Capital & Class articles from June 2003

Capital & Class archives from June 2003

Editorial comment on the war in Iraq.(Editorial)
June 22, 2003... The editorial committee of Capital & Class are implacably opposed to the invasion of Iraq. Rather than being a humanitarian intervention, the invasion is a brutal act of imperialist aggression. The huge antiwar protests that have gripped the...

The new world order of things. (Behind the News).
June 22, 2003... These are truly fearful dines that we are living through. In the United Nations, attempts to arrive at a diplomatic resolution of the crisis continue apace. The choreography of process serves little though to conceal the absolute certainty of...

The geographies and politics of fear.
June 22, 2003... Background This special issue arose from a collective sense of disappointment and frustration with prominent academic and policy related debates around 'the fear of crime'. Since its 'discovery' in the 1970s and 80s, fear has remained an...

Exploring landscapes of fear: marginality, spectacle and surveillance.
June 22, 2003... The aim of this paper is to understand the motives and effects of landscape adjustment during a period of heightened security consciousness. In this paper, the authors review aspects of the fear-landscape nexus in relation to the environments...

Fear and loathing at the multiplex: everyday anxiety in the post-industrial city.
June 22, 2003... The adoption of risk as a common part of contemporary societal construction has been tied to an environment of proliferation, multiplication, specialism, counterfactual guess-work, and, above all, anxiety. Deliberations on the growth of anxiety...

Ethno-sectarianism and the reproduction of fear in Belfast.
June 22, 2003... Within Belfast most violent arenas the designing of place-centred communities, which actively resist an ethno-sectarian 'other', has been achieved via symbolic practice and the perpetuation and reproduction of religious segregation. This paper...

Race, space and fear: imagined geographies of racism, crime, violence and disorder in Northern England.
June 22, 2003... This paper describes and analyses the wider mechanisms, processes and contexts of the riots that took place in Northern UK cities and towns in the Summer of 2001. It examines these events and the imagined fears that aided the hardening of...

Fleeing from fear: the changing role of refuges in meeting the needs of women leaving violent partners.
June 22, 2003... Media driven interpretations of fear and risk have failed to notify the general public that the most likely victims of violence are females who are attacked by a male partner. Domestic violence is pervasive throughout virtually all cultures,...

Youth, age and the representation of fear.
June 22, 2003... In working against media representations of the young as a mindless and violent cabal this paper focuses on young people as victims of harassment and fear. While this reality has been recognised for some time it is clear that the victimhood of...

The formation of fear in gay space: the 'straights' story.
June 22, 2003... It is well-known that lesbians and gay men have long been produced and examined as objects of fear. However, this article analyses lesbians and gay men as subjects of fear. This paper offers an exploration of the formation and uses of fear in...

Ian Craib, 1945-2002.
June 22, 2003... A moving commemoration at the University of Essex on 7th March of Ian Craib, Professor of Sociology, began with an affectionate address by his son, Ben. Ian Craib died at the age of 57 years on 22nd December, 2002 from a massive heart-attack,...

Myths at Work. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... H. Bradley, M. Erickson, C. Stephenson and S. Williams Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000, x + 235pp ISBN 0-7456-2270-4 (hbk) [pounds sterling]50.00, ISBN 0-74562271-2 (pbk) [pounds sterling]14.99 The sociology of work is now amongst...

Invoking Humanity: War, Law and Global Order (Chi dice umanita). (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Danilo Zolo Continuum, London and New York, 2000 ISBN 0826456561 (pbk) [pounds sterling]19.99 Professor Zolo's views deserve to be discussed and debated as widely as possible, especially in the West. Those who are inclined to...

Hegemony: A Realist Analysis. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Jonathan Joseph London and New York: Routledge, 2002 pp. xi + 240 ISBN 0-415-26836-2 (hbk) [pounds sterling]60.00 Jonathan Joseph aims to develop a realist conception of hegemony. He does so, broadly speaking, in two ways, which...

The Value of Marx. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Alfredo Saad Filho London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 177 ISBN 0-415-23434-4 (hbk) [pounds sterling]45.00 Alfredo Saad Filho's book presents a new interpretation of Marx's theory of value (along the lines of the earlier work of Ben...

Structural Adjustment: Theory, Practice and Impacts. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... G, Mohan, E. Brown, B. Milward and A.B. Zack Williams Routledge, London and New York, 2000. ISBN 0-415-12522-7 (pbk) [pounds sterling]17.99 The history of structural adjustment is bound up with the ascendancy of the conservative...

Open borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Teresa Hayter Pluto Press, 2000, pp188 ISBN 0-7453-1542-9, [pounds sterling]12.99 Teresa Hayter challenges common-sense views over migration and asylum issues and makes a case for the recognition of the free movement of people on...

Agnes Heller: Socialism, autonomy and the postmodern. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Simon Tormey Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001, pp.220 +x ISBN 07 1904994-6 (hbk) [pounds sterling]35.00; ISBN 07 1906038-9 (pbk) [pounds sterling]14.99 Agnes Heller was unfortunate enough to be a radical Marxist under...

Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
June 22, 2003... Massimo De Angelis Macmillan, London ISBN 0-333-71513-7X [pounds sterling]45.00 Keynesianism, Social Conflict and Political Economy aims to reveal the class nature of economic models by looking at the significance of class...