Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control

Janie Leatherman0230605842, 9780230605848

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.  In an era of longing for hegemonic control (e.g. the US “war on terror”), the conclusions focus on the dilemmas of democratic accountability and how new spaces of resistance can be created.

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Table of contents :
Table of Contents……Page 8
Preface……Page 10
Contributors……Page 14
Abbreviations……Page 18
1 Challenges to Authority in Global Politics……Page 22
2 Crossing the Line: Insights from Foucault on the United States and Torture……Page 48
3 Disciplining Women, Disciplining Women’s Rights……Page 62
4 Shielding America: Missile Defense and the Reification of Domesticity……Page 86
5 Citizenship as Government: Disciplining Populations Post-9/11……Page 106
6 The Nation-State, the Global Media, and the Regime of Supervision……Page 132
7 Disciplining Perceptions, Punishing Violations: Captivity in Televisual Narratives of the Iraq Conflict……Page 160
8 Discipline and Resistance in Diplomacy: Religion and the UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS……Page 186
9 The Global Compact and Its Critics: Activism, Power Relations, and Corporate Social Responsibility……Page 212
10 Illusions of Control……Page 236
C……Page 254
F……Page 255
H……Page 256
M……Page 257
P……Page 258
T……Page 259
U……Page 260
Y……Page 261