Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from January 2002

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from January 2002

Aporias of security.
January 1, 2002... Maybe the [task] nowadays is not to discover what we are, but to refuse what we are. We have to...get rid of the political "double-bind," which is the simultaneous individualization and totalization of modern power structures.... The political,...

Community as heterogeneous ensemble: Mostar and multiculturalism.
January 1, 2002... Aida Musanovic... had visited the hospital in Sarajevo and had seen the carnage brought by the war. Yet the burning of the library struck her with a special horror. In the fire of the National Library, she realised that what she was...

Referenda as a solution to the national-identity/boundary question: an empirical critique of the theoretical literature.
January 1, 2002... Whether referenda should be adopted to decide questions about national-identity/boundary issues has been debated for the last two centuries. The German lawyers Hotzendorf, Geffker, Stoerk, and Francis Liever, for example, denied use of...

Postcolonialism in an age of globalization: Opening international relations theory to identities in movement.
January 1, 2002... The point of theory, it seems, is to attempt to stop time, perhaps as if it was a dependent variable, and assemble the disparate elements of understanding into statements, or even a statement--or even a single word--that theorists would hope...

Power versus love: the production and overcoming of hierarchic repression.
January 1, 2002... Love is not a frivolous word. It is a word with which we struggle to express some of the most important experiences of our lives. A struggle that we do not win but cannot give up. This article is not so much about love--what it is; it is about...

Editorial introduction.(Editorial)
January 1, 2002... Created in 1990, the journal Cultures & Conflits is concerned with the diverse forms of political violence. Its first project was to report on the changes that occurred in the contemporary world from a multidisciplinary perspective, seeking to...

Global multiculturalism: the challenge of heterogeneity.
January 1, 2002... Globalization--to use the word that now designates the growing openness of national markets to international trade--is often viewed as the last stage in the advent of the market economy, whether one exalts or deplores this development. (1)...

The securitization of migration in Western societies: Ambivalent discourses and policies.
January 1, 2002... What shall we become now without the barbarians? Those people were a solution, weren't they? C. Gavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians" The last decades of the twentieth century were marked by a dramatic change led by the development...

Defining social constructivism in security studies: the normative dilemma of writing security.
January 1, 2002... In Western Europe--but also elsewhere--we have recently witnessed an offensive of security language in the societal and internal-affairs sector. The multiple references in political and academic debates to a new security construction that...

Security and immigration: Toward a critique of the governmentality of unease.
January 1, 2002... Migration is increasingly interpreted as a security problem. The prism of security analysis is especially important for politicians, for national and local police organizations, the military police, customs officers, border patrols, secret...