Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from July 2001

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from July 2001

Empowering NGOs: the Microcredit movement through Foucault's notion of dispositif.(non-governmental organizations)(Michel Foucault)
July 1, 2001... Morgan Brigg (*) The provision of credit, particularly credit targeted at rural populations, has been a long-standing strategy in national development efforts' in the world South. In Bangladesh, the birthplace of micro-credit through the...

Bioprospecting and its discontents: Indigenous resistances as legitimate politics.
July 1, 2001... Chikako Takeshita (*) This article seeks to analyze the discursive control exercised over indigenous people and knowledge through the rhetoric of bioprospecting and to conceptualize indigenous peoples' protests against bioprospecting as...

The possibility of deterritorializing democracy: Agonistic democratic politics and the APEC NGO forums.(Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)(non-governmental organizations)
July 1, 2001... Marc G. Doucet (*) Since leadership out of this mess does not seem to be coming from the traditional places anymore--not from politicians, political parties, the church, or academia--it is up to us--working people, the unemployed, young...

A genealogy of peacemaking: the creation and re-creation of order.
July 1, 2001... Oliver P. Richmond (*) Peace would then be a form of war, and the state the means of waging it. Michel Foucault Making peace in "intractable" conflict is a fundamental challenge in the restructuring of the international system...

The prison as metaphor: Recasting the "Dilemma" of international relations.
July 1, 2001... Michael P. Marks (*) Metaphors are useful for theory creation. They minimize circular reasoning because the analytical deductions derived from them are based on empirical observations distinct from the phenomenon to be explained. Much of...

An interview with comandante David, a Tzotzil member of the Zapatista delegation to Mexico City, 2001.
July 1, 2001... Nicholas Higgins (*) On December 2, 2000, only one day into the new presidency of Vicente Fox, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) announced their intention to send a delegation to Mexico's capital city to seek the...