Most Recent Articles from Alternatives: Global, Local, Political

• Tracing the Russian hermeneutic: reflections on Tarkovsky's cinematic poetics and global politics 

  This article makes a contribution to hermeneutic explorations in global politics. Taking as its points of departure the growing body of work on...

  01/01/09 by Cerwyn Moore · More from publication

• The politics of activation: technologies of mobilizing "multiethnic suburbs" in Sweden 

  Since the 1990s, the idea of "mobilization from below" has become a salient feature in Swedish debates on "multiethnic suburbs." In this article,...

  10/01/08 by Magnus Dahlstedt · More from publication

• Indeterminate Geographies of political violence in southern Thailand 

  Geographies always contain more than they claim to represent, and there is always a politics involved in this excessive representation. This...

  10/01/08 by Carlo Bonura · More from publication

• Global justice meets local civil society: the International Criminal Court's investigation in the Central African Republic 

  As a new justice institution, the International Criminal Court (ICC) needs to gain legitimacy not just with states but also in civil society, both...

  10/01/08 by Marlies Glasius · More from publication

• A model for homeland defense? The policing of alterglobalist protests and the contingency of power relations 

  This article analyzes the policing of the protest against the Free Trade Area of the Americas agreement in Miami in November 2003. Specifically, it...

  10/01/08 by John Gibson · More from publication

• Wilson victorious? Understanding democracy promotion in the midst of a "backlash" 

  Many authors have issued anxious warnings about a disturbing "backlash against democracy"--this in spite of the growing affirmation of democracy as...

  10/01/08 by Michele Acuto · More from publication

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