ISA 2021 GDS Panels & Roundtables

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April 6th

8:00am-9:15am

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TA13: Frantz Fanon and International Politics: A Cross- Disciplinary Examination of his Life and Work

When: Tuesday, April 6, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM Where: Don, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Emma Kast (Aberystwyth University) ▪ Chair: Sarah Then Bergh (Cornell University) ▪ Discussant: Shiera Malik (DePaul University)

Papers Revolutionary Bodies in Motion: Freedom Violence and Power in Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt ▪ Author: Sarah Then Bergh (Cornell University) Race, class and imperialism from Fanon’s perspective ▪ Author: Emma Kast (Aberystwyth University) Climate Imaginaries and the Politics of Land in Frantz Fanon’s Writing ▪ Author: Lauren Siegel (Cornell University)

Abstract and Keywords Frantz Fanon is a highly referenced thinker throughout various critical disciplines of international politics and cultural studies. Many scholars in Africana studies, political economy, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, international relations and postcolonial studies claim that he is groundbreaking in their fields. While this speaks to the breadth and influence of Fanon as a political figure, we also wonder the extent to which he has been incorporated into various disciplines in ways that are true to his own writing and life. This panel takes the opportunity to read and re- read Fanon, reflecting on his life, work and contributions to different areas of international politics. We examine various themes in Fanon’s writings, including his understanding of vitality, the body, anti-colonial violence, recognition, race, class and capitalism. We put his work into conversation with thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Suzanne Césaire, and Fred Moten. In doing so, we hope to trace and evaluate the genealogy of Fanon’s contributions to the most central themes of international politics today, while also contextualizing his politics and interrogating some of the mythos surrounding his work.

Class; Colonialism; Power (Political); Race; Violence; ISA2020

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TA35: Post-/De-/Anti-/ & Settler Colonialism(s) and/in Latin America

When: Tuesday, April 6, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM Where: Río de la Plata, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Ari Jerrems (Monash University)

Papers Settler Colonialism and/in Brazil: Favelas and Urban Indigenous Peoples in a Dependent Settler Capitalist State ▪ Author: Desirée Poets (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)) Onto-Epistemic Ruptures in Decolonial/Postcolonial Analysis ▪ Author: Cristina Rojas (Carleton University) An Empire within the Empire? Multiple Decolonialities ▪ Author: Marcos Sebastian Scauso (Quinnipiac University) House of IR: Native Informants and the Tipi ▪ Author: Justin de Leon (University of Notre Dame)

Abstract and Keywords Latin America is most commonly associated with and thought through the Coloniality/Modernity/Decoloniality Research Group. While scholars have increasingly challenged this analytic lens and moved beyond its initial delineations, it has also been unevenly taken up in the region. In Brazil, for example, the Group has gained limited albeit growing traction, especially within academic circles. Postcolonial Theory has an even more limited track record in the region, and Settler Colonial Studies has only recently and tentatively been expanded to the region. In this panel, we propose to take stock of the state of these different approaches in the study of Latin America, teasing out their complementarities and incommensurabilities. Our aim is to explore the limits and contributions of these different approaches, by comparing and contrasting some of them and/or by pushing at their boundaries. The papers included do so not only from a regional but a global perspective, placing Latin America in dialogue with other post- and settler colonial regions of the world. Through this focus, the panel explores the contributions that Latin America makes to theorizing global politics from decolonial, postcolonial, settler colonial, and anti-colonial perspectives. This is particularly timely considering that the latter three have generally neglected this region.

Indigenous Peoples; Postcolonialism; Latin America

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TA01: Innovation for Inclusive Development

When: Tuesday, April 6, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM Where: Ubangi, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Jessi Hanson-DeFusco (University of Pittsburgh)

Papers The Developmentalization of the Unbanked in Morocco: The illusion of financial inclusion ▪ Author: Salah Hamdoun (Arizona State University) Product Design of Neonatal Incubators in Cameroon: A Case Study in South-South Innovation ▪ Author: Eric Stribling (l’Universite des Montagnes) Is Outsourcing Education the Answer: The Case of Liberia ▪ Author: Damita Kaloostian (Arizona State University) Cautioning Entrepreneurship as the path to Refugee Socioeconomic Inclusion ▪ Author: Brittany McCall (Arizona State University)

Abstract and Keywords As a result of neoliberal policies and technological advances over the last several decades, the world’s financial, industrial, educational, and health systems have become increasingly interconnected. This has improved trade, capital, and accessibility to technology that seemingly promises both increased economic growth and societal well-being. But how do social, political, and technological innovations address social inclusion in the Global South? This panel moves beyond the normative narrative in order to produce new discourses that challenge the visible and invisible components that govern lived realities in the Global South. We will discuss the meaning of innovation as well as discuss the decoupling of innovation from modernization allowing for a non-linear approach to methods, processes, and policy design. Second, we aim to challenge the current temporal dimension in which the concept of innovation is placed. Third, we approach innovation in development non-linearly to address knowledge production in the Global South. These five papers will provide perspectives and arguments that offer critiques on development policies and concepts. The questions in the papers are centered around social inclusion, underserved communities, and the structural changes required to ensure that policy moves closer to producing meaningful equity.

Geopolitics; Innovation; Postmodernism; Sustainable Development; Technology (New/Modern/Innovation)

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April 6th

9:30am-10:45am

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TB31: Remembering the Nuclear Past: Memories, Stories, and Pedagogies of the Future

When: Tuesday, April 6, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Kura, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Shampa Biswas (Whitman College) ▪ Discussant: Shampa Biswas (Whitman College)

Papers Nuclear Pedagogies: Narrating Atomic Testing for Security and Stability ▪ Author: J. Marshall Beier (McMaster University) On Remorse: Claude Eatherly and the Bombing of Hiroshima ▪ Author: Anne Harrington (Cardiff University) Nuclear History as Humanity’s Heritage ▪ Author: Elif Kalaycioglu (University of Alabama) Imagine the consequences: Exploring the use of fictional films in augmenting our nuclear memory ▪ Author: Rebekah Pullen (McMaster University)

Abstract and Keywords Nevada, the site of the 2021 ISA, was a part of the US Atomic West that witnessed many years of nuclear testing. Countless memories and stories of this past are held within the radioactive traces of its landscapes, in the bodies and experiences of nuclear soldiers, workers, and downwinders exposed to tests, and in historic sites and museums in the state. Inspired by this history, this panel begins with the insight that the ways we remember our nuclear pasts shape the stories we tell about nuclear weapons, which, in turn, affect our approaches to nuclear policy. Each paper takes up a different story about the nuclear past, from Nevada’s testing history as told in the National Atomic Testing Museum and the colonial story of testing in the Marshall Islands, to stories about the bombing of Hiroshima as told within dominant US histories of the bomb as well as in peace initiatives at the Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan. Interrogating the memories etched within those stories, the papers reveal the selective remembrances and erasures in storytelling, the role of the imagination in filling in gaps in memory, and the kinds of politics and pedagogies such narratives of the past produce.

History; Nuclear Weapons; Peace; Memory; Narratives

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TB04: Imagining a World Otherwise: Beyond the Liberal International Order

When: Tuesday, April 6, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Yukon, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Sheila Nair (Northern Arizona University) ▪ Participant: Anna M. Agathangelou (York University) ▪ Participant: Nassef Manabilang Adiong (The Philippine International Studies Organization (PHISO)) ▪ Participant: Frances Antoinette C. Cruz (Philippine International Studies Organization and University of the Philippines, Diliman) ▪ Participant: Massarah Dawood (York University) ▪ Participant: Sheila Nair (Northern Arizona University)

Abstract and Keywords The liberal international order (LIO) has been “illiberal” since its inception. It is hardly surprising that this “order” has faced significant challenges and headwinds. For example, financial and economic challenges such as the “Asian financial crisis,” and a dire worldwide recession that began in the US in 2008, rocked the global economy and laid bare the LIO’s contradictions. Yet, there has not been a well-defined counter-discourse or alternative set of ideas that challenges its primacy and agenda setting. Even when there have been movements worldwide challenging the rules, principles, and norms of the order on multiple scales, the LIO continues to dictate, dominate, and transform the global economy on its own terms. This roundtable seeks to address some of the reasons for the failure to dislodge the LIO, and how we might imagine a different world drawing from postcolonial and decolonial theory, and critical political economy. Further, it presents an opportunity to disentangle the LIO’s promise of global economic prosperity from the actual reality of its impacts on states and societies increasingly immiserated by its logics.

Neoliberalism; Political Hegemony; Postcolonialism; Resistance; Political Economy

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TB34: Contending Forces in Food System Governance: Globalized Corporate Supply Chains vs Re-localized Food Systems. Can COVID Help to Tip the Balance?

When: Tuesday, April 6, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Ural, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Philip McMichael (Cornell University) ▪ Discussant: Andrea M. Collins (University of Waterloo)

Papers The politics and rules of exceptions: The case of the WTO’s ‘Peace Clause’ on public food stockholding ▪ Author: Matias E. Margulis (The University of British Columbia) Turning lessons from COVID into policy: communities’ vs corporations’ narratives and evidence ▪ Author: Nora McKeon (Roma Tre University) How does the current ‘broken food system’ reveal food regime tensions, and what kind of food regime transition is likely in this moment of nationalist politics? ▪ Author: Philip McMichael (Cornell University) Strengthening the resilience of global food security: what role for food sovereignty in multilateral trade spaces? ▪ Author: Sophia Murphy (University of British Columbia) The Human Cost of Economic Coercion: The Effects of Sanctions on Food Security in Iran ▪ Author: Peyman Asadzade (Arizona State University) ▪ Author: Babak RezaeeDaryakenari (Leiden University)

Abstract and Keywords The persistent food insecurity provoked by the global food system generates contention over how to govern food supplies. Corporate monocultures feeding global supply chains have expanded around the world. The extensive feed cropping, live-stocking, unsustainable GMO agricultures and over-processed foods that accompany them compromise local food-producing and marketing cultures and ecosystems and generate mass migrations. At the same time, mushrooming demands for healthy and sustainable food and creative community responses are revaluing local/territorial food system provisioning, counterpointing elite/corporate claims that transnational agribusiness is best positioned to provide and govern food supplies. The privileging of market ‘freedom’ at a time of nationalist rethinking lends prominence to the food question, while the COVID pandemic is highlighting the greater resilience of localized food systems, vs globalized ‘food from nowhere’, and the need to address food as a human right and a commons The contending forces are in the same room in the UN’s Committee on World Food Security (CFS) where policies regarding food systems and agroecological approaches are under negotiation. The forthcoming UN Food Systems Summit promises to be a critical threshold in which inclusive CFS policy convergence will be challenged by the presence and power of the corporate- dominated World Economic Forum (WEF). Development; Liberalism; Privatization; Social Movements; Transnational/Multinational Corporations (TNCs/MNCs); Food Security/Politics; Global Governance

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TB20: Pre-Modern Historical International Relations beyond Europe

When: Tuesday, April 6, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Orange, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Martin Jonathan Bayly (London School of Economics) ▪ Discussant: Ioana Muresan (University of Vienna)

Papers International Order in Ancient India ▪ Author: Manjeet Pardesi (Victoria University of Wellington) Rising Power, Status Aspiration, and Norm Diffusion: Qing’s Adoption of Local(ized) Norms in the 17th Century ▪ Author: Min Shu (Waseda University) The Erasure and Exclusion of Assyrians: A Fraught Historiography of Assyrian People in Iraq ▪ Author: Riva Gewarges (McMaster University) The Eastern cousins of European sovereign states?: Territory and borders in early modern Japan ▪ Author: Naosuke Mukoyama (University of Oxford) System Encounters: Sino-Russian Relations, 1618-1689 ▪ Author: Frieder Dengler (American University)

Abstract and Keywords Studies of pre-modern international relations remain predominantly focused on European history. This panel challenges this by examining a variety of historical cases, from India to Assyria, interrogating what these new areas can tell us about the evolution of international order.

Eurocentrism; History

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TB36: China in Global Development

When: Tuesday, April 6, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Irrawaddy, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Andrew Mertha (Johns Hopkins/SAIS) ▪ Discussant: Margaret Pearson (University of Maryland)

Papers Development Project Branding and Attribution: INGOs, Chinese SOEs, and Public Opinion in the Democratic Republic of Congo ▪ Author: Wendy Leutert (University of Pennsylvania) ▪ Author: Elizabeth Plantan (Harvard Kennedy School) ▪ Author: Austin M. Strange (University of Hong Kong) Presence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder? Proximity to Chinese Financing and Public Perceptions of China in Africa ▪ Author: Xiaojun Li (University of British Columbia) Chinese Investment and Public Opinion in Latin America ▪ Author: Kerry Ratigan (Amherst College) Grasping the China Sentiment in Africa: The Ethnographic Approach ▪ Author: Maria Repnikova (Georgia State University) Individual Agency in State Capacity: Comparing Sino-African Railways in Kenya and Ethiopia ▪ Author: Yuan Wang (University of Oxford)

Abstract and Keywords Debate about China’s role in global development rarely considers the views of local citizens. This panel investigates variation in public opinion toward China’s development contributions. How do individuals perceive China’s economic and political influence in their home countries? How does exposure to Chinese development projects affect these attitudes? What explains variation in citizens’ reactions to these projects? This panel uses multiple methods, from large-N surveys to ethnographic fieldwork, to address these questions and provide a holistic snapshot of China’s evolving role in overseas development. Leutert, Plantan and Strange employ a survey experiment to examine how INGO-Chinese SOE cooperation on a development project in the Democratic Republic of Congo affects citizen attitudes. Li combines large-N datasets to test the effect of geographic proximity to Chinese-financed development projects on public opinion in African countries. Ratigan also leverages large-scale survey data to examine how Chinese investment affects public opinion in Latin American countries. Repnikova complements these survey-based studies with an ethnographic study of local citizens’ attitudes toward China in Ethiopia. Finally, Wang deploys interview evidence to explain variation in the outcomes of two Chinese-funded railways in Kenya and Ethiopia. Together, these studies provide a bottom- up perspective on China’s role in overseas development.

Development; International Studies; Public Opinion; Africa; China; Latin America

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April 6th

11:00am-12:15pm

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TC01: Race, Security, and Development: Theoretical, Analytical, and Political Considerations

When: Tuesday, April 6, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Ubangi, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Participants ▪ Chair: Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS, University of London) ▪ Participant: Martin Weber (University of Queensland) ▪ Participant: Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Aberystwyth University) ▪ Participant: Jenna Marshall (University of Kassel) ▪ Participant: Craig N. Murphy (Wellesley College) ▪ Participant: Li Li (College of Int'l Development and Global Agriculture (CIDGA), China Agricultural University (CAU))

Abstract and Keywords Race, security, and development are concepts that have frequently been deployed for hierarchising purposes, both in political practice, and in social scientific theories, methods and analytical outlooks. This roundtable surveys and critically discusses historical backdrops, intellectual lineages, and political projects underpinning analytical work that is explicitly or implicitly concerned with this constellation. What premises about race, security and development operate in and through theoretical accounts, and how do these affect explanatory understanding (analysis), as well as implicit and explicit practices of justification (politics)? Development; Race; International Relations Theory; Security

Political Hegemony; Refugees; Memory; Space; Political Theory

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TC19: Revisiting Time, Space, and Memory in Global Politics

When: Tuesday, April 6, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Colorado, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Emerson Maione (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) ▪ Discussant: Yasmine Zarhloule (University of Oxford)

Papers Rethinking scale and space in the post-liberal international order: Russia, China and Turkey as spatial hegemons. ▪ Author: David G. Lewis (University of Exeter) Revisiting space in times of displacement: the Syrian refugee crisis in Jordan as a heterotopic space ▪ Author: Filippo Dionigi (University of Bristol) Re-translating the Translated: The Case of Soft Power as a travelling concept ▪ Author: Stephanie Winkler (Swedish Defence University) Turning temporal in concept analysis: timing concepts, (re)producing identities. ▪ Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary, University of London) Doing the aftermath: multilevel memory governance, victims and terrorism across UK space and time. ▪ Author: Sara Dybris McQuaid (Aarhus University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel is composed of papers that will explore theoretically and empirically the place of concepts like time, space, and memory in global politics.

