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Power, Conflict And Resistance: Social Movements, Networks And Hierarchies, Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson Dec 2009

Power, Conflict And Resistance: Social Movements, Networks And Hierarchies, Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

Athina Karatzogianni

Drawing on theory by Deleuze and others on the structure of hierarchies and networks, the authors seek to reinterpret World Systems Theory in order to engage with issues of power, resistance, and conflict in the contemporary world. The authors engage with the world-systems, contemporary scholarship in global politics, and new concepts: global cities, bifurcations, hegemonic transitions, the relationship between capitalism and the state, the position of East Asia, active and reactive network movements. They develop new theory to interpret empirical cases of resistance and conflict including: Afghanistan, Iraq, anti-terror paranoia, political Islam, specific indigenous and activist movements


“Dancing On The Wall: An Analysis Of Barack Obama’S ‘Call To Renewal’ Keynote Address.”, Biff Rocha, Jeffrey Morrow Dec 2009

“Dancing On The Wall: An Analysis Of Barack Obama’S ‘Call To Renewal’ Keynote Address.”, Biff Rocha, Jeffrey Morrow

Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.

No abstract provided.


Audience Interpretations Of "Crash", Debbie Owens Dec 2009

Audience Interpretations Of "Crash", Debbie Owens

Debbie Owens

As audience members make sense of media texts, they construct interpretations based on their individual perspectives. The film Crash portrays many instances that allowed for sustained audience discourse about culture and ethnicity, gender, and race and racism. The author analyses audiences' reactions to and interpretations of the 2005 Academy Award winning film.


Discursive Constructions Of Global War And Terror, Adam Hodges Dec 2009

Discursive Constructions Of Global War And Terror, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

In this chapter, I examine the dialogic connections involved in the global interchange of ideas about terrorism and the ‘war on terror.’ Discourse moves across national boundaries in a manner that shapes global relations and actions, and reshapes the dialogue that takes place within local contexts. To explore these processes, I discuss three contexts in detail. In the first, I examine recent work by Zala Volcic and Karmen Erjavec on the appropriation of the Bush administration’s ‘war on terror’ discourse by Serbian intellectuals (Volcic and Erjavec 2007, Erjavec and Volcic 2007). These young Serbs incorporate this discourse into their own …


Review Of A. Hoskins And B. O’Loughlin’S (2007) Television And Terror: Conflicting Times And The Crisis Of News Discourse, Adam Hodges Dec 2009

Review Of A. Hoskins And B. O’Loughlin’S (2007) Television And Terror: Conflicting Times And The Crisis Of News Discourse, Adam Hodges

Adam Hodges

No abstract provided.


You Can’T Be Nonviolent Without Violence: The Rainbow Family’S Nonkilling Nomadic Utopia And Its Survival Of Persistent State Violence, Michael I. Niman Ph.D. Dec 2009

You Can’T Be Nonviolent Without Violence: The Rainbow Family’S Nonkilling Nomadic Utopia And Its Survival Of Persistent State Violence, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

Since 1972, the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a nonhierarchical nomadic community, has been holding large temporary gatherings in remote forests around the world to pray for world peace and to create a model of a functioning utopian society. Wherever and whenever they gather, the temporary Rainbow city remains essentially unchanged, modeling what anarchist theorist Hakim Bey calls the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ). Revolutions, Bey writes, seek permanent change and, in doing so, lead to violence and martyrdom. Revolutionaries aim to hold territory. The TAZ, by contrast, does not directly engage the state, but instead “liberates an area (of land, …


The Political Tsunami: Not All Death And Destruction Is Natural, Michael I. Niman Ph.D. Dec 2009

The Political Tsunami: Not All Death And Destruction Is Natural, Michael I. Niman Ph.D.

Michael I Niman Ph.D.

Unlike many disasters that befall the Third and Fourth Worlds, the 2004 Tsunami was both large and unique enough to dominate the western press. The stories in the mainstream media, however, were rather simplistic, sticking to a feel good script of nations uniting to offer aid to the tidal wave’s unfortunate victims. Meanwhile, without much media attention, the Indonesian government used the cover of the Tsunami and the ensuing relief efforts, to intensify its war against rebels in its break-away Ache province – which suffered from the brunt of the Tsunami. Also ignored by the western mass media, was the …


Reallocation Of Mesh Points In Fluid Problems Using Back-Propagation Algorithm, Philadelphia University Dec 2009

Reallocation Of Mesh Points In Fluid Problems Using Back-Propagation Algorithm, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.


Hellenism, Katerina Zacharia Dec 2009

Hellenism, Katerina Zacharia

Katerina Zacharia

No abstract provided.