Nongovernmental politics / edited by Michel Feher ; with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feher, Michel.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Non-governmental organizations--Political aspects.

Non-governmental organizations.

Non-governmental organizations--International cooperation.

International relief.

Human rights.

Physical Description:

693 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2007.

Summary:

The past, present, and future prospects of nongovernmental politics--political activism that withdraws from traditional government but not from the politics associated with governing.

Contents:

The Governed in Politics / Michel Feher 12

Motives

Human Rights

Radically Civil / Anthony D. Romero 31

Missing Persons / Trevor Paglen 50

"Where Are Human Rights...?": Reading a Communique from Iraq / Thomas Keenan 57

Speaking Plainly about Chechnya: On the Limits of the Juridical Model of Human-Rights Advocacy / Bridget Conley-Zilkic 72

Continuities profile of Memorial / Philippe Mangeot 83

The Trouble with Evenhandedness: On the Politics of Human Rights and Peace Advocacy in Sri Lanka / Alan Keenan 88

Principled Pragmatism / Gareth Evans 118

Humanitarian Care

Learning from Dilemmas / Rony Brauman 131

Humanitarianism: A Nongovernmental Government / Didier Fassin 149

The Sovereign, the Humanitarian, and the Terrorist / Adi Ophir 161

Humanitarianism Reconfigured: Philanthropic Globalization and the New Solidarity / Alex de Waal 183

Stakeholder Claims

Stakeholder Activism

The Consumer Dimension of Stakeholder Activism: The Antisweatshop Movement in the United States / Ian Robinson 200

Corporate Social Responsibility and Labor Rights in U.S.-Based Corporations / Mark Barenberg 223

Civic Think Tank / Peter Lurie 236

A New Era of Access to Rights? / Gaelle Krikorian 247

International Prostitution Policy and Sex Workers' Rights in India / Svati P. Shah 261

Biotechnology and Publicity profile of the Council for Responsible Genetics / Yates McKee 268

Ways

Presentations

Governance and Policies in Nongovernmental Organizations / Philippe Ryfman 285

Loose Bonds / Geert Lovink 299

Human Rights, Testimony, and Transnational Publicity / Meg McLagan 304

The Architecture of Strategic Communication profile of Witness / Meg McLagan 318

"Eyes and Ears": Aesthetics, Visual Culture, and the Claims of Nongovernmental Politics / Yates McKee 327

Registers

Nongovernmental Generation of International Treaties / James Love 359

Dilemmas of Home Improvement: Can Clean Energy Technology Mediate Civic Involvement in Climate Change? / Noortje Marres 368

The Lobby That Came in from the South profile of Third World Networic / Gaelle Krikorian 387

On Communication Rights

The Case for Communication Rights: After the World Summit on the Information Society / Soenke Zehle 391

Southern Views on the Political Economy of Information interview with Parminder / Jeet Singh 398

The Refugee-Media Nexus / Amy R. West 407

Between Testimony and Expertise: How Immigration Policies Challenge the Humanitarian Ethic / Estelle d'Halluin 419

Sites

Borders

2006 Immigrant Mobilizations in the United States / Claudio Lomnitz 434

The Migreurop Network and Europe's Foreigner Camps / Claire Rodier 446

Exceptional Times, Nongovernmental Spacings, and Impolitical Movements / Brett Neilson, Angela Mitropoulos 469

Naval Battle profile of Women on Waves / Elise Vallois 482

Disaster Zones

Bhopal: Unending Disaster, Enduring Resistance / Bridget Hanna 488

The Yes Men in Bhopal / Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, Satinath Sarangi 524

Timor-Leste: Ground Zero profile of the Haburas Foundation / Philippe Mangeot 530

Monochrome Landscape (Green) / Laura Kurgan 534

Art and the Ends of Environmentalism: From Biosphere to the Right to Survival / Yates McKee 539

Designs

Civil Society (and its Discontents)

"Revolutions" Clothed in the Colors of Spring: Exporting Democracy to the East / Laetitia Atlani-Duault 586

Velvet Agitators profile of Eastern European movements / Philippe Mangeot 592

Must We Defend Society?: Governmentality, Civil Society, and Political Activism According to Michel Foucault / Matthieu Potte-Bonneville 604

The Closing of American Society / Gara LaMarche 622

"A Partner for Peace and Justice" profile of Global Exchange / Yates McKee 635

God's Work

Are Muslim Charities Purely Humanitarian?; A Real but Misleading Question / Jerome Bellion-Jourdan 647

Faith, Liberty, and the Individual in Humanitarian Assistance / Erica Bornstein 658

A Vision of the World profile of World Vision international / Erica Bornstein 669

Theologizing Human Rights: Christian Activism and the Limits of Religious Freedom / Elizabeth A. Castelli 673.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781890951757

1890951757

9781890951740

1890951749

OCLC:

76481606