Political Hegemony; Refugees; Memory; Space; Political Theory

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TC49: Transnational Business Actors in World Politics: Investigating Divisions, Tensions and Conflicts Among the “Business Community”

When: Tuesday, April 6, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Las Vegas, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Economy ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Jean Marie Chenou (Universidad de los Andes) ▪ Discussant: Mikael Rask Madsen (University of Copenhagen)

Papers Transnational Business Actors in Dispute: A Fresh Look at Business Power in World Politics ▪ Author: Yohann Morival (University of Lille, France.) Common Cause, Competitive Voices? The International Chamber of Commerce and the International Organisation of Employers ▪ Author: Marieke Louis (Sciences Po Grenoble) China’s Transnationalizing Tech Elite in Europe – Competitors or Collaborators? ▪ Author: Nana De Graaff (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Silencing Domestic Competition Through Global competition: The Case of French tradeshows (1967-2018) ▪ Author: Romain Lecler (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)

Abstract and Keywords When talking about transnational business actors (TBA) such as transnational corporations, peak business organizations or much looser clubs, it is often assumed that they form a common front to promote the liberal international economic order. The focus in academic research on lobbying, business power or transnational capitalist class has clearly reinforced this view. However, we argue that such a picture remains partial and overlooks significant dimensions of TBA activities and relationships: intra-elite disputes, conflicting sectoral, cultural, or national interests, or divergence between political preferences and business interests. To fill this gap, this panel suggests analysing divisions among TBA, as in the opposition between stated-own TBA and privates ones, or within one TBA. Attention will also be paid to arbitrage as a way to develop an international private solution for international private actors. Exploring competition and tensions within the business community is key in order to better seize the conditions of business authority and power in contemporary international relations. Finally, this panel aims at demonstrating the benefit of building a bridge between International Political Economy (IPE) and International Political Sociology (IPS) in order to analyse the relocation of political and economic power within contemporary global governance.

Arbitration; Inter-Governmental Organizations (IGOs); Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Power (Political); Transnational/Multinational Corporations (TNCs/MNCs); Political Economy; Elites; Global Governance

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April 6th

12:30pm-1:45pm

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TD33: Interrogating Globalization: Making the World Global: U.S. Universities and the Production of the Global Imaginary.

When: Tuesday, April 6, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Dnieper, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ International Political Sociology

Participants ▪ Chair: Randolph B. Persaud (American University) ▪ Participant: Siba Grovogui (Cornell University) ▪ Participant: Jonneke Koomen (Willamette University) ▪ Participant: Isaac A. Kamola (Trinity College) ▪ Participant: Amentahru Wahlrab (University of Texas at Tyler)

Abstract and Keywords Since its emergence in the late 1990s’ the concept and more broadly the idea of globalization has become so pervasive that it is taken to be an uncontested reality. Notwithstanding differences in perspectives about what globalization is, how is shaping the world, and with what consequences, there is a modicum of agreement about its relations to new production and communication technologies, neoliberal global capitalism, and adjustments to the idea of national sovereignty. In Making the World Global, Issac A. Kamola’s puts forth a radical new angle, namely, that globalization is a self-referential and circular master trope founded in academic knowledge production. Universities in the United States, along with think tanks, and research endowments and foundations, have been among the primary movers of what we think about globalization in its form, content, and parameters. The panel engages these arguments with a focus on the epistemological conditions of emergence, the techniques of inscription, and the institutional modes of reproduction of this master concept.

Capitalism; Globalization; Political Economy; Discourse Analysis

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TD29: Contesting Capitalism and Colonialism

When: Tuesday, April 6, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Nile, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Jeanne Simon (Universidad de Concepcion) ▪ Discussant: Maha Rafi Atal (Copenhagen Business School)

Papers A Dialogue of Times: Dad’s Stories About the Appalachian Commons as a Critique of Global Capitalism ▪ Author: Jacob L. Stump (DePaul University) From Karl Marx to Kwame Nkrumah: Towards a Decolonial Political-Economy ▪ Author: Paul Emiljanowicz (McMaster University) Accumulation and differentiated labor regimes in Walter Rodney’s History of the Guyanese Working People, 1881-1905 ▪ Author: David K. Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) Israel: "Making the Desert Bloom" or Turning Palestine into Desert? ▪ Author: Ghada Sasa (McMaster University)

Abstract and Keywords These papers examine the ongoing contestations between capitalism and colonialism, and between neoliberalism and neocolonialism.

Capitalism; Marxism; Neoliberalism; Postcolonialism; Political Economy

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TD41: The Sustainable Development Goals: Assessing the 2030 Agenda

When: Tuesday, April 6, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Amu Darya, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Julia Leininger (German Development Institute (DIE))

Papers Global philanthropy and the SDGs ▪ Author: Helen Yanacopulos (University of British Columbia Okanagan) ▪ Author: Paloma Raggo (Carleton University) Sustainable Development Goals: norms, implementation pathways and Small Island Developing States ▪ Author: Michelle Scobie (University of the West Indies) The Web of Accountability: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis of Institutional Frameworks to Ensure Government Commitment to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development ▪ Author: Anita Breuer (German Development Institute) ▪ Author: Julia Leininger (German Development Institute (DIE)) SDGs and Human Rights: Where the Theories Collide ▪ Author: Roni Kay Marie O'Dell (Seton Hill University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel looks at the current state of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), examining what policies, institutions, and approaches have helped or hindered the implementation of the 2030 Agenda.

Sustainable Development; Civil Society; Global Governance

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April 6th

2:00pm-3:15pm

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TE07: Race, Security and Development: Theoretical, Analytical, Political II

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Yenisei, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Participants ▪ Chair: Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (University of Portsmouth) ▪ Participant: Heloise Weber (University of Queensland) ▪ Participant: Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University) ▪ Participant: Matt Davies (Newcastle University and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) ▪ Participant: A. R. Pashayan (Howard University, Washington D.C.) ▪ Participant: Randolph B. Persaud (American University)

Development; Race; International Relations Theory; Security

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TE27: Author Meets Critics: Manal A. Jamal’s Promoting Democracy: the Force of Political Settlements in Uncertain Times (New York University Press, 2019)

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Madeira, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations

Participants ▪ Chair: Glenn E. Robinson (Naval Postgraduate School) ▪ Participant: Manal A. Jamal (James Madison University) ▪ Participant: Erin Snider (Texas A&M University) ▪ Participant: Tsveta Petrova (Columbia University) ▪ Participant: Ahmet T. Kuru (San Diego State University) ▪ Participant: Glenn E. Robinson (Naval Postgraduate School)

Abstract and Keywords This Author Meets Critics roundtable will critically engage Manal A. Jamal’s "Promoting Democracy." Democracy aid has grown considerably since the end of the Cold War. Despite the overwhelming commitment to spreading democracy abroad, the results have been mixed, and in some cases, this aid has in fact undermined the longer-term prospects for democratic development. "Promoting Democracy" makes an important and timely argument about why democracy promotion efforts succeed in some contexts, but fail in others. The book offers an up- close perspective on the ways in which Western donor assistance has, on the one hand, undermined political participation in the Palestinian territories, and, on the other hand, succeeded in bolstering political engagement in cases such as El Salvador. The panel brings together a number of accomplished scholars, representing different substantive and country expertise, to reflect on the book’s contributions, as well as the next logical steps in the research agenda. A number of the panelists will also introduce forthcoming works to engage the substantive themes of the book, while connecting these themes to a broader discussion of new areas of research related to democratization, foreign aid, and mass mobilization and contentious politics, as well as the promise and pitfalls associated with cross-regional research.

Civil Society; Middle East; Democratization; Grassroots; Latin America; Comparative Research/Methodology; Peace Agreements; Foreign Aid

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TE14: Quantizing IR 2: Foundational Questions

When: Tuesday, April 6, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Ganges, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ Science, Technology and Art in International Relations

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Michael Murphy (University of Ottawa)

Papers Quantum Ambivalence ▪ Author: Laura Sjoberg (University of Florida) Quantum social science: where next? ▪ Author: Emmanuel Haven (Memorial University)

Abstract and Keywords Quantum social science has (QSS) grown rapidly in recent years, with the publication of books by Haven & Khrennikov (2013), Barad (2007), Wendt (2015), and Zanotti (2018), and ongoing Project Q symposia. This panel captures some of the ongoing debates around QSS by presenting divergent perspectives on the project of quantizing social science. Laura Sjoberg discusses ‘quantum ambivalence,’ from the perspective of a researcher connected to but not explicitly embedded in the quantum IR project. Colin Wight challenges the premise of a QSS, examining the claims of necessity of a quantum turn, and the potential limits to engaging in quantum metaphysics. Daniel Little argues that quantum properties in bird navigation are insufficient evidence that brains are quantum-coherent. Badredine Arfi proposes an alternative to QSS that similarly offers a nonlocal and contextual alternative to the classical worldview, but is grounded in category theory. Emmanuel Haven and Andrei Khrennikov discusse the “quantum-like” paradigm of QSS, arguing that the wavefunction is essentially informational in nature and can thus be applied to quantum-like information in social science. This panel is part of the “Quantizing IR” series, exploring recent developments and ongoing debates in QSS approaches to International Relations.

Science; Philosophy; Psychology; International Relations Theory

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April 6th

3:30pm-4:45pm

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TF01: Decolonial Love: Towards a New Humanism in International Relations?

When: Tuesday, April 6, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Ubangi, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Theory

Participants ▪ Chair: Timothy Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University) ▪ Participant: Akta Kaushal (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) ▪ Participant: Bikrum Gill (Virginia Tech) ▪ Participant: Sarah Risheq (DePaul University) ▪ Participant: Roshan Jahangeer (York University) ▪ Participant: Mary Tuti Baker (Western Washington University)

Abstract and Keywords In Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon provokes us to confront the insidious ways colonialism continues to inform how we know, see, and relate with the world; however he also says, “Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions.” In Black Skin White Masks Fanon says: “Man is a yes…Yes to life. Yes to love. Yes to generosity. But man is also a no. No to the exploitation of man. No to the butchery of what is most human in man: freedom.” For Fanon, “transcendence is haunted by the problems of love and understanding.” What moves us to fight in the name of freedom and humanity echoes a need to decolonize what it means to be free, what being human looks like. This roundtable interrogates the colonial relation, as it manifests today, and the limits of secular humanism. Can we find visions for a decolonial love in International Relations? In decolonizing ‘the inter-national’ as defining our ways of relating with and knowing the world, what are the possibilities for a new humanism, or love, as a force that binds, whatever imperfection or perversion its expression may be?

Colonialism; Liberalism; Postcolonialism; Religion; Secularism; Culture; ISA2020

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TF23: Necropolitics: Life, Death and the Order of Violence

When: Tuesday, April 6, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Rio Paraguay, ISA Virtual Platform Sponsored By

▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants

▪ Chair: Abhishek Choudhary (Department of Political Science, University of Delhi) ▪ Discussant: Abhishek Choudhary (Department of Political Science, University of Delhi)

Papers

From Humanitarian Disarmament to Controlling the Means of Violence ▪ Author: Neil Cooper (School of Peace and Conflict Studies, Kent State University ) Necropolitics, bodies and neoliberalism ▪ Author: Sabrina Villenave (University of Manchester) Reconceptualizing the Camp: Necro Politics and the Precarious lives of Rohingya Refugees in India ▪ Author: Ananya Sharma (Ashoka University) Colombia’s government and necropolitics as State’s policy ▪ Author: Ivonne Tellez Patarroyo (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador) Distant Violence – a productive problem to the practice turn in International Relations ▪ Author: Jakob Dreyer (University of Copenhagen)

Abstract and Keywords The papers on this panel examine contemporary configurations of life, death, and sovereign violence through the theoretical lens of necropolitics. Issues and locations explored include the United Nations' 'Protection of Civilians' (PoC) Agenda, the future as a condition of indebtedness, the banalization of death and disappearance in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the Colombian government's failure to fulfill its 2016 peace mandate, and the politics of movement and enclosure in Rohingya refugee camps in India.

Violence; Political Theory; Critical Theory; Biopolitics

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TF40: Citizenship as/and Settler Colonialism: Global Perspectives Towards Decolonial Horizons

When: Tuesday, April 6, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Brahmaputra, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) ▪ Participant: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) ▪ Participant: Ajay Parasram (Dalhousie University) ▪ Participant: Elian Weizman (London South Bank University) ▪ Participant: Desirée Poets (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)) ▪ Participant: Lana Tatour (University of New South Wales)

Abstract and Keywords This roundtable is the product of a forthcoming Special Issue for Citizenship Studies that explores citizenship as/and settler colonialism. The growing body of scholarship on settler colonialism, particularly focused on North America, Oceania, and the Middle East has demonstrated the many ways that citizenship reproduces and facilitates the structures and practices of settler colonialism. Covering India, Canada, the US, Israel and Brazil, participants will unpack how settler colonialism and citizenship are imbricated from a global perspective, while breaking with the still common circumscription of Settler Colonial Studies within Commonwealth territories and the Anglosphere. Inspired by the Special Issue’s contribution to existing theorization on citizenship beyond methodological nationalism (Caraus, 2018) and the constraints of liberal political theory (Lowe, 2015), it asks: What is settler colonial citizenship? What does settler colonialism as an analytic lens offer theorizations on citizenship? When we unravel the links between citizenship and settler colonialism, what possibilities for decolonial and social justice struggles emerge? This roundtable belongs to a larger collaborative research agenda that is committed to making its political and intellectual labour contribute to anti-colonial/decolonial struggles.

Citizenship; Colonialism; Indigenous Peoples; Postcolonialism; Race; ISA2020

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TF36: International Thought and the Culture of the Empire- System, 1856-1955

When: Tuesday, April 6, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Irrawaddy, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Tobias Lemke (University of Delaware) ▪ Discussant: Thomas Müller (Bielefeld University)

Papers

Engineering Empire: French technocratic internationalism, 1869-1894 ▪ Author: Jan Eijking (University of Oxford) The New Empire Culture Emergent: A British Multicultural Empire Model for the Ottomans, China and India, 1856-69 ▪ Author: Daniel M. Green (University of Delaware) Resistance to the Idea of the Empire: Rabindranath Tagore and the International Public Sphere ▪ Author: Ritambhara Malaviya (Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi) Late Victorian Economists and Empire: Jevons, Marshall and the Cultural Political Economy of Trade ▪ Author: David L. Blaney (Macalester College) Imagining Imperial Internationalism: The Construction of the League of Nations’ Mandate System ▪ Author: Sindre Gade Viksand (Lund University)

Abstract and Keywords This is one of two panels on the "empire-system" idea, that the world was dominated by the practices, behaviors and cultures of empires between 1856 and 1955, making an empire system, contra ideas of a gradually developing world of sovereign states. Instead, this era of international history should be analyzed as one of empire values, with all the concomitant impacts. This panel examines the international thought and cultural features of the empire-system.

Empire; History; International Relations Theory

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TF24: Local/International/Global: Politics of the Everyday

When: Tuesday, April 6, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Zambezi, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Interdisciplinary Studies

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Catherine Goetze (University of Tasmania) ▪ Discussant: Casey McNeill (Fordham University)

Papers 'Local' vs 'International': a demonstration of how to problematize categories of analysis ▪ Author: Audrey Alejandro (London School of Economics) ▪ Author: Eleanor Knott (London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)) Making the Discipline Global: Everyday Life in the Wake of Multiple Crises ▪ Author: Ari Jerrems (Monash University) ▪ Author: Melody Fonseca (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras) ‘Intermediate Spaces’: Re-Imagining the Local in Post-Genocide Rwanda ▪ Author: Hinata Imai (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) ▪ Author: Giorgio Shani (International Christian University) Consolidation of exclusion: International rugby governance and player migrations from Fiji, Tonga and Samoa ▪ Author: John J. Hogan (University of Groningen) Grass roots collective action and women’s empowerment: Gender, power and influence in Indonesian villages ▪ Author: Rachael Diprose (University of Melbourne)

Abstract and Keywords This panel examines methodologies and strategies for thinking about the world at different registers.

