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Salvatore Caserta - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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western Centrism contemporary international law and international courts
Leiden Journal of International Law, 2021Co-Authors: Salvatore CasertaAbstract:The article unpacks the notion of western Centrism in contemporary international law by developing a framework to capture its varied patterns. It argues that western Centrism can have three different manifestations – systemic, evaluative, and professional – depending on whether it refers to the rationality, the narratives, or the actors at play in the international legal field. The article then discusses three theoretical approaches that can help scholars dealing with western Centrism in international (legal) scholarship. These are: (i) the critical readings of those scholars that explain international law through the lens of power and domination; (ii) the Stanford school of sociological institutionalism, which explains international institutions and norms through the role of culture and global scripts; and (iii) post-Bourdieusian reflexive sociology, which analyses the roles of transnational legal elites in colonial and post-colonial settings. Finally, the article reconstructs the experience of the Caribbean Court of Justice in the light of western Centrism, demonstrating that, different from what is often argued in the literature, the Court is not a failed replica of the Court of Justice of the EU, but an institution in its own right, with its own approach to international law, its own successes and failures.
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western Centrism contemporary international law and international courts
Social Science Research Network, 2020Co-Authors: Salvatore CasertaAbstract:The paper unpacks the notion of western Centrism in contemporary international law by developing a framework to capture the its varied patterns. It argues that western Centrism can have three different manifestations – Systemic, Evaluative, and Professional – depending on whether it refers to the rationality, the narratives, or the actors at play in the international legal field. The paper then discusses three theoretical approaches that can help scholars dealing with western Centrism in international (legal) scholarship. These are: the critical readings of those scholars that explain international law through the lens of power and domination; II) the Stanford school of sociological institutionalism, which explains international institutions and norms through the role of culture and global scripts; and III) the post-Bourdieusian reflexive sociology, which analyses the roles of transnational legal elites in colonial and post-colonial settings. Finally, the paper reconstructs the experience of the Caribbean Court of Justice in the light of Western Centrism, demonstrating that, different from what often argued in the literature, the court is not a failed replica of the Court of Justice of the EU, but an institution in its own right, with its own approach to international law, its own successes and failures.
Terry Flew - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The 'theory' in media theory: The 'media-Centrism' debate
2017Co-Authors: Terry FlewAbstract:Responding to transformations in, and the increasing imbrication of, media technologies and society is often presented as the study of ‘media and society’, where ‘society’ could mean ‘anything else’, and where any theoretical engagement is with a separate body of (non-media-centric) knowledge developed within other disciplines. There has in recent years, however, been a debate on whether or not media theory should be privileging media-centric approaches instead. In considering the merits of the two approaches in ‘The ‘Theory’ in Media Theory: The ‘Media-Centrism’ Debate’, Terry Flew situates them within wider and more historical debates about the relation between materiality and discourse in the work of Hall, Laclau & Mouffe and others, as well as in the debate between McLuhan and Williams on, respectively, the media’s influence on society or the social shaping of media. Turning to the mediasphere, medium theory, media ecologies, mediation and mediatization, Flew argues that the journal should be open to consideration of those perspectives on the media that come from within the study of media itself, and engage in more speculative accounts of where our media technologies may be leading us socially, culturally, politically and economically.
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the theory in media theory the media Centrism debate
Social Science Research Network, 2017Co-Authors: Terry FlewAbstract:This paper considers the relevant weightings of 'media-Centrism' and 'society-Centrism' in theories of the media. Among the theories discussed are Stuart Hall's theory of hegemony, the debate between Raymond Williams and Marshall McLuhan about technological determinism, and theories of mediatization.
Eric De Brabandere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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non state actors state Centrism and human rights obligations
Leiden Journal of International Law, 2009Co-Authors: Eric De BrabandereAbstract:Despite its not being an entirely new debate in international law and international relations, the nexus between human rights and non-state actors has become a highly relevant topic of scholarly research, as witnessed by the three works under review, published in 2005 and 2006. When Andrew Clapham published in 1993 Human Rights in the Private Sphere, in which he already questioned the public/private divide of human rights law, the book was then categorized as both ‘adventuresome and timely’. Some fifteen years later, an analysis of this topic can no longer be called ‘adventuresome’, but the timeliness remains beyond doubt.
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non state actors state Centrism and human rights obligations
Social Science Research Network, 2009Co-Authors: Eric De BrabandereAbstract:Despite not being an entirely new debate in international law and international relations, the nexus between human rights and non-state actors has become a highly relevant topic of scholarly research, as witnessed by three works published in 2005 and 2006 (P. Alston, Non-State Actors and Human Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), A. Clapham, Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Actors (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) and O. De Schutter, Transnational Corporations and Human Rights (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2006)), which are the subject of this article. The discussed books share the common feature of examining the supposed weakening of the existing classical state-centric approach in international (human rights) law, therefore moving away from the traditional view that under human rights law, the individuals hold the rights, while only states bear the obligations. This paper centres on the discussion on the descriptive and normative dimensions of the debate, and starts with a synopsis of the rationale behind these works, and the invoked factual necessity to consider changing the normative framework (1). Secondly, the paper analyses the question of subjects in international law, the role of non-state actors in the current international legal framework, and the normative challenges to this system (2). The second part also includes elements on the reasons why existing international law is seen to be unable to grasp these evolutions. The contents of the human rights obligations of non-governmental organisations, international organisations and transnational corporations will also be included in the second part.
Jundan Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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on western Centrism and chineseness in tourism studies
Annals of Tourism Research, 2016Co-Authors: Hazel Tucker, Jundan ZhangAbstract:•Critically addresses tourism studies’ position on the growing Asian tourist markets.•Highlights the recent calls to confront the Anglo-Western Centrism in tourism studies.•Reflects on the authors’ “ambiguous” positioning as scholars in this context.•Critiques dividing of epistemologies and knowledge into ‘Western’ and ‘Non-Western’.•Suggests engagement with critical postcolonial thought to address such binaries.
Carl L Palmer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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political socialization and group Centrism
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: Carl L PalmerAbstract:The lasting impact of pre-adult experiences has been shown to affect a number of long-term political orientations, such as partisanship, issue opinions, and trust in government. In this project, I examine the effects of pre-adult experiences on perceptions of social groups, the persistence of those orientations over time, and the extent to which said orientations influence public opinion. Building from previous literature demonstrating the powerful effects group sentiment has on public opinion, this project seeks to determine the extent these orientations are developed in early adulthood, as opposed to over time. I test this expectation using the waves of the Political Socialization Study, examining the over-time relationship between youth perceptions of social groups, parental perceptions of groups, and opinion on issues arguably connected to those groups.