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Commodification of Body Parts in the Global South
This book proposes the introduction of a development-related perspective to scholarly critique of the human body’s commodification. Nahavandi contends that the commodification of human body parts reflects a modern form of such well-known historical phenomena as slavery and colonization, and can be considered a new and additional form of appropriation and extraction of resources from the Global South. What are the commonalities between hair trade, surrogacy, kidney sale and attraction of brains? The author argues that these all characterize a world where increasingly everything can be traded or is considered to be tradeable. A world where, similar to any other goods, body parts have entered the global market either legally or illegally. Through a series of multidisciplinary comparative studies, the book explores how forms commodification of the human body are fuelled by issues of poverty in the Global South, and inequality in transnational relations.
Repenser le développement et la coopération internationale
Ce livre porte sur l'un des grands défis du XXIe siècle : les relations entre les pays occidentaux et ceux dits en voie de développement. Les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 ont mis en évidence de manière dramatique la nécessité d'une réflexion sur celles-ci. Pourtant cette dernière a eu lieu par le biais du développement dès la deuxième guerre mondiale. Toutefois, il est évident que depuis quelques années les certitudes et les croyances qui sous-tendaient la pensée du développement et alimentaient les politiques de coopération se sont ébranlées. C'est une évolution qui s'inscrit dans le désenchantement du développement et, au-delà, dans la dénonciation d'un certain é...
Iran in an Emerging New World Order
This book critically develops and discusses Iran’s geopolitical imaginations and explores its various foreign-policy schools of thought and their controversies. In doing so, the book covers Iran's foreign policy and international relations from "9/11" all the way to Rouhani’s rise (late 2014). Accounting for both domestic and the international balance of power, the book theorizes the post-unipolar world order of the 2000s, dubbed “imperial interpolarity”, examines Iran’s relations with non-Western great-powers in that era, and offers a critique of the “Rouhani doctrine” and its economic and foreign-policy visions. Forged in the fires and intense deliberations of a PhD, undertak...
Immigration, Integration, and Security
Recent acts of terrorism in Britain and Europe and the events of 9/11 in the United States have greatly influenced immigration, security, and integration policies in these countries. Yet many of the current practices surrounding these issues were developed decades ago, and are ill-suited to the dynamics of today's global economies and immigration patterns. At the core of much policy debate is the inherent paradox whereby immigrant populations are frequently perceived as posing a potential security threat yet bolster economies by providing an inexpensive workforce. Strict attention to border controls and immigration quotas has diverted focus away from perhaps the most significant dilemma: the...
Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Volume 7
Now in a new format with a more current and topical focus on a country level. While the strength of the Yearbook has always been the comprehensive geographical remit, starting with volume 7 the reports primarily concentrate on more specific and topical information. The most current research available on public debates, transnational links, legal or political changes that have affected the Muslim population, and activities and initiatives of Muslim organizations from surveyed countries are available throughout the Yearbook. At the end of each country report, an annual overview of statistical and demographic data is presented in an appendix. By using a table format, up-to-date information is q...
Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Commonwealth and Independence in Post-Soviet Eurasia (1998) examines the various attempts to create new forms of integration by the new states of Eurasia. The contributors to this volume analyse in detail how the national elites in the independent states conceived their regional policies. It looks in particular at the Russian-led Commonwealth of Independent States, feared by many of the newly-independent nations as being the Soviet Union Mark II.
The New Geopolitics of Eurasia and Turkey's Position
This work explores the geopolitical struggles that are currently underway in the newly independent states of the Caucasus region, showing how many players in the region are coalescing into two opposing blocs. The growing political, military and economic ties amongst the countries of these two blocs stem from a number of developments in the region, most notably the fall of the Soviet Union, and consequently the end of the Cold War and its bi-polar global alliance structure. These blocs are competing for influence in the region, and the rights to exploit and transport the rich energy resources that have been found in the Caspian Sea. The text shows how many actors have been willing to co-operate in other non-energy related issues, in the hope of receiving a financial reward when countries do decide on these matters.
The Color of Creatorship
The Color of Creatorship examines how copyright, trademark, and patent discourses work together to form American ideals around race, citizenship, and property. Working through key moments in intellectual property history since 1790, Anjali Vats reveals that even as they have seemingly evolved, American understandings of who is a creator and who is an infringer have remained remarkably racially conservative and consistent over time. Vats examines archival, legal, political, and popular culture texts to demonstrate how intellectual properties developed alongside definitions of the "good citizen," "bad citizen," and intellectual labor in racialized ways. Offering readers a theory of critical ra...
The Baluch, Sunnism and the State in Iran
This fascinating study explores the emergence of a significant Sunni community on the margins of Shia Iran and delineates a 'Sunni arc' stretching from Central Asia southwards through the Iranian provinces of Khorasan and Baluchistan.
Pourquoi l'Afrique noire ne peut pas se développer ... pour l'instant !
Le présent ouvrage, dans une analyse sans fard ni concession, s'attache à montrer pourquoi et comment, après cinquante-huit ans d'indépendance, malgré des milliards de dollars d'aide, tous les bilans établis, quel qu'en soit l'angle d'attaque, convergent vers la faillite et le constat d'une Afrique noire en voie de sous-développement. Il démontre que cet état de fait est dû : 1°, à son incapacité à maîtriser la technique (sous ses aspects militaire, organisationnel, économique, juridique,?etc.), grâce à laquelle l'Occident domine le monde ; 2°, à l'absence d'un Etat digne de ce nom ; 3°, aux subterfuges mis en place par les grandes puissances occidentales et leurs bras a...
