An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology

Tallis, Benjamin

doi:10.1080/14747731.2019.1676586

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“…The ways in which this style has been tarred with the brush of political memory of communist regimes is indicative of a differentiated East–West politics and have had political consequences, as I have recently argued elsewhere (e.g. Tallis, 2019). Thus, while this special section is not ostensibly anchored in NP’s ‘region’, it shows the connections and disconnections of materiality and meaning between CEE and the wider world.…”

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confidence: 75%

To provoke constellations

Tallis

2020

New Perspectives

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The first words written in New Perspectives were written to attract and to provoke (Tallis, 2015). Playing with stereotypes and commonly held pre and misconceptions -as well as a kernel or two of various, competing truths -I wanted to set out the stylistic stall of the journal as well as to cut straight to the heart of its mission. I wanted New Perspectives to 'provoke constellations' -new ways of seeing, understanding and engaging with Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). I wanted the journal to do so by drawing on (overlooked) aspects of the region's past, addressing problematic aspects of its present and contributing to its better future. I wanted to draw new scholars into working on -and even in! -the region and bring new approaches to bear on its problems, but also on its opportunities and potential.

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Section: New New Perspectivesmentioning

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2020

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“…However, the ‘political forms’ – in effect, the terms – of this co-existence can change over time. Statehood – or lack of it – is a key ‘formal’ factor, but there are of course other, ‘informal’ factors that affect the terms of co-existence and, thus, the ways that societies and nations can interact, combine and change with others over time (Tallis, 2020). This section illustrates this point by outlining the ‘terms’ of German co-existence in the period after the Second World War (WW2).…”

Section: Zero Hour: the Terms Of German Post-war Co-existencementioning

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Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations

Tallis¹

2022

Cooperation and Conflict

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Kraftwerk are widely recognised as one of the most important groups in the history of popular music – and for (West) German national identity in the 20th century. They have been labelled as both typically German and thoroughly cosmopolitan, but, rather than being paradoxical (as some have claimed), this tension reveals an under-explored international politics at work. Using the emerging approach of Multiplicity, I illuminate Kraftwerk’s international dimensions to develop the insight that all societies are inter-societal and all nations international. The article thus intervenes into an ongoing debate in International Political Sociology (IPS) that has seen calls to abandon ‘the international’ in favour of ‘the global’. In practice, this would also ignore ‘the national’ which, as Cultural Studies scholarship on Kraftwerk and recent sociological work shows, remains an important mode of meaning-making. Yet these same literatures dismiss cosmopolitanism or afford no constitutive role to the international, meaning they slide back into methodological nationalism. Using Multiplicity, I address both the national and the cosmopolitan elements of societal identity and suggest a newly co-ontological conception of identity and difference for International Relations (IR). Sketching Kraftwerk’s genesis, innovations, inspirations, influence and importance, I thus illuminate the inter-national politics of the musical ‘re-birth of Germany’.

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“…But Rosenberg's multiplicity claim looks at the Social from the perspective of 'its highest level of organization' (Rosenberg, 2016: 136). Here the concept does something interesting: First, it turns our common perception of IR as 'explaining what happens internationally' into explaining the consequences of multiplicity, which includes how perceptions of the local or the material are affected by the international (Tallis, 2020). Second, closely linked to the first, the concept denaturalises 'the global'.…”

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Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains

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2022

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Human rights in global value chains have become a key field of study in international law and corporate governance. The analysis often starts with a gap – a ‘governance gap’ in human rights protection. This pragmatic starting point calls for pragmatic solutions: better corporate compliance and more accountability. While this goes a long way in addressing corporate misconduct, the global corporate form, its power and legitimation in transnationally generating and appropriating value tend to become naturalized phenomena. Moreover, the effects of accountability agendas on corporate power and legitimation are hardly considered. Instead, I propose to address the ‘human rights problem’ by understanding the corporation and its networks as consequences of international politics – conceptualized as inter-societal multiplicity. The multiplicity lens offers a possibility to replace the governance gap with a productive conception of inter-societal conditions and can complement the focus on accountability and compliance. I conclude the article by tentatively sketching three important consequences of such a starting point for defining the problem of human rights in global value chains: the international dimensions of the division of labour under competitive conditions, the legitimation of corporate practices and the production of knowledge for their regulation.

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An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

To provoke constellations

To provoke constellations

Kraftwerk and the international ‘re-birth of Germany’: Multiplicity, identity and difference in music and International Relations

Multiplicity, the corporation and human rights in global value chains

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