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Pentecôtisation du christianisme et butinage religieux au Kenya: entre fondamentalisme et mode populaire d’action politico-religieuse

Pour Yvan Droz et Yonatan Gez (in Revue canadienne des études africaines, 2019), la pentecôtisation des dénominations chrétiennes se heurte aux pratiques religieuses quotidiennes: le butinage religieux. Les auteurs proposent de voir dans la mobilité religieuse une religiosité morale. Et considèrent que la diversité des pratiques religieuses interdirait l’instrumentalisation politique du religieux que certaines élites politiques imaginent.
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Climate, the Earth, and God: Entangled Narratives of Cultural and Climatic Change in the Peruvian Andes

Building on ethnographic fieldwork, Morgan Scoville-Simonds, postdoc at CIES, explores (in World Development, vol. 110, 2018) two local climate narratives related to Catholic and Evangelical religious traditions with differing ontological and epistemological foundations. The concept of “entangled narrative” is proposed as a way of accounting for the social and cultural embeddedness of climate perceptions.
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EDITED BOOK CHAPTER

Rethinking Biomedicine

In this chapter (in Social Science at the Crossroads, S. Randeria and B. Wittrock, eds., Brill, 2019), Vinh-Kim Nguyen examines how Yehuda Elkana’s concepts of “partial theories” and of “rethinking the enlightenment” contribute to rethinking biomedicine in the age of global health. 
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The Legal Determinants of Health: Harnessing the Power of Law for Global Health and Sustainable Development

Law is crucial for protecting the health and wellbeing of society. Through a contribution in the Lancet–O’Neill Institute Commission on Global Health and Law, Gian Luca Burci et al. (in Lancet, vol. 393, May 2019) show how law can be a powerful tool in advancing global health. The Commission provides seven recommendations to implement to advance global health with justice.
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Policy Theory and Practice

This chapter by James Hollway et al. (in Global Environmental Outlook report (GEO) 6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People, CUP, June 2019) reviews the conceptual and empirical challenges of identifying effective environmental policy designs. Some common elements to effective policy designs are that they establish a baseline by which to monitor performance, that affected stakeholders are included in policy design and monitoring, and that crisis-mode policy decisions are eschewed for longer-term visions.
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Oceans and Coastal Policy 

James Hollway et al. (in Global Environmental Outlook (GEO) 6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People, CUP, June 2019) argue that diverse policy instruments and approaches are required to tackle different problems. For example, addressing coral reef bleaching demands treating carbon emissions. Marine litter requires comprehensive and coordinated regional measures. But irrespective of the instrument used, effective policy relies on strong, independent scientific support, standardised monitoring, and empowered surveillance and enforcement.
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Increasing Trust in Bankers to Enhance Savings: Experimental Evidence from India

Lore Vandewalle, Rahul Mehrotra and Vincent Somville (in Economic Development and Cultural Change) show how trust between local bankers and new account holders is influenced, and its strong association with savings behaviour. Trust in one’s banker matters for account savings, but is more difficult to influence than trust in bankers in general.
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PhD THESIS

Three Essays in International Economics

This three-essay thesis in International Economics by Faiçal Belaid (April 2019) addresses three areas that influence  economic development in Africa: the role of bank funding, the impact of the tourism sector and the effect of access to energy on the industrial development.
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Our Joan of Arc: Women, Gender, and Authority in the Harmony Division of the UNIA, 

Nicole Bourbonnais (in Global Garveyism, R. Stephens and A. Ewing, eds., UP of Florida, March 2019) explores gender dynamics within the Kingston, Jamaica branch of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), with a focus on the 1940s. Both male and female UNIA members actively fought against gender inequality, but the Kingston branch found itself split when it came to the issue of birth control, illustrating a deeper tension surrounding women’s bodily autonomy.
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L’économie solidaire sous le prisme du genre: une analyse critique et possibiliste

Christine Verschuur et al. (in Revue française de socio-économie, vol. 22, 2019) proposent d’étudier l’économie solidaire sous le prisme du genre et d’un double regard, inspiré à la fois de l’économie substantive polanyienne et des recherches féministes. Il met en lumière les chemins multiples et sinueux de l’émancipation, fruit d’un entremêlement entre principes d’échange dont l’équilibre est en renouvellement permanent.
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Governing Proliferation Finance: Multilateralism, Transgovernmentalism, and Hegemony in the Case of Sanctions against Iran

This chapter by Grégoire Mallard (in The Oxford Handbook of Institutions of International Economic Governance and Market Regulation, E. Brousseau, J.-M. Glachant and J. Sgard, eds., 2019) examines which actors have been designing and implementing sanctions against nuclear proliferators and which legal technologies they have developed to regulate global financial transactions. It helps better understand the increasing role of the UN Security Council, the “financialisation” of global regulation and the judicialisation of the enforcement of sanctions.
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The ILO’s Role in Global Governance: Limits and Potential

