From Utopian One-worldism to Geopolitical Intergovernmentalism

As a new coordinating organization in the rapidly expanding international field of post-World War II social science, UNESCO’s Department of Social Sciences (SSD), set up in 1946, played a central role. This article explores the formation of the SSD during its first decade with a special focus on its...

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Main Author:	Per Wisselgren
Format:	article
Language:	EN
Published:	Royal Danish Library 2017
Subjects:	unesco department of social sciences international boundary organization organizational structuration agency space Social Sciences H
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:6a950fe78a7744eaba39bfcede567b462021-12-02T15:16:15ZFrom Utopian One-worldism to Geopolitical Intergovernmentalism2521-094710.25364/11.2:2017.2.1https://doaj.org/article/6a950fe78a7744eaba39bfcede567b462017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://tidsskrift.dk/Serendipities/article/view/122730https://doaj.org/toc/2521-0947As a new coordinating organization in the rapidly expanding international field of post-World War II social science, UNESCO’s Department of Social Sciences (SSD), set up in 1946, played a central role. This article explores the formation of the SSD during its first decade with a special focus on its organizational aspects. By conceptualizing the SSD as an “international boundary organization”, the article analyzes the organizational structuration of agency spaces on different levels – within SSD, in relation to UNESCO and to the UN system at large – as well as over time. As a result, the article discerns four phases, distinguished by organizational changes, under which the SSD was successively transformed from a relatively independent transnational organization, which shared the utopian vision of one-worldism, to an intergovernmental organization considerably more vulnerable to external geopolitical pressures.Per WisselgrenRoyal Danish Libraryarticleunescodepartment of social sciencesinternational boundary organizationorganizational structurationagency spaceSocial SciencesHENSerendipities, Vol 2, Iss 2, Pp 148-182 (2017)
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description	As a new coordinating organization in the rapidly expanding international field of post-World War II social science, UNESCO’s Department of Social Sciences (SSD), set up in 1946, played a central role. This article explores the formation of the SSD during its first decade with a special focus on its organizational aspects. By conceptualizing the SSD as an “international boundary organization”, the article analyzes the organizational structuration of agency spaces on different levels – within SSD, in relation to UNESCO and to the UN system at large – as well as over time. As a result, the article discerns four phases, distinguished by organizational changes, under which the SSD was successively transformed from a relatively independent transnational organization, which shared the utopian vision of one-worldism, to an intergovernmental organization considerably more vulnerable to external geopolitical pressures.
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