A note on the New International

Parallax

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 12-16

  Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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EID: 33746495494     PISSN: 13534645     EISSN: 1460700X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13534640110064084     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New International, Peggy Kamuf (trans.) (New York: Routledge, 1994), pp.84-88.
2. For a history of the four Internationals (first established by Marx and moved to the US, second, 1889-1914, which gave Northwestern Europe its welfare statist face, third the ComIntern, which broke in 1943 because of German opposition to Russia in World War II, and Fourth the ongoing Trotskyist movement), see Julius Braunthal, History of the International (London: Nelson, 1966) and
3. Fernando Claudin, The Communist Movement: From Comintern to Cominform (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1975).
4. Farida Akhter, 'Health Ignored and Environment Forgotten: Misleading Direction Toward Empowerment', in Depopulating Bangladesh (Dhaka: Narigrantha Prabartana, Arst edition, 1991), n.p.
5. This text is not included in the available edition of the book; for a comprehensive discussion we must look forward to Sonia E. Alvarez, Contentious Trans/ formations: Feminist Readings of Civil Society, Social Movements, and Transnational Organizing in Latin America (forthcoming).
6. Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward A History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999), pp.374-421.
7. Derrida, Specters of Marx, p.78.
8. Jacques Derrida, Politics of Friendship, George Collins (trans.) (New York: Verso, 1997). In quoting this text here I have often modified the translation.
9. Derrida, Politics of Friendship, p.79.
10. This part of the discussion is elaborated in Spivak, 'Schmitt and Poststructuralism: a Response', Cardozo Law Review 21.5-6 (May 2000), pp.1723-1737.
11. To focus how the disruption of the World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle (1999) is making this romanticization available, let me cite Roger Cohen, 'Growing Up and Getting Practical Since Seattle', New York Times 'Week in Review', Sept 24, 2000, p.1, 16.
12. Leslie Sklair, 'Social Movements and Global Capitalism', in Fredric Jameson (ed.), Cultures of Globalization (Durham: Duke University Press, 1998), p.305 and passim.