Globalisation

Rousseau's Social Contract and a Theory for Global Citizenship

by Oscar de la Parra

Globalisation, migration and asylum: the peril of the alien and the safety of the familiar

by Jane Callaghan

Globalization of Surveillance

by David Murakami Wood

In the Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies (eds. K. Ball, K.D. Haggerty and D. Lyon), 2012.

This chapter makes three main arguments. The first argument is that surveillance itself is one of the existing... more This chapter makes three main arguments. The first argument is that surveillance itself is one of the existing phenomena being rescaled and becoming global. The second is that in order to facilitate this rescaling and to enable governmental functions to operate on a global level, there is what might be called a ‘surveillance of globalization’. The third argument is that although there is an identifiable emerging and perhaps potentially hegemonic form of global surveillance, there are other types of surveillance at the global level, and that surveillance occurs in varied ways and has radically different and uneven outcomes.

The chapter outlines the recent historical origins of the globalization of surveillance in the post-WW2 world and considers three examples of contemporary global surveillance: the economy, public goods, and communications, before discussing the interaction of surveillance and global circuits of capital at the local level.

Surveillance in the World City

by David Murakami Wood

in the International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities (Edward Elgar, 2012).

Reconstructing Meta-Doha

by Agatino Rizzo

MONU 16, 118-121

Qatar has recently come to the attention of the media and the international community for its rising geopolitical... more Qatar has recently come to the attention of the media and the international community for its rising geopolitical importance. Despite its limited size, a growing number of international companies are opening regional offices in Doha, Qatar’s capital city, which is in turn reshaping its cityscape with ambitious public funded mega-projects (for the 2022 FIFA world cup, Olympics, etc.). While this mega-project agenda has brought new useful infrastructures to cater for the country’s ambitious goals, at the same time, it has been responsible for important physical and social fractures within the city. However, while on the one hand Doha’s mega-projects contribute to further urban fragmentation in Qatar they also show better connections with other localities worldwide....

poetics of the diverse

by Werner Wintersteiner

poetics of the diverse

by Werner Wintersteiner

CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

by Karen Soldatic

CALL FOR PAPERS:
Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
more CALL FOR PAPERS:
Journal Special Issue: Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies

Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities

Guest Editors: Shaun Grech (Manchester Metropolitan University) & Karen Soldatic (University of New South Wales)

We are pleased to announce that we will be guest editing a special edition entitled Disability and Colonialism: (dis)encounters and anxious intersectionalities on behalf of the established refereed journal Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

The aim of this special issue is to position disability within the colonial (the real and imagined), through which to explore a range of (often anxious) intersectionalities as disability is theorised, constructed, and lived as a post/neocolonial condition. While postcolonial theory and associated fields (e.g. critical theory, cultural studies etc.) have engaged with race, gender and ethnicity in the exploration of themes of identity, representation, space, historicity and the neocolonial, they have almost wholly bypassed disabled people- paradoxically limited to the subjectification of the able-bodied, or rather disembodying colonialism. Westerncentric fields of study such as disability studies often remain detached from the global South, the histories, contexts and cultures of these specific geopolitical spaces, and how disability is ontologically constructed and lived through a history replete with signifiers of power and empire and that frame the global. While some have adopted colonialism as a metaphor for the experience of disability (see for example Shakespeare, 2000), of colonized bodies by the medical profession, the colonial encounter per se, its creation of and implications for the disabled subject, remains inadequately theorised. In turn, disability is persistently removed from history and any contemplation of the post or neocolonial and efforts (discursive or material) at decolonizing these spaces and those within.

The special issue aims to transcend disciplinary, epistemological, methodological, spatial and historical boundaries. Engaging indigenous, post/neocolonial, disability studies, critical theory, psychology, Latin American Cultural Studies, and a range of other perspectives and literatures, and prioritising voices from the global South, we invite authors to engage in critical debate around colonialism to explore a range of thematic concerns (not exclusively):

• Colonial representations and the construction of the disabled body and mind
• The violence and disablism of colonialism
• Intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, gender and disability
• Empire and the domestication of bodies: globalisation, economics and beyond
• Disabled identities, metaphors and language, and their roles in subjugation
• From the colonial to the post/neocolonial: disability and contemporary lineages of imperialism
• Social identities and visions of disability
• Colonial medicalisation: identifying, labelling and ‘treating’ the disabled body
• The Christianising mission, biblical renditions and the disabled subject
• Decolonizing epistemologies, practices and lives: renegotiating power and contemplating global justice

We encourage authors to engage work on Southern theory and movements and approaches prioritising and promoting Southern epistemologies and counter-hegemonic knowledges emerging from struggles for justice.

Those wishing to submit an article, please email your full manuscript to both Shaun Grech (S.Grech@mmu.ac.uk) and Karen Soldatic (ajks123@bigpond.com). Please insert ‘Submission for Disability and Colonialism Special Issue’ in the subject line. Manuscripts will be sent anonymously for double peer review, and comments and recommendations relayed to authors through the editors.

Articles should not exceed 8,000 words in length, and include a 300 word abstract. The journal style guide is available here: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1369-801X&linktype=44.

