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Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics

Illusions of Control

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  1. Janie Leatherman

    1. Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Challenges to Authority in Global Politics

    • Janie Leatherman
    Pages 1-25

  3. Crossing the Line: Insights from Foucault on the United States and Torture

    • Julie Mertus, Kristin Rawls
    Pages 27-40

  4. Disciplining Women, Disciplining Women’s Rights

    • Krista Hunt
    Pages 41-64

  5. Shielding America: Missile Defense and the Reification of Domesticity

    • Dawn Nowacki, David S. Gutterman
    Pages 65-84

  6. Citizenship as Government: Disciplining Populations Post-9/11

    • Kim Rygiel
    Pages 85-110

  7. The Nation-State, the Global Media, and the Regime of Supervision

    • Ali Riaz, Anthony DiMaggio
    Pages 111-137

  8. Disciplining Perceptions, Punishing Violations: Captivity in Televisual Narratives of the Iraq Conflict

    • Michael Dartnell
    Pages 139-163

  9. Discipline and Resistance in Diplomacy: Religion and the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS

    • Evelyn L. Bush
    Pages 165-189

  10. The Global Compact and Its Critics: Activism, Power Relations, and Corporate Social Responsibility

    • Graham Knight, Jackie Smith
    Pages 191-213

  11. Illusions of Control

    • Janie Leatherman
    Pages 215-232

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 233-240
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About this book

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.

Reviews

"Foucauldian analysis seems particularly apt to assess the emerging regimes of control, deception, and domestic and international imperialism that mark the contemporary era in global politics. This volume is especially useful because of the way it integrates analysis of gender and of hegemonic masculinity, the disciplining of women and of sexuality, and the use of self-disciplining mechanisms more generally, in a range of international policy arenas. The authors show both the expansive and overwhelming power in contemporary global politics of institutional entities that are deeply undemocratic and hostile to the lives of ordinary people, as well as the potential, albeit constrained, for resistance to these institutions." - Jyl Josephson, Director of Women s Studies and associate professor of political science, Rutgers University, Newark

"The chapters in this important book illuminatingly apply Foucault s approach in empirically analyzing many issues, including disciplining women, shielding America, the global media, citizenship, torture and corporate social responsibility. Some of the analyses also suggest the possibilities of resistance in power relations." - Louis Kriesberg, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies, Syracuse University

Editors and Affiliations

  • Fairfield University, Fairfield, USA

    Janie Leatherman

About the editor

JANIE LEATHERMAN is director of international studies and professor of politics at Fairfield University, USA.  She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), conflict early warning and prevention, gender and violence, sex-trafficking, foreign policy and transnational politics.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics

  • Book Subtitle: Illusions of Control

  • Editors: Janie Leatherman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230612792

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Janie Leatherman 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60584-8Published: 21 July 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-37320-8Published: 21 July 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-61279-2Published: 09 June 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 240

  • Topics: International Relations

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