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The Anthropology of International Institutions: How ethnography contributes to understanding mechanisms of global governance
Reid Hall
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4 rue de Chevreuse,
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Ce workshop conceptualisera les mécanismes de la gouvernance internationale tels qu’identifiés par les anthropologues au fil de terrains réalisés dans les multiples lieux où interviennent des institutions internationales. Celles-ci produisent des cadres normatifs qu’elles diffusent au niveau global. Elles distribuent des ressources et font circuler des connaissances par le biais de réseaux experts transnationaux, activant ainsi des relations de pouvoir et de contrôle depuis les métropoles jusqu’aux endroits du monde les plus reculés.
Le but de ce workshop est de clarifier les défis conceptuels et les points communs que représentent les institutions internationales, et de donner l’occasion aux anthropologues travaillant sur celles-ci de discuter leurs approches théoriques de la gouvernance internationale et de comparer leurs observations empiriques. On s’intéressera particulièrement à l’étude des mécanismes de gouvernance à différentes échelles, un premier thème en vue de future coopération. Les participants prendront en compte non seulement les objectifs officiels et les conséquences inattendues de la gouvernance internationale, mais aussi comment les institutions internationales impliquent des acteurs individuels et collectifs dans l’élaboration des politiques, absorbent les critiques, tentent de neutraliser les conflits politiques et de créer de nouveaux champs politiques, en collusion ou en concurrence avec les acteurs locaux et les gouvernements nationaux. Les participants analyseront des questions allant de l’audit et de l’auto-monitoring, à l’usage de l’honneur et de la honte comme mécanismes de gouvernance par lesquels les institutions internationales influent sur la gouvernance locale et nationale, et évaluent leur propre performance. Le workshop aura lieu en Anglais.
Pour tout renseignement et l’inscription : bmuller@msh-paris.fr
L’inscription se fera dans la limite des places disponibles (40 places maximal).
This workshop will conceptionalize mechanisms of international governance as anthropologists identified them through fieldwork in the multiple locations where international institutions operate. International institutions produce normative frameworks and diffuse them globally. They distribute resources and circulate knowledge through trans-national expert networks bringing into effect relationships of power and control from the metropolises to the remotest parts of the world. The aim of the workshop is to clarify conceptual challenges and commonalities international institutions represent and to give anthropologists working on different international institutions the opportunity to discuss their theoretical approaches to international governance and to compare their empirical findings. It will focus on the study of mechanisms of governance through different scales, as an initial theme for future cooperation. The participants will not only look at the official objectives and unintended consequences of international governance but also at how international institutions implicate collective and individual actors in their policy making, absorb critique, attempt to neutralize political conflict and create new political fields in competition and collusion with local actors and national governments. Participants will analyze issues ranging from audit and self-monitoring through to bestowing honor and shame as mechanisms of governance with which international institutions influence national and local governance and evaluate their own performance.
Different international agencies have different powers (WTO’s enforcement mechanisms through the Dispute Settlement Body at one extreme and FAO’s recommendations on best practices at the other). This session analyses the techniques of international governance in the different institutions, their differences and communalities and the mechanisms of audit and of self-monitoring (for example through honor and shame) through which international institutions try to influence national and local governance and to evaluate their own performance.
14:30 – 17:00 Round table - all participants
Pour tout renseignement Birgit Müller tel. 0144847250, mail: bmuller@msh-paris.fr
Le but de ce workshop est de clarifier les défis conceptuels et les points communs que représentent les institutions internationales, et de donner l’occasion aux anthropologues travaillant sur celles-ci de discuter leurs approches théoriques de la gouvernance internationale et de comparer leurs observations empiriques. On s’intéressera particulièrement à l’étude des mécanismes de gouvernance à différentes échelles, un premier thème en vue de future coopération. Les participants prendront en compte non seulement les objectifs officiels et les conséquences inattendues de la gouvernance internationale, mais aussi comment les institutions internationales impliquent des acteurs individuels et collectifs dans l’élaboration des politiques, absorbent les critiques, tentent de neutraliser les conflits politiques et de créer de nouveaux champs politiques, en collusion ou en concurrence avec les acteurs locaux et les gouvernements nationaux. Les participants analyseront des questions allant de l’audit et de l’auto-monitoring, à l’usage de l’honneur et de la honte comme mécanismes de gouvernance par lesquels les institutions internationales influent sur la gouvernance locale et nationale, et évaluent leur propre performance. Le workshop aura lieu en Anglais.
Pour tout renseignement et l’inscription : bmuller@msh-paris.fr
L’inscription se fera dans la limite des places disponibles (40 places maximal).