Manuscripts should be submitted by no later than: 1st January 2013

Beauty and the Beach: Mapping Cosmetic Surgery Tourism

by Meredith Jones

Cosmetic surgery tourism – traditionally defined as the movement of patients from one location to another to undertake... more Cosmetic surgery tourism – traditionally defined as the movement of patients from one location to another to undertake ‘aesthetic’ medical procedures -- is a significant and growing area of medical tourism (Reisman 2010). The UK’s annual International Passenger Survey, produced by the Office for National Statistics, shows that approximately 100,000 UK citizens go abroad each year for medical treatment (a number rising by about 20% annually), and cosmetic surgery tourism is estimated to make up about 85% of the medical tourism market in Australia (Connell 2006). It has also been suggested that although financial crises, privatization and the rising cost of healthcare may have slowed demand for cosmetic surgery in some ‘developed’ countries, crossing national borders to procure those surgeries appears to be increasing as consumers seek out low-cost procedures abroad (see Bell et al 2011).The industry itself is acquiring institutional ‘thickness’ as the various agencies and agents involved increasingly coalesce into assemblages, regulatory and promotional bodies, financial regimes, and complex flows of bodies, knowledges, technologies, money, ideas and images . As Mainil et al (2010: 749) summarize, ‘the global network society has touched the medical field and there is no going back’.

While some commentators argue that ‘tourism’ is an inappropriate label to apply to practices of travelling to obtain medical treatment (eg Glinos et al 2010; Kangas 2010), we want to set that debate aside and instead look more closely at how cosmetic surgery tourism works: this chapter draws on a large-scale, multi-site, mixed methods research project exploring the practices, sites and experiences of cosmetic surgery tourism. In particular, we are interested in this chapter in offering an analysis of the issue of place within cosmetic surgery tourism, in terms of both image and experience. But before we focus in on this discussion, we want to briefly contextualize cosmetic surgery tourism and sketch some of its defining features.

2011, Autochthony as Capital in a Global Age, in Theory, Culture & Society , vol. 28 no. 1 34-54

by Mathieu Hilgers

For a little over a decade we have been witnessing a profusion of discourses on autochthony — that is, an original... more For a little over a decade we have been witnessing a profusion of discourses on autochthony — that is, an original belonging to a group or territory — in many parts of the world. A global approach to this question first requires a look at the principle of autochthony and its genealogy. Starting from African examples, places of prolific expression of the phenomenon, this article shows how autochthony plays the role of capital that can be invested, valued and profited from. The structure of this capital carries within itself the seeds of conflict. The article analyses how the stabilization of its value requires the execution of specific strategies. Among these strategies, I will focus in greater depth on voting. The relationship between capital, autochthony and elections will thus bring us back to debates that animate political science: in new municipalities, autochthony as capital is at the heart of candidate selection, suffrage, political participation and citizenship.

2011 The three anthropological approaches to neoliberalism, in International Social Science Journal, Vol 61 (202) : 351–364.

by Mathieu Hilgers

International Social Science Journal, Volume 61, Issue 202, 2011: 351–364.

For around fifteen years now, anthropology has been engaged in the study of neoliberalism. What contribution does the... more For around fifteen years now, anthropology has been engaged in the study of neoliberalism. What contribution does the discipline have to make to a debate largely monopolized by economics and political science? To answer this question, the present article returns to the major texts and highlights the three perspectives from which anthropology has approached neoliberal expansion: culturalist, systemic and the approach based on governmentality. Each has its own epistemological presuppositions and a specific conception of anthropology, globalization and neoliberalism. The article highlights the relevance and limitations of these approaches.

2012, « The Historicity of the Neoliberal State », in Social Anthropology, volume 20, n° 1, pp. 80-94

by Mathieu Hilgers

Debate with Loic Wacquant “Three Steps to a Historical Anthropology of Actually Existing Neoliberalism." Social Anthropology, 20, 1, with responses in the next issue: Jamie Peck, Nick Theodore, and Neil Brenner, Stephen Collier, Daniel Goldstein, Johanna Bockman, Don Kalb...

Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed Eno

Co-authored with Omar A. Eno, Mohamed H. Ingiriis, and Jamal M. Haji; Published in African Renaissance, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2012.

Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is... more Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was carefully selected, mainly, against a certain religion (Islam). The idea was then globally politicized by the Western world. Leaving that scholarly view in its own right, we disagree with the opinion raising terrorism as the devil’s just-born child of evil, when in reality Africans had been terrorized for centuries as slaves and human chattel. Hence the basis for the concept of this thesis: conceptualizing the episode of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ from the broader perspective of its practice from the Middle Passage or the Atlantic Slave Trade. To portray that argument and broaden the scope of the debate over this critically sensitive subject, we divided the discussion into three sections: an examination of what constitutes terrorism and terrorist; history of terrorism and terrorists from an Africa perspective; and the ideological constraints within the subject of terrorism as practiced by the US and its Western allies.

