Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from June 2004

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from June 2004

From morality to politics and back again: feminist international ethics and the civil-society argument.
June 1, 2004... Feminist ethics is a branch of moral philosophy. Its concerns range across meta-ethics (the question of how feminist moral principles and values may be grounded or legitimated), moral theory (the articulation of substantive feminist moral...

Feminist ethics and hegemonic global politics.
June 1, 2004... The challenge for feminism in the present relates to how it responds, ethically and politically, to a global context that is at once geared toward total control and fragmentation. In seeking to contribute to the revival of feminism as a...

Xenophilia, gender, and sentimental humanitarianism.
June 1, 2004... Because compassion abolishes the distance, the worldly space between men where political matters, the whole realm of human affairs, are located it remains, politically speaking, irrelevant and without consequence. ...

The "China threat" in American self-imagination: the discursive construction of other as power politics.
June 1, 2004... We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are. --The Talmud China and its relationship with the United States has long been a fascinating subject of study in the mainstream U.S. international relations community....

Taking part: social movements, INGOs, and global change.
June 1, 2004... Can social movements make a difference in global politics? That question is, ultimately, one that only the historical practice of transnational social movements will answer. But is that answer likely to be heard or understood by analysts, even...