Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from March 2004

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from March 2004

The international politics of secularism: U.S. foreign policy and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
March 1, 2004... The Iranian people did not rebel against their own failed rulers but against ours. --Robert J. Allison In his study of religious nationalism and modern politics, Mark Juergensmeyer describes secular nationalism and religion...

The harem syndrome: moving beyond anthropology's discursive colonization of gender in the Middle East.
March 1, 2004... The urgent need to redirect the debate on gender in the Middle East has led one commentator to suggest that "facile assumptions about the monolithic role 'Islam' or Arab culture plays in the seclusion, disempowerment, and oppression of women no...

Treatises of development: the context of developmentalism in Bangladesh.
March 1, 2004... This article analyzes the structure of the development discourse that has become prominent since the end of World War II. An understanding of this structure is vital to developing an appreciation of the making of Third World nations as objects...

National insecurities: humiliation, salvation, and Chinese nationalism.
March 1, 2004... The line separating good from evil passes not through states, nor between political parties--but right through every human heart. --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Use the past to serve the present. --Mao Zedong While...

Shame to Vengeance: the grand cliche of the Japanese Superstate.
March 1, 2004... In a nation where watching the gross national product is a gross national pastime, trade representatives come close to being culture heroes. Departing from Tokyo's Haneda Airport for their three-to six-year assignments in...