Globalization; Localization; Anthropology

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April 6th

6:30-7:45pm

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TH47 Global Development Section Eminent Scholar Panel honouring Prof. Veena Das

When: Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Kura, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Mustapha Kamal Pasha (Aberystwyth University) ▪ Chair: Heloise Weber (University of Queensland) ▪ Participant: Matt Davies (Newcastle University and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) ▪ Participant: Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ▪ Participant: Siba Grovogui (Cornell University) ▪ Participant: Aida Arfan Hozic (University of Florida) ▪ Participant: Anna M. Agathangelou (York University) ▪ Participant: Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen) ▪ Participant: R. B. J. Walker (University of Victoria & PUC Rio) ▪ Participant: Roxani Krystalli (University of St. Andrews) ▪ Honoree: Veena Das (Johns Hopkins University)

Abstract and Keywords Veena Das is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Her work on violence, social suffering, and ordinary life has been extremely influential and has significant implications for the various lines of discussion and critique in the field of Global Development. The roundtable brings together a diverse collection of scholars to reflect on her work and its impact, and also its implications for our ongoing research agendas. On the programme, please list Professor Das as "honouree".

Development; Violence; Anthropology

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TH13: Questions of Ethics and Intercultural Relations in the Asia-Pacific: Postcoloniality, Decolonisation and Feminist Politics

When: Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Don, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development ▪ International Ethics

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Young Chul Cho (Jeonbuk National University) ▪ Discussant: Jungmin Seo (Yonsei University) ▪ Discussant: Urmi Gupta (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Papers International Relations has an Asian Wife Problem: Ethics in Practice and Theory ▪ Author: Shine Choi (Massey University) The Ethics of Hospitality: Refugees and Informal Humanitarianism ▪ Author: Itty Abraham (National University of Singapore) What is postcoloniality in North Korea? A Comparative Approach to Postcoloniality and North Korea ▪ Author: Tae-Kyung Kim (University of North Korean Studies) The Malthusian Imprint on International Relations: Retrieving a Trans-Pacific Intellectual Dialogue on Japanese Population ▪ Author: Nobuo Haruna (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) Have the Subaltern Spoken? Positioning the Speech of “Comfort Women” Survivors in Postcolonial Korean Society ▪ Author: Seoyoung Choi (Yonsei University) ▪ Author: Jungmin Seo (Yonsei University)

Abstract and Keywords New schools and approaches in the study of power and politics from regional and political margins have gained intellectual and institutional footings premised on the idea that ethics matter not only in what we study (international politics) but in how the discipline develops. Whether this is in the language of scholarly rigour, correcting history of exclusion and marginalisation, or future-oriented language of pragmatism, underlying the diverse bodies of scholarship is undeniably the notion that ethics cannot be separated out from questions of politics and scholarship. Questions of ethics in the international necessarily cross cultural boundaries and highlight issues of differences that foundationally destablise ethics and language. Yet, what ethics are, what is at stake in the differing conceptions, and how they sit in relation to each other remain merely implied, at best, resulting in missed opportunities, gatekeeping, and short-sighted tactical engagements that fail to push the intellectual boundaries that presently constrain the discipline. The papers variously provide conceptual and empirical clarity on these themes. Discussants are tasked with drawing out the notions of ethics and interculturality operating in each paper. Together this panel grounds the partner roundtable, Decolonising ‘Asia-Pacific’? International Relations and Questions of Ethics and Intercultural Relations. Ethics; Feminism; Postcolonialism; Asia-Pacific; Culture

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TH26: Relational Voices in IR IV: Non-Anthropocentric Relational Approaches

When: Tuesday, April 6, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Nelson, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Justin de Leon (University of Notre Dame) ▪ Discussant: Tamara Trownsell (Universidad San Francisco de Quito)

Papers Of Relationalities, Differences and Alternatives: Tenets of Indian Worldviews on Environmental Ethics ▪ Author: Jayati Srivastava (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Defending relational natures in/from the Peruvian Andes ▪ Author: Karen Tucker (University of Bristol) Constituting the Non/Human Differently: Runa and Relationality in Amazonian Quichua Thought and Practice ▪ Author: Jarrad Reddekop (University of Victoria) Australian Aboriginal Relational Design: Securing long-term human socio-political stability ▪ Author: Morgan Brigg (University of Queensland) ▪ Author: Mary Graham (The University of Queensland) Relation-Oriented Ontologies and Making Kin With Machines: Towards Inclusive Indigenous Futures ▪ Author: Michelle Lee Brown (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Dartmouth College)

Abstract and Keywords This interrelated set of panels takes advantage of both the clear establishment of relational thinking within the IR discipline through the philosophical impact of the linguistic turn plus the momentum gained through the challenges raised in the non-/post-/beyond-Western literature to consider seriously other ways of knowing and being in global politics. These panels expand on the sources of relational thinking in IR by showcasing other cosmological traditions and by drawing on a multidisciplinary range that includes philosophy, sociology, anthropology, social psychology, astrophysics, music and theology. Through this plurality of relational voices, we are intentionally creating an intellectual and ontologically sensitive space that juxtaposes distinct relational ways of being and knowing to identify tensions, points of articulation and disarticulation, convergence, and divergence across the various approaches. In this way we seek to stretch, enrich and push the debate on relationality through a more diverse inspirational base. The inter-relational dialogue across four panels will share and generate new tools, vocabulary and concepts to start building not just a general relational research agenda but an entirely new way of engaging difference, others and international politics. Philosophy; International Relations Theory; Diversity; ISA2020

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April 6th

8:00pm-9:15pm

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TI29: Relational Voices in IR II: Relationality: Ontology, Cosmology and Methodology

When: Tuesday, April 6, 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM Where: Nile, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Ching-Chang Chen (Ryukoku University) ▪ Discussant: Marcos Sebastian Scauso (Quinnipiac University)

Papers Post-Western IR as Inter-Cosmological Relations? ▪ Author: Giorgio Shani (International Christian University) International Relations of Relationality and Everydayness: the cases of the Kyoto School philosophers ▪ Author: Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University) 'In the West but not of the West': Wittgenstein, Pluriversal Dialogue, and Decolonial Forms of Relationality ▪ Author: Garrett FitzGerald (University of Notre Dame) Relational Revolution and Conversations on Relationality in IR ▪ Author: Milja Kurki (Aberystwyth University) Becoming Worldly in IR: Relationality as Methodology ▪ Author: Amaya Querejazu (Universidad de Antioquia) ▪ Author: Arlene B. Tickner (Universidad del Rosario)

Philosophy; International Relations Theory; Diversity

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TI28: Corruption and Democratic Representation

When: Tuesday, April 6, 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM Where: Ili, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Emily Beaulieu Bacchus (University of Kentucky) ▪ Participant: Carew Boulding (University of Colorado) ▪ Participant: Tiffany Barnes (Univerity of Kentucky) ▪ Participant: Sofia Vera (University of Kansas) ▪ Participant: Simone Bohn (York University) ▪ Participant: Leslie Schwindt-Bayer (Rice University)

Abstract and Keywords How do citizens evaluate and understand political corruption? Under what circumstances are these evaluations translated into meaningful changes in political representation? What impact can representatives have on corruption, actual and perceived? Join a group of leading experts, who focus on democratic politics in Latin America, as they discuss their own research on these topics, highlighting what we know and what questions remain unanswered.

Corruption (Political); Representation; Latin America

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April 7th

8:00am-9:15am

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WA30: Unsettling IR Paradigms through Madness, Denaturing, and Emancipatory Desire

When: Wednesday, April 7, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Guaporé, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Miguel de Larrinaga (University of Ottawa) ▪ Discussant: Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (University of Portsmouth)

Papers Symmetrical Anthropology and International Relations ▪ Author: Mark Salter (University of Ottawa) Madness in the Anthropocene: Narrating the political and ecological crisis, from the personal to the planetary ▪ Author: Jason R. Weidner (Universidad de Monterrey) The Global Gated Community: Towards a Decolonial Theory of Violence Beyond the Paradigm of War ▪ Author: Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England) A Pragmatist Critique of Global Stakeholder Democracy ▪ Author: Kavi Joseph Abraham (Durham University) Decolonizing International Relations: Confronting Erasures through Indigenous Knowledge Systems ▪ Author: Ananya Sharma (Ashoka University)

Abstract and Keywords The papers on this panel each address in different ways the 'recursive paradox' of knowing in IR, and experiments in unsettling dominant forms of inquiry in traditional and critical approaches. They explore engagements with symmetrical anthropology and the 'denaturing' of core concepts of international politics; madness as a frame and experience for imagining and responding to ecological crises; the prism of infrastructure for rethinking violence beyond Eurocentric constrictions; democratic transformations through pragmatist ethics; and the revivification of emancipatory desire in IR.

Critical Security Studies; Democracy; Environment; Indigenous Peoples; Sovereignty; Violence; International Relations Theory; Political Theory; Critical Theory; Global Governance

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WA32: Intersections in Contemporary Capitalism: Race, Climate, and Urban Transformations

When: Wednesday, April 7, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Benue, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Economy ▪ Global Development

Papers Climate Change, Catastrophes, and Capitalism – Contending forces and change in the global governance of risk ▪ Author: Korey Pasch (Queen's University) Neoliberal Governmentality and Bare Lives in India: Pandemic, Migrants and Marginalization ▪ Author: Abhishek Choudhary (Department of Political Science, University of Delhi) Climate resilience and urban flooding in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and Dhaka, Bangladesh ▪ Author: Sarah Sharma (Queen's University) Understanding global turns to the right. Are economic explanations sufficient? ▪ Author: Simon Marmura Brown (Queens University)

Abstract and Keywords Despite an understanding that political, social, economic and environmental processes have unfolded in an increasingly globalized manner due to the all-encompassing nature of contemporary capitalism, scholarly discussions unnecessarily separate key events and issues across a global North and South divide. As such, this panel aims to discuss key contemporary issues in a truly global manner, particularly events and issues that have arisen in the global context of rising socio-economic and environmental inequality: political polarization, climate change and environmental degradation, the displacement of people within and across borders, and relatedly, the rise of urban centres. In so doing, the panel asks the following: How is the global governance of displacement, urban transformation, and the environment imbedded with relations of power associated with contemporary globalized capitalism and its contradictions? How do these issues converge, differ and dialogue across the global North and South? The session aims to further debates in global political economy that focus on the wide-ranging implications of capitalism in the twenty-first century. In so doing, this panel brings together an array of perspectives from urban geography, international political economy, and environmental politics.

Capitalism; Class; Environment; Neoliberalism; Race; Refugees; Urbanization; Populism

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April 7th

9:30am-10:45am

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WB19: Women and Revolution: Feminisms, Past Struggles and Radical Futurities

When: Wednesday, April 7, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Colorado, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Shiera Malik (DePaul University) ▪ Discussant: Rahul Rao (SOAS, University of London)

Papers "Theorising (with) Amy Ashwood Garvey" ▪ Author: Robbie Shilliam (Johns Hopkins University) "Revolutionary Suturing: Haunting History and (Im)Possibilities for Recovery " ▪ Author: Akta Kaushal (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) ""No longer in a future heaven?" Women, revolutionary hope and decolonization" ▪ Author: Alina Sajed (McMaster University) "An Empire of Morals Revisited: Universalism, Rights Talk, and African Imaginaries" ▪ Author: Siba Grovogui (Cornell University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel aims to re-visit and re-think the location of women and broader gender politics in revolutionary struggles. That is to say, it seeks to complicate understandings of women’s positions either as nationalist heroes or as victims, and thus brings forth nuances that are usually left out from such debates. There is no denying the significant role women played in anti-colonial mobilizations and in contemporary activism. However, beyond tropes of courage and heroism, victimhood and betrayal, lies a complex story that brings together contestations of nationalist imaginaries as well as support for it, hope and and its ultimate betrayal, conformism and rebellion, as well as the politics of charting unknown futures. Put differently, what does it look like to chart unknown futures within the confines of the nation? The papers in this panel engage this dilemma by examining the politics of social reproduction in postcolonial Egypt; the critical re- working of Pan-Africanism in the work of Amy Ashwood Garvey; the shifting of perspective from woman as nation to woman as wound in the decolonization of Algeria; the interrogation of revolutionary possibilities in discussing postcolonial feminism; and the presence of several women in African descent in prominent constitutional debates in (the enduringly colonial) contemporary Europe.

Colonialism; Feminism; National Identity; Nationalism; Postcolonialism; Women; Revolution; ISA2020

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April 7th

11:00am-12:15pm

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WC23: Universities and the Knowledge Economy

When: Wednesday, April 7, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Rio Paraguay, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Interdisciplinary Studies

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Naomi Levy (Santa Clara University) ▪ Discussant: Coty Martin (West Virginia Wesleyan College)

Papers In(e)quality we believe ▪ Author: Witold Mucha (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) ▪ Author: Maximilian Wegener (Eberhard Karls University Tübingen/Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) ▪ Author: Sorush Mirzaei (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf) Estimating the Factors that Affect the Circular Flow of Skilled Migrants between the Sending and Receiving Countries ▪ Author: Esther Jack-Vickers (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) Democracy and Legislator Training Backgrounds in Africa ▪ Author: Matthew Kolasa (Boston University) Globalization and Internationalization of Education: A Viable Response to Prevent Global Jihadist Movement ▪ Author: Umed Partov (The Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason Universtiy)

Abstract and Keywords These papers explore higher education and the global knowledge economy as an important aspect of global politics.

Globalization; Higher Education

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WC41: Competing Powers & Southeast Asian Energy Futures: Infrastructure, Investment & Development

When: Wednesday, April 7, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Amu Darya, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Carla Freeman (Johns Hopkins University, SAIS) ▪ Discussant: Bo Kong (University of Oklahoma)

Papers The Role of Information Politics in Energy Transition Decisions: A Comparative Case Study of Nuclear Power Policy in Germany and Japan ▪ Author: Myeongji Kang (Yonsei University) A Green BRI and Environmental Developmentalism? Examining China’s Financial and Policy Influence on Southeast Asia’s Energy Development Future ▪ Author: Jessica C. Liao (North Carolina State University) A Persistent Fossil Fuel Agenda? Japan’s Overseas Energy Development in Southeast Asia ▪ Author: Margaret Jackson (Institute of Energy Economics, Japan) China’s Ambition for Nuclear Exports to Southeast Asia and Its Regional and International Implications ▪ Author: Lami Kim (US Army War College) Fast Finance: Who Gives a Dam? The US, Japan & China: Debating Hydropower Infrastructure Quality & Quantity Along the Mekong ▪ Author: Pon Souvannaseng (Bentley University) China-Japan Rivalry and Southeast Asian Renewable Energy Development: Who is Winning What in Indonesia? ▪ Author: Guanie Lim (N/A) ▪ Author: Trissia Wijaya (Asia Research Center, Murdoch University ) ▪ Author: Alvin Camba (Johns Hopkins University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel examines the influence of competing international powers and attendant norms in the development of energy infrastructure in Southeast Asia. How do competing visions and modalities of US, Chinese & Japanese economic statecraft impact infrastructure investments and national energy mix outcomes in Southeast Asia? What are implications in the context of global climate governance? From issues of financing to narratives of environmental sustainability, this panel highlights the politics of infrastructure competition in Southeast Asia. How do local, regional and global actors facilitate or thwart visions of energy mix composition in national contexts? From hydropower, nuclear, LNG and coal plants, to solar farms, the panel convenes wide-ranging expertise on energy promotion by extra-regional powers to shed light on how energy policy & investments are concretely determined in SE Asia. The panel importantly centres bilateral and geopolitical dimensions as determinants of energy mix outcomes that are usually not well addressed in technical ‘system planning’ and ‘energy optimization’ discourses, which instead focus on modelling-driven ‘master plans’. Master plan discourses elide processes of politicking and regulatory reform, highlighted in this panel, which shape which plans prevail- when, why, & how – or how plans are politically reconfigured on ad- hoc/project bases. Energy; Environment; Sustainable Development; United States of America (USA); China; Vietnam; Japan; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Developing Countries

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WC05: Contributions of the Empire-System Idea to IR: Reflections and Caveats

When: Wednesday, April 7, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Tigris, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ English School

Participants ▪ Chair: Daniel M. Green (University of Delaware) ▪ Participant: Daniel Nexon (Georgetown University) ▪ Participant: Thomas Müller (Bielefeld University) ▪ Participant: Joseph MacKay (Australian National University) ▪ Participant: Ritambhara Malaviya (Kamala Nehru College, University of Delhi) ▪ Participant: Mark A. Shirk (University of Cambridge) ▪ Participant: Sindre Gade Viksand (Lund University) ▪ Participant: Quentin P. Bruneau (The New School)

Abstract and Keywords This roundtable is populated by members of an on-going research group on the empire-system notion for describing the years 1856-1955. The panelists will reflect on the collective effort to periodize international history in this way. What value is added? What new insights gleaned? How should these affect IR's theoretical ambitions? Is the empire-system the optimal way to contextualize action and international thought for these years? The panelists will offer their assessments and critiques on the effort and on periodization in general as a way forward for IR.

