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Bill Brydon

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 - 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
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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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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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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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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,
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African Studies Review - Cape Verdean and Mozambican Women's Literature: Liberating the... - 0 views

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    In Mozambique and Cape Verde, writing in Portuguese by African women has directly engaged political reconstruction by denouncing colonial oppression and embracing national freedom. This article addresses the recent history of Lusophone African women's fiction, which has been pivotal in inscribing the intimate arena of sexuality and motherhood into power relations and has also revealed ways in which the domain of violence intersects with private lives. By focusing on two novels that exemplify this trend, this article demonstrates links between the political and the intimate. It also shows how Lusophone African authors contribute to healing social conflict through their narratives, and draws some conclusions about gender relations in the Lusophone African experience and across the continent. Résumé: Au Mozambique et au Cap Vert, les écrits de femmes africaines en langue portugaise ont participé directement à la reconstruction politique en dénonçant l'oppression coloniale et en adoptant les principes de liberté nationale. Cet article aborde l'évolution historique récente des romans d'écrivaines africaines de langue portugaise, qui ont été essentiels pour introduire les domaines privés de la sexualité et de la maternité dans l'arène publique des relations de pouvoir, et pour révéler les
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Stumbling towards collapse: coming to terms with the climate crisis - Environmental Pol... - 0 views

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    Leading sociologists have approached the climate crisis by emphasising a way forward and identifying hopeful directions. What sense is to be made of suggestions that we are instead on the brink of a 'collapse' in which the crisis is not resolved but leads to the end of existing civilisation? Partly based on three studies of contemporary opinion in the Hunter Valley in Australia, a coal industry centre, this discussion is also based on an examination of the public response to climate change world wide, the nature of the crisis as understood by science, the political response so far and the economic problems of replacing fossil fuels. What social theories might help explain what is happening? It is concluded that 'collapse' can be understood by conceiving capitalist society as a social machine, informed by a 'social imaginary'.
Bill Brydon

Theorising the Korean State beyond Institutionalism: Class Content and Form of 'Nationa... - 0 views

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    Although the Korean developmental state has been heavily discussed in various disciplines and across diverse political spectrums, the statist notion that the developmental state is autonomous from and disciplines society, and is therefore effective in achieving 'national development', has more often been taken for granted than problematised. Statism is also pervasive in institutionalism that emphasises the linkages rather than dichotomies between state and market and in the recent discussions on the transformation of the developmental state. This article proposes an alternative conceptual framework by reformulating 'the form critique of the state' pioneered by Evgeny Pashukanis and further developed in the 'German state derivation debate' on the one hand, and 'world system analysis' on the other. Extending the Marxist critique of 'commodity fetishism' to the theorisation of the developmental state, it inquires into the origins of statism and argues that it is the uneven dynamics of capitalism as a global system that give rise to statism in the first place.
Bill Brydon

Autochthony as Capital in a Global Age - Theory, Culture & Society - 0 views

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    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.
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The birth of a united Europe: on why the EU has generated a 'non-emotional' identity - ... - 0 views

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    In several respects, the European Union (EU) represents both a novel system of quasi-supranational governance and a novel form of political community or polity. But it is also a relatively fragile construction: it remains a community still in the making with an incipient sense of identity, within which powerful forces are at work. This article has three main aims. Firstly, to analyse the reasons and key ideas that prompted a selected elite to construct a set of institutions and treaties destined to unite European nations in such a way that the mere idea of a 'civil war' among them would become impossible. Secondly, to examine the specific top-down processes that led to the emergence of a united Europe and the subsequent emergence of the EU, thus emphasising the constant distance between the elites and the masses in the development of the European project. Finally, to explain why the EU has generated what I call a 'non-emotional' identity, radically different from the emotionally charged and still prevailing national identities present in its member states.
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