skip to content
Close Window

Please sign in to WorldCat 

Don't have an account? You can easily create a free account.

Nongovernmental politics
ClosePreview this item

Nongovernmental politics

Author: Michel Feher
Publisher: New York : Zone Books ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Rating:

Retrieving ratings and reviews data...  

 

Find a copy in the library

Retrieving... Finding libraries that hold this item...

Details

Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michel Feher
ISBN: 9781890951757 1890951757 9781890951740 1890951749
OCLC Number: 76481606
Description: 693 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Motives -- Radically civil: interview with Anthony D. Romero -- Missing persons / Trevor Paglen -- "Where are human rights ...?": reading a communiqué from Iraq / Thomas Kennan -- Speaking plainly about Chechnya: on the limits of the juridical model of human-rights advocacy / Bridget Conley-Zilkic -- Continuities: profile of Memorial / Philippe Mangeot -- The trouble with evenhandedness: on the politics of human rights and peace in Sri Lanka / Alan Keenan -- Principled pragmatism: interview with Gareth Evans -- Learning from dilemmas: interview with Rony Brauman -- Humanitarianism: a nongovernmental government / Didier Fassin -- The sovereign, the humanitarian, and the terrorist / Adi Ophir -- Humanitarianism reconfigured: philanthropic globalization and the new solidarity / Alex de Waal -- Stakeholder activism: the consumer dimension of stakeholder activism: the antisweatshop movement in the United States / Ian Robinson -- Corporate social responsibility and labor rights in U.S. based corporations / Mark Barenberg -- Civic think tank: interview with Peter Lurie -- A new era of access to rights / Gaëlle Krikorian -- International prostitution policy and sex workers' rights in India / Svati P. Shah -- Biotechnology and publicity: profile of the Council for Responsible Genetics / Yates McKee -- Ways -- Governance and policies in nongovernmental organizations / Philippe Ryfman -- Loose bonds: interview with Geert Lovink -- Human rights, testimony, and transnational publicity / Meg McLagan -- The architecture of strategic communication: profile of witness / Meg McLagan -- "Eyes and ears": aesthetics, visual culture, and the claims of nongovernmental politics / Yates McKee -- Nongovernmental generation of international treaties: interview with James Love -- Dilemmas of home improvement: can clean energy technology mediate civic involvement in climate change? / Noortje Marres -- The lobby that came in from the south: profile of Third World Network / Gaelle Krikorian -- The case for communication rights: after the World Summit on the Information Society / Soenke Zehle -- Southern views on the political economy of information: interview with Parminder Jeet Singh -- The refugee-media nexus: interview with Amy R. West -- Between testimony and expertise: how immigration policies challenge the humanitarian ethic / Estelle d'Halluin -- Sites -- 2006 immigrant mobilization in the United States / Claudio Lomnitz -- The Migreurop Network and Europe's foreigner camps / Claire Rodier -- Exceptional times, nongovernmental spacings, and impolitical movements / Brett Neilson and Angela Mitropoulos -- Naval battle: profile of Women on Waves / Élise Vallois -- Bhopal: unending disaster, enduring resistance / Bridget Hanna -- The yes men in Bhopal: interview with Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, and Satinath Sarangi -- Timor-leste: ground zero: profile of the Haburas Foundation / Philippe Mangeot -- Monochrome landscape (green) / Laura Kurgan -- Art and the ends of environmentalism: from biosphere to the right to survival / Yates McKee -- Design -- "Revolutions" clothed in the colors of spring: exporting democracy to the east / Laëtitia Atlani-Duault -- Velvet agitators: profile of Eastern European movement/ Philippe Mangeot -- Must we defend society?: governmentality, civil society, and political activism according to Michel Foucault / Mathieu Potte-Bonneville -- The closing of American society: interview with Gara LaMarche -- "A partner for peace and justice": profile of Global Exchange / Yates McKee -- Are Muslim charities purely humanitarian?: a real but misleading question / Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan -- Faith, liberty, and the individual in humanitarian assistance / Erica Bornstein -- A vision of the world: profile of World Vision International / Erica Bornstein -- Theologizing human rights: Christian activism and the limits of religious freedom / Elizabeth A. Castelli.
Responsibility: edited by Michel Feher ; with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee.

Reviews

Retrieving WorldCat reviews...
Retrieving EMRO reviews...
Retrieving weRead reviews...
Retrieving GoodReads reviews...
Retrieving Amazon reviews...

Tags

Be the first.
Confirm this request

You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.