Heloise Weber
Senior Lecturer für International Relations and Development, University of Queensland (Australien)
Aufenthalt
Juni – Oktober 2018
Forschungsthema
»Human Rights and Global Development: A Critical Inquiry«
Projektbeschreibung
In line with my research interests in the politics of global development and inequalities (understood as a historically constituted global project/ world politics), I have over the past couple of years been developing a research project on Human Rights (HR) and Global Development. My preliminary research findings suggest that there are some quite significant tensions in the emerging HR and Global Development framework. This is most evident with regard to the privileging of rights that align with global commercial and investment (including free trade) law as justiciable rights. Increasingly trade law (lex mercatoria) is aligned with development law. The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals [SDGs] agenda is the most recent high-level international development framework also adopted as a United Nations Resolution. This particular alignment of HR and Global Development could potentially result in further conflict as life sustaining needs such as water, food, shelter (to name a few) are no longer conceived as universal entitlements. Instead, their realisation is now tethered to the question of »trade law«, which is increasingly the domain of justiciable rights. For instance, this concerns the protection of new forms of investment law as property law as provided for under the General Agreement of Trade in Services of the World Trade Organisation [WTO]. This emerging global framing of HR and Global Development occurs arguably at a historically unique conjuncture and one that has also been subject to crucial challenges, ethically, socially and politically (see, for instance, the recent rise of social movement politics).
Wissenschaftliches Profil
Heloise Weber ist derzeitig Senior Lecturer für International Relations and Development an der University of Queensland. Darüber hinaus war sie Vorsitzende der Global Development Studies Section des International Studies Association (ISA) Governing Council.
Gegenwärtig arbeitet Dr. Heloise Weber zusammen mit Prof. Dr. Gunther Hellmann und Dr. Martin Weber an einem gemeinsamen Forschungsprojekt: »Namibisch-deutsche Beziehungen und normative Herausforderungen: Beyond the Constrictions of International Development and International Relations?«.
Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)
- (zusammen mit R.J.B. Walker, Robbie Shilliam und Gitte Du Plessis) »Collective Discussion Diagnosing the Present«, in: International Political Sociology, 12/1 (2018), S. 88-107. (https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/12/1/88/4897847)
- »Politics of Leaving No One Behind: Contesting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals«, in: Globalizations, 14/3 (2017), S. 399-414.
- (zusammen mit Mark T. Berger) Rethinking the Third World- International Development and World Politics, Basingstoke: Palgrave 2014.
- (Hg.) The Politics of Development – A Survey, London: Routledege 2014.
- »A Political Analysis of the Formal Comparative Method: Historicizing the Globalization and Development Debate«, in: Globalizations, 4/4 (2007), S. 559-572.
Forschungskontext
Heloise Weber folgt einer Einladung von Gunther Hellmann (Professor für Politikwissenschaft an der Goethe-Universität) und dem an der Universität angesiedelten Exzellenzcluster: »Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen«.
