CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Gorlo, Margaryta Konstantynovna |
|---|---|
| Title | Governing Through Human Rights. The cases of Tunisian and Ukraine |
| Summary | This thesis seeks to contribute to the debate on the applicability of the governmentality concept in IR and, in particular, its usefulness for the analysis in non-advanced capitalist geographies. Through the employment of the governmentality concept outside the advanced capitalist, in other words non-Western realm, the research examines the process of human rights promotion and its application in post-socialist and post-colonial spaces through the investigation of the micro-level interactions engendered during the process. The comparative analysis of post-socialist Ukraine and post-colonial Tunisia through the framework of a two level exportation process discloses the particularities of the functioning of the exported human rights rationalities. The thesis proceeds by presenting the non-positivist approach employed during the research trips in Tunisia and Ukraine. After presenting theoretical perspective, it examines the case of the European human rights promotion. Consequently, through the micro level investigation of the reactions occurring during the process of exportation, the empirics reveal the transformations and their influence on the actors involved in the process. Thus, when facing resistance the local human rights experts employ different strategies that lead to the distortion of the exported knowledge or practices and generate a local hybrid form of rationality. |
| Supervisor | Emel Akcali |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/gorlo_margaryta.pdf |
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