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Dangerous arenas: why activists struggle for change in technocratic institutions Open

Felix Anderl, Mariam Salehi · 2025

Emancipatory activism is often channelled into institutions. While this can be interpreted as a success, it may also demobilize activism. The growing literature on the co-optation of emancipatory struggles and the technocratic exercise of …

A Right to Solidarity. World Ordering from the Margins through International Law? Open

Johannes Haaf, Felix Anderl · 2024

In 2005, the United Nations (UN) created the Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity. The mandate holder works toward the establishment and promotion of the human right to solidarity. Usually, a right is regarded as…

Forum: Critical Ethnography Open

Eva Johais, Julia Leser, Katarina Kušić, Kristin Anabel Eggeling, André Weißenfels , et al. · 2024

Ethnography is a political practice with an ambivalent relationship to power. On the one hand, it has benefitted from, legitimized and stabilized hegemonic power relations. On the other hand, it can challenge the self-evidence of the statu…

Transnational companies in environmental conflicts: Rio Tinto, anti-mining resistance in Serbia, and the contradictions of Europeanization Open

Christin Stuehlen, Felix Anderl · 2024

After decades of outsourcing mining activities, Global North governments have begun to domesticate production sites. This strategy aligns with decarbonization goals but also contributes to the emergence of new environmental conflicts and p…

Rice Against Communism: The Politicisation of Agriculture from ‘Above’ and ‘Below’ Open

Felix Anderl · 2024

During the last decades, the politicisation of agriculture has been observed when peasant movements claimed rights to land and food sovereignty. But where did this politicisation come from? I distinguish two types of politicising agricultu…

Thank You to Reviewers Open

Tarik Abou-Chadi, Kavi Abraham, Rita Abrahamsen, Amitav Acharya, Bola Adediran , et al. · 2024

How trust is lost: the Food Systems Summit 2021 and the delegitimation of UN food governance Open

Felix Anderl, Michael Hißen · 2023

Social movements see participation formats of international organizations (IOs) with suspicion. They increasingly retreat from cooperation to contest IOs from the outside, because they fear co-optation without real policy impact. However, …

How to Problematize the Global? Open

Antonia Witt, Felix Anderl, Amitav Acharya, Deepshikha Shahi, Isaac Kamola , et al. · 2022

International Relations (IR) has long been criticized for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. In response, recent discussions have therefore centered on making IR ‘tr…

False friends: Leftist nationalism and the project of transnational solidarity Open

Felix Anderl · 2022

A growing number of left-wing scholars criticize practices of transnational solidarity. Pointing to the cooptation of “globalism” by neoliberal capitalism, these scholars utilize this critique to advance leftwing nationalism. In this artic…

Vincent Bevins: The Jakarta Method. Washington‘s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. New York, US-NY: Public Affairs 2020, 320 Seiten Open

Felix Anderl · 2021

Bibliographie: Anderl, Felix: Vincent Bevins: The Jakarta Method. Washington‘s Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World. New York, US-NY: Public Affairs 2020, 320 Seiten, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kul…

Global or local solidarity? That’s the wrong question: relationality, aspiration and the in-between of feminist activism in Southeast Asia Open

Felix Anderl · 2020

Global solidarity has increasingly been criticized, particularly in postcolonial-feminist theory. Mohanty exposed 'global' sisterhood as a shallow cosmopolitan category based on white/Western feminist experiences that is in danger of erasi…

Problematising the Global in Global IR Open

Felix Anderl, Antonia Witt · 2020

International Relations (IR) has long been criticised for taking a particular (Western) experience as basis for formulating theories with claim to universal validity. ‘Non-Western’, ‘post-Western’, and postcolonial theories have been criti…

20 Jahre linker Aktivismus in Indonesien: Vom Lokalen zum Globalen und zurück Open

Felix Anderl · 2019

Nach dem Sturz Suhartos im Jahr 1998 folgte eine Phase der Demokratisierung (»Reformasi«) in Indonesien, die sich zum einen durch Dezentralisierung des politischen Entscheidungssystems auszeichnete. Zum anderen profitierte insbesondere die…

Heinrich Geiselberger (Hg.): Die große Regression. Eine internationale Debatte über die geistige Situation der Zeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2017, 319 Seiten Open

Felix Anderl, Laura Gorriahn, Johannes Haaf · 2018

Bibliographie: Anderl, Felix/Gorriahn, Laura/Haaf, Johannes: Heinrich Geiselberger (Hg.): Die große Regression. Eine internationale Debatte über die geistige Situation der Zeit. Berlin: Suhrkamp 2017, 319 Seiten, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Öko…

Macht und Prognose Open

Wolfgang Hein, Georg Simonis, Christoph Scherrer, Reinhart Kößler, Erich Pawlik , et al. · 2018

Entwicklung als Motiv für Herrschaft und Widerstand. Kohärenz und Fragmentierung während des Zivilgesellschaftsforums der Weltbankgruppe Open

Felix Anderl · 2018

Der Artikel zeichnet unterschiedliche Aneignungen des Entwicklungsmotivs nach. Aufbauend auf den vielfältigen Kritiken von „Entwicklung“ und den Aufrufen, das Motiv zugunsten emanzipativerer Projekte abzuschreiben, zeigt der Artikel empiri…

Jenseits des Entwicklungsdenkens Open

Wolfram Schaffar, Aram Ziai, Sally Matthews, Leonhard Praeg, Felix Anderl , et al. · 2018

Contents: german research 1/2018 Open

Nicole Deitelhoff, Priska Daphi, Felix Anderl, Christoph Baer, Ilona Rolfes , et al. · 2018

Institutions in a critical agenda for social movement studies Open

Felix Anderl, Philip Wallmeier · 2016

This is the seventh post in the blog series „Movements and Institutions“. Social movements challenge systems of rule and thus institutions. They are expressions of the non-identical, the gaps and fissures in today’s world. That’s what ma…

Some vantage points for rethinking movements and institutions: introduction to a blog series Open

Felix Anderl, Jannis Julien Grimm, Jan-Philipp Vatthauer · 2016

Social movements and institutions are central actors in national and transnational politics as well as core categories of social inquiry. Despite their importance, both terms are still haunted by a lack of thorough definitions. We introduc…

Clues, careers, and curricula – how to do global international relations? Open

Felix Anderl, Stefan Kröll, Philip Wallmeier, Antonia Witt · 2016

Obgleich die Disziplin der internationalen Beziehungen global sein will, bleibt sie allzu häufig von westlichen Wissenschaftlern dominiert. Doch wie kann internationale Politik anders gedacht werden? Welche Perspektiven ergeben sich auch f…

Myanmar before the elections: Transforming towards democracy? Open

Felix Anderl · 2015

In the last few years, Myanmar has undergone a severe and unexpected change. The military-led country has been starting to open up its borders and economy, enhance citizens’ rights and, allegedly, democratize. While the EU and US were quic…

Review: Andrew Bennett & Jeffrey T. Checkel (Eds.) (2015). Process Tracing: From Metaphor to Analytic Tool Open

Felix Anderl · 2015

In this review, I argue that this textbook edited by BENNETT and CHECKEL is exceptionally valuable in at least four aspects. First, with regards to form, the editors provide a paragon of how an edited volume should look: well-connected art…

Chinas Entwicklungsbank AIIB: der Weltbank hässliches Schwesterlein? Open

Felix Anderl · 2015

Die Weltbank bekommt Konkurrenz. Es besteht die Gefahr, dass die in Shanghai ansassige Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) nun finanziert, was der viel attackierten Weltbank mittlerweile zu schmutzig ware.

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