Project
The Truth About Crime
Many African postcolonies are haunted by the spectre of: the waning efficacy of law enforcement, the ambiguity of authority, and the apparent abandonment of subjects by the state.
Publication
Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject
Simpson, David. 2022. Tolerance from Below: Unsettling the Sovereign Subject. Boundary 2, 49(2), 271–294. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-9...
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The Spirit of Democracy
Näsström, Sofia. 2021. The Spirit of Democracy. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898869.001.0001
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Citizenship in a Globlised World
Hobden, Christine. 2021. Citizenship in a Globlised World. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Citizenship-in-a-Globalised-World/Hobden/p/b...
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Military Assistance on Request and the Use of Force
De Wet, Erika. 2020. Military Assistance on Request and the Use of Force. Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/m...
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Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Kevin Olson, Minkah Makalani, Sundhya Pahuja and Adom Getachew. 2020. Disclosing New Political Forms: Symposium on Adom Getachew, Worldmakin...
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The UN and its Discontents
The project aims to explore little-studied dynamics among and behaviour of UN member states and staff members that constrain the organization, and render it resistant to meaningful reform and vulnerable to achieving sub-optimal results, against two possible overall hypotheses:Hypothesis 1: The UN’s underperformance is rooted in structural tensions: a) between sovereignty-based principles and between expectations that the Secretary-General needs a degree of policy autonomy; b) between a UN that relies on member states for funding and backing and a UN that is tasked to uphold set of universal human rights norms; and c) tensions over the nature of UN legitimacy.
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The Modern Practice of Intervention by Invitation in Africa and Its Implications for the Prohibition of the Use of Force
De Wet, Erika. 2015. The Modern Practice of Intervention by Invitation in Africa and Its Implications for the Prohibition of the Use of Forc...
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Introduction: Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood
Augenstein, Daniel and Hans Lindahl. 2016. Introduction: Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood. Indiana Journal of Global ...
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Transdemocracy
This book project is geared towards a new understanding of democracy, considering that so-called ‘democratic’ modern decisions negatively affect other peoples and thus become undemocratic.
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Crime and Citizenship
Witnessing the large-scale displacement and conditions of statelessness in the wake of the Second World War, political theorist Hannah Arendt coined the evocative phrase the right to have rights, arguing that the fundamental right, from which all other rights sprung, was the right to membership of a political community.
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Self, Autonomy, Authority and Law: The Challenge of ‘Leaky Bodies’
The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body.