Empire; History; International Relations Theory

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April 7th

12:30pm-1:45pm

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WD28: Borders, Barricades, and Cities

When: Wednesday, April 7, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Ili, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Kevin Funk (Trinity College) ▪ Discussant: Allen Stack (Johns Hopkins University)

Papers Cities as Aesthetic Subjects ▪ Author: Matt Davies (Newcastle University and Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) Barricade Politics: Occupying Critical Infrastructure and the Spatial Strategies of Radical Democracy ▪ Author: Derek Denman (University of Copenhagen) Toward a Radical IR ▪ Author: Dillon Stone Tatum (Francis Marion University) Starchitecture in the Marvelous City: A Social, Spatial, and Temporal Analysis of Rio de Janeiro’s Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow) ▪ Author: Kevin Funk (Trinity College) Immigration, Mondialisation and Common Space of World Politics ▪ Author: Ali Fuat Birol (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University)

Abstract and Keywords The panel explores the intersection of cities, architecture, mobility, and international politics

Borders; Immigration; Space; Cities

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WD09: Indigenous Peoples, Representation, Governance, and International Law

When: Wednesday, April 7, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Shatt al-Arab, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development ▪ International Law

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Jacqueline Gillis (University of Guelph) ▪ Discussant: Makere Stewart-Harawira (University of Alberta)

Papers Treaty Constitutionalism ▪ Author: Kiera Ladner (University of Manitoba) Cultures, Stakeholders, or Nations? The Canadian and Inter-American Legal-Politics of Indigenous Rights ▪ Author: Jeremy Patzer (University of Manitoba) Locke, Sovereignty and Land Ownership ▪ Author: Rauna J. Kuokkanen (University of Lapland) A Matter of Collective Rights: Contested Sovereignty and Intergovernmental Coordination in East Asian Territorial Disputes) ▪ Author: Kelly Dietz (Ithaca College)

Abstract and Keywords A key aspect of change in world politics is the apparent resurgence of Indigenous peoples in many western settler states such as Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. However, this resurgence, sometimes framed within a language of reconciliation, is often managed by settler state governments and societies in an effort to control and systematically undermine it. This panel explores various aspects of Indigenous-Settler relations, highlighting the interplay between Indigenous and state centric actors. Indigenous peoples are sovereign and self-determining, yet do not have their legal rights fully recognized by western settler states who continue to promote political, economic, military, and cultural agenda that reinforce longstanding patterns of colonial dominance. Assembling an international team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics and practitioners, this panel focuses on a range of themes. A key focus are innovative ways of Indigenous representation, through online voting, through the principle of free, prior and informed consent, through treaty constitutionalism, regional and international Indigenous diplomacies, and mechanisms partially reflecting the UNDRIP such as the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR).

Colonialism; Governance; Indigenous Peoples; Multiculturalism; Postcolonialism; Canada; Australia; ISA2020

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April 7th

2:00pm-3:15pm

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WE42: Contesting Dispossession: Feminist Narratives on Land Struggles in the Global South

When: Wednesday, April 7, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Ob, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Theory

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Melody Fonseca (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras)

Papers Connecting Land Dispossession, and Gender Based Violence: Contextualizing Iraq ▪ Author: Massarah Dawood (York University) ‘The River Was My Teacher’: Poetics and Relational Sensibility in a Development Study Case ▪ Author: Túlio Resende Zille (Johns Hopkins University) This land is your land, this land is my land: Exploring the limits of nationalist state-building through the lens of Indigeneity ▪ Author: Mariam Georgis (University of Manitoba)

Abstract and Keywords How feminist narratives portray the struggles for survival? In which ways is survival related to land, ancestry, memory, identity? How these narratives articulate resistance to the modern/colonial matrix? In this panel, the different authors address these and other questions bringing to the IR discipline, and critical approaches the analysis on land dispossession, settler colonialism in the Global South, and racialized/genderized subjectivities struggle for identity and material recognition. This panel offers a global perspective to IR by digging into study cases from Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. All these spaces/subjectivities traversed by the colonial wound. This panel has three aims. Firstly, to delve into feminist epistemologies that bring cutting-edge theoretical and methodological contributions from the margins to the IR discipline. Secondly, to engage in the growing feminist literature that links different practices of colonial and capitalist violence regarding land dispossession, for instance, settler colonialism, the anthropocentric violence, climate change, and environmental refugees, etc., from a critical feminist and decolonial approach. Thirdly, this panel puts into practice the call for a "Global IR" by serving as a forum of diverse research experiences from Global South scholars to dialogue, connect and learn from each other in and from their own terms.

Feminism; Territorial Disputes; ISA2020

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WE06: The Business-Development Nexus and Responses to Humanitarian and Health Crises

When: Wednesday, April 7, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Salween, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Maha Rafi Atal (Copenhagen Business School) ▪ Chair: Alexandra Budabin (University of Dayton) ▪ Discussant: Jette Steen Knudsen (Tufts University) ▪ Discussant: Michael A. Stevenson (University of Waterloo)

Papers Congo, COVID-19 and the Business of Aid ▪ Author: Lisa Ann Richey (Copenhagen Business School) ▪ Author: Alexandra Budabin (University of Dayton) The Business-Development-Security Nexus in the Sahel: the “Quick Impact Project” and its effects ▪ Author: Casey McNeill (Fordham University) Commodifying COVID: consumption as compassion in a global pandemic ▪ Author: Maha Rafi Atal (Copenhagen Business School) ▪ Author: Lisa Ann Richey (Copenhagen Business School) Private Technology Companies and Humanitarian Aid in the Refugee Crisis ▪ Author: Sofie Elbæk Henriksen (Copenhagen Business School) Saving the world by doing business? The role of the private sector in official Danish development and humanitarian aid ▪ Author: Mette Fog Olwig (Roskilde University)

Abstract and Keywords How does the increasing influence of business actors transform the current structures of power for addressing humanitarian and health crises? The international community, along with the UN and its agencies, have encouraged businesses to take up responsibilities and duties that used to be the purview of states. Rather than being limited to making donations, multinational corporations have become integral actors, considered stakeholders, for humanitarian and development interventions. The Business-Development Nexus is often realized through “global partnerships” (SDG 17), with expectations that business will bring ideas about corporate culture and management to the humanitarian fields. This panel investigates the operation of these strategic partnerships between business, governments and non-profit actors in the context of humanitarian crises, including armed conflict, displacement and forced migration, and global pandemics, such as the ongoing response to COVID-19. We ask what is and what is not distinct about these types of partnerships as compared to the broader role of business in development? Papers will consider the strategic benefits and risks to businesses and their partners; the political, economic and social effects on the local spaces and communities in which they operate; and the normative implications of privatizing humanitarian response.

Aid; Development; Health; Migration; Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Privatization; Transnational/Multinational Corporations (TNCs/MNCs); Humanitarianism; Crisis; COVID-19

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WE41: ‘Violent Extremism’ and ‘Countering Violent Extremism’: Critically Exploring Intersections of Gender and Race in International Security

When: Wednesday, April 7, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Amu Darya, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Feminist Theory and Gender Studies ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Jennifer Philippa Eggert (Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities) ▪ Discussant: Sherine El Taraboulsi-McCarthy (Overseas Development Institute (ODI))

Papers Gender, Race, Sex, Securitization and Development in the Global South ▪ Author: Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick) ▪ Author: Juanita Elias (University of Warwick) ▪ Author: Jennifer Philippa Eggert (Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities) Everyday Violence, British Colonialism and Egyptian Counterterrorism ▪ Author: Alice Finden (SOAS, University of London) Gender’s Place in the Countering Violent Extremism Agenda of the Philippines ▪ Author: Ava Patricia Avila (Verve Research) Sex Economy: Counter-terrorism and Sexual Violence in Northeastern Nigeria ▪ Author: Emeka Thaddues Njoku (University of Ibadan, Ibadan) ▪ Author: Joshua Akintayo (University of Ibadan) Gender, Religion and PVE in Lebanon ▪ Author: Lara Azzam (Berghof Foundation) ▪ Author: Jennifer Philippa Eggert (Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Communities)

Abstract and Keywords In the last few years, the ‘Countering/Preventing Violent Extremism’ (C/PVE) agenda has come to dominate the global security agenda. C/PVE is presented as a shift away from the ‘hard’ security approaches of the ‘War on Terror’ towards a ‘softer’ focus on addressing the underlying drivers of violence, such as poverty, unemployment and marginalization. Whilst a number of scholars have questioned the effectiveness of C/PVE in reducing violent extremism, less attention has been given to the gendered and racialized dimensions of both the phenomenon of ‘violent extremism’ and responses to it. Specifically, the papers on this panel focus on experiences in the Global South. How can feminist theories and gender deepen our understanding of both ‘violent extremism’ and ‘C/PVE’? How are gender identities, relations and ideologies implicated in fuelling movements and groups perpetrating violence? How is gender implicated in C/PVE? How is race and coloniality erased and made visible in C/PVE? How do differently gendered, racialized and sexualized bodies experience C/PVE policies? What are the possibilities for disrupting gendered, racialized and sexual hierarchies in C/PVE? How do different actors adopt and adapt C/PVE agendas? Counterterrorism; Feminism; Postcolonialism; Race; Resistance; Security; Gender; ISA2020

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April 7th

3:30pm-4:45pm

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WF05: Interlingual Relations: Encounters at the Edge of Linguistic Worlds

When: Wednesday, April 7, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Tigris, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Mauro J. Caraccioli (Virginia Tech) ▪ Chair: Einar Wigen (University of Oslo) ▪ Participant: Julia Costa Lopez (University of Groningen) ▪ Participant: Daniel J. Levine (University of Alabama) ▪ Participant: Anatoly Reshetnikov (Webster Vienna Private University) ▪ Participant: Oliver Kessler (University of Erfurt) ▪ Participant: Desirée Poets (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)) ▪ Participant: Filipe dos Reis (University of Groningen) ▪ Participant: Alireza Shams Lahijani (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract and Keywords Politics is conducted in language; international politics is often conducted in two languages or more. While the first insight is commonly acknowledged, the second has been largely ignored by scholarship on international relations. When relations take place in more than one language, they may also be called interlingual relations. This roundtable showcases contributions to the developing research program of interlingual relations. Specifically, it highlights questions, cases, and approaches in the interrogation of the global politics of translation. Contributors take on perspectives that overlap with several fields of IR scholarship, including: historical international relations, epistemic communities in diplomatic and security affairs; field-work ethics; and the hegemony of the English language in academic IR.

Multiculturalism; Political Theory; Comparative Research/Methodology; Language/Linguistics

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WF40: Canada Navigates a Dangerous World: Domestic and International Dimensions

When: Wednesday, April 7, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Brahmaputra, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Interdisciplinary Studies ▪ Human Rights ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: David B. Carment (Carleton University) ▪ Discussant: Richard Nimijean (Masaryk University)

Papers Feminist Leadership? Situating Canada’s Feminist Foreign Policy Priorities in a Rapidly Changing Global Context ▪ Author: Rebecca Tiessen (University of Ottawa) The Impact of Ukraine’s Informal Economy on Women: The Role of Canada ▪ Author: Milana Nikolko (Carleton University) Canada in the Middle East: tension between liberal internationalism and a loyalty to the Western camp ▪ Author: Jeremy Wildeman (University of Ottawa) Rebranding Brand Trudeau? ▪ Author: Alex Marland (Memorial University Newfoundland) ▪ Author: Richard Nimijean (Masaryk University)

Abstract and Keywords International divisions, whether reflected in political or economic instability or international uncertainty, will affect Canada’s domestic situation and its ability to engage as an effective global actor. From the hopeful optimism reflected in Trudeau’s unexpected win in 2015 to the rise of Donald Trump’s iconoclastic demagoguery and his vision of “America first,” followed by deep rifts in national unity, sharpened by a Trudeau minority in 2019, a destabilized system of international relations, and the unchartered navigation of a world beset by pandemic. If it is true, as Justin Trudeau claimed, that Canada is back on the world stage, it has been a journey unlike any other. At the time Trudeau’s claim was more political branding to distinguish his party from the preceding Harper government than a serious commitment to reinvigorate if not redefine Canada’s place in the world. Looking at a world transformed by COVID19 this panel examines the domestic and intentional challenges that Canada faces as it seeks to reinvigorate its commitments to multilateralism, human rights and gender equality and support for the rule of law, all the while reclaiming its position as a middle power with influence and pride of place.

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WF39: Policing and Political Violence

When: Wednesday, April 7, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Amazon, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Prakash Adhikari (Central Michigan University) ▪ Discussant: Alejandro Carvajal-Pardo (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana / University of Miami)

Papers Armed Drones and Ethical Policing ▪ Author: Christian Enemark (University of Southampton) The Iron Cage of Development: A Cross-National Analysis of Incarceration, 2000-2015 ▪ Author: Rob Clark (University of California-Riverside) Drawing traces and threads between criminal and political violence ▪ Author: Victoria Santos (PUC Rio) The effect of community-oriented policing on officers: Evidence from an experiment in the Philippines. ▪ Author: Dotan Haim (Florida State University) ▪ Author: Matthew Nanes (Saint Louis University) ▪ Author: Nico Ravanilla (University of California San Diego)

Abstract and Keywords These papers examine the intersection between policing, incarceration, sovereignty, and political violence. In particular, looking at how poverty, development, and political violence are shaped by changing technologies of policing and surveillance. Critical Security Studies; Inequality; Poverty; Crime; Criminal Justice

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April 7th

5:00pm-6:15pm

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WG28: Wrestling with Foundations and Actions

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Ili, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Giorgio Shani (International Christian University) ▪ Discussant: Misbah Hyder (University of California, Irvine) ▪ Participant: Marcos Sebastian Scauso (Quinnipiac University) ▪ Participant: Cecelia Lynch (University of California, Irvine) ▪ Participant: Andrea Paras (University of Guelph) ▪ Participant: Garrett FitzGerald (University of Notre Dame) ▪ Participant: Amaya Querejazu (Universidad de Antioquia)

Abstract and Keywords In the discussion of the books Wrestling with God, by Cecelia Lynch, and Intersectional Decoloniality, by Marcos S. Scauso, religiosity becomes a possibility of sustaining a fruitful tension between colonial tendencies and decolonial actions. On one side of this dilemma, both books highlight the oppression and violence that can emerge when high levels of certainty unfold from foundations that arrogantly elevate particular ways of knowing, being, and enacting above “others.” On the other side, foundations can also act as the conditions of possibility for actions that aim to resist and/or transform oppressive relationships. Instead of settling and resolving this dilemma, these books discuss how religiosities can create different ways of staying in the tension, constructing possibilities of action while also sustaining an epistemic precarity that allows for more deeply reflective analyses of colonial tendencies. How is it possible to act for “good” and/or decolonial possibilities, while also respecting differences and avoiding the colonial generalization of single ways of knowing, being, and enacting? In this round table, we take into account the insights of these books to discuss this question about a relationship between religiosity, epistemic foundations, and action.