This workshop will conceptionalize mechanisms of international governance as anthropologists identified them through fieldwork in the multiple locations where international institutions operate. International institutions produce normative frameworks and diffuse them globally. They distribute resources and circulate knowledge through trans-national expert networks bringing into effect relationships of power and control from the metropolises to the remotest parts of the world. The aim of the workshop is to clarify conceptual challenges and commonalities international institutions represent and to give anthropologists working on different international institutions the opportunity to discuss their theoretical approaches to international governance and to compare their empirical findings. It will focus on the study of mechanisms of governance through different scales, as an initial theme for future cooperation. The participants will not only look at the official objectives and unintended consequences of international governance but also at how international institutions implicate collective and individual actors in their policy making, absorb critique, attempt to neutralize political conflict and create new political fields in competition and collusion with local actors and national governments. Participants will analyze issues ranging from audit and self-monitoring through to bestowing honor and shame as mechanisms of governance with which international institutions influence national and local governance and evaluate their own performance.
Programme
Thursday June 10th
- 9:00 Birgit Müller - Welcome and Introduction
- 9.30 – 12.30h - Round-table – all participants
Comprehension and use of the term "governance"
Five minute presentation by the participants explaining their use of the term governance.14:30 – session 1 : How institutions produce an understanding of the world
This session addresses how mechanisms of international governance such as diagnosing and modeling make a world that is governable by international institutions- Jane Cowan (University of Sussex), Before Audit Culture: International Governance in Historical Perspective
- Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute, Halle), You can feel it when it's there: UNESCO World Heritage and the production of Outstanding Universal Value
- Michael Goldman (University of Minnesota), Speculative Governance and the Desire for Global Cities
- Yael Navaro-Yashin (University of Cambridge), Orchestrating 'Conflict Resolution:' the Anthropology of a UN-led Peace Process in Cyprus
Friday June 11
9:00 – 12:30 session 2 : Actors in and subjects of international policies
This session examines mechanisms such as empowerment and mainstreaming through which international institutions involve and shape the collective and individual subjects with whom they interact- Lynne Phillips (University of Windsor), Within and Beyond UN Governance: A Case for Mobile Ethnographies
- Birgit Müller (LAIOS-EHESS), ‘Participatory diagnosis’ of problems of food security by the FAO in Nicaragua
- Shalini Randeria (University of Zürich), Interplay of Actors in the Policy Process: The World Bank, Dispossession and Infrastructure Projects in India
- Kristin Sandvik (Peace Research Institute Oslo), Negotiating the Humanitarian Past: History, Memory and Unstable Cityscapes in Kampala, Uganda
- Irène Bellier (LAIOS-EHESS, Paris), The constitution of a collective subject for international policy making: the case of Indigenous peoples global activism and actorship at the United Nations
14:30 – 18.00 session 3 : Politics of international institutions : diluting conflict and rendering it technical
The session examines the mechanisms through which international institutions render political conflicts technical, for example by acting as 'a neutral broker' and mobilizing a superior objective knowledge.- Marc Abélès (LAIOS-EHESS, Paris) et Maximo Badaro (Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentine), Expertise, Diplomacy and Politics at the World Trade Organization
- Paul Dima (University of Paris 1), The managerial tools of global governance, a legal anthropology outlook.
- Tara Schwegler (University of Chicago), Speaking with Neoliberal Authority: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico
- Flávia Lessa de Barros (University of Brasilia), The World Bank and Civil Society Networks in Brazil
Saturday June 12 session 4
9:00 – 12.30h : Techniques of international governanceDifferent international agencies have different powers (WTO’s enforcement mechanisms through the Dispute Settlement Body at one extreme and FAO’s recommendations on best practices at the other). This session analyses the techniques of international governance in the different institutions, their differences and communalities and the mechanisms of audit and of self-monitoring (for example through honor and shame) through which international institutions try to influence national and local governance and to evaluate their own performance.
- Peter Bille Larsen (EHESS and IHEID) , The proliferation of international guidance culture: An anthropological perspective
- Stephan Groth (University of Göttingen), Language Ideologies on the Global Stage: The Multiplicity of Meaning in International Negotiations
- Marion Fresia (University of Neuchâtel) , The fabric of international refugee law : Power dynamics within the Executive committee of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Tobias Kelly (University of Edinburgh), International Human Rights Monitoring and the Political Logic of Shame: The United Kingdom and the UN Committee Against Tortur
14:30 – 17:00 Round table - all participants
How anthropologists approach global paradigms on the local and global level
This session addresses how international governance operates on different scales. How does it transform political relationships and how is it transformed by political actors from the global to the local level? How do anthropologists approach shifting global paradigms on the local and global level?Pour tout renseignement Birgit Müller tel. 0144847250, mail: bmuller@msh-paris.fr
Date
- du jeudi 10 juin 2010 à 09h au samedi 12 juin 2010 à 17h
Contact
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Birgit Müller (bmuller@msh-paris.fr) LAIOS EHESS
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