International Studies Compendium Project

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Section editor: Alex Macleod, Université du Québec à Montréal Articulations of Sovereignty The Global and the Local Globalization and Globality Governmentality and Biopolitics Habitus and Field Historical Sociology The International Political Sociology of Empire The International Political Sociology of Risk Late Modernity/Postmodernity Modernity and Modernization Networks The Public Sphere Security Practices The Sociology of the State: The State as a Conceptual Variable Teaching International Political Sociology Transformations of War: Perspectives from International Political Sociology Alex Macleod, Université du Québec à Montréal International Political Sociology (IPS) is one of the newest sections to be created within the ISA, and has already attracted a wide membership representing a whole host of interests that it was felt were either marginalized or simply not adequately addressed in the existing sections. It has already attracted a large membership from a variety of different theoretical backgrounds, and has published its own journal, with the ISA, since 2007. As it can be imagined, drawing up a list of topics which reflects the interests of such a diverse group of scholars was no mean task. Vivienne Jabri, during her term as chair of the section (2006–7), drew up a preliminary list. Her work was then taken over ... log in or subscribe to read full text