Januar 17, 2017, 8:30 am, CRISTINA ESPINOSA, Allgemein.
Legal scholars, environmental organizations, indigenous groups and activists from around the world are energizing an emergent global movement on the rights of nature. To face the environmental crisis, these heterogeneous actors are coming together to reconceptualize nature as a legal subject. In this article, I examine Democracy Schools and Awakening the Dreamer Symposia (ADS) to establish where and how this emergent movement is being organized. The meaning structures, knowledge stocks and identity cues that characterize it are made intelligible to potential adherents through these seminars and workshops. Interpretive analysis reveals that Democracy Schools and ADSs are distinctively mobile and replicable infrastructures. The concept of ‘stagings‘ was developed to help examine cultural and spatial dynamics in heterogeneous and extensive collective action.
Januar 17, 2017, 8:20 am, DAVID J. NORMAN, Allgemein.
What, if anything, can transnational advocacy networks (TANs) contribute to the democratization of public spheres outside Westphalian frameworks? On the one hand, TANs excel at turning international public campaigns into political influence – connecting people and power across borders. On the other hand, the increasingly policy-orientated nature of TANs raises questions about their legitimacy in speaking on behalf of multiple publics. In this article, I suggest that a TAN’s success in ensuring the political efficacy of public spheres, while at the same time undermining their normative legitimacy, reflects two sides of the same coin. This is a consequence of the recent internal professionalization of advocacy networks. Framing professionalization as a particular form of communicative distortion within TAN decision-making, I suggest that networks should incorporate internal deliberative mechanisms, adapted from international social forums, to enhance the normative legitimacy of democratic public spheres.
Januar 17, 2017, 8:16 am, KUMIKO KAWASHIMA, Allgemein.
In this article, I examine the transnational mobility of digital workers and the control of their labour across multiple production sites. The digitalization of work has progressively allowed businesses to outsource IT-enabled service jobs to cheaper production sites offshore. The growth of the ‘offshore outsourcing‘ of white-collar service jobs in East Asia has produced the mobility of cheap digital labour from Japan to Dalian in northeast China. They work at call centres and other Japanese-speaking workplaces in the lower echelons of the city’s IT sector, typically earning salaries in Chinese yuan at, or even below, the average Japanese minimum wage. Based on ethnographic findings, I argue that in the global digital economy, digital services are rendered exploitable through their transnational mobility and that this form of labour migration has developed because of the partial, fluid and contingent nature of the transnational links between the two locations. I analyse how the neoliberal logic of exception underpins the creation of IT parks in China and the casualization of labour in Japan to enable new forms of transnational labour control and capital accumulation.
Januar 17, 2017, 8:14 am, Ljiljana Radonić, Allgemein.
Januar 17, 2017, 8:12 am, VINCENT HORN, Allgemein.
Migrant visits to the country of origin play a crucial role in transnational family cohesion and migrant well-being; the research on them so far has focused primarily on the relationship between migrant integration and transnational engagement. In this article, I extend the discussion by adding a life course perspective to Carling and Hoelscher’s (2013) framework for studying transnational activities, which incorporates capacity and desire. I explore whether age has an independent effect on migrants‘ family visits and how it relates to socio-economic resources, migration status and transnational ties. Using data from a survey of Peruvian migrants around the globe (n=7,741), I show that migrants‘ stage in the life course has a partial effect on their propensity to travel through the interrelationship between age, capacity and desire. The findings show that the capacity and desire of migrants to visit their country of origin are particularly strong after reaching retirement age, suggesting a favourable combination of resources at later stages in life. However, whether this expresses a positive approach to ageing, or is a strategy to balance transnational family obligations and to postpone return decisions, remains open for future research.
Januar 17, 2017, 5:20 am, Karin Priem, Allgemein.
Januar 17, 2017, 3:47 am, Heather Ellis, Allgemein.
Januar 17, 2017, 3:46 am, Lottie Hoare, Allgemein.
Januar 16, 2017, 11:49 am, Guzel Yusupova, Allgemein.
Januar 13, 2017, 12:19 pm, Angelo Van Gorp, Allgemein.