Ethics; Postcolonialism; Religion; International Relations Theory

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WG31: Structural Political Economy: Re-thinking the Weight of Structures in the Enduringly Colonial Present

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Kura, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology

Participants ▪ Chair: Alina Sajed (McMaster University) ▪ Discussant: Naeem Inayatullah (Ithaca College) ▪ Participant: Isaac A. Kamola (Trinity College) ▪ Participant: Akta Kaushal (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) ▪ Participant: Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii at Manoa) ▪ Participant: Randolph B. Persaud (American University)

Abstract and Keywords This roundtable seeks to examine the tension between the (assumed) rigidity of global structures, and the claims made around the idea of agency of local actors to manipulate and/or withstand the pressure of such structures. One of the enduring premises lying at the core of structural political economy is not only its preoccupation with the weight of structures, but also its centering of a number of global processes (such as imperialism, colonialism,capitalism, etc.) in understanding socio-political and economic dynamics. In the last decade, however, a debate has started around issues of resistance and agency, particularly in formerly colonial spaces. One line of argument suggests that to rely too much or exclusively on the weight of structures, discounts the ways in which local actors are complicit in significant global processes not only as hapless pawns, but also as willing and adept players. Perhaps at the heart of this challenge lies the following question: how can we make visible the structures in their sheer violence without losing sight of how various local actors internalise, resist, manipulate and remake those structures?

Agency; Capitalism; Colonialism; Globalization; Imperialism; Political Economy; ISA2020

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WG03: Global International Relations: Prospects and Challenges

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Syr Darya, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Julian Go (University of Chicago) ▪ Discussant: Julian Go (University of Chicago)

Papers Global IR: Promise and Challenges ▪ Author: Michael Barnett (George Washington University) ▪ Author: George Lawson (Australian National University) The United Nations of IR: Power, Knowledge and Empire in Global IR ▪ Author: Tarak Karim Barkawi (London School of Economics) ▪ Author: Christopher Murray (Baltic Defence College) ▪ Author: Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge) How ‘global’ is Global IR? ▪ Author: Navnita C. Behera (Delhi University) Why and how to study civilizations in Global IR ▪ Author: Amitav Acharya (American University) Background Knowledge: Culture, Practice, and Normative Structures in Global IR ▪ Author: Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg and University of Cambridge)

Abstract and Keywords Global International Relations (IR) is a burgeoning field of enquiry with advocates using the approach to establish important research and teaching agendas. This panel engages current debates in Global IR, ranging from its foundational concepts, such as civilization, to areas that are currently underdeveloped, particularly its relationship to empire and other forms of 'structural entanglements'. Panellists will examine the normative dimensions of Global IR, its claims to a particular sociology of knowledge, and its application to both historical and contemporary international orders.

Empire; History; Sociology; International Relations Theory; Global/International Society

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WG02: New Approaches to Chinese Investments in Africa

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Purús, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Marina Rudyak (Heidelberg University) ▪ Discussant: Pippa Morgan (Duke Kunshan University)

Papers The More Chinese Aid Projects in Africa are, The Less Friendly African People are: Evidence from Individual-level and Project-level Geocoded Data ▪ Author: Inbok Rhee (Korea Development Institute (KDI) School of Public Policy and Management) ▪ Author: Youngwan Kim (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) Ghana-China “Galamsey” Diplomacy: Artisanal Mining and Theatrics of Inter-state Relations. ▪ Author: Tim Adivilah Balag'kutu (University of Massachusetts Boston) Individual Agency in State Capacity: Comparing Sino-African Railways in Kenya and Ethiopia ▪ Author: Yuan Wang (University of Oxford) Hidden Claws of Dragon: Chinese Aid and Corruption in African Local Governments ▪ Author: Sujin Cha (Korea University, Seoul)

Abstract and Keywords Chinese expanded investment in Africa has gained considerable attention in recent decades. This panel examines the various actors--governments, firms, and individuals--engaged in these investments, and how they understand the Chinese/African relationship.

Foreign Investment; Africa; China

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WG07: Contesting Carbon and the Struggles for Clean Energy

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Yenisei, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Discussant: Tabitha M. Benney (University of Utah)

Papers Neocolonialism Amidst the Fracking Industry in the United States ▪ Author: Eve Bratman (Franklin & Marshall College) The Paradox of Technocratic Governance: The Extractive/Emancipatory Potential of Indigenous Utilities? ▪ Author: Joshua McEvoy (Queen's University) ▪ Author: Liam Midzain-Gobin (Brock University) The Political Economy of Solar Energy Projects in Jordan, Tunisia and Morocco ▪ Author: Benjamin Schuetze (University of Freiburg) Tackling the finance challenge for energy transitions in the global south ▪ Author: Laima Eicke (IASS Potsdam) The effect of natural disasters on renewable energy finance ▪ Author: Maria Apergi (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies)

Abstract and Keywords These papers looks at the economic and political struggles around the conversion to green energy.

Energy; Postcolonialism

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WG41: Refugees and Migrants: The Political Economy of Mobility

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Amu Darya, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Economy

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Karen Nershi (University of Pennsylvania) ▪ Discussant: Amanda Garrett (Georgetown University)

Papers The Individualization of Social Rights and Inequality in China ▪ Author: Alexsia Chan (Hamilton College) Gender, migration, and the political economy of (in)decent work: insights from the sex and domestic work sectors in Ghana ▪ Author: Ellie Gore (University of Sheffield) Global Finance Governance and Development: How Communities Negotiate Power with Global Financial Governance Bodies ▪ Author: Salah Hamdoun (Arizona State University) Refugee Integration in Cities: Learning from Uganda and Turkey ▪ Author: Maureen Abi Ghanem (Columbia University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel explores how refugees and migrants shape the political economy of the places they arrive as well as through the remittances they send home. Immigration; Refugees; Political Economy; Somalia

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WG43: Populism, Democracy, and Development

When: Wednesday, April 7, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Kasai, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Economy

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Deina A. Abdelkader (University of Massachusetts) ▪ Discussant: Hager Ali (Leibniz-Institute German Institute of Global and Area Studies, University of Hamburg) ▪ Discussant: Arshad (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Papers Populist Radical Right Movements and the Rule of Law ▪ Author: Motoshi Suzuki (Kyoto University) The Chinese ‘Cat Theory’ and the Triple Pillar of Sino-Middle East Relations: A Civil Society Approach ▪ Author: Mojtaba Mahdavi (University of Alberta) Global agendas vs. national power in the national development plans of neo-populist authoritarian regimes and the development dissidents ▪ Author: Lauchlan Munro (University of Ottawa)

Abstract and Keywords These papers examine how populism intersects with development and economic policies, and what this intersection means for democracy.

Democracy; Development; China; Middle East; Populism; North Africa

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April 7th

6:30pm-7:45pm

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WH13: A Re-Turn to Politics: Interrogating de-politicization in IRs recent 'turns'

When: Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Don, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Ole Jacob Sending (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs) ▪ Discussant: Ben O'Loughlin (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Papers Whither the Political in All These Turns? ▪ Author: Charlotte Epstein (The University of Sydney) Turning IR Inside-Out (& Round & Round) ▪ Author: Paul Beaumont (Norwegian University of Life Sciences) ▪ Author: Jaakko Heiskanen (University of Cambridge) Returning Discourse to the Practice Turn: The Contested Practice of Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Community ▪ Author: Stéphanie Martel (Queen's University) Turn! Turn! Turn! Relational Ontology and IR ▪ Author: Arlene B. Tickner (Universidad del Rosario) Re-turning International Politics to Culture via Multiplicity: Krautrock, Kraftwerk and the Re-birth of ‘Germany’ ▪ Author: Benjamin Tallis (European Centre of Excellence for Civilian Crisis Management)

Abstract and Keywords IR is by now dizzy from a series of accelerating ‘turns’ – to practices, the visual, material, ontological, affective, aesthetic. Each deserves to be examined on its own terms. Scholars in each have made the case for 'their turn' as bringing attention to forms of politics that went unnoticed by conventional approaches. However, this panel takes a step back from the 'turning’ itself to question what are its politicizing and depoliticizing effects. Critical interrogation of these turns’ political status is necessarily both a critique from outside and from within each one. The panel is therefore not unified by targeting a turn, nor by a speaking position. It interrogates how the various turns all share a tendency to evacuate the political. Thus, the panel will be an in-depth interrogation of the relationship between critique and politics as well as an exploration of how theory could be constructed in order to bring attention to constellations that are constituted politically. How can different critical perspectives enable intervention at politically privileged points? If we as a discipline want to have international politics at the centre, what does that call for in terms of theorizing - and culture of engagement across orientations. Capitalism; International Relations Theory; Critical Theory; Emotions; Discourse Analysis; Aesthetics; ISA2020

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WH26: Cybersecurity, Surveillance, and Identity

When: Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Nelson, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ Science, Technology and Art in International Relations

Papers Fragmenting the Digital Space: U.S., China, and EU in Search For Power in the Emerging Technology Age ▪ Author: Ivan V. Danilin (Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow State Institute of International Relations) An Overview of the Theories of Cyberconflict ▪ Author: Yegana Baghirova (George Mason University / George Washington University) Securitizing Cyberspace: Protecting Political Judgement ▪ Author: Hedvig Ördén (Lund University) Digital Identity: Opportunity or Obstacle to Africa's development ▪ Author: Odilile Ayodele (University of Johannesburg)

Abstract and Keywords

Identity; Surveillance; Cybersecurity

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WH29: Exploring the Power of Silence in a Gendered, Unequal COVID-19 World

When: Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Nile, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Feminist Theory and Gender Studies ▪ Women's Caucus ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Jane L. Parpart (University of Massachusetts Boston / Dalhousie University) ▪ Chair: Marianne H. Marchand (University of the Americas Puebla) ▪ Participant: Patricia Mohammed (University of the West Indies) ▪ Participant: Suzanne Bergeron (University of Michigan, Dearborn) ▪ Participant: Jane L. Parpart (University of Massachusetts Boston / Dalhousie University) ▪ Participant: Marianne H. Marchand (University of the Americas Puebla) ▪ Participant: Elena Ayala Galí (Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla) ▪ Participant: Sudeshna Chatterjee (University of Massachusetts Boston) ▪ Participant: Abigail Kabandula (University of Denver) ▪ Participant: Aliya Khalid (University of Cambridge)

Abstract and Keywords While women have often regarded the right to speak as a key to liberation, opportunities and power, new scholarship has begun to question the presumed link between voice and power. Recent thinking has begun to challenge this assumption, arguing that silence can be a powerful force, affecting gender relations in many different circumstances. Voice is no longer seen as the sole litmus test of power, for women as well as men. Indeed, silence has become an important weapon for strengthening women’s leverage and power in an unequal, patriarchal and racialized world. This is particularly true as we continue to experience the nightmare of a global Covid-19 pandemic. Women around the world are speaking out against abuses against women and girls, and calling for change. At the same time, the limits of voice are moving many women (and some men) to use silence as a weapon for condemning patriarchal privilege, asserting women’s rights and reinforcing the importance of gender equality, both now and hopefully in a post-pandemic world. Questions addressed include: What kinds of silences have been used during the pandemic? Are they generating new or reinforcing existing inequalities? Under what circumstances do (wo)men speak out or use silence as a strategy?

Agency; Feminism; Gender Politics; Inequality

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WH00: Anatomies of Revolution

When: Wednesday, April 7, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Ishim, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology

Participants ▪ Chair: Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge) ▪ Participant: Mlada Bukovansky (Smith College) ▪ Participant: Erica Chenoweth (Harvard Kennedy School) ▪ Participant: Jack A. Goldstone (George Mason University) ▪ Participant: George Lawson (Australian National University)

Abstract and Keywords Recent years have seen renewed interest in the study of revolution. Spurred by ‘people power’ uprisings from Ukraine to Sudan, the rise of Islamic State, and the emergence of populism, a new age of revolution has generated considerable interest. Yet, even as empirical studies of revolutions are thriving, there has been a stall in theories of revolution. George Lawson's new book, Anatomies of Revolution, offers a novel account of how revolutions begin, unfold and end. By combining insights from International Relations, sociology, and global history, it outlines the benefits of a 'global historical sociology' of revolutionary change, one in which international processes take centre stage. This roundtable discusses the main themes that emerge from Anatomies of Revolution with some of the world’s best-known and most acute scholars of revolution. Their specialisms range from theory to empirical work, positivist to critical scholarship, and from contemporary to historical experiences of revolution.

Civil Disobedience/Resistance; History; Social Movements; International Relations Theory; Revolution; Global/International Society; ISA2020

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April 7th

8:00pm-9:15pm

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WI15: Violent Circulations: Politics of Asylum and Deportation

When: Wednesday, April 7, 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM Where: Orinoco, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development ▪ Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Tugba Bayar (Bilkent University) ▪ Discussant: Julia Morris (University of North Carolina, Wilmington)

Papers Internal Migration in the Postcolonial Kingdom of The Netherlands: The Netherlands and the European Union’s Overseas Territories of the Dutch Caribbean ▪ Author: Michael O. Sharpe (City University of New York) What determines EU's Resilience Building Capacity in the Neighbourhood and Why? EU, Turkey and Forced Migration in the Eastern Mediterranean ▪ Author: Saime Ozcurumez (Bilkent University) Unrest of North Korean 'Deportability' in Northeast China: A Critical Study on State- Sanctioned ‘Illegality’ ▪ Author: Wonmin Hong (Yonsei Univ.) Asylum Knowledge and Political Order in the European Asylum Support Office ▪ Author: Jasper van der Kist (University of Manchester) Precarity, ‘Surplus Citizens,’ and the Limits of Acts of Citizenship ▪ Author: Shirin Saeidi (University of Arkansas) ▪ Author: Paola Rivetti (Dublin City University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel considered contemporary politics of knowledge and organizations of violence around asylum-seeking and deportation regimes. Papers address assisted voluntary return programs and political imaginaries of deportation, the governing of ‘missingness’ and asylum seekers in Sweden, the conditions of asylum seekers admission to the US, the production and circulation of data and information on asylum seekers through the European Asylum Support Office (EASO), and the politics of language, silence and speech among asylum seekers in Greece.

Borders; Critical Security Studies; Political Asylum; Political Theory

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WI17: Resistance Movements and Decolonial Strategies in Latin America

When: Wednesday, April 7, 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM Where: Japurá, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Paul Emiljanowicz (McMaster University) ▪ Discussant: Francine Rossone de Paula (Queen's University Belfast) ▪ Discussant: Mariana Kalil (Brazil’s War College)

Papers A feminist approach to security/coloniality practices in Vieques, Puerto Rico ▪ Author: Melody Fonseca (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras) Modernities and decolonialities in Buen Vivir: Sumak Kawsay and Suma Qamaña as liminar gnosis against the colonialities in Bolivia and Ecuador ▪ Author: Rafael Bittencourt Rodrigues Lopes (Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas)) Toward the neo-developmental state: debates and variation in Latin America’s post- neoliberal turn (or pink tide) ▪ Author: Antulio Rosales (University of New Brunswick) ▪ Author: Patrick Clark (Carleton University/ FLACSO- Ecuador) Folklorization of Decolonization: Lessons from Bolivia’s decolonisation policies ▪ Author: Andreas Aagaard Nøhr (Groningen University) ▪ Author: Adhemar Mercado (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) Ontological deferral: capitalism, hierarchical temporalities and discourses on development in Brazil ▪ Author: Lucas de Oliveira Paes (University of Cambridge)

Abstract and Keywords The papers examine different resistance movements and decolonial strategies in Latin America.

Postcolonialism; Social Movements; Central/South America (Latin America); Latin America

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April 8th

8:00am-9:15am

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RA44: Postcolonialism and Political Science in Northeast Asia

When: Thursday, April 8, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Juruá, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Jungmin Seo (Yonsei University) ▪ Discussant: Sankaran Krishna (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

Papers Politics of language and consciousness: Kyoto School’s failure of postcolonial tactics ▪ Author: Kosuke Shimizu (Ryukoku University) When Does the Subaltern Not Want to Speak? A Preliminary Postcolonial Inquiry into the State of Taiwanese Political Science ▪ Author: Ching-Chang Chen (Ryukoku University) Embracing Postcolonialism in Korean Political Science ▪ Author: Seoyoung Choi (Yonsei University) ▪ Author: HyeMin Ryu (Yonsei University) The Westphalian in the Eyes of A Grey Man(1963): We (Whites) are Self-Evidently Sovereign in IR ▪ Author: Young Chul Cho (Jeonbuk National University) The possibility of comparative postcolonialism in Northeast Asia ▪ Author: Jungmin Seo (Yonsei University)

Abstract and Keywords Postcolonialism has been rarely used as an interpretative framework or analytical tool to understand Northeast Asia, as the languages of postcolonialism was, to some extent, invented and developed in “the model Empires – British and French” and “the model colonies – Indian and African continents. From its birth, postcolonialism scholarship has dealt with the complex amalgam of religion, race, language as well as political rule through violence. Colonialism in Northeast Asia largely differ from the model colonial experiences as the colonial power was one in the region (Japan) and colonies were a historical state (Korea) or a part of the former empire (Taiwan). The Cold War as the postcolonial political condition was the most extreme on the globe. In this panel, we try to test the use of postcolonialism as interpretive framework to understand how “knowledge,” especially in the field of political science, in the peculiar former colonies, Korea and Taiwan, and the peculiar empire, Japan.

