Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from November 2004

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from November 2004

Governing society today: editors' introduction.
November 1, 2004... The notion of governing society has for a long time seemed self-evident. Society was conceived as a totality coincident with a certain space, a territory, and occupied by a population. Governing was undertaken by a unified agency that acted...

Globalization as governmentality.
November 1, 2004... To repeat: don't think, but look! --Ludwig Wittgenstein At the 2002 International Sociological Association meeting, globalization was described in one session as "the story we all know." It was suggested that whereas economists tend...

Insecure times, tough decisions: the nomos of neoliberalism.
November 1, 2004... A comparative reading of Michel Foucault's seminars of the late 1970s and the political philosophy of Carl Schmitt reveal some provocative points of intersection and discord. In retrospect it might appear as if, hovering around the same...

Sanctuary practices, rationalities, and sovereignties.
November 1, 2004... All human behavior is scheduled and programmed through rationality. There is a logic of institutions and in behavior and in political relations. --Michel Foucault These people are not "cases" to us. They are human beings...

Liberal despotism: population planning, subjectivity, and government in contemporary China.
November 1, 2004... My title, Liberal Despotism, is a trope for oriental despotism. The image of oriental despotism is a familiar one. As Hegel writes of oriental forms of government, the nations of the East knew only that one is free--that is, the sovereign. All...

Liberalism and advanced liberalism in Australian indigenous affairs.
November 1, 2004... Liberty and domination are joined in liberal thought like two sides of a single coin: the value of one may appear on the face but the figure of the other is firmly stamped on the reverse. --Barry Hindess "I am all for...

Privatization of security as governance problem: gated communities in the San Diego region.
November 1, 2004... Americans were concerned about the threat to personal freedom posed by the conformism and homogeneity inherent in mass-consumption society. They longed for connection in their pursuit of suburban affluence. --New York Times, May...