The Cambodian Genocide: Operationalizing Violence Through Ideology
The case of the Cambodian Genocide suggests that ideology does not only motivate but potentially supplements rational motives in operationalizing wide-scale violence.
Malaysian Language Policy: The Impact of Globalization and Ethnic Nationalism
In Malaysia, globalization has made English more important, yet without undermining the status of Malay. Ethnic nationalism also has little impact on its language policy.
America the Beautiful, or the Exclusive? The Other in US Nature Conservation
Despite its goals to re-envision nature conservation and to make it more inclusive, the AtB campaign keeps marginalising and silencing Indigenous peoples in the US.
Institutionalised and Ideological Racism in the French Labour Market
Until a critical re-evaluation of the egalitarian approach of French Republicanism is undertaken, the racial hierarchies in labor market will persist.
Norm-taker or Norm-shaper: Is China Socialising into Norms of Intervention?
Language has been expanded to give China greater flexibility in discourse about intervention showing that it has become a tactical tool rather than a deeply held value.
Trump‘24 or Before: Militias and the Marketplace of Masculinity
Masculinity as an antidote to insecurity may result in militia members taking rallying cries like “Trump ‘24 or Before” literally and further perpetrating violence.
Russia and the “Near Abroad”: (Re)producing Identities through Foreign Policy
The practices of Russian foreign policy serve to call into being a “near abroad” with a certain identity and instantiate a particular construction of Russian identity itself.
The Importance of Queer Theory: An Abridgement on Trans Healthcare in the UK
Reforms could be introduced to make such healthcare much more accessible, less oppressive and less violent even with the cuts and pressures affecting NHS care generally.
Beyond the Narrative of China’s Debt Trap Diplomacy
Looking beyond the popular narrative of Chinese debt-trap diplomacy, it becomes clear that it does not hold up to scrutiny.
The Violence of Our Imaginations: War, Women, Nation
Perception of women as a nation’s reproducers justifies and motivates strategic sexual violence against them in, and even after, ethno-nationalist wars.
