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World Political Science Review | 2014

Office Hours: How (Critical) Norm Research Can Regain Its Voice

Stephan Engelkamp; Katharina Glaab; Judith Renner

Abstract Social Science research cannot be neutral. It always involves, so the argument of this article, the (re)production of social reality and thus has to be conceived as political practice. From this perspective, the present article looks into constructivist norm research. In the first part, we argue that constructivist norm research is political insofar as it tends to reproduce Western values that strengthen specific hegemonic discursive structures. However, this particular political position is hardly reflected on in norm research. Hence, it is our goal in the second part of the article to outline research strategies potentially useful in reflective and critical norm research. We propose a critical research program based upon three central methodological steps that are inspired by post-structuralism: first, the questioning of global hegemonic values; second, the reconstruction of marginalized knowledge; and third, the explicit reflection of one’s own research perspective.


Alternatives: Global, Local, Political | 2015

Writing Norms Constructivist Norm Research and the Politics of Ambiguity

Stephan Engelkamp; Katharina Glaab

The language used by norm research exercises a form of epistemological violence that seeks to minimize normative ambiguity, hence foreclosing alternative ways of reading and writing about norms. Taking a seminal text of constructivist literature on norms as an example, this article examines how this research has been dominated by a specific “norm language.” To uncover the power of this language, we examine the normalizing effects and implications of a particularly influential work in norm research literature. Inspired by the work of Jacques Derrida, we inquire into the presuppositions of “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change” by Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink. A double reading of the text traces how it relies on logocentric dichotomies that need to be sustained by discursive moves of deferral, closure, and forgetting. We provide an alternative reading of some of the stories in the text that work to destabilize its underlying logics. Finally, we offer a perspective on “writing norms” calling for a culture of tolerance and an ethics of “hospitality” that celebrate normative ambiguity as a source for dialogue.


Archive | 2011

Internationale Unternehmen in der globalisierten Welt

Doris Fuchs; Katharina Glaab

Das Ziel des Artikels ist eine umfassende Darstellung der Rolle von transnationalen Unternehmen (TNUs) im Globalisierungsprozess. Im ersten Teil des Beitrags wird die Position der TNUs in der globalisierten Welt mit Hilfe quantitativer und qualitativer Daten dargestellt. Dabei stehen insbesondere die Veranderungen in der relativen Grose der TNUs, ihrer Reichweite und dem unternehmensinternen Handel im Vordergrund.


Archive | 2014

Religiöse Akteure in der globalen Umweltpolitik

Katharina Glaab

Umweltverschmutzung, Uberfischung, Waldsterben, Desertifikation und Klimawandel stellen einige der grosten Herausforderungen unserer Zeit fur Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik dar. Die globale Natur der okologischen Krise hat zu einer grosen Zahl an internationalen Initiativen fur den Umweltschutz gefuhrt, mit denen wissenschaftliche, okonomische und technische Losungsansatze gesucht werden, die die benotigte ‚grose Transformation‘ anstosen konnen. WissenschaftlerInnen, Regierungen, internationale Institutionen und zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen arbeiten seit uber 40 Jahren daran, Wissen zu dem Thema zu generieren und daraus politische Handlungsmoglichkeiten abzuleiten, um die zunehmende Umweltzerstorung zu stoppen. Die okologische Krise stellt jedoch nicht nur ein wissenschaftliches oder politisches Problem dar, sie ist auch eine moralisch-ethische Herausforderung fur die globale Gesellschaft. So argumentiert der amerikanische Umweltschutzer Al Gore, dass angesichts des Ausmases der globalen Klimakatastrophe eine „moralische und spirituelle Umwalzung“ notig sei.


Archive | 2019

G for Gramsci: Critical Perspectives on Power in V for Vendetta

Katharina Glaab

This chapter offers a discussion of Antonio Gramsci’s perspective on power. The chapter draws attention to key concepts of his political thinking and illustrates with selected scenes from the film V for Vendetta. Focusing on hegemony, the role of ideas and common sense, the chapter shows that political systems are always prone to change and that changing ideas play an important part in it. It argues that power in terms of hegemony is central for the imagination of change and is enforced through a dialectic relationship of force and consent. The chapter concludes with a critical discussion of Gramscian perspectives on power and reflects on how films challenge students to engage with political theory.


