Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from October 2006

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from October 2006

Introduction: geography and the reconceptualization of politics.
October 1, 2006... An introduction to a special issue, this article explores the form of the political founded upon spatial transformation: an enabling framework of recognition setting parameters for the sayable and unsayable. It points especially to techniques...

Splinters of hegemony: ontopoetical visions in international relations.
October 1, 2006... Drawing on a montage of specific cases from diverse political landscapes that echo well beyond their specificity, this article examines border poetics enacted in international migration, biopolitical poetics harnessed to the resistance by...

Taking Flight in condemned grounds: forcibly displaced Karens and the Thai-Burmese in-between spaces.
October 1, 2006... Based on fieldwork in non-ceasefire war zones within and between Thailand and Burma, this article explores the nexus between written language, intelligibility, and qualified voice in order to examine the Karen people as unqualified political...

From war to war: Lord of the Flies as the sociology of spite.
October 1, 2006... A reading of Golding's Lord of the Flies as an allegory of a biopolitical or postpolitical society that elevates "security" to the most sacred principle of organization as a permanent state of exception and attempts to combine it with...

Security, spatiality, and social suffering.
October 1, 2006... This article outlines a schema for developing an alternative knowledge about security, privileging non-European peoples and focusing on the sources and potentiality of insecurity. Urging attention to the everyday and the personal, to the claims...

Dystopic geographies of empire.(Viewpoint essay)
October 1, 2006... Through an economy of contemporary colonial power, this article examines the twin tropes of discipline and aesthetic representation in order to trace the intimate effects of contemporary colonial power on bodies placed in spaces of exception....