Exclusive expertise: the boundary work of international organizations

Kranke, Matthias

doi:10.1080/09692290.2020.1784774

Cited by 47 publications

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“…Migration statistics serve the purpose of building a common migration narrative promoted and idealised by international organisations (Scheel et al, 2019). Knowledge production is ultimately a mode of governance (Merry, 2016), enabling international organisations to exercise ‘soft power’ in the world and over a variety of audiences (Korneev, 2018; Kranke, 2020). Technical assistance projects and guidance enable international organisations to convey what is acceptable and legitimate behaviour by states (Barrett and Finnemore, 1999), facilitating influence over national policies (Beland and Orenstein, 2013).…”

Section: The Ilo and Coordinated Governance Of International Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A ‘north star’ in governing global labour migration? The ILO and the Fair Recruitment Initiative

Jones

2022

Global Social Policy

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In 2014, the International Labour Organization (ILO) launched the Fair Recruitment Initiative (FRI) with the aim of tackling labour exploitation widely associated with the recruitment of low-wage migrant workers. To date, scholars have largely neglected the ILO’s role in developing ‘fair recruitment’ as a mechanism of global social policy. In response, this article analyses the ILO’s harnessing of fair recruitment to the global governance of migration. Through engaging in significant knowledge production activities, the ILO has promoted ‘fair recruitment’ as a new norm, generating consensus from these partners, despite its absence from international legal standards. In utilising multiple and varied tools, the article argues that the FRI is an example of the ‘coordinated governance’ which the ILO has had to pragmatically resort to in externally and internally challenging environments, and regardless of whether states have ratified its main convention on recruitment, C181. However, as of 2022, the concept of fair recruitment remains a muted challenge to the hegemonic precarity and inequalities associated with international labour migration in the 21st century.

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Section: The Ilo and Coordinated Governance Of International Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A ‘north star’ in governing global labour migration? The ILO and the Fair Recruitment Initiative

Jones

2022

Global Social Policy

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“…Such moves have been accompanied by a growing interest in engaging with the STS field not only from a reflexive perspective (Bueger and Gadinger 2007 ) but also through applied approaches, building on STS research and/or adopting its analytical tools (Allan 2017 ; De Pryck 2021 ; Hughes and Vadrot 2019 ; Kranke 2020 ).…”

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Is it only about science and policy? The ‘intergovernmental epistemologies’ of global environmental governance

Donà

2022

J Int Relat Dev

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Although international actors operating under the United Nations umbrella put much faith in the possibility of bridging science and policy through various institutional arrangements, research in the Science and Technology Studies (STS) tradition suggests that different civic epistemologies revolve around environmental degradation issues. Civic epistemologies , which imply peculiar understandings of knowledge across cultures, are not easily bridged. This paper contends that conflicting (civic) epistemologies inevitably emerge in epistemic debates at the intergovernmental level, with strong implications for how science and knowledge are dealt with and understood in environmental negotiations. Drawing on the experience of global soil and land governance and building on the idiom of civic epistemologies , the concept of intergovernmental epistemologies is introduced as an analytical tool to capture the diverging ways of appreciating and validating knowledge in intergovernmental settings. Placing state actors and their perspectives center stage, intergovernmental epistemologies account for the tensions, contestations and politicisation processes of international institutional settings dealing with environmental issues. The paper concludes discussing the consequences of intergovernmental epistemologies for the study of global environmental governance: it cautions about overreliance on approaches based on learning and all-encompassing discourses, emphasizing the value of using STS-derived concepts to investigate the complexity of international environmental negotiations.

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“…Our commentary builds on existing academic literature on science–policy ‘borders’, ‘boundary objects’ and ‘boundary‐work‘ to consider further what we term the ‘borderlands’ of the SPI (Abbott, 1995; Dear & Jasanoff, 2010; Hofius, 2016; Jasanoff, 1987; Kranke, 2022; Langley et al, 2019). For us the term ‘borderland’ is not pejorative or alarmist.…”

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confidence: 99%