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Humanitarian Intervention: The Case of the Kurds
“The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement Along Canada’s Smart Border”
Taking its cue from Deleuze’s reading of Foucault’s notion of apparatus (dispositif), this article explores the assemblage of mechanisms, institutions, discourses and practices that came to be conceptualized as a “smart border.” Through an examination of Canadian policy documents, this article analyses the smart border as a “diffuse border.” Physically extending beyond and inside its … Continue reading “The Diffuse Border: Intelligence-Sharing, Control and Confinement Along Canada’s Smart Border”
Australia and the Birth of Israel: Midwife or Abortionist
Beyond Gender: Towards A Feminist Analysis of Humanitarianism and Development in Sri Lanka
Refuge or Asylum: A Philosophical Perspective
“Feminist Approaches to the Global Intimate”
Separation or Permeability? Bordered States, Transnational Relations, Transcultural Lives
Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics
Homi Bhabha’s writing on postcolonial agency foregrounds discursive subjection, yet retrieves subaltern subterfuge. It reconstructs a critical politics despite and because of hegemonic and orientalist representational systems. And it demonstrates the (im)possibility of a stable subject, but still manages to assert creative and performative agency. The article endeavours to analyse these feats and paradoxes, relying … Continue reading Acting in a Tight Spot: Homi Bhabha’s Postcolonial Politics