Undoing ≈ Undoing
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Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution Open
Tracing neoliberalism's devastating erosions of democratic principles, practices, and cultures. Neoliberal rationality-ubiquitous today in statecraft and the workplace, in jurisprudence, education, and culture-remakes everything and everyo…
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“It’s exhausting to create an event out of nothing”: Slow Violence and the Manipulation of Time Open
In recent years, scholars have developed a vocabulary for describing scenes of insecurity, precarity, and disorder too slow to achieve recognition as crises. Concepts such as slow violence, for example, depend on forms of delay, deferral, …
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On the Limits of “Trans Enough”: Authenticating Trans Identity Narratives Open
Existing (binary) understandings of gender affirm some types of gendered accounts as “authentic,” while others are discredited or obscured. As a consequence, many transgender people express anxiety about whether their experience of gender …
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Undoing Equivalence: Rethinking Carbon Accounting for Just Carbon Removal Open
Concerns are increasingly raised over the centrality of carbon removal in climate policy, particularly in the guise of “net-zero” targets. Most significantly perhaps, treating emissions and removals as equivalent obscures emission reductio…
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The Invention of Sustainability Open
The issue of sustainability, and the idea that economic growth and development might destroy its own foundations, is one of the defining political problems of our era. This groundbreaking study traces the emergence of this idea, and demons…
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Decolonizing African Studies Open
In this introduction to the special issue on decolonizing African Studies, we discuss some of the epicolonial dynamics that characterize much of higher education and knowledge production in, of, with, and for Africa. Decolonizing, we argue…
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On the coloniality of global public health Open
The continued inordinate demise from communicable pathogens in the global South is not the result of an intractable problem thwarting our best efforts to prevent and cure disease; we have the means. Rather, as an accomplice to contemporary…
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A Framework for Assessing the Costs of Pension Reform Reversals Open
Several European countries are currently considering reversing parts of their pension reforms that were adopted previously to improve sustainability. In this paper we present a framework that allows us to quantify the macroeconomic and fis…
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Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation Open
This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing. Drawing from our personal and academic knowledge of the Pacific from West Papua…
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Social neuroscience: undoing the schism between neurology and psychiatry Open
Multiple disorders once jointly conceived as "nervous diseases" became segregated by the distinct institutional traditions forged in neurology and psychiatry. As a result, each field specialized in the study and treatment of a subset of su…
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Undoing Gender with Institutions: Lessons from the German Division and Reunification Open
Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the German Democratic Republic’s gender-equal institutions created a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, E…
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Machine learning political orders Open
A significant set of epistemic and political transformations are taking place as states and societies begin to understand themselves and their problems through the paradigm of deep neural network algorithms. A machine learning political or…
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Undoing the Demos Open
This review charts the substantive theoretical import, diagnostic utility, as well as the conceptual and stylistic limits of Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos. Brown adamantly charts the destructive effects of contemporary neoliberalism, con…
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Of Lobsters, Laboratories, and War: Animal Studies and the Temporality of More-Than-Human Encounters Open
For over two decades, geographers concerned with undoing what Judith Butler has referred to as ‘the conceit of anthropocentrism’ have brought animals in from the margins of thought. Geography's contributions to animal studies have been div…
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Men Doing and Undoing Gender at Work: A Review and Research Agenda Open
While research on gender in organizations has not only documented sustained gender inequality, it has also offered an understanding of how gender is enacted through doing and undoing gender. An underexplored aspect concerns how men can do …
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Resisting Piratic Method by Doing Research Otherwise Open
The reconstruction of sociology into connected sociologies works towards a truly global and plural discipline. But if undoing the overrepresentation of European epistemology in sociology requires a deeper engagement with epistemologies of …
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The Evolution of Fragility: Setting the Terms Open
Explanations for the collapse of early states (and complex societies) often assume that they were integrated and stable until something bad happened, usually environmental change or because enemies overwhelmed them. In fact, many of these …
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Decommissioned places: Ruins, endurance and care at the end of the first nuclear age Open
This paper argues for a geography of deindustrialising places as spaces of inhabitation and endurance, rather than one based on narratives of progres, decline and ruination. Ruins have long been a concern for geographers, yet the material …
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Our Coming In Stories: Cree Identity, Body Sovereignty and Gender Self- Determination Open
This presentation will share an understanding of Cree traditional law and discuss its contemporary application in relation to gender and sexual diversity. I will offer a brief history of how the sexuality and bodies of Indigenous, specific…
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Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region Open
This book critically engages with dominant ideas of cultural homogeneity in the Nordic countries and contests the notion of homogeneity as a crucial determinant of social cohesion and societal security. Showing how national identities in t…
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Undoing Suicidism Open
In Undoing Suicidism, Alexandre Baril argues that suicidal people are oppressed by what he calls structural suicidism, a hidden oppression that, until now, has been unnamed and under-theorized. Each year, suicidism and its preventionist sc…
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Doing and undoing risk: the mutual constitution of risk and heteronormativity in contemporary society Open
This paper develops the concepts of ‘doing’ and ‘undoing’ risk, a new approach to risk research that echoes the ‘doing gender’ of gender studies. In this way, we combine intersectional and risk theory and apply the new perspective to empir…
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Gender, the Body and Organization Studies: Que(e)rying Empirical Research Open
Even in organization studies scholarship that treats gender as performative and fluid, a certain ‘crystallization’ of gender identities as somehow unproblematic and stable may occur because of our methodological decision‐making, and especi…
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Doing and undoing Caribou/Atiku: diffractive and divergent multiplicities and their cosmopolitical orientations Open
More than one and less than many, has become a refrain to depict the notion of multiplicity. Borrowed from Mariyln Strathern, Annemarie Mol mobilized the refrain to succinctly capture the complex result of a series of operations that make …
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Undoing the Epistemic Disavowal of the Haitian Revolution: A Contribution to Global Social Thought Open
The Haitian Revolution is not only one of the most important foundational moments in the emergence of the modern world, but also one of the most neglected within the social scientific literature. In this article, I ask what can be learnt, …
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Consumption and shifting temporalities of daily life in times of disruption: undoing and reassembling household practices during the COVID-19 pandemic Open
The way in which time is produced and consumed during everyday life has crucial implications for sustainable consumption. Social practice approaches in particular have directed attention to the intersection of personal and collective tempo…
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Drug trafficking in Guinea-Bissau, 1998–2014: the evolution of an elite protection network Open
Guinea-Bissau has been regularly described as a ‘narco-state’. Yet, few studies analyse how drug trafficking has evolved here. Based on extensive interviews in Guinea-Bissau over several years, this paper documents the process. It conclude…
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Undoing the ‘Nordic Paradox’: Factors affecting rates of disclosed violence against women across the EU Open
Measuring violence against women raises methodological questions, as well as the wider question of how to understand violence and locate it in relation to a societal context. This is all the more relevant given that measurement of violence…
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Undoing Whiteness: The Dao of Anti‐racist Diversity Practice Open
As Australia propels towards a so‐called ‘Asian Century', pro‐diversity discourses have begun to permeate organizations and society. Yet despite this outward commitment to ethno‐cultural diversity, mainstream diversity discourses and pract…
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Social Sustainability, Past and Future: Undoing Unintended Consequences for the Earth's Survival Open
In this Open Access book, Sander van der Leeuw examines how the modern world has been caught in a socioeconomic dynamic that has generated the conundrum of sustainability. Combining the methods of social science and complex systems science…