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Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and
processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways.
Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are
constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural
and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from
bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have
stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of
globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal,
its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups
with their own interests and goals. Part I of this volume looks at
political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime
-- that is, the power to construct the universal claims that will
prevail in a territory -- with respect to property, the state, the
environment, and women. Part II examines the dynamics and
counterdynamics of transnational networks in their interactions
with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. Part III looks at
the prospects for fruitful human rights dialogue between "competing
universalisms" that by definition are intolerant of contradiction
and averse to compromise. Selected Contents: Introduction:
Observing Human Rights in the Age of GlobalizationPart I. The
Struggle to Control the Human Rights RegimePart II. The Dynamics
and Counterdynamics of GlobalizationPart III. Setting the Terms of
Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus
Both human rights and globalization are powerful ideas and
processes, capable of transforming the world in profound ways.
Notwithstanding their universal claims, however, the processes are
constructed, and they draw their power from the specific cultural
and political contexts in which they are constructed. Far from
bringing about a harmonious cosmopolitan order, they have
stimulated conflict and opposition. In the context of
globalization, as the idea of human rights has become universal,
its meaning has become one more terrain of struggle among groups
with their own interests and goals. Part I of this volume looks at
political and cultural struggles to control the human rights regime
-- that is, the power to construct the universal claims that will
prevail in a territory -- with respect to property, the state, the
environment, and women. Part II examines the dynamics and
counterdynamics of transnational networks in their interactions
with local actors in Iran, China, and Hong Kong. Part III looks at
the prospects for fruitful human rights dialogue between "competing
universalisms" that by definition are intolerant of contradiction
and averse to compromise. Selected Contents: Introduction:
Observing Human Rights in the Age of GlobalizationPart I. The
Struggle to Control the Human Rights RegimePart II. The Dynamics
and Counterdynamics of GlobalizationPart III. Setting the Terms of
Debate: Pursuing Global Consensus
Popular culture in this "biological century" seems to feed on
proliferating fears, anxieties, and hopes around the life sciences
at a time when such basic concepts as scientific truth, race and
gender identity, and the human itself are destabilized in the
public eye. Tactical Biopolitics suggests that the political
challenges at the intersection of life, science, and art are best
addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical
theorizing, and reflective practices. Transcending disciplinary
boundaries, contributions to this volume focus on the political
significance of recent advances in the biological sciences and
explore the possibility of public participation in scientific
discourse, drawing on research and practice in art, biology,
critical theory, anthropology, and cultural studies. After framing
the subject in terms of both biology and art, Tactical Biopolitics
discusses such topics as race and genetics (with contributions from
leading biologists Richard Lewontin and Richard Levins); feminist
bioscience; the politics of scientific expertise; bioart and the
public sphere (with an essay by artist Claire Pentecost); activism
and public health (with an essay by Treatment Action Group
co-founder Mark Harrington); biosecurity after 9/11 (with essays by
artists' collective Critical Art Ensemble and anthropologist Paul
Rabinow); and human-animal interaction (with a framing essay by
cultural theorist Donna Haraway).ContributorsGaymon Bennett, Larry
Carbone, Karen Cardozo, Gary Cass, Beatriz da Costa, Oron Catts,
Gabriella Coleman, Critical Art Ensemble, Gwen D'Arcangelis, Troy
Duster, Donna Haraway, Mark Harrington, Jens Hauser, Kathy High,
Fatimah Jackson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan King, Richard Levins,
Richard Lewontin, Rachel Mayeri, Sherie McDonald, Claire Pentecost,
Kavita Philip, Paul Rabinow, Banu Subramanian, subRosa, Abha Sur,
Samir Sur, Jacqueline Stevens, Eugene Thacker, Paul Vanouse, Ionat
Zurr Beatriz da Costa does interventionist art using computing and
biotechnologies, and Kavita Philip studies colonialism,
neoliberalism, and technoscience using history and critical theory.
Both are Associate Professors at the University of California,
Irvine.
"Homeland Securities," a special issue of "Radical History
Review,"" "addresses the complex challenge for radical scholars and
activists presented by the shift in U.S. domestic and international
agendas in the wake of September 11 and the accompanying rhetorics
of national defense, the war on terrorism, and the declaration of
"homeland security." While the agencies and policies grouped under
the rubric of homeland security ostensibly address the safety of
the United States and its citizens, the implications of homeland
security reach far beyond the borders of the United States and
raise questions about transnational mobility, imperialism, nation,
and citizenship.
The contributors to this special issue" "offer critical
perspectives on the many fronts of the global "war on terror" and
reveal continuities and discontinuities within familiar strategies
of political control, racial discrimination, and state-sanctioned
violence. Featured articles explore such issues as the intersection
of racism, homophobia, and imperialism at Abu Ghraib; the conundrum
faced by economically disadvantaged Latino youth who find
themselves doubly targeted by aggressive army recruitment and
anti-immigration activity; and the ways that rhetoric and policies
of homeland security have provided new legal tools in the ongoing
project of defining "real Americans" through exclusion and state
violence. Other essays examine the role of the military in civilian
spaces, the right-wing assault on progressive historians and on
area studies, librarians' efforts to protect the privacy of their
patrons' records in light of the Patriot Act, and the role of
intellectuals in resisting everyday forms of control
andsurveillance.
"Contributors." Barbara Abrash, Lori A. Allen, Jerry Atkin, Rachel
Tzvia Back, Francisco E. Balderrama, Beatriz da Costa, Lara Z.
Deeb, Eric Hiltner, Martha Howell, Lawrence Jones, Burcak
Keskin-Kozat, R. J. Lambrose, Jorge Mariscal, Joseph Masco, Conor
McGrady, Quincy T. Mills, Priscilla Murolo, Enrique C. Ochoa,
Claire Pentecost, Kavita Philip, Vivian H. Price, Jasbir K. Puar,
Eliza Jane Reilly, Natsu Taylor Saito, Ellen Schrecker, David
Serlin, Rogers M. Smith, Marc Stein, Matias Viegener, Kath Weston,
Maurice B. Wheeler, Jessica Winegar
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