Conceptualizing the process of social change in IR has proved more elusive than initially thought. If the notion of agency that was proposed to capture this moment gained great saliency in the field, it has had surprisingly limited analytical effects on the discipline of IR. Hence, many can agree that social actors have agency, but very few have managed to set up an agenda that uses this notion...

This article contributes a social justice perspective to the ongoing discussions about concepts that inform career guidance theory and practice. Due field’s psychological tradition, practices often adopt highly individualised notions of agency fail grasp contextual factors societal structures from which emerges. In this an alternative approach is offered by repositioning as relational phenomeno...