Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from November 2003

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from November 2003

Fathers, flags, and modern-day fanaticism: a short story about cold war grand theories and ordinary Vietnamese Australian people.
November 1, 2003... When I was in my first year of school, I was given my first-ever assignment. It involved creating a poster on a nation of my choice. I remember being determined to submit an exemplary work that would confirm my status as both an artist and an...

The internal/external security paradox and the reconstruction of boundaries in the Baltic: the case of Kaliningrad (1).
November 1, 2003... In recent years, the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea has received increasing scholarly attention and, more importantly, has come to be of concern to the European Commission. Although small in terms of...

The new Saint Petersburg: trapped in time (1)?
November 1, 2003... The naming of St. Petersburg follows a distinct pattern. Emerging in the context of early modern Russia, the city gained a name that, through its Dutch and German, rather than Russian, connotations signaled some degree of cultural openness. The...

War, cinema, and moral anxiety (1).
November 1, 2003... In modern war, one individual can cause the destruction of hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children. He can do so by pushing a button; he may not feel the emotional impact of what he is doing, since he does not see, does not know the...

States of nature, environing the political: a response to Timothy W. Luke.
November 1, 2003... Timothy Luke's main argument in "International or Interenvironmental Relations: Reassessing Nations and Niches in Global Ecosystems?" (1) is that worldwide transformations of people, place, and product demand a new analytics. He suggests that...