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Bill Brydon

Discursive democracy and the challenge of state building in divided societies: reckonin... - 0 views

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    Current approaches to democratic state building place serious conceptual limits on policy options. A democratic future for Bosnia's people will require far more searching engagement with identity formation and its politicization than reform efforts have s
Bill Brydon

The Global South - Campesino Communities in North Peru: Local Consequences of Globaliza... - 0 views

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    Campesino (farm worker) communities in North Peru have not benefitted well from globalization because of a national devotion to capitalism and the global market's need for export goods. The consequence of the new focus is that a balanced national infrastr
Bill Brydon

From Antagonism to Agonism: Shifting Paradigms of Women's Opposition to the State -- Ra... - 0 views

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    Judith Butler's perception of a shift in feminism's relationship to the state in Antigone's Claim serves as a useful starting point for my reflections in this essay. The familiar feminist representation of Antigone's "defiance" that she describes and ques
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Historical Reflections on DAWN: An Interview with Gita Sen -- Tambe and Trotz 30 (2): 2... - 0 views

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    In an interview, Gita Sen, a founding member of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), reflects on the network's two and a half decades of experience connecting scholars, policy advocates, and activists in Africa, Latin America, the Car
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Journal of Asian American Studies - Challenging Inequalities: Nations, Races, and Commu... - 0 views

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    "Challenging Inequalities: Nations, Races and Communities," that is, challenging inequalities among nations, among races, and among communities. As we wrote in the call for papers: "The conference theme can be interpreted in two different ways. Political,
Bill Brydon

Is nationalism left or right? Critical junctures in Québécois nationalism*. J... - 1 views

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    Sub-state nationalist parties of the industrialised West occupy different positions along the left-right political spectrum. Despite the similarities of their political agendas, these parties adopt different ideological identities. This paper seeks to exp
Bill Brydon

Anarchism, anti-imperialism and The Doctrine of Dynamite - Journal of Postcolonial Writing - 0 views

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    During the late Victorian period, British anarchist writers commented on Irish political affairs while the celebrated Irish author Oscar Wilde offered moral and practical support to them. Wilde's position was especially radical, since anarchism was associ
Bill Brydon

Against Balkanism: Women's Academic Life-writing and Personal and Collective History in... - 0 views

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    How does the life experience of an academic matter and how may it shape the ways in which scholarship is pursued? Starting from this question, the article offers a reading of the use of the discourse of Balkanism in Vesna Goldsworthy's recent memoir Chern
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Ko Un and the Poetics of Postcolonial Identity - Global Society - 0 views

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    Ko Un is one of South Korea's most important writers of the past 50 years, and a poet whose work provides important insights into crucial linkages between language, identity and community. He lived through, chronicled and critically engaged most of the tr
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Journal of Democracy - The Rise of "State-Nations" India - 0 views

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    Must every state be a nation and every nation a state? Or should we look instead to the example of countries such as India, where one state holds together a congeries of "national" groups and cultures in a single and wisely conceived federal republic?
Bill Brydon

Liberal nationalism, nationalist liberalization, and democracy: the cases of post-Sovie... - 0 views

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    The bulk of scholarly literature views nationalism as harmful to democratic transition. Yet Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan indirectly suggest that nationalism may benefit democratization. This study shows that under the right conditions nationalism can benef
Bill Brydon

Governments and Movements: Autonomy or New Forms of Domination? - Socialism and Democracy - 0 views

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    this change at the top level arose from years of steady electoral growth (notably, in Brazil and Uruguay), while in other countries it was the fruit of social movements capable of overthrowing neoliberal parties and governments (Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuel
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Globalism as the Product of Nationalism Founding Ideology and the Erasure of the Local ... - 0 views

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    This study is based on the argument that globalism is a product of nationalism. I argue that globalism, understood as the imagination of the world as a single place, was made possible by and accompanies the emergence of nationalism, defined as the formati
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The Global South - Introduction: Latin America in a Global Age - 0 views

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    This initial encounter, led by Portugal and Spain, and subsequent interactions between Latin America and the rest of the world, particularly the West, have had profound effects on the region, including drastic changes in demography, racism and the destruc
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The Global South - Women-Space, Power, and the Sacred in Afro-Brazilian Culture - 0 views

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    This article places Afro-Brazilian women in the midst of the discourse of globalization, in light of its impact on marginalizing women of color, economically, politically, and culturally. It extends the concept of globalizing discourses to the history of
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The Global South - Brazil's Africa Policy under Lula - 0 views

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    This article is an analysis of Brazilian foreign policy largely since the coming to power of Luis Inácio "Lula" da Silva. It is an assessment of policy and implementation in Brazilian international organizations that speak to south-south issues. As a back
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When States Act Like Movements Dismantling Local Power and Seating Sovereignty in Post-... - 0 views

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    In post-neoliberal Bolivia, state and social-movement efforts to "seat" (sentar) sovereignty and "reestablish" (refundar) the state pose an interpretive challenge to critical ethnographers of power because sovereignty-making practices have instrumentalize
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Between the Elusive and the Illusionary: Donors' Empowerment Agendas in the Middle East... - 0 views

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    This article examines the notion of empowerment as it has been conceptualized, operationalized, and applied through various programs and projects by some donors funding women- and gender-related projects in the Middle East between 1998 and 2008. The main
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Imperialism, the State, and NGOs: Middle Eastern Contexts and Contestations -- Abdo 30 ... - 0 views

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    Since September 11 and the war on terrorism, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the Arab world have acquired a special presence and weight, requiring critical analysis. The increase in NGOs just in the past few years-from an estimated 175,000 in 1995
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Of Property and Propriety: The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism:... - 0 views

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    This essay, written in reflection of earlier work, introduces the themes needed to analyze forms of gender and class oppression as these have been mediated through, and by, hegemonic projects of imperialism and nationalism. It argues that the gender criti
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