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ISSN (Print) 0263-2764 - ISSN (Online) 1460-3616
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Sovereignty without Hegemony, the Nuclear State, and a 'Secret Public Hearing' in India
- Authors: Kaur; R.
  Pages: 3 - 28
  Abstract: How can sovereignty provide the premises to think outside of sovereignty? In other words, how is it possible to perceive of resistance to sovereignty which itself is deemed to have been caught up in the double bind of sovereignty? With a critical appraisal of theories on the ‘state of exception’ in conversation with Robert Jungk’s consideration of the ‘nuclear state’, I account for the nuclear state of exception which has acquired sovereignty in several nations in the post-Second World War scenario, before going on to consider ‘spaces of exception’ to it. I then provide a critical appraisal of studies of resistance. Using the case of a public hearing on the Koodankulam nuclear power plant in south India, I account for how ways of conceptualizing contestation and challenges in the shadows of sovereignty can be pursued in what I describe as a case of ‘sovereignty without hegemony’.
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412474325|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276412474325
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Anachronism and Morality: Israeli Settlement, Palestinian Nationalism, and Human Liberation
- Authors: Dalsheim; J.
  Pages: 29 - 60
  Abstract: This article is concerned with how the idea of anachronism can interfere with our thinking about social justice, peace, and human liberation. In the case of Israel/Palestine the idea of anachronism is deployed among liberals, progressives and radical theorists, and activists seeking peace and social justice who express animosity toward religiously motivated settlers and their settlement project. One of the ways in which they differentiate themselves from these settlers is by suggesting that settler actions belong to the past. They also pity Palestinians conceived of as stuck in an oppressive system of settler colonialism that also belongs to the past, preventing them from moving forward. Both perceptions of anachronism limit the ways we can think about human liberation and peace. This article sheds light on a conundrum about who or what belongs to the past, and how thinking in such terms can contribute to the production of a particular moral collective and to the production of enmity. Both perceptions of anachronism frame history as a kind of progress in which peoples or groups might be ranked according to their levels of civilizational attainment, an idea we abandoned long ago as an analytical tool, but seem to have retained as a matter of practical political sympathy and judgment. This temporal conditioning can interfere with the thinking of even some of the most progressive social theorists, and mimics a colonial impulse.
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412460697|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276412460697
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Intellectual Property Law and the Globalization of Indigenous Cultural Expressions: Maori Tattoo and the Whitmill versus Warner Bros. Case
- Authors: Tan; L.
  Pages: 61 - 81
  Abstract: From the time of British colonial settlement, innumerable taonga (treasures) have been appropriated from the indigenous Maori population of Aotearoa/New Zealand, from cloaks, weapons, carvings and musical instruments to the practices and products of ta moko (Maori tattoo). This article focuses on the topic of cultural appropriation, homing in on a recent legal case, Whitmill v. Warner Bros., in which an artist sued Warner Bros. in a US court for pirating a ‘Maori-inspired’ tattoo created for Mike Tyson, so as to tease out the conflicts between intellectual property (IP, specifically copyright) laws and norms on one hand, and international frameworks for human and cultural rights on the other. It examines the implications of the case for ta moko as an indigenous artistic tradition, and the tension between human/artistic and cultural rights, before discussing potential remedial strategies, drawing on the findings of the Wai 262 (Waitangi Tribunal) report into claims concerning New Zealand law and policy affecting Maori culture and identity. Theoretically, it employs Manuel DeLanda’s assemblage theory as a framework for analysis, the benefit of DeLanda’s work being that it provides a novel approach circumventing the usual ontological terms of intellectual property laws and norms, which tend towards a kind of methodological individualism or micro-reductionism.
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412474328|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276412474328
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Making Undocumented Immigrants into a Legitimate Political Subject: Theoretical Observations from the United States and France
- Authors: Nicholls; W. J.
  Pages: 82 - 107
  Abstract: Over the last 20 years, the global North has witnessed the growing prominence of immigrant rights movements. This article examines how this highly stigmatized population has achieved a certain degree of legitimacy in hostile political environments. The central claim of the article is that this kind of legitimacy is initially achieved through the efforts of activists to represent undocumented immigrants in ways that resonate with the normative values of the nation. The author examines how activist networks are formed to present their cases within national political fields and the effects of this process on the political identities of immigrants and their respective citizenship regimes. The process of gaining legitimacy is contradictory. It contributes to nationalizing the political identities of foreigners and reproducing the exclusionary logic of national citizenship regimes. But in doing this, it encourages those who cannot conform to national values to embrace more radical and universal conceptions of rights. The generation of competing discourses and notions of rights (national versus universal) therefore arises through struggles to make undocumented immigrants into legitimate political subjects.
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412455953|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276412455953
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Postmodernity, Aesthetics and Tribalism: An Interview with Michel Maffesoli
- Authors: Tyldesley; M.
  Pages: 108 - 113
  Abstract: In this interview, conducted following the publication of Le Temps revient, Michel Maffesoli discusses his view of postmodernity and its connection with the aesthetic, current intellectual life, the ‘tribalism’ for which he is best known in the Anglophone world, and his own intellectual development.
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276413476100|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276413476100
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Ulrich Beck, Cosmopolitanism and the Individualization of Religion
- Authors: Mythen; G.
  Pages: 114 - 127
  Abstract: This article offers a critical appraisal of Ulrich Beck’s A God of One’s Own. Connecting the trajectory of the book with the conceptual anchors set down in preceding work on reflexive modernization and cosmopolitanism, areas of empirical imprecision are identified and obstacles to the widespread adoption of personalized forms of faith are considered. Concentrating on issues around configurations of power, the formation of identity and filters of cultural difference, points of critique are developed and areas ripe for future investigation are suggested.
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412474326|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276412474326
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
The Crisis of the European Union: A Response by Jurgen Habermas
- Authors: Outhwaite; W.
  Pages: 128 - 131
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412474329|hwp:resource-id:sptcs;30/3/128
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks by Tony D. Sampson
- Authors: Parikka; J.
  Pages: 131 - 136
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412474331|hwp:master-id:sptcs;0263276412474331
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi by C Mukerji
- Authors: Boyne; R.
  Pages: 136 - 140
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276412474330|hwp:resource-id:sptcs;30/3/136
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)
The Outsourced Self: Intimate Life in Market Times by Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Authors: Musial; M.
  Pages: 140 - 145
  PubDate: 2013-05-14T20:12:48-07:00
  DOI: 10.1177/0263276413475646|hwp:resource-id:sptcs;30/3/140
  Issue No: Vol. 30, No. 3 (2013)