Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from April 2001

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from April 2001

The Liberal Government of Unfreedom.
April 1, 2001... Barry Hindess [*] Perhaps the most influential aspect of Michel Foucault's work on government has been his treatment of liberalism as a distinctive form of political reason. Liberalism is commonly regarded as a normative political doctrine...

Cyberspace as Meta-Nation: The Net Effects of Online E-Publicanism.
April 1, 2001... Timothy W. Luke [*] This analysis reexamines the fundamental changes sweeping through social, economic, and cultural activity as forms of life go online. Because it reexamines what might be called infopolitics, this analysis cannot avoid...

Touching Friendship Beyond Friendship: Friendship and Citizenship in Global Politics.
April 1, 2001... Chris Farrands [*] This article explores the relationship between friendship and citizenship in the theory of international relations/international ethics. Citizenship has come to be increasingly important as our understanding has moved...

The Empire Within: The Colonial Popular Front in France, 1934-1938.
April 1, 2001... James E. Genova [*] In April 1937, anticolonial activists from throughout France's overseas empire met in Paris to form the Rassemblement Colonial, described by one of its founders as "a Popular Front for the colonies." [1] Unlike the...

Reflections on Elusive "Common Dreams": Perils and Hopes of European Identity.
April 1, 2001... Ales Debeljak [*] It is a hot summer afternoon, and crowds of tourists seek shelter in the shade the shining streets of the Umbrian town of Assisi. I push a stroller with a thirsty one-year-old baby in front of me; my five-year-old girl...