The Peace Palace: Building (of) The International Community

Aalberts, Tanja; Stolk, Sofia

doi:10.1017/aju.2020.25

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“…Specific gestures, movements, discourses, and spaces practiced in particular ways help to construct a community as a community associated with its particular characteristics and traditions. On the other hand, ritualizations also present and perform those communities as “sacred” and emotionally charged abstractions that transcend the particularities of body and place (Aalberts and Stolk, 2020; Kertzer, 1988: 9–14; Mälksoo, 2021: 59–60; Seligman and Weller, 2012: 102–103). This dynamic is at work in communities that may be seen as more and less material and abstract.…”

Section: Global Social Movements Blm and Ritualsmentioning

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Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement

Solomon

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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How did the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement of 2020 resonate at a global level? And how did the ritual practices of the movement spread internationally? International Relations (IR) has seen increasing interest in the role of rituals in global politics, and the wider literature on rituals often explores their stabilizing effects while noting how rituals function by working on the collective emotions of participants. Yet what particular kinds of emotional processes lend rituals their power? And how do these ritual emotions disrupt prevailing power structures? This article proposes that conceptualizing these experiences as ritualized atmospheres opens up at least two new avenues for research on rituals, emotions, and global social movements in IR. First, ritualized atmospheres are characterized by their viscerally felt yet also intangible and diffuse features. These tensions offer an affective account of rituals’ often-noted constitutive dual pull between the materialization of political communities while also constructing them as emotionally charged abstractions. Second, the tensions and ambiguities of ritualized atmospheres can generate new horizons for thoughts and actions. Ambient shifts in collective mood can change what may be thought, said, and practiced within ritual contexts, allowing for new discourses and new forms of political action. The article pursues the question of BLM’s global resonance by way of developing these conceptual and empirical arguments.

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Section: Global Social Movements Blm and Ritualsmentioning

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Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement

Solomon

2023

European Journal of International Relations

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“…Japan contributed nine magnificent silk tapestries, for example, whose weaving incorporated French techniques. 47…”

Section: The Design Of the Peace Palacementioning

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The Art of International Law

Charlesworth¹

2022

Proc. annu. meet.

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“…Few political anthropologists would deny that positions of authority are sustained, and often challenged (see Aalberts and Stolk 2020), by the performance of ritual and they would take this to apply in both modern and premodern contexts (Ab el es 1988). However, political anthropology has not had much of an impact on the study of authority in IR (Kustermans and Horemans 2021).…”

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“…In recent years, IR has witnessed the publication of many articles that examine the performance of ritual practices and the promise of ritual theory in a variety of functional contexts: security (M€ alksoo 2021; Oren and Solomon 2015), diplomacy (Pacher 2018;Wong 2020;Knotter 2021) and regional and international order (Davies 2018;Aalberts and Stolk 2020). With this forum, we contribute to this literature by exploring the role of ritual in sustaining positions of authority in global politics, both historically and in recent times.…”

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Ritual and authority in world politics

Kustermans

Svensson

López

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Cambridge Review of International Affairs

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The contributions to this Forum on Ritual and Authority in World Politics examine the role that ritual performances play in the constitution of positions of authority and the maintenance of relations of authority in historical and contemporary international relations. The Forum takes as its point of departure three related observations: (i) that recent years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge of interest in ritual as a recurring feature of international practice, but (ii) that this recent interest in ritual has not extended, thus far, to the study of international authority, (iii) in spite of political anthropologists' long-standing claim that the performance of ritual is absolutely crucial to the production of authority. The performance of ritual grounds, makes tangible and enhances various forms of authority, including forms of international authority, historical and contemporary. The contributions to this Forum demonstrate the veracity of that claim in five different empirical contexts-Byzantine diplomacy, early modern cross-cultural encounters, British imperialism in India, military lawyering in America's armed forces, and the casting of ballots in Crimea and the US-and attempt also to explain precisely how it is that ritual served to undergird and stabilise authority in these various instances. The return of ritual in international relations(Jorg Kustermans and Ted Svensson)

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The Peace Palace: Building (of) The International Community

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Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement

Up in the air: Ritualized atmospheres and the global Black Lives Matter movement

The Art of International Law

Ritual and authority in world politics

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