Conclusion: Counter-Experts, Social Movements and Global Politics

Anti-GenetiX ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Derrick A. Purdue
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Global Politics

Resistance through Utopia: Reflections on the Niyamgiri Anti-Mining Movement and International Law

2018 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 393-421
Author(s):  
Radhika Jagtap
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
International Law ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Supreme Court Of India ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Theoretical Assessment

There is some significance attached to the role that local-level collective action plays in reimagining global structures like international law. A theoretical assessment of this idea could be done through a merger between the utopian analysis of international law and critical approaches to the discipline which now identify categories like social movements as contemporary modes of transformation. Social movements like the ‘Save Niyamgiri’ movement in India could be seen as a local level catalyst for rethinking, restructuring, and resisting mainstream international law. The paper intends to place the Dongria peoples’ narratives as a utopia of resistance. This utopia is a collective of epistemologies that emanate from their imagination and spirituality, making critical statements on the global politics that favour dystopian versions of domestic and international law. The paper looks into the way the Dongria peoples’ imagination was received and recognised by institutions including the Supreme Court of India and other civil society actors which led to the successful internationalisation of the movement. It develops a sense of the need for international law to look into the local mobilisations surrounding anti-mining resistance and politics of forest rights and concludes with the contention that a transformation of international law also means the redefining of the human condition.

Political violence and insurgencies in the Middle East: Social movements, diffusion of armed conflicts, and proxy wars

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-272
Author(s):  
Mehmet Orhan
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Historical Dynamics ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
Analytical Frameworks

Political violence is a key theme in understanding the historical and contemporary Middle East characterized by different religious, social, and political revolts. It is thus salient to analyze why political violence emerges, how it is diffused, and why it takes different configurations during insurgencies. In order to study these questions, this article establishes three analytical frameworks: interdependency among violence and social movements, diffusion of violence, and proxy warfare. First, I argue that political violence and mobilization are interdependent processes which are shaped by personal, local, and historical dynamics. Secondly, violence is more likely to spread among the societies displaying similar political, religious, or ethnic characteristics, in particular, if there are individuals and militant organizations who take it as a model in order to affect the conflict. Finally, this violence, which depends on local and regional factors, often intersects with global politics and its path is altered as a result.

5. New Waves of Theorizing in Global Politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
Stephanie Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Postcolonial Theory ◽  
Cultural Theory ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Almost All

This chapter evaluates new modes of theorizing in global politics. These are based on long-standing concerns in social and political theory and all of them involve identity politics in one way or another—a form of politics in which an individual’s membership of a group, based on certain distinctive characteristics such as race, ethnicity, religion, gender, and sexuality, acquires significant political salience and is implicated in hierarchies of power. It follows that identity itself involves issues of both who an individual is, and who that individual is not. This involves not just self-identification or self-definition, but is also mediated by the perceptions of others. In some cases there are connections with social movements concerned with issues of justice and equality in both domestic and global spheres. In almost all cases the specific issues of concern, and their theorization, have come relatively late to the agenda of global politics and so may be said to constitute a ‘new wave’ of theorizing in the discipline. The chapter looks at feminism, gender theory, racism, cultural theory, colonialism, and postcolonial theory.

18. Governance and Organizations in Global Politics

Politics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ferdinand ◽  
Robert Garner ◽  
Stephanie Lawson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
United Nations ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Global Order ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations

This chapter examines the ways in which governance and organizations influence global politics. It first provides an overview of what an international organization is, focusing on intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations, before discussing the rise of organizations in the global sphere from the nineteenth century onwards. It then takes a look at the major intergovernmental institutions that emerged in the twentieth century and which have played a major role in shaping global order, including the League of Nations and its successor, the United Nations (UN). The chapter concludes with an analysis of ideas about social movements and civil society, along with their relationship to contemporary governance and organizations.

International Law and Human Rights: Diverging and Converging Histories

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean H. Quataert
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
International Law ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Non Linear

AbstractThis article explores ways to think about the historical intersections of international law and human rights visions and principles in a global context. It catalogues an intertwining of new historiographies, notably the recent convergence of research interests of historians and international lawyers that draws attention to non-linear analyses; the role of social movements in understanding developments in the law; and the importance of historical contexts for interpretation. It sketches one promising analytical framework to assess the dynamic interconnections of international law and human rights from the mid-nineteenth century through the formal creation of the human rights system under U.N. auspices between 1945 and 1949. It concludes with a case study of gender tensions in more recent human rights global politics to provide historically-specific examples of the new possibilities of bringing historical interpretations to the study of international law and human rights.

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