Xenophilia, gender, and sentimental humanitarianism

Alternatives

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 285-304

  Owens, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 7544239127     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437540402900303     Document Type: Review

References (81)

1. Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism (New York: Meridian Books, 1958), p. 277.
2. Rachel Swarns, "U.S. Security Backlog Strands Many Refugees in Camps Abroad," New York Times, June 4, 2003.
3. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (New York: Harper, 1969), pp. 32-40.
4. Susan Sachs, "Pop Star and Public Officials Join Campaign for Tolerance," New York Times, 28 September 2001.
5. Bonnie Honig, Democracy and the Foreigner (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001).
6. The Kosovo Report: Independent International Commission on Kosovo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
7. Amy L. Ai, Christopher Peterson, and David Ubelhor, "War-Related Trauma and Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Adult Kosovar Refugees," Journal of Traumatic Stress 15, no. 2 (2002): 157-160.
8. Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997), pp. 177, 179.
9. Fiona Robinson, Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1999); Anthony Lang, Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (New York: State University of New York Press, 2001); Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
10. Fiona Robinson, Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1999); Anthony Lang, Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (New York: State University of New York Press, 2001); Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
11. Fiona Robinson, Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory, and International Relations (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1999); Anthony Lang, Agency and Ethics: The Politics of Military Intervention (New York: State University of New York Press, 2001); Neta Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
12. For a discussion of the multifaceted race politics of the post-9/11 world, see Julianne Malveaux and Reginna A. Green, eds., The Paradox of Loyalty: An African American Response to the War on Terrorism, foreword by Cornell West (Chicago: Third World Press, 2002).
13. The empirical evidence offered in this article is supportive of Kimberley Hutchings's critique of some of the normative claims made by feminist ethicists about dialogue in and across public spheres. Elsewhere in this issue of Alternatives, Hutchings critiques the "civil-society" or public-sphere argument of international feminist ethicists who rely on notions of "equality" and "freedom," too dependent on optimistic visions about what discourse ethics, in whatever form, can and will provide.
14. Hannah Arendt, "On the Emancipation of Women," in Arendt, Essays in Understanding: 1930-1954 (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994), p. 68.
15. Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996); Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
16. Seyla Benhabib, The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996); Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998).
17. Bonnie Honig, introduction to Honig, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995), p. 3.
18. See Arendt, "Understanding and Politics," in Arendt, note 12, Essays, pp. 307-308 (emph. added).
19. Arendt, note 1, p. 293.
20. John Kifner, "The Ravaging of Kosovo: How Serb Forces Purged One Million Albanians," New York Times, May 29, 1999.
21. Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), p. 54.
22. Jim Whitman, "The Kosovo Refugee Crisis: NATO's Humanitarianism versus Human Rights," in Ken Booth, ed., The Kosovo Tragedy: The Human Rights Dimensions (London: Cass, 2000), p. 167.
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28. Jennifer Hyndman, Managing Displacement: Refugees and the Politics of Humanitarianism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), p. 2.
29. Philip Shenon, "The Haven: U.S. Chooses Guantanamo Bay Base in Cuba for Refugee Site," New York Times, April 7, 1999.
30. Diana Jean Schemo, "Fort Dix - a Change of Mission," New York Times, May 5, 1999.
31. Diana Jean Schemo, "In Woods of Georgia, Echoes of Balkan Terror," New York Times, June 16, 1999.
32. Michael Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1983), pp. 31-63.
33. Honig, note 5, p. 76.
34. Michael Walzer, What It Means to Be an American (New York: Marsilio, 1992).