This chapter by Velibor Jakovleski, Scott Jerbi and Thomas Biersteker (in The ILO @ 100, C. Gironde and G. Carbonnier, eds., Graduate Institute Publications and Brill-Nijhoff, 2019) explores recent efforts by the ILO’s leadership to reassert the organisation’s role in broader global policy contexts. It concludes that the ILO’s current governance practices have mixed prospects for the organisation's role in a changing governance landscape. 
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Edited Book Chapters

Others contributions in The ILO @ 100 (see opposite) include notably: 

– L’OIT centenaire: pertinence et défis dans un monde du travail en mutation

by Christophe Gironde and Gilles Carbonnier. Access ❯

– From the Centre to the Margins and Back Again: Women in Agriculture at the ILO  

by Christine Verschuur. Access ❯

– Working Futures: The ILO, Automation and Digital Work in India

by Filipe Calvão and Kaveri Thara. Access ❯

PhD THESIS

Working Alternatives to Capitalism: Factory Take-Overs and Return to the Land in Early 21st Century France

This thesis by Ieva Snikersproge, ANSO, investigates two attempts to implement alternatives to capitalist ways of (re)production in a capitalist society. The first case study focuses on Milkerie, an ice-cream factory, and the second analyses counterintuitive immigration to Diois, a relatively isolated and poor area. The thesis argues that undoing the subordination of human activity to capital (re)production processes involves either reinventing work that cuts across life-work distinction or de-commodifying labour at the level of the society.

ISA 2019 Convention – Errata

In the Research Bulletin’s special issue on the ISA 2019 Convention, three contributions were overlooked. We apologise for this oversight. Here and below are the abstracts.

Cooperation among Regional and International Security Organizations: Institutional and Operational Dynamics

Peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions are increasingly multidimensional and require the capabilities and competences of different actors. The interplay between multinational organisations is an opportunity for cooperation and complementarity, but it also fosters difficulties and inefficient competition. This paper by Juliette Ganne aims at understanding how relations between the European Union, United Nations, and African Union headquarters are translated when these organisations are conducting intervention side by side. It compares those environments to regime complexes. Insights from regime complexity theories help to understand the behaviour of the actors in the field and the development of their cooperative or conflictual ties. This paper suggests understanding the international intervention as a whole rather than focusing on individual conflict and post-conflict missions and operations.

Reproduction, Technopolitics, and the Body: Forced Sterilisations and Violence in Peru

Between 1996 and 2000, almost 300,000 Peruvian women were sterilised following President Fujimori’s “National Program of Reproductive Health and Family Planning 1996–2000”. Promoted as a progressive feminist enterprise, the programme was supposed to empower women by giving them education and choice regarding their reproductive health. However, the programme disproportionately targeted indigenous Quechua-speaking women of rural areas of Peru living in poverty, sterilising thousands of women without their consent, through coercion and intimidation. This paper by Ximena Osorio Garate focuses on the “National Program of Reproductive Health and Family Planning 1996–2000” document as an enabling object for coercive sterilisations and the constitution of the bodies of indigenous women as objects of reproductive violence. Drawing on post-human and science and technology feminist theories, it explores the scientific-technological aspects of reproductive control, the production of gendered and racialised embodied subjects, and understandings of violence.

Feminist Traditions and Current Challenges in the Study of Militarization: When International Empirical Research Meets Gender Approaches

Since Enloe wrote her definition of militarisation (2000), feminist scholars have used it to make visible processes and practices connecting everyday life and global structures, linking the local and the international. Inspired by feminist scholarship, this roundtable co-organised by Vanessa Gauthier Vela aims to engage with the problematic of militarisation as based on gendered hierarchy. By employing qualitative methods (interviews, participant observation, ethnography, archival analysis) and gender theorisation, this discussion will focus more generally on the empirical and epistemological issues linked to critical approaches when studying international phenomenon. How do we explore the relations between the local and the international levels? How do we locate each level and through what processes are they linked? Which actors participate in each of these levels? Which populations are affected by militarization? What are the challenges of a feminist methodology in IR? As young feminist scholars, what are the challenges in applying and renewing Enloe’s definition to our research?

Business with the Devil? Assessing the Financial Dimension of Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America, 1973–1985

Carlo Edoardo Altamura won a SNSF Ambizione grant (CHF 905,648) to carry out this four-year project (March 2019–February 2023) on the interactions between international financial institutions, Western commercial banks and authoritarian regimes in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Mexico. More info ❯

Graduate Institute’s Seed Money Grants

At the June 2019 session of its seed money scheme the Graduate Institute awarded a total amount of CHF 15,000 respectively to Shaila Seshia Galvin and Rui Pedro Estevez. Seed money grants are designed to support early career faculty in preparing and submitting a proposal for external funding within one year of the start of the award.

Reuben Muhindi Wambut Global Winner of 2019 St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award

The master student of International Economics was recently awarded top prize at the prestigious St. Gallen Symposium for his essay on “Systemic Interventions for Sustainable Capital Financing”. See ❯