In this episode we explore some of the emotional and psychological life of international governance.
Professor Daniel Laqua, Professor Dan Gorman and Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard talk about GLO, a transatlantic research project examining how civil society, activists, and NGOs have campaigned to build, shape, reform or put an end to international organizations from the early 20th century to the early 2000s.
They discuss findings from the project about emotional experiences such as love, hate, trust, and sense of belonging in this context, and consider the way people relate to and through international institutions through psychodynamic concepts of projection and transference. Listen to examples from the League of Nations, United Nations Associations, Jubilee 2000, and the Council of Europe. Learn about the archival research methods, and what grassroots diplomacy suggests about the possibilities of change.
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Global Governance Trust and Democratic Engagement in Past and Present (GLO)
Project website: https://research.northumbria.ac.uk/glo
The podcast was recorded on the occasion of the conference ‘Love, Hate, and the Fate of International Organisations: The Psychological Life of Global Governance (1900–Present)’, held at the Geneva Graduate Institute
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/events/love-hate-and-fate-international-organisations-psychological-life-global
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Guests:
Professor Daniel Laqua, Northumbria University, UK.
Professor Dan Gorman, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Dr. Anne-Isabelle Richard, Institute for History, Leiden University.
Recorded & produced at the United Nations Library & Archives Geneva