Archive | 2017

Globalisierung, Global Governance und internationale Politik

Katharina Glaab; Doris Fuchs

Das Phanomen der Globalisierung ist zu einem zentralen Themengebiet der Internationalen Beziehungen geworden und beschreibt die zunehmende Veranderung hin zu globalen Beziehungen. Theoretisch ist dieses Konzept jedoch hinsichtlich Ausmas, Natur und Auswirkungen noch hochst umstritten, und die Folgen von Globalisierung auf globale Gerechtigkeit werden zunehmend kritisch bewertet. Global Governance ist dabei eng mit den unterschiedlichen Interpretationen uber die Folgen der Globalisierung verbunden und ermoglicht es die Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten der durch Globalisierungsprozesse hervorgerufenen Interdependenzen und Folgephanomene zu konzeptualisieren. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es zunachst zentrale konzeptionelle Zugriffe von Globalisierung darzustellen und ihre treibenden Krafte und Ursachen zu beleuchten. In einem zweiten Schritt wird dann das Konzept von Global Governance erortert, dessen politischer und wissenschaftlicher Kontext dargelegt und Kontroversen uber mogliche Auslegungen verdeutlicht. Die zentralen Akteure transnationale Unternehmen, Staaten, globale Zivilgesellschaft und internationale Regierungsorganisationen werden hinsichtlich ihrer unterschiedlichen Kapazitaten und Legitimitat innerhalb des Global Governance Gefuges diskutiert. Es wird gezeigt, dass Globalisierung nicht mehr nur hinsichtlich ihrer Gestaltbarkeit bewertet, sondern vermehrt aufgrund ihrer zugrunde liegenden Ideen und Verstetigung von Machtverhaltnissen kritisiert wird. Dabei scheint sich gerade in Zeiten der Krise eine zunehmende Ruckbesinnung auf staatliche Autoritat herauszubilden.


Globalizations | 2017

A Climate for Justice? Faith-based Advocacy on Climate Change at the United Nations

Katharina Glaab

Abstract Climate justice is an important issue for civil society advocacy at the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC). While the climate justice movement has received increasing scholarly attention, the contribution of faith-based actors (FBAs) to justice debates at the UNFCCC has been largely overlooked. This article examines the contribution of FBAs to the debate on climate justice and their relation to and difference from the climate justice movement. Based on a constructivist assumption that the meaning of climate change can be interpreted differently, this article understands action on climate change as an effect of its discursive construction. This article argues that FBAs are part of these discourses and that their religious and spiritual practices are constituted and constitutive of climate justice practices. Therefore, the aim of this article is to understand FBAs’ climate justice practices and critically reflect on their contribution to global climate change politics.


World Political Science Review | 2014

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Stephan Engelkamp; Katharina Glaab; Judith Renner

Abstract In their response to our article »Office Hours«, Nicole Deitelhoff and Lisbeth Zimmermann issue three major points of critique towards our proposal of a critical approach to norm research: They criticize, firstly, our discussion of constructivist norm research, secondly, our use of the concepts of local and Western and, thirdly, the overall critical potential of our proposed approach, which they criticize as going merely beyond an unmasking gesture. We take our response to our critics, firstly, as an opportunity to clarify some of the arguments made in our article. Secondly, we confront the points of criticism outlined above and show that Deitelhoff’s and Zimmermann’s critique can only be maintained if one accepts their specific reading of our article. Moreover, it gets tangled up in three major contradictions and is built upon a problematic understanding of the relation between empirical facticity and normative evaluation.


Food Policy | 2011

Material power and normative conflict in global and local agrifood governance: The lessons of ‘Golden Rice’ in India

Doris Fuchs; Katharina Glaab


Journal of Cleaner Production | 2016

Power: The missing element in sustainable consumption and absolute reductions research and action

Doris Fuchs; Antonietta Di Giulio; Katharina Glaab; Sylvia Lorek; Michael Maniates; Thomas Princen; Inge Røpke

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Doris Fuchs

University of Münster

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Sylvia Lorek

Saint Petersburg State University

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Michael Maniates

National University of Singapore

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