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Vroči mikrofonPrizemljeni, a neomajni v boju za pravičnejši svetOdnos zahodne liberalne družbe do vojne v Gazi je pasiven, ubijanje je postala norma sodobne kapitalistične družbe. Na sicer že slišano, a žal mnogokrat preslišano sporočilo, so opozarjali tudi na letošnji ediciji Festivala Grounded, kjer sta se že osmo leto zapored prepletali kritična misel in elektronska glasba. Letošnja tema festivala je bil antipalestinski rasizem. Kaj točno ta besedna zveza pomeni smo se pogovarjali z aktivisti iz Palestine in Izraela ter novinarji in raziskovalci iz tujine.
Sogovorniki in sogovornice:
- Salah Said, palestinski aktivist iz Palestine
- Udi Raz, pro...2024-08-2711 min
Opinion PeacePerforming Europe in the Western Balkans - a conversation w/ Dr. Vjosa MusliuOver the last two-two and a half decades, scholars have produced a vast number and variety of works that grappled with international and especially European interventions in the Western Balkans in the spheres of state- and peace-building, post-war reconstruction, and reconciliation, EU enlargement, and Europeanization. A simple google search based on any of the terms I've just mentioned would trick you into wondering, what could have possibly been left unasked in this area of academic inquire?
My today's guest on the Opinion Peace Podcast, Dr. Vjosa Musliu from the Vrije University in Brussels points out that most of this vast l...2021-03-261h 04Opinion PeaceFeminist Peace Research - w/ Tarja Väyrynen, Swati Parashar, Élise Féron, & Catia Cecilia ConfortiniOne of the first episodes of the Opinion Peace in 2019 was a conversation with Annick Wibben about Piecing up Feminist Peace Research. Since then, several aspects and themes of feminist peace research and analysis have been discussed in the podcast episodes with Swati Parashar, Élise Féron, Heleen Touquet, Philipp Schulz, Jamie Hagen, and Daniela Lai.
Today’s episode weaves those and many other threads of feminist peace research and analysis together to open a conversation about what peace research is and where it could and/or should go.
My guests on the podcast are editors of the soon to be p...2021-03-021h 07Opinion PeaceFieldwork As Failure - Katarina Kušić & Jakub ZahoraThe guests of the first Opinion Peace podcast in 2021 are Dr. Katarina Kušić and Dr. Jakub Zahora, editors of the open-access volume "Fieldwork as Failure. Living and Knowing in the Field of International Relations". Through thirteen chapters written by early-career researchers, the edited volume engages with fieldwork experiences and politics of methods in IR through the concept of failure. In their personal and analytical reflections, the editors and chapter contributors take the concept of failure from a personal and affective reaction towards epistemological, political, and structural points that the concept of failure reveals. They say failure can be productive. It...2021-02-1046 minOpinion PeaceDemystifying Fieldwork in Peace&Conflict Studies - w/Birte Vogel & Roger Mac Ginty“The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork” - recently published volume edited by Roger Mac Ginty, Roddy Brett, and Birte Vogel - takes a reader through a life cycle of fieldwork. Through 33 chapters written in the first person, the Companion offers honest, thought-provoking, and imbued with humility accounts of practical, emotional, and ethical aspects and dilemmas of fieldwork as "a corrective to the under-reporting of what might go wrong in fieldwork and the Indiana Jones syndrome”. The editors and the authors emphasize that research is a personal, sensory, emotional, and relational experience and the importance of writing the Researcher back into th...2020-11-2647 minOpinion PeaceThe Struggle for Redress. Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Dr. Jessie Barton Hronešová"The Struggle for Redress. Victim Capital in Bosnia and Herzegovina" a book by Jessie Barton Hronesova explores the varieties of recognition, redress, justice, and victimhood in Bosnia and Herzegovina through a within-country comparative analysis. She asks under which conditions domestic authorities are willing to recognize a particular group of victims, and who is "worthy of redress". Meticulously researched, insightful at both empirical and analytical level, and skilfully written, the book centers the concept of victim capital through which Jessie analyses the dynamics of redress and asks what is it within the power of the victims and where/when do the limi...2020-11-2057 minOpinion PeaceGoing beyond binaries in SGBV against men - with Heleen Touquet & Philipp SchulzThis conversation draws upon two recently published articles written by Heleen Touquet and Philipp Schulz: "Navigating vulnerabilities and masculinities: How gendered contexts shape the agency of male sexual violence survivors", Security Dialogue and "Queering explanatory frameworks for wartime sexual violence against men" in International Affairs.
