repeats,” have contributed to negotiate different relations of power and challenge various heritage discourses. The replicas’ appearances and the resistance that they constitute ought to have the potential to contribute to “peace-building.” However, instead of contributing to peace, the repeats, as the paper displays, have rather fueled the conflict between the two countries.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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How resistance encourages resistance: theorizing the nexus between power, 'Organised Resistance' and 'Everyday Resistance'
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Political Power. - : Informa UK Limited. - 2158-379X .- 2158-3803. ; 10:1, s. 40-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lately, the concept of 'resistance' has gained considerable traction as a tool for critically exploring subaltern practices in relation to power. Few researchers, however, have elaborated on the inter-linkage of shifting forms of resistance; and above all, how acts of everyday resistance entangle with more organized and sometimes mass-based resistance activities. In this paper, these entanglements are analysed by taking into consideration the connections between articulations of resistance and technologies of power. Empirical observations from Cambodia are theorized in order to provide better theoretical tools for searching and investigating the inter-linkage between different resistance forms that contribute to social change. In addition, it is argued that modalities of power and its related resistance must be understood, or theorized, in relation to the concepts of 'agency', 'selfreflexivity' and 'techniques of the self'.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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(Re)thinking the Precarity of Swedish Migrants: Governing through Decelerations and Timescapes
- 2019
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Ingår i: Journal of Refugee Studies. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0951-6328 .- 1471-6925. ; 32:1, s. 144-161
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- This article uses the concept of ‘time’ in order to better understand the situation of precarious migrants in Sweden. Through analysing a number of reports and interviews undertaken with newly arrived migrants in Sweden, it displays how different temporal understandings of the migrants are linked to and managed by governing bodies, laws and regulations. The article centres around two related research questions: (i) What constructions of time are used in the governing of precarious migrants? and (ii) How do these migrants understand their own and society’s time?
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971-, et al.
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Resistance, rupture and repetition : Civil society strategies against intimate partner violence in Cambodia
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Ingår i: Global Public Health. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1744-1692 .- 1744-1706. ; 11:1-2, s. 95-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper offers a new interpretation of the resistance' carried out by local civil society organisations in Cambodia against intimate partner violence (IPV). In this, the paper explores the nexus between rupture', resistance' and repetition' and concludes that different repetitions' can contribute to acts of violence while simultaneously creating possibilities for resisting IPV. In regard to the latter, the concept of rupture' is investigated as a performative politics through which organisations try to disrupt the repetitions' of violent masculinities. Furthermore, it is argued that the importance of repetitions' and the concept of time should be acknowledged. The French criminal defence lawyer Jacques Verges' understanding of rupture' and the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze's notions of repetition' inform the analysis. To exemplify our discussion and findings, the paper embraces stories of a number of civil society workers who facilitate various men's groups in Cambodia in order to negotiate the practice of IPV.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971, et al.
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The Governing and Resistance of the Precarious Other: Migrant understandings of “now” as well as their future in a Swedish context
- 2016
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Ingår i: 1st International Conference Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders. Athens, Greece.. - 9780997997101
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Precarization is not a marginal phenomenon, but describes a major social transformation in many parts of the world. Since the end of the 1970s, neo-liberal or libertarian ideas have gained support from politicians and governments around the world. These ideas have become imbedded into European discourses. One neo-liberal idea that had a significant impact in Europe during the 1980s was the idea of “labour market flexibility”. Its implementation meant changes to the rights of employees. Together with new technological developments and ways of making profit without labour, these shifts have decreased the value of labour. It has also led to increased unemployment (Butler and Kania 2013), as more people are becoming dispensable and substitutable. In all, millions of people have become “precarious”; they are living under conditions characterised above all by economic uncertainty (Standing 2011). But precarization does not merely signify insecure jobs and lack of economic security. For the individual, precarization can characterise the whole of existence, the body as well as modes of subjectivity. This article analyses the precarization as a major social transformation in Europe, using an intersectional approach. According to Judith Lorey the precarity: “denotes structural inequalities – uncertainties that result from relations of domination along gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality” (2015). According to Standing (2011) some groups are particularly exposed to the new precarization. Among others, migrant’s growing labour market role has coincided with the growth of the precarious and they have taken a disproportionate share of precarious jobs, being far more likely to have short-term contracts or no contracts at all (Standing 2011). Migrants, in western industrial nations, live under situations marked by scarcity and lack of security. Departing from the above, this paper displays migrant understandings of their precarious situation, their comprehension of “now” as well as their future in a Swedish context.
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- Lilja, Mona, 1971-, et al.
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Theorising "Peace-Building” Resistance : Constructions of Time and Different Temporalities at Play in the Preah Vihear Temple-Conflict
- 2016
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Ingår i: European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 2325-4823 .- 2325-4815. ; 3:4, s. 426-446
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores civil-society mobilisations around the Preah Vihear Temple, today a world heritage site located in Cambodia, on the border with Thailand. More specifically, the paper seeks to increase our understanding of the 'peace-building' resistance that is played out by different civil-society actors with regard to the Temple. This case displays how both the governments and civil societies in each of the two countries bend relationships between the 'past', the 'present', and the 'future' in general, and in relation to 'identity' in particular, in order to construct narratives of nation-building. The Temple has been used in discursive constructions of national collective identity in Cambodia and Thailand, respectively; constructions that, among other things, embrace shifting notions of time and temporality. Whereas much analysis of peace-building resistance concentrates on larger-scale actions, this paper adds to previous research by giving priority to more subtle forms of resistance and describing how civil-society actors resist by 'bending' prevailing conceptions of time and temporality.
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Resistance and Emotions - Interrrogating Crossroads and Social Change
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book discusses different ways in which the cross-roads between emotions and resistance can be theorised. While the sociological field focuses primarily on emotions that are entangled in the relationship between the individual and collective, the cultural studies field has recently started to emphasise affects as a ‘rescue’ from the deterministic aspect of the poststructuralist approach (in which language decides everything) (Hemmings 2005, 2014). Scholars promoting the ‘affective turn’ argue that affects and interpretations are inseparable. By taking affects as the point of departure, it is argued that it is possible to show how bodies move in their own ways, but still in relation to others. Departing from this, it becomes interesting to explore how emotions are involved in different power relations and how they feed resistance. If we accept that emotions and interpretations are entangled and inseparable then we must investigate emotions as powerful forces of resistance.
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