Multinationality and stock market valuation: an empirical study of US markets and companies

by Raj Aggarwal

'The Global and the Local'

by Colin Mercer

The Global and the Local' in Marcus Breen, ed., Cultural Industries: National Polices and Global Markets, Proceedings of a CIRCIT Conference, Melbourne, June, 1993, pp.34-37. ISSN 1034-7917

The impact of the economic crisis on higher education

by Vangelis Tsiligiris

University World News, 18 March 2012, Issue No:213

Higher education has been placed at the centre of public debate as a result of the 2008 financial collapse and the... more Higher education has been placed at the centre of public debate as a result of the 2008 financial collapse and the ongoing economic crisis. The main thrust of this debate centres around a rejustification of the role of higher education and a redefinition of its funding relationship with government.

Nevertheless, most of the discussion fails to mention the impact of the economic crisis on higher education. To me, this is important because the economic crisis has changed higher education at both the micro and macro levels.

Latin Amerika’da Barış Üzerine Doğulu, Avrupalı ve Yerli Düşünce

by Uluslararası İlişkiler

Ursula Oswald Spring, " Latin Amerika’da Barış Üzerine Doğulu, Avrupalı ve Yerli Düşünce ", Uluslararası İlişkiler, Cilt 5, Sayı 18 (Yaz), 2008

Bu makalede Çin, Hindistan, Latin Amerika, Avrupa ve günümüz küreselleşmesiyle ilgili bazı barış düşünceleri ele... more Bu makalede Çin, Hindistan, Latin Amerika, Avrupa ve günümüz küreselleşmesiyle ilgili bazı barış düşünceleri ele alınacaktır. Siyasal olarak, 1930’lardan beri Gandi Hindistan’da şiddet içermeyen, aktif pratikler geliştirdi; bunlar 1960’larda Martin Luther King’in sivil haklar hareketi tarafından devralındı ve Güney Afrika’nın bağımsızlık mücadelesinde daha ada geliştirildi. Şiddet içermeyen eylemler, feministler ve toplumsal hareketler için yeni girdiler yarattı, böylelikle taban hareketleri, kadınlar, yerliler tarafından girişilen dayanışma ekonomisi barışı inşa etmek, cinsler arası eşitlik, sürdürülebilir kalkınma çeşitlikleri içeren ve ademi merkeziyetçi post-modern bir dünyada aşağıdan-yukarı alternatifleri teşvik etti.

Revathi Krishnaswamy y John Charles Hawley (eds.)(2008)" The post-colonial and the global". Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 329 pp.

by Francisco J. Verdes-Montenegro

Introduction to "Christianismes en Océanie - Changing Christianity in Oceania"

by Yannick Fer

Introduction to the Archives de sciences sociales des religions n° 157, special issue "Christianismes en Océanie - Changing Christianity in Oceania", 2012. (p. 9-12)

For further details (including the abstracts of the articles), see: http://yannickfer.hautetfort.com/archive/2012/04/09/christianismes-en-oceanie-changing-christianity-in-oceania-p.html

Table of content : Christianismes en Océanie / Changing Christianity in Oceania

Dossier coordonné par... more Table of content : Christianismes en Océanie / Changing Christianity in Oceania

Dossier coordonné par Yannick Fer

Yannick FER – Introduction, présentation
Simon COLEMAN – Christianities in Oceania: "Historical Genealogies and Anthropological Insularities"
Manfred ERNST – Changing Christianity in Oceania: a regional overview
Yannick FER – Le protestantisme polynésien, de l’église locale aux réseaux évangéliques
John BARKER – Secondary conversion and the anthropology of Christianity in Melanesia
Jacqueline RYLE – Burying the Past–Healing the land: Ritualising Reconciliation in Fiji
Joel ROBBINS – Spirit Women, Church Women, and Passenger Women: Christianity, Gender, and Cultural Change in Melanesia
Gwendoline MALOGNE-FER – Les protestantismes polynésiens à l’épreuve du genre. L’exemple de l’église presbytérienne de Nouvelle-Zélande
Gilles VIDAL – La contextualisation de la théologie protestante comme lieu de changement du christianisme en Océanie

Le protestantisme polynésien, de l’église locale aux réseaux évangéliques

by Yannick Fer

Archives de sciences sociales des religions n° 157 (special issue "Christianismes en Océanie - Changing Christianities in Oceania"), 2012, p. 47-66.

The spectacular growth of Evangelical Protestantism and its “network culture” in Polynesia relies on regional... more The spectacular growth of Evangelical Protestantism and its “network culture” in Polynesia relies on regional migrations and young generations who aspire to disentangle personal faith and obedience to church authority. And yet, this growth can’t be simply reduced to a trend of globalisation, breaking away from the deep cultural roots of historical Protestantism in the region. The analysis of regional networks linked with the charismatic international organisation Youth With a Mission thus shows how some Evangelical movements re-appropriate, in their own terms, the Polynesian missionary history and local cultural identities; and how they finally interpret them in the frame of a global theology of spiritual warfare combining a “folklorisation” of culture and a de-territorialisation of personal membership with the exaltation of the “natural” bonds between individuals and territories.