Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from January 2003

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from January 2003

Foucault on Clausewitz: conceptualizing the relationship between war and power.(Michel Foucault, Karl von Clausewitz)
January 1, 2003... War is only a branch of political activity. Karl von Clausewitz Pathology is no more than a branch, a result, a complement of physiology, or rather, physiology embraces the study of vital actions at all stages of the existence of...

The evolutionary dynamics of the movement to ban landmines.
January 1, 2003... In an attempt to demonstrate the vitality and significance of the transnational, nonstate realm of world politics, in this article, we examine the global mine-ban movement during the period 1991-2002. In doing so, we make two claims: The first...

Against ecofeminism: Agrarian populism and the splintered subject in rural India.
January 1, 2003... Over the last decade, peasant protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against...

Are religious minorities more militant than other ethnic minorities?
January 1, 2003... Since the Iranian Revolution and especially since the end of the Gold War, religion has come to be associated with militancy. Conflicts between groups of different religions are perceived by many as more intense. Similarly, religious groups...

Migration and the lived spaces of Southern Africa.
January 1, 2003... When the Mail & Guardian reported on July 7, 1997, that two Mozambicans, a mother and child, had been devoured by lions in the Kruger National Park while their group tried to enter South Africa illegally, the story seemed to be little more than...

Reconfiguring "the international": knowledge machines, boundaries, and exclusions.
January 1, 2003... For many of us, it was IR--disciplinary international relations--that provided our introduction to "the international." It was a rarefied arena governed by its own logic, and as a result, it fascinated. I remember W. Macmahon Ball, a seminal...