Postcolonialism; Asia; Political Theory; Taiwan; South Korea; Japan

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RA05: Grounding International Relations: the Land Question in World Politics

When: Thursday, April 8, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Tigris, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Katarina Kusic (Aberystwyth University )

Papers Land, Soil Mapping, and the International ▪ Author: Maarten Meijer (University of Groningen) Representation without a state: studying the long-term political consequences of neoliberalism in the countryside ▪ Author: Anna Katharina Wolkenhauer (University of Bremen) Knowing International Politics from Contested Lands in South East Europe ▪ Author: Katarina Kusic (Aberystwyth University ) Beyond the Premise of Conquest: Indigenous and Black Presence in the Epoch Debates ▪ Author: Bikrum Gill (Virginia Tech)

Abstract and Keywords IR is closely tied to the concept of territory, yet land has so far not figured as a central category of analysis. This panel tackles this omission. More than a resource in power politics, land is central for ways politics are practised and understood. For actors such as peasant movements, indigenous peoples’ groups, and tenants’ associations, claims to land are materially existential. Furthermore, when paying attention to how cosmologies are constitutive of societies, land emerges as a site and a source of spiritual practices and the creation of meaning and belonging. And finally, the land question emerges as central in agricultural production and deforestation that move in parallel with the commodification and politicization of land. Land thus has political, ontological, and epistemological functions that are obscured by its reduction to territory. This panel brings together scholars working on land in different geographical sites and from different perspectives. They converge on two main questions: What kind of knowledge might be produced by thinking from land in different sites and scales? How does land inform international politics, and how is it shaped by global socio-political dynamics?

Activism; Indigenous Peoples; International Relations Theory; Space; Human Rights; Political Economy; Agriculture; Territorial Disputes

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RA41: Food Security: States, Markets, and Sovereignty

When: Thursday, April 8, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Amu Darya, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Andrea M. Collins (University of Waterloo) ▪ Discussant: Andreea O'Keef (Roanoke College)

Papers Food sovereignty, neocolonialism, and Ghana’s contested politics of agrarian development ▪ Author: Jacqueline Ignatova (Appalachian State University) Marketing Sustainability: Corporate Environmental Responsibility and the Creation of Shared Value in an Age of Global Agri-food Systems ▪ Author: William A. Munro (Illinois Wesleyan University) Embedded Peasantry: Rethinking the Developmental State Theory ▪ Author: Rahardhika Utama (Northwestern University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel examines the politics of agriculture, development, and food security.

Sustainable Development; Agriculture; Food Security/Politics

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RA32: COVID-19: The Politics and Economics of a Pandemic

When: Thursday, April 8, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Benue, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Marina Rudyak (Heidelberg University) ▪ Discussant: Amy S. Patterson (University of the South)

Papers What Does Response to Covid-19 Tell us About the State? ▪ Author: Rachel M. Gisselquist (United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)) COVID_19: A Game Changer in the World Economic and Political Order ▪ Author: Ashwani Jassal (Delhi University) ▪ Author: Priya Gahlot (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Politics and International Development in African slums; post-COVID-19 Nairobi, Kenya ▪ Author: A. R. Pashayan (Howard University, Washington D.C.) Public Support for Foreign Aid among Chinese Nationals Amidst COVID-19 ▪ Author: Zhihang Ruan (Northwestern University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel examines the effect COVID-19 is having on the state, economic development, and international politics more generally.

Development; Health; Africa; China

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April 8th

9:30am-10:45am

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RB09: Culture, Aggression and Warfare

When: Thursday, April 8, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Shatt al-Arab, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Interdisciplinary Studies ▪ Global Development ▪ International Ethics

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: M. Matheswaran (The Peninsula Foundation (TPF); and Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA)) ▪ Discussant: B. Bryan Barber (Nazarbayev University)

Papers Anger and Aggression in International Politics: A New Realist Theory Based on Recalibrational Theory of Anger in Evolutionary Psychology ▪ Author: Ryuta Ito (Keio University) Aggression: The Crime Beyond National Jurisdiction and Control? ▪ Author: Sean Richmond (Carleton University - Department of Law) Ancient Wisdom, Modern Relevance: The Mahabharata and International Relations ▪ Author: Prashant Hosur Suhas (Clarkson University) Post-Modern Warfare: Militainment, Netnography and Empire through Popular Culture ▪ Author: Bart Gabriel (The Graduate Institute for International & Development Studies) Guerrilla protest: understanding social movements from an irregular war framework - the case of Hong Kong ▪ Author: Frankie Ho Chun Wong (University of Maryland)

Abstract and Keywords Aggression and warfare are affected by multiple factors. This panel addresses ones that are often overlooked in traditional scholarship, notably how technological ecosystems, religion and ideology affect collective action in which social codes are rebuilt under the aegis of culture, aggression and warfare. It questions such issues as how guerilla protests morph into social movements, the power of aggression, how modern warfare is affected by ancient religious custom, as well as contemporary popular culture in the form of online gaming.

Geopolitics; Popular Culture; War; Treaties; Law and Norms; Psychology; International Criminal Court; Narratives; Emotions; Technology (New/Modern/Innovation)

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RB25: Political Economy of Palestine: Critical, Interdisciplinary, Decolonial Perspectives

When: Thursday, April 8, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Danube, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: John Collins (St. Lawrence University) ▪ Discussant: John Collins (St. Lawrence University)

Papers Settler Colonialism, Political Economy, and Land-Based Struggle in Palestine ▪ Author: Timothy Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University) Gaza, Palestine and the Political Economies of Indigenous Non-Futures ▪ Author: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster) The Political Economy of Dependency and Class in Palestine ▪ Author: Ibrahim Shikaki (Trinity College) Economic Integration between the West Bank and Israel: A Critical Approach ▪ Author: Walid Habbas (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Abstract and Keywords This panel explores the political economy of the occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt) from a variety of angles and approaches such as class formation, settler colonialism, international development, security assistance, and technologies of violence. Over twenty-five years have passed since the signing of the Oslo Accords and yet the situation in Palestine-Israel appears as intractable as ever. Recent developments including interventions by the United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) only reinforce these conclusions. Whether it is the halt of U.S. aid to the PA and UNRWA, or the freezing of tax transfers to the PA from Israel, or the Trump Administration’s foray into Palestine-Israel with his “Deal of the Century” and the optimism around the role of global business in creating “peace,” the time is ripe for critical reflection on recent developments in Palestine-Israel with this quarter-century of hindsight. This panel will explore these developments giving particular attention to the question of what is a critical political economy approach and why it matters more than ever in understanding recent developments in Palestine-Israel.

Colonialism; Neoliberalism; Postcolonialism; Resistance; Violence; Political Economy; Palestine/Palestinian Authority

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April 8th

11:00am-12:15pm

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RC01: Author Meets Critics: Rethinking Global Studies Scholarship in a Diverse World: Critical Engagement with James Mittelman's Implausible Dream: The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education

When: Thursday, April 8, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Ubangi, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Interdisciplinary Studies ▪ Global Development ▪ International Education

Participants ▪ Chair: Stephen J. Rosow (State University of New York at Oswego) ▪ Discussant: James H. Mittelman (American University) ▪ Participant: Jacqueline Braveboy-Wagner (City University of New York) ▪ Participant: Fotini Bellou (University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece) ▪ Participant: Susan Robertson (University of Cambridge) ▪ Participant: Michael McKinley (Australian National University)

Abstract and Keywords In the Westphalian system, knowledge of international studies is implicated in state power. Yet emerging tensions between the principle of territoriality and deterritorializing tendencies complicate knowledge-power relationships. Melding diverse intellectual perspectives from various countries, globalized knowledge is becoming re-embedded in dominant assemblages of power. The challenge facing scholars is to explain this process: how does it occur, what are the variants, and how can policymakers and social movements steer it in a socially just manner? Drawn from different disciplines, world regions, and intellectual traditions, participants on this roundtable are tasked with critically exploring and pushing the boundaries of our field. They will focus on shifts in the knowledge-power nexus and suggest viable avenues of inquiry. The roundtable addresses these core issues in James Mittelman’s book, Implausible Dream: The World-Class University and Repurposing Higher Education.

Globalization; International Studies; Power (Political); Higher Education; Global/International Society; ISA2020

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April 8th

12:30pm-1:45pm

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RD08 Contending Forms of Inquiry in IR: the Question and Politics of Science, Knowledge and Relevance

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Mekong, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Naeem Inayatullah (Ithaca College) ▪ Chair: Laura J. Shepherd (University of Sydney) ▪ Participant: Marysia Zalewski (Cardiff University) ▪ Participant: Fred Chernoff (Colgate University) ▪ Participant: Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS, University of London) ▪ Participant: Lenka Olejníková (University of New South Wales) ▪ Participant: Jayson Waters (The University of Sydney)

Abstract and Keywords A pluralism of methodological (broadly defined) and theoretical approaches to knowledge- production has been established in the discipline, however, exclusionary and marginalising tendencies still persist. The politics of science demarcation and the lack of wider acceptance of more than a single set of criteria of knowledge validity remain a source of much of contention and separation between IR scholars. Existing cleavages run across geographic, theoretical, methodological and axiological lines creating a complex assemblage in which knowledge about the international and political is (re)produced. The state of fragmentation of the field, along with limited communication across perspectival lines, hinders constructive discussions and the cross- fertilisation of ideas and understanding. This roundtable aims to interrogate the divisions and to imagine future encounters that would reflect intellectual parity and curiosity rather than practices of dominance or indifference. Prompting questions: 1. What are the largest existing cleavages in IR scholarship, and what practices and dynamics underpin and sustain them? 2. How might the discipline work to embrace different methodological traditions and perspectives and move away from separative tendencies to active engagement?

Methodology; Pluralism; Science; Philosophy; International Relations Theory

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RD26: Making the ‘War on Terror’: Past, Present and Future

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Nelson, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University) ▪ Chair: John Collins (St. Lawrence University) ▪ Participant: Ilan Kapoor (York University) ▪ Participant: Latha Varadarajan (San Diego State University) ▪ Participant: Emanuele Saccarelli (San Diego State University) ▪ Participant: Jayantha Jayman (St. Lawrence University) ▪ Participant: Stephen Barnard (St. Lawrence University)

Abstract and Keywords Language, especially in times of war, is never just a means of communication. Wartime vocabulary has the ability to ‘target’ civilians and generate fear as a means of effecting political change. For the critical scholarship that emerged in the immediate aftermath of the attacks of 9/11 and the declaration of America’s ‘War on Terror’, politicizing and historicizing the post-9/11 political rhetoric was an important intellectual endeavor. It helped reveal how the violence of this language became a normalized facet of our everyday lives and helped ‘manufacture consent’ for the ‘War on Terror’. Taking up this discussion two decades since 9/11, this roundtable deliberates the ‘long shadow’ of the discourses that accompanied America’s ‘War on Terror’. It follows the ways in which this lexicon has globalized, finding resonance in diverse political contexts outside the US. Further, it deliberates how the ‘War on Terror’ discursive tropes are being replicated in political projects (say, to fight ‘illegal immigration’ or quell civil rights activism) that ostensibly have little to do with combating terrorism.

Terrorism; Discourse Analysis; Rhetoric

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RD04: Author meets Critics: Mohamed Sesay's Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Yukon, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: David L. Blaney (Macalester College) ▪ Participant: Catherine Lu (McGill University) ▪ Participant: Eric Wiebelhaus-Brahm (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) ▪ Participant: Obiora Okafor (Osgoode Hall Law School of York University) ▪ Participant: Mohamed Sesay (York University) ▪ Participant: Sylvia Bawa (York University)

Abstract and Keywords This roundtable is a critical engagement with Mohamed Sesay's book, _Domination through Law: The Internationalization of Legal Norms in Postcolonial Africa_, published in the Kilombo series on International Relations and Colonial Questions. Internationalization of the rule of law—using the international arena to export legal institutions, norms, and rules from one domestic jurisdiction to another—is a dominant feature of global governance. But what has been the impact of more than 25 years of these international efforts? Through a historical and comparative study of state reconstruction in Sierra Leone and Liberia, this book critically examines the impact of rule of law internationalization as a means of social domination in post-colonial Africa. Aimed at troubling the benign characterizations of contemporary rule of law promotion, the book explores how international efforts, even when well-intentioned, often end up reinforcing social domination in local economies, politics, and societies, because such efforts remain steeped in coloniality. This book provides a lucid and sharp critique of the discursive frameworks of rationality, modernity, efficiency, statism, and progress that have underpinned historical and contemporary international interventionism in the form of rule of law promotion.

Colonialism; Postcolonialism; Transitional Justice; Law and Norms; Africa; Global Governance; Legal Theory; Developing Countries; Liberia; Sierra Leone

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RD09: Generating Power: The Unequal Politics and Epistemics of Climate Change

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Shatt al-Arab, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Environmental Studies

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Maria Julia Trombetta (University of Nottingham, Ningbo) ▪ Chair: Farah Hegazi (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)) ▪ Discussant: Maria Julia Trombetta (University of Nottingham, Ningbo)

Papers The Great Amnesia: The Marginalization of Least Developed Countries in Global Change Science ▪ Author: Frank Biermann (Utrecht University) ▪ Author: Carole-Anne Sénit (Utrecht University) The Anthropocene as Global Political Theory? A Critical Reconstruction of the Limits of Existentialist Thought. ▪ Author: Martin Weber (University of Queensland) Energy democracy: global power on the move ▪ Author: Jelica Stefanovic-Stambuk (University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Sciences)

Abstract and Keywords These papers examine how our understanding of climate change is fundamentally shaped by an unequal distribution of power, and the unequal political relationships shaping how oil is extracted and consumed.

Energy; Environment; Postcolonialism

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RD36: Land, Water, and Finance

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Irrawaddy, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Economy ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Zhijun Gao (Claremont Graduate University)

Papers The Financialization of Land Deals: A Typology of Actors and Instruments ▪ Author: Steffi Hamann (University of Guelph) The Rising Issue: What it is Like to Not Have Access to Clean Water ▪ Author: Kristina Mitchell (San Jose State University) ▪ Author: Taylor Hawkins (San Jose State University) Research on Environmental Justice in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) Contexts ▪ Author: Mengqi Shao (University of Nottingham, Ningbo) China in Africa From Below: Transformative Encounters in the Chinese Gold Rush in Ghana ▪ Author: Nicholas Loubere (Lund University)

Abstract and Keywords This panel explores inequalities over access to water, land, and mineral wealth, and the investments and finance that shapes this access. China; Political Economy; Water; Ghana

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RD33: Theoretical Explorations on Sovereignty

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Dnieper, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Ning Liao (New Jersey City University) ▪ Discussant: Ning Liao (New Jersey City University)

Papers Sovereign Universality ▪ Author: J. Samuel Barkin (University of Massachusetts Boston) Sovereignty, Hierarchy, and Recognition: Egypt’s Lobbying in Washington (2013-15) ▪ Author: Karim El Taki (University of Cambridge) Re-Enchantment of the Non-Western State: China ▪ Author: Kevin D. Johnson (Arizona State University)

Abstract and Keywords

Social Hierarchy; Sovereignty; State; Security

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RD29: Liberal Interventions in the Middle East and North Africa: Social Control and Structural Violence

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Nile, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Benjamin Schuetze (University of Freiburg) ▪ Discussant: Vincent Durac (University College Dublin)

Papers Promoting Democracy, Reinforcing Authoritarianism: Youth participation programs as a means of external social control ▪ Author: Benjamin Schuetze (University of Freiburg) Ideas, Interests, and Institutions in Democracy Aid ▪ Author: Erin Snider (Texas A&M University) Analysing liberal interventions: Towards closing the ‘process gap’? ▪ Author: Mariam Salehi (WZB Berlin Social Science Center)

Abstract and Keywords Recent critical work has allowed for a more nuanced, theoretically informed and empirically grounded understanding of liberal interventions in the Middle East and North Africa. A growing focus on micropolitics has led to an increasing problematization of interveners themselves, and to an exploration of the processes of conceptual exclusion that inform their work. Discursive attempts to reconfirm desired liberal self-understandings vis-à-vis the imagined non-democratic and/or illiberal other indicate that liberal interventions may be more about the maintenance, and not the overcoming of deeply problematic assumptions of difference. Critical approaches argue that ‘democracy promotion’ interventions for instance function as consensual means of social control that have replaced previously prevalent coercive means of control. Exploring the often paradoxical outcomes of liberal interventions in Egypt, Jordan, Tunisia, Palestine and Morocco, this panel zones in on the actual practice of different transitional justice, ‘democracy promotion’, state-building and migration control interventions, their institutionalization, the privileging of donor interests, self-perpetuating dynamics, and the ways in which they reinforce structures of repression and violence. The panel seeks to explore how different approaches focusing on material and/or ideational factors are best brought into dialogue with each other, in order to better explain the paradoxical outcomes of liberal interventions.

