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April 2007
7 x 9, 672 pp., 204 illus., 105 color
$39.95/£29.95 (PAPER)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-74-9
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978-1-890951-74-0

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From Zone Books:
Nongovernmental Politics
Edited by Michel Feher
With Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee


MOTIVES
HUMAN RIGHTS
Radically Civil
interview with Anthony D. Romero
31
Missing Persons
Trevor Paglen
50
"Where Are Human Rights ... ?"
Reading a Communiqué 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 by Philippe Mangeot
83
The Trouble with Evenhandedness
On the Politics of Human Rights and Peace Advocacy in Sri Lanka
Alan Keenan
88
Principled Pragmatism
interview with Gareth Evans
118
HUMANITARIAN CARE
Leraning from Dilemmas
interview with Rony Brauman
131
Humanitarianism: A Nongovernmental Government
Didier Fassin
149
The Sovereign, the Humanitarian, and the Terrorist
Adi Ophir
161
Humanitarianism Recon.gured
Philanthropic Globalization and the New Solidarity
Alex de Waal
183
STAKEHOLDER CLAIMS
STAKEHOLDER ACTIVISM:
1. The Consumer Dimension of Stakeholder Activism
The Antisweatshop Movement in the United States
Ian Robinson
200
2. Corporate Responsibility and Labor Rights in U.S.-Based Corporations
Mark Barenberg
223
Civic Think Tank
interview with Peter Lurie
236
A New Era of Access to Rights?
Gaëlle 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 by Yates McKee
268
WAYS
PRESENTATIONS
Governance and Policies in Nongovernmental Organizations
Philippe Ryfman
285
Loose Bonds
interview with Geert Lovink
299
Human Rights, Testimony, and Transnational Publicity
Meg McLagan
304
The Architecture of Strategic Communication
profile of Witness by Meg McLagan
318
"Eyes and Ears"
Aesthetics, Visual Culture, and the Claims of of Nongovernmental Politics
Yates McKee
327
REGISTERS
Nongovernmental Generation of International Treaties
interview with 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 Network by Gaëlle Krikorian
387
ON COMMUNICATION RIGHTS:
1. The Case for Communication Rights
After the World Summit on the Information Society
Soenke Zehle
391
2. Southern Views on the Political Economy of Information
interview with Parminder Jeet Singh
398
3. The Refugee-Media Nexus
interview with Amy R. West
407
Between Testimony and Expertise
How Immigration Policies
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 and Angela Mitropoulos
469
Naval Battle
profile of Women on Waves by Élise Vallois
482
DISASTER ZONES
Bhopal : Unending Disaster, Enduring Resistance
Bridget Hanna
488
The Yes Men in Bhopal
interview with Andy Bichlbaum, Mike Bonanno, and Satinath Sarangi
524
Timor-Leste : Ground Zero
profile of the Haburas Foundation by 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
Laëtitia Atlani-Duault
586
Velvet Agitators
profile of Eastern European movements by Philippe Mangeot
592
Must We Defend Society?
Governmentality, Civil Society, and Political Activism According to Michel Foucault
Mathieu Potte-Bonneville
604
The Closing of American Society
interview with Gara LaMarche
622
"A Partner for Peace and Justice"
profile of Global Exchange by Yates McKee
635
GOD'S WORK
Are Muslim Charities Purely Humanitarian?
A Real but Misleading Question
Jérôme Bellion-Jourdan
647
Faith, Liberty, and the Individual in Humanitarian Assistance
Erica Bornstein
A Vision of the World
profile of World Vision International by Erica Bornstein
669
Theologizing Human Rights
Christian Activism and the Limits of Religious Freedom
Elizabeth A. Castelli
673
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