Domains of Objects, Rituals of truth: Mapping Intersections between International Legal History and the New Materialisms

Radio Silences: The ‘Kidnapped Voices’ and the Production of Political Memory in Colombia (1994–2018)

“…137 As such, an interrogation of the material histories of these technologies allows us to understand better their political and distributive attributes: they show us who stood to 'win' or 'lose' from the unleashing of radio waves. 138 The same is true, of course, for the contested an early version of this argument. I also thank the reviewers and editors for their generous comments on a later version of the manuscript, and I thank Alejandro Muñoz-González for his engagement with the final text.…”

“…137 As such, an interrogation of the material histories of these technologies allows us to understand better their political and distributive attributes: they show us who stood to 'win' or 'lose' from the unleashing of radio waves. 138 The same is true, of course, for the contested…”

“Keynesian” Shipping Containers?

“…As I have explored more elsewhere, in the last decades across the social sciences and the humanities there have been important calls to reengage with the materiality of the social world, in the wake of the critique of the fascination of our intellectual age with discourse. 95 Slowly but surely, even our discipline has come up to speed with this "new materialist" perspective that comes from feminist social theory and the history of science, leading to new studies of the material practices, objects, and infrastructures of global governance. 96 But, as I have argued in the past, one of the limitations of these first waves of new materialist interventions has been their fidelity to "traditional" state and consent-centered understandings of regulation.…”