Papers by sophie nakueira
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation ... more This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 870845 (www.vulner.eu).
The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, 2019
Nakivale, the oldest refugee camp in Uganda, hosts refugees fleeing various forms of political un... more Nakivale, the oldest refugee camp in Uganda, hosts refugees fleeing various forms of political unrest from several African countries. Uganda’s humanitarian framework makes it an attractive place for refugees. Little is known about the role that humanitarian policies play in shaping interactions between different actors or the politics of accusation that emerges within this settlement. In a context in which the status of a refugee can confer preferential access to scarce resources, different refugee communities struggle to define themselves, their neighbours and kin in terms of the camp’s humanitarian language. Describing the everyday anxieties that define life in the camp, this article shows how accusations become powerful resources that refugees draw upon to meet the criteria for resettlement to a third country, but also how these forms of humanitarian assistance rely on processes of exclusion that create endemic accusations of corruption, criminality and even witchcraft.
Includes bibliographical references.The FIFA World Cup has become one of the most sought after sp... more Includes bibliographical references.The FIFA World Cup has become one of the most sought after sports mega events by many countries in today’s society, as well as one of the most controversial. As I put the finishing touches on this thesis, the FIFA World Cup is taking place in Brazil. As with previous World Cups, the planning stage of the 2014 World Cup has been characterised by protests and considerable criticism, particularly concerned with the expenditures on mega event structures such as stadiums. FIFA, along with host country’s governments, has been a major recipient of criticism. This controversy has prompted many people to focus their gaze on the negative impacts of these events, particularly on disadvantaged populations. Sports mega events will no doubt continue to occupy a crucial space in political and economic debates within host countries. As important as these debates are, they have tended to direct attention away from the governance mechanisms that FIFA deploys in staging World Cups. This thesis seeks to redirect attention to these governance issues
The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies
The rise of new global threats, which transcend nation-state boundaries, has challenged the way i... more The rise of new global threats, which transcend nation-state boundaries, has challenged the way in which sovereignty and global governance is conceptualised. Today's global world is populated with both state and non-state auspices of governance who contest within a regulatory space. Within this space non-state governing auspices often exhibit characteristics that have been associated exclusively with states. In this article we reflect upon the principle typologies of governing auspices that have developed to comprehend these new governing architectures. A theme that runs across these conceptual framings, and the debates that have taken place between them, has been the nature of, and sources of authority that non-state auspices claim. We explore this question by examining how a non-state governing auspice has derived its authority and how it has used this to enable it to act as a transnational governing authority. We do this by focusing on how FIFA sought to govern security at the 2010 Soccer World Cup that took place in South Africa. Our focus is on how FIFA was able to enrol, and coordinate, the resources of a variety of state and non-state security providers to act in a coordinated manner to govern this mega-event.
Journal of Legal Anthropology, 2019
Documents play an important role in the lives of refugees. However, little is known about the ext... more Documents play an important role in the lives of refugees. However, little is known about the extent to which documents regulate the everyday lives of refugees and the anxieties of obtaining relevant paperwork for refugees seeking resettlement in the Global North. Although their lives are regulated by paperwork, refugees also use documents strategically to legitimise various claims and entitlements. This article shows how refugees interface with the administrative processes that seek to regulate their stay. Therefore, documentary practices become important tools through which processes and objectives of migration governance can be examined. This article seeks to contribute further insights on how the deployment of documents entrenches discourses of vulnerability, the role that paper regimes play in (re)producing processes of exclusion through administrative processes in humanitarian aid contexts and the revelations of documentary practices or paper regimes about those who govern and...
Perspectives from Around the World, 2014
Book chapters 2000-2015 by sophie nakueira
Berg, J., Nakueira, S. & Shearing, C. 2014. Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance. In... more Berg, J., Nakueira, S. & Shearing, C. 2014. Global Non- State Auspices of Security Governance. In: Bersot, H. & Ariigo, B. Eds. The Routledge Handbook of International Crime and Justice Studies. New York: Routledge, 77-97.
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Papers by sophie nakueira
Book chapters 2000-2015 by sophie nakueira