Aid; Humanitarian Intervention; Liberalism; Repression; Middle East

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RD02: The Sea and International Relations: History, Theory, Prospects

When: Thursday, April 8, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Purús, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory

Participants ▪ Chair: Benjamin de Carvalho (NUPI) ▪ Participant: Halvard Leira (NUPI) ▪ Participant: Jessica Simonds (Queen's University Belfast) ▪ Participant: Kerry Goettlich (University of Reading) ▪ Participant: Mark A. Shirk (University of Cambridge) ▪ Participant: Elana Rowe (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)

Abstract and Keywords The space of the sea has collapsed into time - both in popular consciousness and in academic discourse. Yet this was not always so - nor does it necessarily hold true today. The aim of the roundtable is to bring the sea back into International Relations (IR) - not only as travel time, but as a social, political, economic and military space (or variable) which affects the workings of world politics. This, we believe, is crucial. While the world's oceans cover more than 70% of its surface, the space of the sea has today largely vanished as an object worthy of enquiry in IR, being treated either as a corollary of landed politics or as time. Few theoretical statements take the sea into account, and if sea power figures into the equation it is either treated as land power, its extension, or, seen as operating along the same logic. For the most part, the sea is ignored or obliterated as a transport leg, or a neutral conduit for imperial expansion; counted as time rather than analyzed as space.

Governance; History; Interdisciplinary Research; International Relations Theory

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April 8th

2:00pm-3:15pm

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RE18: Race and the International

When: Thursday, April 8, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Pilcomayo, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Ari Jerrems (Monash University) ▪ Discussant: Asees Puri (The Graduate Institute for International & Development Studies)

Papers International Relations Within the Limits of Geo-Anthropology Alone: The Kantian Racisms of the International ▪ Author: Mark F. N. Franke (Huron University College) Anxiety: political transformation, everyday experience and the politics of race ▪ Author: Andreja Zevnik (University of Manchester) The color line of extremism: policing, investigation and racial distinction of "violent extremism" in the U.S. ▪ Author: Manuela Trindade Viana (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) ▪ Author: Pedro Paulo dos Santos da Silva (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro) Transversal solidarities in a context of situated coloniality. A Conversation. ▪ Author: Riva Gewarges (McMaster University) ▪ Author: Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (University of Portsmouth) White saviours or comrades?: foreign fighters of the YPG and post-colonial agency outside of representational authority ▪ Author: Eda Gunaydin (University of Sydney)

Abstract and Keywords This panel examines how race and racial anxiety play out along different vectors, including within armed conflict and political solidarity, shaping how the international is conceptualized and policed.

Race; International Conflict; International Relations Theory; Critical Theory

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RE19: Connected and Comparative Colonialisms Part I: Exploring the local and the Global

When: Thursday, April 8, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Colorado, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Elian Weizman (London South Bank University) ▪ Discussant: Elian Weizman (London South Bank University) ▪ Participant: Misbah Hyder (University of California, Irvine) ▪ Participant: Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University) ▪ Participant: Timothy Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University) ▪ Participant: Ghada Sasa (McMaster University)

Abstract and Keywords Part I of ‘Connected and Comparative Colonialisms’ centres an enduring tension in the study of coloniality: On one hand, we understand colonialism as a material process; place-based and intrinsic to a particular territory, its history, its peoples and (indigenous) resistance to – and enduring negotiations with – conquest, domination, extraction and erasure. On the other, it is international, with local expressions of colonial norms and violences deeply engaged with global, albeit uneven and transversal processes. These become connected and yet remain distinct, through the different ways that economic, political and social circuits develop, travel and reshape themselves. This roundtable takes up these contingent, contradictory aspects of coloniality by bringing multiple colonial spaces, temporalities and practices into dialogue. Participants will unpack how different colonial projects across a variety of contexts and temporalities are entangled with and co-constituted by one another, without generalising or universalising their unique colonial experiences. By dwelling in these tensions, we hope to produce new understandings of how colonialism has persisted and been sustained in these connected contexts, while developing new modes of resisting and decolonising them (which are also always distinct and interconnected processes).

Colonialism; Empire; Indigenous Peoples; Postcolonialism; Race; ISA2020

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RE14: Capitalism: Dispossessions and Solidarities

When: Thursday, April 8, 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM Where: Ganges, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Shannon K. Brincat (University of the Sunshine Coast) ▪ Discussant: Daniel Lopez (University of Kent)

Papers Universal Politics ▪ Author: Ilan Kapoor (York University) Uneven and Combined Development and Regional Socio-political Transformations: A comparative analysis of Syria and Libya ▪ Author: Faruk Yalvaç (Atılım University) ▪ Author: Hikmet Mengüaslan (Middle East Technical University) “We all love Ghana very much”: Postcolonial Connectivities and the Future of the World ▪ Author: Paul Emiljanowicz (McMaster University) Management of life-chances: an alternative to capitalism ▪ Author: Daniel Lopez (University of Kent) Digital Infrastructures as Rent Infrastructures: Understanding New Pathways of Capital Accumulation and Structural Transformation within Contemporary Digital Capitalism ▪ Author: Laura Mann (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract and Keywords This panel examines global capitalism's historical and contemporary transformations, and posits various historical and future alternatives.

Capitalism; Globalization; Marxism; Resistance; Critical Theory

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April 8th 3:30pm-4:45pm

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RF22: Connected and Comparative Colonialisms Part II: Exploring Enduring Indigeneities

When: Thursday, April 8, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Indus, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development Participants ▪ Chair: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) ▪ Discussant: Sharri Plonski (Queen Mary University of London) ▪ Participant: Michelle Lee Brown (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Dartmouth College) ▪ Participant: Mary Tuti Baker (Western Washington University) ▪ Participant: Lana Tatour (University of New South Wales) ▪ Participant: Desirée Poets (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)) ▪ Participant: Doerthe Rosenow (Oxford Brookes University) ▪ Participant: Catherine Chiniara Charrett (University of Westminster)

Abstract and Keywords Continuing from Part I, this Roundtable also contends with inherent tensions between the place- based and the global that constitute and connect coloniality. However, it shifts from how colonial structures operate to how indigeneity endures. Inspired by the work of Kehaulani Kauanui, it centres the way indigeneity becomes rooted in spaces, identities and practices that are incommensurate, disordering but also intertwined with the colonial projects in which they are situated, and the global processes and support networks that link them. The participants will discuss how indigeneity forms/is formed from the place in which it is rooted, and the resistances and experiences that shape the workings of colonial relations in specific, grounded ways. At the same time, by bringing different cases together, and thinking through queer, feminist, anti- colonial and resurgent approaches to decoloniality, participants will discuss how those resistances, experiences and epistemologies travel and engage with the global; and how networks of rooted, place-based support/solidarity can actually operate across space and time. They will consider both the possibilities and problems of thinking about indigenous struggle as a global project, what gets erased, marginalised and privileged in order to build solidarity, and how to work through these tensions.

Colonialism; Indigenous Peoples; Resistance; ISA2020

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RF25: Meeting in the Middle: New Horizons in Global Translation Studies

When: Thursday, April 8, 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM Where: Danube, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations

Participants ▪ Chair: Robert Vitalis (University of Pennsylvania) ▪ Participant: Einar Wigen (University of Oslo) ▪ Participant: Janine Schmoldt (University of Erfurt) ▪ Participant: Jane Darby Menton (University of Cambridge) ▪ Participant: Anatoly Reshetnikov (Webster Vienna Private University) ▪ Participant: Kevin Funk (Trinity College)

Abstract and Keywords Most scholars of world politics have no trouble thinking about the power of words. Be it declarations, communiqués, treaties, or treatises, the languages of international politics have long been subject to scrutiny by academic and policy communities alike. Yet the way that political language use is studied resembles another aspect of how global politics takes place. To paraphrase Rufus Miles (1978) and Ann Tickner (1997), where you stand not only determines where you sit, but also the possibilities of mutual linguistic estrangement. In the same way that war, trade, migration, and myriad other global processes are products of conflict, negotiation, and exclusion, so too is language, or, at least the ways in which language becomes a palpable avenue for action and exchange. Translation is a fundamental, yet often overlooked practice in such everyday political operations. Realizing that international relations are in fact interlingual relations is not premised on a particular linguistic theory or philosophical approach to language. This roundtable picks up this very point: that the question of translation in global politics occurs across the scholarly, geographic, and historical boundaries between (partly) incommensurable languages.

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April 8th

5:00pm-6:15pm

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RG44: On the Path to the Global International Relations with Amitav Acharya

When: Thursday, April 8, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Juruá, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology

Participants ▪ Chair: Vendulka Kubalkova (University of Miami, USA; Visiting Professor, VŠE Prague, Czech Republic) ▪ Chair: Renat Shaykhutdinov (Florida Atlantic University) ▪ Discussant: Renat Shaykhutdinov (Florida Atlantic University) ▪ Discussant: Stepanka Zemanova (University of Economics, Prague) ▪ Participant: Amitav Acharya (American University) ▪ Participant: Thomas Biersteker (The Graduate Institute, Geneva) ▪ Participant: Nadiia Koval (Kyiv School of Economics) ▪ Participant: Daniel T. Plesch (School of Oriental and African Studies) ▪ Participant: Antje Wiener (University of Hamburg and University of Cambridge) ▪ Participant: Ole Waever (University of Copenhagen)

Abstract and Keywords A half-century ago, Stanley Hoffmann labeled International Relations (IR) discipline as not “International” but “American.” There followed efforts to overcome Hoffmann’s “triple distance,” to “internationalize” and then to “globalize” IR. The roundtable takes as its starting point the prescient call for a “Global IR” by Amitav Acharya, in his 2014 Address as ISA President. The roundtable celebrates him for his pioneering contributions in pursuit of the Global IR. The IR academic discipline is now global, existing in over fifty countries. It does not reject other theories but subsumes them, building bridges among different approaches as long as they are inclusive, esp. of Global South or any other marginalized areas and groups, including racial minorities and native populations in the West, and East. It includes postsocialist Central Europeans who have not historically been regarded as a part of the Global South. As over the years, the debates have shifted to philosophical, particularly epistemological questions, the focal points of this roundtable are ·how the Global IR is taught in different parts of the world, ·how ISA, on the platform of which the call for Global IR began, can facilitate its further development, ·what are the persisting challenges to the Global IR and how to address them? International Studies; Teaching; Distinguished Scholar

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RG32: Author Meets Critic: David P. King’s God’s Internationalists – World Vision and the Age of Evangelical Humanitarianism

When: Thursday, April 8, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Benue, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Ami Shah (Pacific Lutheran University) ▪ Participant: David King (IUPUI) ▪ Participant: Kathryn Mathers (Duke University) ▪ Participant: Ami Shah (Pacific Lutheran University)

Abstract and Keywords This roundtable discusses David P. King’s 2019 book on World Vision and evangelical humanitarianism. The book provides a deep study of World Vision, a faith-based humanitarian organization, and in doing so demonstrates international articulations and shifts in Christian evangelicalism. Tracing World Vision’s path to becoming the largest Christian humanitarian organization in the world, King adeptly connects the domestic with the international. Our roundtable brings together scholars from international relations, anthropology, sociology, political science, and critical development studies to examine the important contributions of this book and its implications for studying and understanding humanitarianism, faith and charity, notions of care, and the role of non-governmental organizations. At a time of increasing attention to evangelicalism within the United States, to the practices of humanitarian organizations, and to popular engagement in global social issues within the Global South, the book and the roundtable highlight issues of concern for those studying religion in international affairs, international norms and practices in humanitarianism, relationships between NGOs and the state, and the public, and global development.

Development; Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Religion; Humanitarianism; ISA2020

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RG01: New Directions in Genocide Studies: Multiple Perspectives and Identities

When: Thursday, April 8, 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM Where: Ubangi, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Sarah Maddison (University of Melbourne) ▪ Discussant: David Bruce MacDonald (University of Guelph)

Papers Applying the Concept of Ecocide to Indigenous Rights in Canada: The Mikisew Cree and Grassy Narrows Cases ▪ Author: Jeremy Patzer (University of Manitoba) Genocide of Māori in New Zealand? Comparing Indigenous child removal policies and their aftermath in four settler states ▪ Author: David Bruce MacDonald (University of Guelph) Corporate Accountability for Crimes Against Humanity ▪ Author: Sarah Federman (University of Baltimore, College of Public Affairs) Genocide, Ecology, and the Body ▪ Author: Benjamin Meiches (University of Washington-Tacoma) Indigeneity and Mass Death ▪ Author: Timothy Vasko (Barnard College of Columbia University)

Abstract and Keywords This international panel of genocide scholars from diverse backgrounds explores several new directions in the field of genocide studies. We consider three academically fruitful areas of growth. First, there is growing area is the relationship between colonization and genocide against Indigenous peoples. The state often plays an important role in perpetrating genocide, and its courts can be the venue for considering justice claims. Second, genocide research is benefiting from new theories of embodiment, brain and physical health and international legal interpretations of genocide. Together these papers address key complementary directions for the discipline while also reflecting on how genocide studies fits into IR.

Genocide; Health; Justice; Power (Political); Comparative Research/Methodology; Legal Theory; World War I/II; ISA2020

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April 8th

6:30pm-7:45pm

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RH31: Othering, Orientalizing, and Ordering: Non-Western Interventions

When: Thursday, April 8, 6:30 PM - 7:45 PM Where: Kura, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Discussant: Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)

Papers Hidden in Plain Sight: The Slavery in Brazil as a Fundamental Process Drawing the Global Color Line ▪ Author: Ramon Blanco (Federal University of Latin-American Integration) Liberal International Order or White Man’s Order? The Gendered Racialization of the Orient ▪ Author: Amoz Hor (George Washington University) A Finished Game? International Relations after Europe ▪ Author: Lucas Van Milders (University of Groningen) Maneuvering Empire: Colonial Order, Disciplinary Power, and (Post-)Colonial Considerations Among Marginalized Subjects ▪ Author: Owen Brown (Northwestern University) ▪ Author: Arturo Chang (Williams College)

Abstract and Keywords

Empire; Postcolonialism; Race

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April 8th

8:00pm-9:15pm

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RI20: Internationalism and the International Order: Perspectives from the Rest

When: Thursday, April 8, 8:00 PM - 9:15 PM Where: Orange, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Waleed Hazbun (University of Alabama) ▪ Discussant: Waleed Hazbun (University of Alabama)

Papers Revisiting Rome: Africa and the International Legal Order ▪ Author: Oumar Ba (Morehouse College) “My Government Cares about you:” Practices of Solidarity as Global Ordering ▪ Author: Lina Benabdallah (Wake Forest University) Regional Value, International Recognition: Politics of World Heritage ▪ Author: Elif Kalaycioglu (University of Alabama) A Different Internationalism: the case of the UNPO ▪ Author: Austin Schutz (University of Alabama)

Abstract and Keywords There is much talk - and worry - that global politics is facing a decline of internationalism, and a resurgence of nationalism and regionalism. Without discounting key shifts in global politics, this panel challenges the juxtaposition of internationalism, regionalism and nationalism as ahistorically and inherently contradictory. What is at stake is a complex and political interplay, in which regions are juxtaposed not only as alternatives but also bridges to the international. These bridges connect actors to the international, and also open up new possibilities to negotiate its normative and institutional set-up. At the same time, rising nationalisms are marked by the international. These nationalisms legitimate themselves by vocally rejecting international normative and institutional structures, while also understanding such legitimation to entail the ability to participate in and change the course of global politics. Furthermore, these dynamics are deeply embedded in histories of failed global political projects, and frustrated hopes of change, inclusion and justice. Based on these insights, the papers in this panel, seek to develop historical and political analyses of the interplay between internationalism, regionalism and nationalism through the cases of international law, South-South solidarity, and transformative engagements with global governance.

