2011
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-5687.2011.00133.x
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Reflexivity and the Construction of the International Object: The Case of Human Rights1

Abstract: Recent years have seen a surge of interest in applying the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu in international studies as part of a more general sociological turn observable in both international and European studies. However, different from earlier attempts at deploying Bourdieusian sociology in the context of international law, economics, and politics, most of this new Bourdieu‐inspired constructivist political science research only marginally addresses what in many ways was the cardinal point of Bourdieu’s work: … Show more

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“…The practice of citing the relevant norms and principles gleaned from an array of interlocking texts has crystallized into a durable discursive form in the different genres associated with human rights talks such as declarations, urgent action alerts, campaigns, educational material, and country reports. Due to the pre‐eminence of legal rationality in the human rights field (Madsen, ; Woodiwiss, ), this citation practice is clearly indebted to the manner in which “facts” in legal reasoning are determined internally by reference to binding and authoritative legal texts. As socio‐legal scholars have argued, these self‐referential dynamics provide the law with both the operational and normative closure that underwrites law's autonomy and to a certain extent its social efficacy as a social technology for dispute resolution (Luhmann, ).…”
Section: Representationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The practice of citing the relevant norms and principles gleaned from an array of interlocking texts has crystallized into a durable discursive form in the different genres associated with human rights talks such as declarations, urgent action alerts, campaigns, educational material, and country reports. Due to the pre‐eminence of legal rationality in the human rights field (Madsen, ; Woodiwiss, ), this citation practice is clearly indebted to the manner in which “facts” in legal reasoning are determined internally by reference to binding and authoritative legal texts. As socio‐legal scholars have argued, these self‐referential dynamics provide the law with both the operational and normative closure that underwrites law's autonomy and to a certain extent its social efficacy as a social technology for dispute resolution (Luhmann, ).…”
Section: Representationsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The manner and the context in which Economic Social and Cultural (ESC) human rights have developed have not, to date, been an object of sustained social science inquiry. This is in part due to the highly normative and juridified nature of the practice and study of human rights (Madsen, ) . The latter has been geared towards the clarification of the concepts, principles, and methods by which these are, or might be, embedded in global institutions, inter‐state agreements, and in national state law.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our approach to understanding the deep structures of global governance is indebted to a Weberian logic of inquiry, in combination with Bourdieusian reflexive sociology. Bourdieu's notion of double rupture—and later reflexivity (Madsen )—argues exactly for the need for a double historicization of the research object and research question if the goal is to explore the relationship between power and structural concealment: a historicization of the object as well as the academic construction of that object. Basically, reflexivity suggests a pre‐Latourian form of “black boxing” which takes very seriously the idea that the sorts of objects in question here are typically marked by a set of Impensés .…”
Section: Black‐boxing Global Governance As a New Form Of Authoritymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although human rights are often perceived as universally accepted standards of inclusion, increasingly more sociologists recognize that it is necessary to understand how and in which contexts human rights cultures are created. Human rights are then perceived as originating, existing and being applied in specific contexts, which can be framed as social struggles (Keck & Sikkink, 1999;Madsen, 2011;Morris, 2006;Nash, 2009;Waters, 1996;Woodiwiss, 2005). This struggle forms a continuous (re)negotiation of norms and ideas about human rights through discursive framing by different interpretive communities (judicial, political, civil society); groups of actors which have different perspectives on the meaning of human rights (Madsen, 2011;Morris, 2006;Nash, 2009;Waters, 1996;Woodiwiss, 2005).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%