35. Diana Jean Schemo, "Exodus from Kosovo Produces First United States Citizen," New York Times, May 7, 1999.
36. Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, "Sex in Public," in Warner, Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone Books, 2002), p. 189.
37. "Kosovo Sweethearts Say 'I Do' at Dix," editorial, Los Angeles Times, May 24, 1999. Berlant and Warner define "heteronormativity" as "the institutions, structures of understanding, and practical orientations that make heterosexuality seem not only coherent - that is, organized as a sexuality - but also privileged." Berlant and Warner, note 33, p. 309 n.3.
38. Susan Sachs, "A Plan by Jesse Jackson to Free Soldiers Is Stalled," New York Times, April 23, 1999.
39. Frank del Olma, "Saluting Our Latino Soldiers," Los Angeles Times, April 2, 1999.
40. John Tierney, "The Tourists Are Replaced by Refugees," New York Times, May 31, 1999.
41. David Gonzalez, "Albanians Aim to Refresh Tree of Liberty," New York Times, April 14, 1999.
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43. Ibid., p. 65.
44. Honig, note 5, p. 80.
45. Daniel J. Watkin and Charlie LeDuff, "Among New York Muslims, Support for U.S. Strikes," New York Times, October 8, 2001; Michael Janofsky, "Iraqi Americans: Refugees Back Effort to End Hussein's Rule Despite Risk to Relatives," New York Times, October 11, 2002.
46. Daniel J. Watkin and Charlie LeDuff, "Among New York Muslims, Support for U.S. Strikes," New York Times, October 8, 2001; Michael Janofsky, "Iraqi Americans: Refugees Back Effort to End Hussein's Rule Despite Risk to Relatives," New York Times, October 11, 2002.
47. Avram Goldstein, "Gathering of Muslims Fuses Faith, Freedom," Washington Post, September 1, 2002.
48. Jane Perlez, "Muslim-as-Apple-Pie Videos Are Greeted with Skepticism," New York Times, October 30, 2002.
49. Paul Gilroy, Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).
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51. Ibid., p. 636.
52. Tim Judah, Kosovo: War and Revenge (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).
53. Berlant, note 46, p. 641.
54. Lang, note 9, p. 27.
55. Katherine Q. Seeyle, "Citing "Primitive" Hatreds, Clinton Asks Congress to Expand Hate-Crime Law," New York Times, April 7,1999.
56. Lang, note 9, p. 205.
57. Ibid., p. 28.
58. Arendt, note 18, p. 52.
59. Ibid., pp. 199-212.
60. Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (New York: Viking Press, 1970), p. 93.
61. Ibid., p. 79.
62. Ibid., pp. 83-84.
63. Ibid., p. 84 (emph. added).
64. Berlant, note 46, p. 641.
65. Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and the Unmaking of the World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).
66. Arendt, note 18, pp. 182-183.
67. Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994), p. 15.
68. Arendt, note 1, p. 301.
69. Etienne Balibar has usefully described Arendt's concern as emblematic of "a politics of politics" that persists in "creating, recreating, and conserving the set of conditions within which politics as a collective participation in public affairs is possible or is not made absolutely impossible." See Balibar, "Outlines of a Topography of Cruelty: Citizenship and Civility in the Era of Global Violence," Constellations 8, no. 1 (2000): 15.
70. Hannah Arendt, The Burden of Our Time (London: Seeker & Warburg, 1951), p. 439. This text was the first British edition of Origins of Totalitarianism.
71. Eytan Meyers, "The Causes of Convergence in Western Immigration Control," Review of International Studies 28, no. 1 (2002): 123-141.
72. Jürgen Habermas, The Post-National Constellation: Political Essays (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2001).
73. Bruce Robbins, ed., The Phantom Public Sphere (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
74. Sandra Kawash, "The Homeless Body," Public Culture 10, no. 2 (1998): 322.
75. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought, 2d ed. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1993).
76. Berlant, note 46, p. 641.
77. Arendt, note 56, p. 84. For a good discussion of how a contemporary postconflict "therapeutic paradigm" has victimized almost an entire population in Kosovo in a way that serves to justify continuing international administration of the territory, see Vanessa Pupavac, "Pathologizing Populations and Colonizing Minds: International Psychosocial Programs in Kosovo," Alternatives 27, no. 4 (2002): 489-511.
78. Honig, note 5, pp. 101-102.
79. Arendt, note 1, p. ix.
80. Berlant, note 8, p. 1.
81. Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976), p. 259.