Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from July 2005

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from July 2005

The politics of dispossession, belonging, and hope: remembering Edward W. Said.(Obituary)
July 1, 2005... This article develops a critical appreciation of the work of Edward Said. It seeks to disentangle some of the most important themes in his work in relation to the dilemmas and contradictions of his life, and to assess their political...

Arms over AIDS in South Africa: why the boys had to have their toys.(need for epidemic control rather than military needs)
July 1, 2005... This article attempts to find a rationale for South Africa's multi-billion-dollar arms deal given the absence of any conventional military threat and despite the overwhelming need to manage the HIV/AIDS pandemic as a far more salient threat to...

Power/knowledge in international peacebuilding: the case of the EU police mission in Bosnia.
July 1, 2005... This article develops the argument that peacebuilding brings into play microphysical and nonsovereign forms of power that circulate through opaque capillaries that link foreign peacebuilders and indigenous populations. It examines the...

Recasting neoliberal dominance in the global South? A critique of the Monterrey consensus.
July 1, 2005... The UN Financing for Development conference (FfD) was held in Monterrey, Mexico, in March 2002 to gain international financial and political support for the Millennium Development Goals. Various multilevel consultations were held with "equal...

Theory and society in the shadow of terror.
July 1, 2005... Contemporary social theory has reached an impasse that expresses the contradictions of our time. The retreat from Grand Theory may have been necessary but there is need now to go back to basic questions about ontology, epistemology, and ethics....