Becoming a humanitarian state: a performative analysis of 'status-seeking' as statecraft in world politics/

ALI Bilgic

Becoming a humanitarian state: a performative analysis of 'status-seeking' as statecraft in world politics/ Ali Bilgic - 2024

This article challenges the existing approaches by introducing a performativity framework and offers an overhaul of how 'status' can be studied. It is concluded that there is no ‘status’ beyond the subject, and status can never be achieved because it always needs repetitive performances.


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