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We are thrilled to announce the release of the article titled “Through the Localization Looking Glass: Seeing Subaltern Power in the Refugee Regime” <\/a>by Merve Erdilmen<\/a>, James Milner<\/a>, Megan Bradley<\/a> published in Global Studies Quarterly<\/a><\/p>\n

There has been increased scholarly and policy attention to \u201clocalized\u201d responses to displacement, in the hope that further empowering local actors may unlock new means of protecting refugees\u2019 rights and addressing their needs. However, these efforts have often oversimplified power relations within localization processes, bringing some players into focus while occluding others, and devoting insufficient attention to how localization processes and the power dynamics surrounding them have evolved over time. In response, this article draws on theories of subalternity and subaltern agency from the field of postcolonial studies to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of power in localization processes in the refugee regime. We contend that subalternity is best understood as a fluid, relational position that changes over time, such that particular refugees and displaced groups may oscillate between dominant and marginalized, subaltern subject positions, within intersecting systems of power. We probe refugees\u2019 subaltern agency in terms of resistance and persistence, and deepen this account through analysis of localized responses to Burundian refugees in Tanzania, focusing on the localization of efforts to secure durable solutions for refugees. We argue that localization scholarship, particularly in the context of the refugee regime, needs to move beyond homogenized, dehistoricized, and romanticized notions of grassroots, refugee-led responses and focus on complex and fluid power configurations among diverse local actors.<\/p>\n\n

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We are thrilled to announce the release of the article titled “Through the Localization Looking Glass: Seeing Subaltern Power in the Refugee Regime” by Merve Erdilmen, James Milner, Megan Bradley published in Global Studies Quarterly There has been increased scholarly and policy attention to \u201clocalized\u201d responses to displacement, in the hope that further empowering local 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