153 Politikwissenschaft
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Herbst 2015<br />
Nr. <strong>153</strong><br />
Kurzbeschreibung des Workshops:<br />
The workshop will investigate the idea how studying International Relations<br />
through the conceptual lens of “inequality research” can add to our understanding<br />
of global order. This order can be understood as societal, i.e. as<br />
relations among unequal global subjects. In particular, we seek to draw attention<br />
to the manifold ways in which inequality is institutionalized. Inequality<br />
among states, non‐state groups and individuals, we argue, is never<br />
simply a material feature of the system – as a realist perspective on unequal<br />
power relations would hold – but is constituted, produced, reproduced<br />
and changed through institutional mechanisms.<br />
Examples such as the G20 or the UN Security Council are best‐known<br />
cases of such inequalities, but almost any other international organization<br />
can be involved in the reproduction or transformation of unequal relations<br />
– be they material or non‐material.<br />
Which inequalities are concerned and how they are brought about will be<br />
empirical questions for the workshop.<br />
The individual contributions to the workshop should explore the institutionalization<br />
of inequality in international politics across a broad range of<br />
policy‐areas. By aiming to combining case studies of issue‐specific organizations<br />
with analyses of broader institutional processes of world order<br />
formation, the workshop is meant to reconcile micro, meso and macro<br />
perspectives on unequal order with a focus on the reproductive role of international<br />
institutions.<br />
The main goal of the workshop will be to identify patterns of (in)equality<br />
production throughout a variety of international institutions and across different<br />
policy fields, focusing on intra‐ and interorganizational processes<br />
(or mechanisms).<br />
4. SprecherInnen des Arbeitskreises:<br />
Dr. Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, Freie Universität Berlin<br />
(matthias.ecker-ehrhardt@fu-berlin.de)<br />
Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter, Freie Universität Berlin<br />
(anna.holzscheiter@fu-berlin.de)<br />
Dr. Martin Koch, Universität Bielefeld<br />
(martin.koch@uni-bielefeld.de)<br />
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