Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance articles

Recent articles from Alternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance

Citizenship and Human Rights in the Age of Globalization.
October 1, 2000... Tony Evans [*] At the heart of the historic struggle over legitimate universal human rights are two questions: What kind of rights? and whom do they benefit? The standard answer to the first question is that lists of legitimate human...

Embodying Ecological Citizenship: Rethinking the Politics of Grassroots Globalization in the United States.
October 1, 2000... Betsy Taylor [*] The problem, unstated till now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured, un-grieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of any...

Mapping Populations: The United Nations, Globalization, and Engendered Spaces, 1948-1960.
October 1, 2000... Lynne Phillips [*] Over the last hundred years, we in the more favored parts of the world have been doing all that we could to displace [the] attitude of resignation and feeling of inability to do anything about such circumstances...

Translating Contention: Culture, History, and the Circulation of Collective Action.
October 1, 2000... Sean Scalmer [*] The emerging forms of global economy and culture have stimulated a recent, feverish interest in the possibilities of social movements in a globalized environment. Transnational social movements have beckoned as new...

The Politics of Legitimacy in International Relations. A Critical Examination of NATO's Intervention in Kosovo.
October 1, 2000... Hideaki Shinoda [*] There was an interesting, although militarily insignificant, discrepancy among the leaders of NATO, while the alliance conducted the air campaign against Serbia in the spring of 1999. This discrepancy concerned the way...