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Koinova, Maria (2017) Beyond statist paradigms : socio-spatial positionality and diaspora mobilization in international relations. International Studies Review, 19 (4). pp. 597-621. doi:10.1093/isr/vix015 ISSN 1468-2486.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/isr/vix015
Abstract
This article presents a new positional perspective for the analysis of diaspora mobilization in International Relations, seeking to shift debates beyond realist, liberalist, and constructivist thinking, and speaking to a cluster of socio-positional theories in IR. It provides a conceptual discussion and empirical illustrations of diaspora positionality – the power diaspora activists derive from their socio-spatial positions in particular contexts – and its utility to account for different mobilization trajectories. Positionality as a socio-spatial concept offers opportunities to analyze diaspora politics beyond statist paradigms, dominated by analyses of triadic relationship between diasporas, host-states (immigration states), and home-states (sending states). Diasporas have links to many contexts beyond host-states and original home-states. Such linkages structure their relationships globally. If diaspora entrepreneurs perceive themselves as deriving strong powers to achieve homeland-oriented goals from a particular socio-spatial context, they are more likely to pursue claims through institutional politics and moderate means. If they perceive themselves as deriving weak powers from a context, they are more likely to engage with activist networks and pursue claims in transgressive ways. The conceptual discussion engages aspects of diaspora positionality in juxtaposition with other spatial concepts such as geographical proximity/distance and position in a social network. The empirical discussion brings patterns of mobilization trajectories from the Armenian diaspora mobilization for genocide recognition and the Palestinian diaspora mobilization for statehood, informed by a rich multi-sited fieldwork.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Emigration and immigration -- Philosophy, Armenian diaspora, Palestinian Arabs | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | International Studies Review | ||||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||||
ISSN: | 1468-2486 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 1 December 2017 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 19 | ||||||||
Number: | 4 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 597-621 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1093/isr/vix015 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 4 May 2017 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 January 2018 | ||||||||
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