The Sky is Not the Limit: The Billionaires’ Space Race Read Through Buen Vivir
The billionaire’s space race is critiqued as being exclusionary and individualistic (resulting from Western subjectivities) with the ethical framework of Buen Vivir.
Beyond Agent vs. Instrument: The Neo-Coloniality of Drones in Contemporary Warfare
Are drones instruments or drivers of neocolonialism? Maybe both. Drone warfare gives its wielders means to project “necropower”, but it also reshapes of norms on warfare.
Shifting Constitution of Indigeneity in (Post-)Colonial Brazil
Indigenous peoples’ reality remains one of refusing to be mourned as (near-)extinct, refusing to be written out of history, and refusing to relinquish to a capitalist ideology.
Australia: International Agreements as Obligation in the Case of Climate Change
The high-emitting state of Australia has obligations considering its international agreements: especially vis-à-vis its vulnerable Pacific Island state neighbours.
Eligibilizing Certain Populations: Hindutva Politics Of UP Population Bill 2021
The 2021 UP Population Bill enables the UP state to consolidate focus on Hindutva politics that deploys aggressive policing of women and their reproductive capacities.
Gramscian Notions: Helpful for Research into Digital and Tech Corporations?
Analysing Big Tech as a transnational capitalist class, Gramscian thought provides an outlook on possible avenues of governance of the digital sphere.
To Reform the World or to Close the System? International Law and World-making
A comparative investigation of two scholarly works on the development of international law in its context of the international system.
No Peace Without Justice: The Denial of Transitional Justice in Post-2001 Afghanistan
The denial of transitional justice in post-9/11 Afghanistan ignored Afghan demands for meaningful truth, justice and reconciliation.
Practice Theory: How The Consumer’s Limited Agency Hampers Climate Action
The limited agency of consumers hampers green choices. A force upon the practice instead of the consumer can strengthen climate action.
The European Quality of Government Index: A Critical Analysis
The original approach taken by the Quality of Governance Index in measuring public corruption has allowed for strong advances in the framing and understanding of such.
