Alternatives: Global, Local, Political articles from October 2007

Alternatives: Global, Local, Political archives from October 2007

Movement in the key concepts of international relations.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... The purpose of this article is to present many solid reasons to carry out a study of the topics related to the construction of world-unity and world-citizenship vocabularies through the methods of conceptual history. The scrutiny of the...

Speaking rights to theory.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... The status of constructivism as an open and accommodating intellectual approach is at odds with its aim of becoming the most appropriate site for a theory-practice synthesis. As an exemplar of the social concern that forms the ontology of...

"Can the subaltern be heard?": political theory, translation, representation, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.(Critical essay)
October 1, 2007... Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" questions the notion of the colonial (and Western) "subject" and provides an example of the limits of the ability of Western discourse, even postcolonial discourse, to interact with...

Dadaism and the peace differend.(Essay)
October 1, 2007... This experimental essay attempts to show how alternative methods and approaches are valuable in interrogating the ways in which orthodox theories of international relations (IR) approach peace. Drawing on a broad variety of critical traditions,...