Regionalism; Resistance; International Relations Theory; Global Governance; Global/International Society

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April 9th

8:00am-9:15am

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FA23: Feeling and Acting Like an Organization

When: Friday, April 9, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Rio Paraguay, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Mehmet Akif Kumral (Independent Scholar) ▪ Discussant: Thomas Lindemann (Ecole Polytechnique/Universite de Versailles Saint Quentin)

Papers Can International Regimes impact Foreign Aid Policy? Soft power, peer pressure, and reputation ▪ Author: Ruth Ben-Artzi (Providence College) Remembering Transnational Altruisms: Empathetic Sacrifice beyond Violent Protest and Peaceful Activism ▪ Author: Mehmet Akif Kumral (Independent Scholar) Project Think?: A Critical Perspective on NGOs, Social Justice, and Democracy in the Middle East ▪ Author: Gizem F. Zencirci (Providence College) ▪ Author: Catherine Herrold (Indiana University) Acquiescence or Agency? Response of Grassroots Actors to Aid Colonization ▪ Author: Catherine Herrold (Indiana University)

Abstract and Keywords These papers examine what motivates NGOs, IOs, aid organizations, and aid workers, and why they take the actions they do.

Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Psychology; Foreign Aid

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FA07: Beyond Eurocentrism in 19th Century International Relations

When: Friday, April 9, 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM Where: Yenisei, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: James E. Worrall (University of Leeds) ▪ Discussant: Carsten-Andreas Schulz (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)

Papers Wars, Insurgencies, and the Militarization of State Building in Late Nineteenth Century East Asia ▪ Author: Seo-Hyun Park (Lafayette College) Malaria, Independence, and the End of Privateering in the Atlantic ▪ Author: Mark A. Shirk (University of Cambridge) Slavery in 19th Century Brazil: resistance as IR ▪ Author: Gustavo de Góes Bezerra (PUC Rio) The Rise of Imperial Humanitarianism. The Role of the International Red Cross in the Making of International Law, 1864-1914 ▪ Author: Christian Mueller (University of Nottingham Ningbo China) UNISC – Community University: local self-governance alternatives for higher education in a context of weak statehood in South Brazil ▪ Author: Anna Paula de Moraes Bennech (Würzburg University)

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April 9th

9:30am-10:45am

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FB35: Teaching Thomas Sankara in 21st Century Academia

When: Friday, April 9, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Río de la Plata, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Timothy Vasko (Barnard College of Columbia University) ▪ Discussant: Anna M. Agathangelou (York University)

Papers The Power of Reading: Confronting Neoliberalism and Anti-Intellectualism ▪ Author: Shiera Malik (DePaul University) “When the People Stand up, Imperialism Trembles”: Thomas Sankara is our International Relations Teacher ▪ Author: Jonneke Koomen (Willamette University) “One Village, One Grove:” Sankara’s Anti-Imperialist Political Ecology of Development ▪ Author: Anatoli I. Ignatov (Appalachian State University) Engaging Sankara on the Ruins of Epistemicide. Discovering, Reporting and Teaching Thomas Sankara as Anticolonial Archive. ▪ Author: Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa (University of Portsmouth) The Dialogic of Anti-Imperialism: Translations of Necessity and Imperative in the Works of Thomas Sankara, Christopher Okigbo and John Trudell ▪ Author: Allen Stack (Johns Hopkins University)

Abstract and Keywords There is a politics of branding in the social sciences. This process is often sustained through the implied categorizations of the authors we teach and research. By invoking certain authorships, we unwittingly don the mantle of categories associated with them. Introductions perform this: “Who is Thomas Sankara?” finds the response, “Sankara was an African Socialist”. So, therefore, to be a scholar or teacher of Sankara lands us working on the category of African Socialism. This has profound implications for what issues we can speak to and in which fora. By re-situating important figures like Sankara within the pedagogical landscape, can we refuse presumptive and biased predeterminations of Sankara’s contemporary political relevance? In the process of this engagement, perhaps the relevance of ‘African’ and ‘Socialist’ thought is enhanced as well as the fields of other associated categories. The papers of this panel, deploy different lenses of engagement with Sankara’s work, his movement, and our remembering of it. While differing in approach, these authors pursue the important work of rethinking Sankara’s relevance for the social sciences today. In doing so, these papers aim at a collaborative rethinking of the stakes of contemporary pedagogy.

Development; Ethics; Imperialism; Postcolonialism; Pedagogy; Revolution; Aesthetics

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FB47: Politics, Struggle, Knowledge, and the Locations of the Intellectual

When: Friday, April 9, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Rio Grande, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Theory ▪ International Political Sociology

Participants ▪ Chair: Timothy Seidel (Eastern Mennonite University) ▪ Chair: Alina Sajed (McMaster University) ▪ Participant: Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University) ▪ Participant: Rohan K. Kalyan (Virginia Commonwealth University) ▪ Participant: Himadeep Muppidi (Vassar College) ▪ Participant: Asli Calkivik (Istanbul Technical University) ▪ Participant: Quỳnh N. Phạm (University of San Francisco) ▪ Participant: Bikrum Gill (Virginia Tech) ▪ Participant: Jasmine Gani (University of St. Andrews)

Abstract and Keywords This roundtable will open up a space to explore critical themes of knowledge, politics, struggle, and what Edward Said described in Covering Islam as the choice facing scholars and intellectuals: “whether to put intellect at the service of power or at the service of criticism, community, dialogue, and moral sense” (1997, 172). Scholars like Said, Stuart Hall, and Robin D. G. Kelley and Patricia Hill Collins have explored these connections between knowledge production and social and political engagement, observing that the positionality and location of the intellectual matters. They argue that this location matters not least in terms of how the production of oppositional knowledges has the potential to articulate alternative imaginaries for political action and struggle. How might scholars of International Relations respond to these choices facing the intellectual? What is our responsibility as individual scholars and teachers or as intellectual communities? Is our intellectual work always at the same time unavoidably political work, even struggle, for someone?

Ethics; Postcolonialism; Power (Political); Critical Theory; Culture; ISA2020

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FB07: New Histories of Liberalism

When: Friday, April 9, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Yenisei, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Discussant: Alexander Graef (Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH))

Papers Historicizing Liberal World Order: A Comparative-Sociological Approach ▪ Author: Dillon Stone Tatum (Francis Marion University) A new Liberal International Order in the High North? Small state realism between the Great Powers ▪ Author: Gjermund Forfang Rongved (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies) ▪ Author: Ingeborg Bjur (Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies) The Cobden-Chevalier Network and the Nineteenth Century Liberal Order ▪ Author: Robert Shaver (New School for Social Research) Whither Liberalism? Economic and Technological Experimentation within Kenyan Agriculture ▪ Author: Laura Mann (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Abstract and Keywords The papers in this panel re-examine key moments in the history of both liberal thought and liberal order.

Liberalism

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FB02: Cosmologies and Epistemologies of Territory

When: Friday, April 9, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Purús, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global Development ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Caroline Dunton (University of Ottawa)

Papers Canada as an International Space ▪ Author: Liam Midzain-Gobin (Brock University) How did we get here? A genealogy of border control practice and knowledge production in international relations ▪ Author: Samah Rafiq (Jawaharlal Nehru University) Environmental History as IR: Scientific Communities and the Territorialization of the Ocean ▪ Author: Kerry Goettlich (University of Reading)

Abstract and Keywords This panel looks to the way knowledges and territories are co-constitutive: not only do we produce knowledge about territory, but in turn we mobilize this knowledge in processes of bordering, empire-building, and state formation. These processes not only offer insight into different ontological and cosmological understandings of territory, but also underpin territorial rule and governance. In doing so we seek to go beyond critiquing the Westphalian state towards a non-Eurocentric understanding of the various ontologies and cosmologies that have contributed to colonial and imperial modes of governance and world-making, and forms of hierarchy that persist today. How has scientific knowledge and societies’ relationship with nature, for example, reinforced hierarchies in colonialism and international governance? How have different conceptions of civilizations, improvement, and development helped build and reproduce the territorial order as it exists today? How is knowledge also enacted to contest these modes of governance, including by decolonization movements? By examining the formation of the international through a variety of processes, the papers move past assumptions of the naturalness of the international system of sovereign states. In so doing they offer a deeper understanding of the processes of knowledge production and mobilization that have made this assumed naturalness possible.

Borders; Colonialism; Imperialism; Science

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FB14: Insights from/for the Global South

When: Friday, April 9, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM Where: Ganges, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Global South Caucus ▪ International Political Economy ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Timothy M. Shaw (University of Massachusetts Boston) ▪ Participant: Stefano Palestini (Catholic University of Chile) ▪ Participant: Logan Cochrane (HBKU) ▪ Participant: Abel Polese (Dublin City University)

Abstract and Keywords The IPE Series from Palgrave Macmillan has for more than 35 years focused on the 'Global South'; and over the last decade it has published over a dozen titles in a 'mini-series'. Roundtable participants are drawn from the more than 20 authors & editors in this mini-series from Africa, Asia & Latin America, covering a range of salient issues such as the BRICS/EMs, conflict, development, gender, land, migration, regionalisms, supply chains etc. They reflect on the continuing evolution of such Southern voices in the third decade of the 21st century & identify gaps in the mini-series as approaches, networks, norms, relationships & technologies evolve.

Development; Diaspora; Transnationalism; Emerging Markets; Gender; Regional Powers; Developing Countries

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April 9th

11:00am-12:15pm

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FC14: Critical IR Theory in the Hispanosphere

When: Friday, April 9, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Ganges, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development

Participants ▪ Chair: Mariela Cuadro (CONICET-UNSAM) ▪ Discussant: Melody Fonseca (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras) ▪ Participant: Ari Jerrems (Monash University) ▪ Participant: Alice Martini (Universidad Comillas) ▪ Participant: Adhemar Mercado (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Abstract and Keywords IR is a discipline with a clear and spatialized center of production located in a small number of Anglophone countries. Drawing on the epistemological stance that knowledge is historical and, hence, particular, critical theories in IR have emerged and consolidated themselves struggling with the idea of universally valid knowledge. Thus, critical scholars have highlighted the relationship between power, knowledge, and subjectivity, and their coloniality. This has led to a variety of claims calling for the decolonisation and globalisation of the discipline. This roundtable's purpose is to serve as a call for reflecting on our practices as critical Spanish speaking scholars. Some of the questions that we will raise are: Why theorise from our particular positionalities? What for? What does it mean to theorise from diverse places in the Hispanosphere? What tools do we use to do theory from Latin America or non-Anglo spaces? Is there a "pure," "autochthonous" way of theorising from the Global South? How does our experience shape our understanding of IR and IR? How do our theoretical constructs travel? Where do they travel? For whom do we write? For whom should we write? How do we conceive the relation between theory and (political) practice?

Postcolonialism; Critical Theory; Latin America

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FC07: When East Meets West: The Synthesis and Reproduction of Ideas and Knowledge

When: Friday, April 9, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Yenisei, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Historical International Relations ▪ Global Development ▪ Globalization, Regionalism and Nationalism: Contending Forces in World Politics (Theme)

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Xiao Alvin Yang (University of Kassel) ▪ Discussant: Manali Kumar (University of St. Gallen) ▪ Discussant: Tom Chen (Ohio State University)

Papers Bounded Identity: The Cost of Becoming a Great Power ▪ Author: Ce Liang (University of Cambridge) Righteous Fists: Status, Mobilization, and Conflict in Late Imperial China ▪ Author: Robert Lincoln Hines (Cornell University) The Silk Road of Reason: intellectual exchanges between ‘Eastern Mysticism’ and ‘Western Science’ ▪ Author: Tom Chen (Ohio State University) Progression Through Repetition, Two Dialectics in China’s Global Vision ▪ Author: Ce Liang (University of Cambridge) ▪ Author: Xiao Alvin Yang (University of Kassel)

Abstract and Keywords It has been widely argued that Western political thoughts and Eastern political thoughts have influenced each other profoundly. IR is a discipline that has been enriched with new concepts and theories from across the global. Yet, in the existing IR literature there is insufficient discussion about how concepts travel from the West to the East and vice versa, and how they localize in different contexts. This panel proposes to discuss these issues by looking at the synthesis of Eastern and Western thought and its implications for world order. The aim is to bring forward the understanding that supplements the dichotomous approach to theorization that has dominated the field. This panel proposes to discusses two general themes— knowledge-power nexus and contending forces in world politics. In particular, we investigate a range of key concepts in IR—status, great powers and identity, and examine how these concepts have been synthesized and reproduced by rising powers in non-western discourses. By focusing on the experience and history of China, India, and Japan, this panel enriches the empirical studies in the IR scholarship. Furthermore, by examining the production of knowledge in non-European contexts, we seek to supplement the Eurocentric worldview in social sciences.

History; Identity; Social Hierarchy; International Relations Theory; Asia; Political Theory; Status

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FC29: Dissent, Emancipate, Critique: Postcolonial Challenges to Power Politics

When: Friday, April 9, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Where: Nile, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ International Political Sociology ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Catherine Goetze (University of Tasmania) ▪ Discussant: Casey McNeill (Fordham University)

Papers Breaking away from IR as an option for dissent in Global South IR. ▪ Author: Nizar Messari (Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane (AUI)) The Postcolonial Challenge to the Study of U.S.-Latin American Relations ▪ Author: Eric Rittinger (Salisbury University) The state of a field: Triangulating the power and politics of Vietnam scholarship in International Relations ▪ Author: Bart Gabriel (The Graduate Institute for International & Development Studies) (Post)Colonial Rearrangement in Ukraine: The Politics of the Spectacle ▪ Author: Andriy Levytskyy (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Building postcolonial narratives of emancipation: The identity of the emancipatory agent ▪ Author: Taylor Borowetz (SOAS University of London)

Abstract and Keywords This panel addresses the question of location in theorizing violence, dissent and critique in international relations. Papers consider the recalcitrance of 'Western' theories in understanding international problems and the role of theory in the Global South; postcolonial challenges to the study of US-Latin American relations; the broader role of the Vietnam War in international theorizing, reading contemporary imperial formations through Ukrainian politics, and the plurality of understandings of emancipation in anti-colonial literatures and struggles.

Imperialism; Postcolonialism; Violence; International Relations Theory; Vietnam; Ukraine; Latin America

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April 9th

12:30pm-1:45pm

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FD30: On Fear and Violence in International Relations

When: Friday, April 9, 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Where: Guaporé, ISA Virtual Platform

Sponsored By ▪ Theory ▪ Global Development ▪ International Political Sociology

Chairs and Discussants ▪ Chair: Francine Rossone de Paula (Queen's University Belfast) ▪ Discussant: Jakob Dreyer (University of Copenhagen)

Papers The Space of Fear, Political Community and IR ▪ Author: Ali Fuat Birol (Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University) Everything new is old again: understanding claims to novel forms of violence ▪ Author: Marta Bashovski (Campion College at the University of Regina) International Politics in/of the Hold: Race and Abu Zubaydah’s Torture Illustrations ▪ Author: Shree Deshpande (University of Hawai‘i-Mānoa) Time and Victory: Military Triumphs Beyond the West ▪ Author: Mirko Palestrino (Queen Mary, University of London)

Abstract and Keywords This panel explores intersections of space, fear, and violence in international politics.

Violence; Space

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