Feminist ethics and hegemonic global politics

Alternatives

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 265-284

  Jabri, Vivienne ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 7744239294     PISSN: 03043754     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/030437540402900302     Document Type: Review

References (54)

1. See contributions by Kimberly Hutchings and Vivienne Jabri in Vivienne Jabri and Eleanor O'Gorman, eds., Women, Culture, and International Relations (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1999).
2. Michel Foucault, "Truth and Power," in Power/Knowledge, ed. Colin Gordon (London: Prentice-Hall, 1980), p. 114.
3. I b i d.
4. Manuel Castells, The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996).
5. Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1990).
6. Ulrich Beck, Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (London: Sage, 1992).
7. Anthony Giddens, Modernity and Self Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1991).
8. Michel Foucault, "Governmentality," in Michel Foucault, Power: The Essential Works, vol. 3, ed. James D. Faubion (London: Allen Lane, 2001).
9. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000), p. 9.
10. Michel Foucault, "The Birth of Biopolitics," in Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: New Press, 1997), pp. 73-79. For an investigation of the relationship between neo-liberal biopolitics and war, see Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, "Global Liberal Governance: Biopolitics, Security, and War," Millennium 30, no. 1 (2001): 41-66.
11. Michel Foucault, "The Birth of Biopolitics," in Michel Foucault, Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth, ed. Paul Rabinow (New York: New Press, 1997), pp. 73-79. For an investigation of the relationship between neo-liberal biopolitics and war, see Michael Dillon and Julian Reid, "Global Liberal Governance: Biopolitics, Security, and War," Millennium 30, no. 1 (2001): 41-66.
12. On practices of government relating to insecurity, see Didier Bigo, "Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease," Alternatives 27, no. 1 (2002): 63-92, and Jef Huysmans, "Defining Social Constructivism in Security Studies: The Normative Dilemma of Writing Security," Alternatives 27, no. 1 (2002): 41-62.
13. On practices of government relating to insecurity, see Didier Bigo, "Security and Immigration: Toward a Critique of the Governmentality of Unease," Alternatives 27, no. 1 (2002): 63-92, and Jef Huysmans, "Defining Social Constructivism in Security Studies: The Normative Dilemma of Writing Security," Alternatives 27, no. 1 (2002): 41-62.
14. Given the predominance of U.S. military power, as well as U.S.-led military interventions, it is tempting to argue that the role of the United States is core to the present hegemonic order. It is, however, important to point out that the totality described here relates to practices that exceed the role of one particular state or one particular agency, even as that state or agency may historically possess an overwhelming role in the production of global structures of domination.
15. The main advocate of Third Way politics is Anthony Giddens. See his The Third Way: The Renewal of Social Democracy (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1998).
16. Michel Foucault, note 8. For investigations into the implications of neoliberal governentality in contemporary politics, see Mitchell Dean, Governentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (London: Sage, 1999), and Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, and Nikolas Rose, eds., Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism, and Rationalities of Government (London: UCL Press, 1996).
17. Michel Foucault, note 8. For investigations into the implications of neoliberal governentality in contemporary politics, see Mitchell Dean, Governentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society (London: Sage, 1999), and Andrew Barry, Thomas Osborne, and Nikolas Rose, eds., Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism, and Rationalities of Government (London: UCL Press, 1996).
18. For a discussion of neoliberal govermentality and its theoretical and historical implications, see Thomas Lemke, "'The Birth of Biopolitics': Michel Foucault's Lecture at the College de France on Neo-liberal Governmentality," Economy and Society 30, no. 2 (2001): 204.
19. Quoted ibid.
20. Hardt and Negri, note 9, p. 191.
21. Etienne Balibar, Politics and the Other Scene (London: Verso, 2002).
22. See Patricia Owens, "Xenophilia, Gender, and Sentimental Humanitarianism" in this issue of Alternatives.
23. Manuel Castells seeks to distinguish between the "space of flows," which applies to networks of interaction, and the "space of places," which refers to "historically rooted spatial organisation." See Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 2000), p. 409.
24. Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).
25. Vivienne Jabri, in Jabri and O'Gorman, note 1.
26. Martha Nussbaum, "Human Capabilities, Female Human Beings," in Martha Nussbaum and John Glover, eds., Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities (Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1995), p. 62.
27. Ibid., p. 73.
28. Ibid., p. 80.
29. Ibid., p. 93.
30. Martha Nussbaum, "Comments on Quillen's 'Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human,'" Signs 27, no. 1 (2001): 125.
31. I b i d.
32. I b i d.
33. Carol Quillen, "Feminist Theory, Justice, and the Lure of the Human," Signs 27, no. 1 (2001): 98.
34. Swasti Mitter, "Universalism's Struggle," Radical Philosophy 108 (July/August 2001): 42.
35. Epistemic violence is a term used by Spivak in her discussion of the consequences of imperialist practices. See Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 277.
36. Ibid., p. 290.
37. Uma Narayan, "Undoing the 'Package Picture' of Cultures," Signs 25, no. 4 (2000): 1084.
38. Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). See also Vivienne Jabri, "Restyling the Subject of Responsibility in International Relations," Millennium 27, no. 3 (1998): 591-611.
39. Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991). See also Vivienne Jabri, "Restyling the Subject of Responsibility in International Relations," Millennium 27, no. 3 (1998): 591-611.
40. See Seyla Behabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community, and Post-modernism in Contemporary Ethics (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1992).
41. Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, vols, 2, 3 (London: Penguin, 1987, 1990).
42. Christine Sylvester, Feminist International Relations: An Unfinished Journey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
43. Ibid., pp. 244-245.
44. Ernesto Laclau, "Identity and Hegemony: The Role of Universality in the Constitution of Political Logics," in Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Zizek, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left (London: Verso, 2000), p. 58.
45. Manuel Castells, The Power of Identity (Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1997), pp. 65-66.
46. Ibid., p. 66.
47. Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox (London: Verso, 2000), p. 15.
48. See Suzanne Bergeron, "Political Economy Discourses of Globalisation and Feminist Politics," Signs 26, no. 4 (2001) for an excellent discussion of the differential impact of globalization and its implications for feminist politics.
49. Michel Foucault, "What Is Enlightenment?" in Paul Rabinow, ed., The Foucault Reader (London: Penguin, 1984).
50. There are a number of highly significant works that may be drawn upon in this context, especially from feminist readings of international political economy. Chandra Mohanty, for example, stresses historical materialism to explore the material realities that impact upon and constrain the lives of women and the inequalities experienced globally. See her excellent article, "'Under Western Eyes' Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles," Signs 28, no. 2 (2002): 499-535.
51. Laclau, note 40.
52. Mohanty, note 46, draws upon the work of Angela Davis and Gina Dent to point to the gender, race, and class basis of exploitation and oppression from the political economy of U.S. prisons to the policing of women's bodies in globalized production. See Angela Davis and Gina Dent, "Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalisation, and Punishment," Signs 26, no. 4 (2001): 1235-1241.
53. Mouffe, note 43.
54. Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant, "NewLiberalSpeak: Notes on the New Planetary Vulgate," Radical Philosophy 105 (2001): 4.