Staging grounds: dialectics of the spectacular and the infrastructural in international conference-hosting

2023/07/01 by Daniel R. Quiroga‐Villamarín · 1 voice
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Biomedical Ethics and Regulation #Foucault, Power, and Ethics #Water Governance and Infrastructure

paper · pdf · doi:10.1093/lril/lrad015

openalex publication_date 2023/07/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

Abstract For international lawyers, the international conference appears as a rather anodyne place. While attention has been paid to who partakes in the ‘invisible college’, scant scrutiny has been directed to where we sit. To counter this, I argue we should interrogate conference spaces as material stages for the dramas of global governance.

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