In today's episode, you'll be hearing about:
- the necessity to break the binaries and keep in mind the messiness of the lived experiences;
- survivors’ agency is shaped and conditioned by different opportunity structures;
- binary strategy/opportunism categorizations imply broader unintended political consequences & further marginalize those acts of sexual violence that fall outside the d...2020-09-1400 min
Opinion PeaceSocioeconomic Justice: International Intervention & Transition in Post-war Bosnia and HerzegovinaIn her book "Socioeconomic Justice: International Intervention & Transition in Post-war Bosnia and Herzegovina", Daniela Lai follows how experiences of socioeconomic violence turn into socioeconomic justice claims and social justice struggles, and by doing so she shows how socioeconomic justice acts as a bridge between transitional justice and broader social justice struggles. Drawing upon empirical cases of post-war and post-socialist towns of Zenica and Prijedor, and 2014 social mobilization in Bosnia and Herzegovina, she defines socioeconomic justice as the redress of violence rooted in the political economy of conflict, and transitional justice as a political process that involves forms of contestation and...2020-09-0400 min
Opinion PeaceRe-Imagining Peace & Security from the Perspective of Queer & Trans Communities - w. Jamie J. HagenOn today’s episode with Dr. Jamie J. Hagen you’ll be hearing about:
- How the inclusion of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities opens up and complicates ideas of peace, security, and violence;
- Solidarities and different ways of seeing gender justice;
- Tensions between globalized conceptions of rights-seeking struggles and localized, context-specific understanding of queer and trans lives;
- What does it mean to look at queer and trans communities from a place of possibilities and abundance instead of from a place of repression;
- Quite a few fantastic reading suggestions;
- Main takes from Jamie’s work f...2020-08-2800 minOpinion PeaceWartime Sexual Violence against Men - a conversation with Elise FeronThis time on Opinion Peace, Dr. Elise Feron from TAPRI Peace Research and I tackle one of, until recently, overlooked dimensions of sexualized conflicted related violence: sexual violence against men. This conversation is based on Elise Feron’s book “Wartime Sexual Violence against Men: Masculinities and Power in Conflict Zones” (2018, Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield). Drawing upon several years of fieldwork and more than 80 in-depth interviews conducted in the Great Lakes region (DRC, Burundi, Rwanda), Northern Ireland, and asylum-seeking centers, Elise Feron looked at the patterns of sexual violence against men in different contexts. She sought to reflect upon what triggers this t...2020-05-0400 minOpinion PeaceDebating Nationalism - The Global Spread of nations w. Florian Bieber. In his newly published book, Florian Bieber focuses on emergence of nationalism and its historical evolution. In taking a global perspective, Bieber reflects upon main themes in existing scholarship, and sheds light on some of the contemporary issues found in new nationalism of today - debates about migration, diversity and authoritarian politics.
Besides discussing the origin of his new book, challenges of writing about and researching nations and nationalism, and asking what makes nations and nationalism so durable, this episode of Opinion Peace also touches upon the role and the rise of the (nation) state in the current crisis and...2020-04-2100 minOpinion PeaceChinese Foreign Policy With Marc LanteigneChina's rapid economic development and its rise to great-power status have sparked increasing research and political interests. Both policymakers and scholars are often divided over whether the ascent and modernization of China and its competition with the US could have a significant impact on or even present a direct threat to the international system. In this episode of Opinion Peace podcast, Sladjana Lazic spoke with Marc Lanteigne about some of the themes laid out in the fourth edition of his book "Chinese Foreign Policy - An Introduction". In the book, Marc Lanteigne provides an in-depth analysis of China's engagement in...2020-03-0900 minOpinion PeaceA Postcolonial Reading of Peace from Below - keynote by Swati ParasharThis is episode is a recording of the keynote lecture given by Swati Parashar for the second day of "Studying Peace from Below" conference held at the CPS, 5-6 September 2019.
The title of Swati Parashar's keynote lecture was: "Rescuing 'Local' from its 'Global' Enthusiasts: A Postcolonial Reading of 'Peace from Below'."2019-11-0100 minOpinion PeaceBottom-up Peace: The Extraordinary Power of so-called Ordinary People -- keynote by R. Mac GintyThis episode is a recording of the keynote lecture by Roger Mac Ginty that was delivered at the closing session of the first day of the Critical Interdisciplinary Conference on Studying Peace from Below. The conference was held at the Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) UiT- The Arctic University of Norway, 5-6 September 20192019-10-3100 minOpinion Peace"The Ukrainian Conflict: Prospects for Peace?" - conversation with Volodomyr Dubovyk"The Ukrainian Conflict: Prospects for Peace?" - conversation with Volodomyr Dubovyk by podcast by the Centre for Peace Studies2019-02-2800 minOpinion PeaceQuality Peace - conversation with Peter WallensteenQuality Peace - conversation with Peter Wallensteen by podcast by the Centre for Peace Studies2019-02-2800 minOpinion PeaceFeminist Peace Research - conversation with Annick WibbenFeminist Peace Research - conversation with Annick Wibben by podcast by the Centre for Peace Studies2019-02-2800 minOpinion PeaceOpinion Peace Pilot Episode 2018This recording was made on 14/12/2018 at the Result Studio UiT. Recording engineer: Per Frank Hansen2018-12-2000 min