audreyalejandro.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Methodological Artist London School of Economics Discourse, Knowledge, Reflexivity, International Relations PhD Sciences Po Bx https://www.audreyalejandro.com/publications.html
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@audreyalejandro.bsky.social#POLI1017 #POLI2049 On state-centrism and conflict. Especially relevant for later when we are looking at Civil Wars, 'messy conflicts', hybrid wars and whether engaging with these is limited by state-centrism in our datasets.
Show PostA bonus is the paper does an outstanding job of cataloging all the various war data projects. I encourage others to read it! Lnk here: academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
Show PostThis new paper by @audreyalejandro.bsky.social puts forward an argument that we'll take seriously at the COW war data project. This is especially relevant we thinking about recoding the Non-State and Extra-state war data.
Show PostThe answer: unevenly. Many datasets define conflict through the state—even when studying non-state violence. Others classify conflict without making the state the analytical anchor. What assumptions then are embedded in the data infrastructures we use to study conflict? @lsemethodology.bsky.social
Show PostHow state-centric is conflict studies? In this new article in International Studies Perspectives 🎉, I systematically examine how 12 major conflict event datasets embed state-centrism through their inclusion criteria, classifications, and documentation. academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
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