Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from October 2001

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from October 2001

Apertura: Race in international relations.
October 1, 2001... R. B. J. Walker (*) Colonialism without a civilizational mission is no colonialism at all. Ashis Nandy Race is a complex and multiply contested concept, pulled this way and that by the opposing demands of culture and biology,...

Racial assumptions in global labor recruitment and supply.
October 1, 2001... Randolph B. Persaud (*) Capitalism has generally found laborers when and where it needed them, and migratory movements have carried labor power to market all across the globe. --Eric Wolf, Europe and the People Without History ...

Race, Amnesia, and the education of international relations.
October 1, 2001... Sankaran Krishna (*) Aren't all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves they want to preserve? ...

Come to Africa: A hermeneutics of race in international theory.
October 1, 2001... Siba N. Grovogui (*) [The Republican congressional class of 1994 should] come to Africa. . . . In Rwanda and Burundi, no one is asked to pay for Head Start, unemployment insurance, Medicaid, national service or student loan programs....

Theorizing the racialization of global politics and the caribbean experience.
October 1, 2001... Hilbourne Watson (*) This article on the racialization of global politics addresses questions of the making of the modern world, as reflected through economic exploitation, racial, ethnic, and gender oppression, struggles against...

"Nuclear apartheid" as political position: race as a postcolonial resource?
October 1, 2001... Shampa Biswas (*) Reflecting on the colonial traces that remain in the current conduct and study of global politics, Roxanne Doty expresses her frustrations with "the very definition of the field of international relations, whose central...

Desert tracts: Statecraft in remote places.
October 1, 2001... Roxanne Lynn Doty (*) I am sitting in front of a big picture window in the Grand Hotel in Bisbee, an old mining town about two hundred miles southeast of Phoenix, Arizona. Bisbee is now home to aging hippies, artists, and a variety of...