Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from April 2006

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from April 2006

Space, subjectivity, and politics.
April 1, 2006... This article questions the more exaggerated claims of a freestanding "spatial heuristic" in explaining, justifying and criticizing social practices, not least because the category of space remains undertheorized and conceptually indeterminate....

International politics of exception: competing visions of international political order between law and politics.
April 1, 2006... Both political leaders and academics often claim exceptional times. But what does it mean to speak of exceptional politics in international relations? In one sense exceptionality is a descriptive category referring to a radical change in the...

The global visa regime and the political technologies of the international self: borders, bodies, biopolitics.
April 1, 2006... This article examines the micropolitics of the border by tracing the interface between government and individual body. In the first act of confession before the vanguard of governmental machinery, the border examination is crucial to both the...

The problem with normality: taking exception to "permanent emergency".
April 1, 2006... This article challenges the increasingly prevalent idea that since September 11, 2001, we have moved into a state of permanent emergency and an abandonment of the rule of law. The article questions this idea, showing that historical...

Mastering "irrational" violence: the relegitimization of French security policy in sub-Saharan Africa.
April 1, 2006... The global context of the 1990s imposed constraints on French security policy in sub-Saharan Africa, but it has also offered new opportunities to reauthorize and relegitimize French military cooperation, military intervention, and prepositioned...