Discipline and punishment in global politics
Subtitle: illusions of control
By: edited by Janie Leatherman.
Contributors: Leatherman, Janie, 1959-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: International relations -- Political aspects; International relations -- Sociological aspects; Criminal justice, Administration of -- International cooperation
Description: Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what? How do they stay in charge and what are the effects? This volume raises these questions in case studies on regimes of torture and surveillance in women's rights, border control, media, global capital and religion. In an era of longing for hegemonic control (e.g. the US "war on terror"), the conclusions focus on the dilemmas of democratic accountability and how new spaces of resistance can be created.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Challenges to authority in global politics / Janie Leatherman; title: Crossing the line : insights from Foucault on the U.S. and torture / Julie Mertus and Kristin Rawls; title: Disciplining women, disciplining women's rights / Krista Hunt; title: Shielding America : missile defense and the reification of domesticity / Dawn Nowacki and David Gutterman; title: Citizenship as government : disciplining populations post 9/11? / Kim Rygiel; title: The nation-state, global media and the regime of supervision / Ali Riaz and Anthony DiMaggio; title: Disciplining perceptions, punishing violations : captivity in televisual narratives of the Iraq conflict / Michael Dartnell; title: Discipline and resistance in diplomacy : religion and the UN declaration of commitment on HIV/AIDS / Evelyn Bush; title: The global compact and its critics : activism, power relations, and corporate social responsibility / Graham Knight and Jackie Smith; title: Illusions of control / Janie Leatherman.