Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society

Organising Global Stratification: How International Organisations (Re)Produce Inequalities in International Society

The article makes the case for scrutinising international organisations (IOs) as key sites and agents of inequality reproduction and transformation in international society. Drawing on sociological inequality research and institutionalist approaches to International Relations, we argue that IOs repr...

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Published in:Global society : journal of interdisciplinary international relations 2020-07, Vol.34 (3), p.285-303
Main Authors: Fehl, Caroline, Freistein, Katja
Format: Article
Language:eng
Subjects:
Hierarchy
Inequality
international organisations
International organizations
International relations
practices
Social environment
sociology
Stratification
Transformation
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Summary:The article makes the case for scrutinising international organisations (IOs) as key sites and agents of inequality reproduction and transformation in international society. Drawing on sociological inequality research and institutionalist approaches to International Relations, we argue that IOs reproduce and transform broader stratification patterns in their global social environment through intertwined processes of categorisation and distribution. We propose to capture these twin processes from three observation points, which highlight different material and symbolic practices operating within IOs and at the interface between IOs and their environment.
ISSN:1360-0826
1469-798X