Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from January 2005

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from January 2005

The folding of liberal government: contract governance and the transformation of the public service in Canada.
January 1, 2005... "Contract governance" is an advanced liberal program of governance that aims to unfold or "decouple" policy from service delivery and to manage outsourced public service provision by means of contrived markets. These restructuring efforts...

The scripting of Private Jessica Lynch: biopolitics, gender, and the "feminization" of the U.S. military.
January 1, 2005... Supplementing the insights of Georgio Agamben with feminist research contributions, this article develops a biopolitical reading of the debate surrounding the "feminization" of the U.S. military. We argue that an examination of the role gender...

Blair's Africa: the politics of securitization and fear.
January 1, 2005... Prime Minister Tony Blair has described Africa as a "scar on the conscience of the world." This article argues that New Labour's increasing attention to Africa is part of an ongoing securitization of the continent; interactions with Africa are...

X/Xs: toward a general theory of the exception.
January 1, 2005... Despite renewed interest in the Schmittian problematic of the exception as the constitutive principle of the political, the full significance of Schmitt's political philosophy remains underestimated. Starting from Schmitt's account of the...