Essays

Agonizing Assemblages: The Slow Violence of Garbage in the Yemeni Civil War

Maxwell Fenton • Feb 14 2021 • Essays

The war in Yemen has created a garbage collection crisis which is enacting a slow violence against Yemenites who suffer negative health and environmental effects.

“Fake It Till You Make It?” Post-Coloniality and Consumer Culture in Africa

Duke Mwedzi • Feb 10 2021 • Essays

Consumer culture exists in many African societies and it is heavily influenced by cultural assimilation.

The Resilience of Baloch Insurgencies: Understanding the Fifth Period

Yogesh Gattani • Feb 2 2021 • Essays

The Baloch peoples’ insurgency has proved their resilience and ability to generate momentum for a cause that is unlikely to subside to Pakistani state repression.

Women in International Migration: Transnational Networking and the Global Labor Force

Bronte Kuehnis • Jan 31 2021 • Essays

Many countries require a complete reconstruction of their immigration policy to meet international migration demands and basic standards of human dignity.

Re-reading the Notion of Ontological Change in War: The Problem of Knowledge

Giulia Tempo • Jan 31 2021 • Essays

The post-1800 revolution of the notion of contingency in war is gnoseological – the transition from ontology to gnoseology being premised upon the centrality of the cognitive subject.

Assessing Syria’s Chemical Weapons Ambiguity

Dorothea Koehn • Jan 29 2021 • Essays

Syria’s case evidences that norm cascades alone do not guarantee the adoption of international frameworks. Rather, norm cascades can be reconciled with the strategic priorities that realists emphasize.

Global Covid-19 Responses Through a Critical Security Studies Perspective

Lachlan Abbott • Jan 20 2021 • Essays

The current COVID-19 response is dominated by traditional security notions of state-centrality which fail to understand the broad implications of the pandemic.

Jus Commercium Armis: Amidst the Abyss of Arms

Deepanshu Singal • Jan 19 2021 • Essays

The ethics of the arms trade can be looked from contrasting political, economic, legal and theoretical viewpoints.

Ripening Conflict in Civil Society Backchannels: The Malian Peace Process (1990–1997)

Nicolas Verbeek • Jan 15 2021 • Essays

The successful resolution of ethnic conflict in Mali illustrates the role that civil society can play in creating mutually beneficial negotiations between armed groups.

How Has the Evolution of Production Chains Affected Women and Children?

Tania González Veiga • Jan 14 2021 • Essays

Global and local production chains increase levels of precarity and informality of labour, with little legal and social protection, especially for women and children.

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