(Re)presenting landmines from protector to enemy: The discursive framing of a new multilateralism
| Autor: | Miguel de Larrinaga, Claire Turenne Sjolander |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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| Zdroj: | Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. 5:125-146 |
| ISSN: | 2157-0817 1192-6422 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/11926422.1998.9673153 |
| Popis: | The Ottawa Process leading to the international ban on anti‐personnel mines has been portrayed as an example of the New Multilateralism. In evaluating this claim, de Larrinaga and Turenne Sjolander trace the way in which the meaning attributed to landmines has been contested. They argue that the success of the NGO coalition in bringing landmines to the fore of the international agenda depended on their ability to redefine landmines as a humanitarian issue, rather than a legitimate weapon in the arsenals of the sovereign state as protector of civil society. The discursive focus on landmines as a scourge against humanity had the potential to fundamentally question the state's responsibility in legitimizing the production and use of landmines. This potential for fundamental questioning is eclipsed by a further discursive turn, through which landmines themselves are seen to be the ‘enemy’. This allowed states to dissociate themselves from their role in the production and use of landmines, allying themselves w... |
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