Une souveraineté mouvante et supracoloniale

Abstract

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Doctors, Borders, and Life in Crisis

“…The ambition of this work is not simply to produce a general critique of humanitarian action or an elaboration of its political limitations. Although there is certainly much to be said on that score from academic, humanitarian, and journalistic perspectives (e.g., Brauman 1996;de Waal 1997;Hancock 1989;Malkki 1996;Pandolfi 2000;Rieff 2002), the rhetorical force of critique stems from a promise to unveil and denounce untruths and violations. As such, it structurally evades the less comfortable possibilities of implication within the process in question and the problem of approaching what is already represented or already familiar (Latour 2004;Riles 2000).…”

Global Justice as Ethico-Political Labor and the Enactment of Critical Cosmopolitanism

“…And yet we ought to be vigilant in the face of the possible appropriation or instrumentalization of human rights to justify, or even obscure the pursuit of, a variety of projects on the world stage (principally Western neoimperialism, neoliberal capitalism, or manufactured civilizational clashes). We need only refer to the recent appearance of hawkish, neoconservative versions of the doctrine of humanitarian intervention, which, by selectively favoring the use of military force against certain states in the name of human rights, convert human rights into the means of legitimation of Euro-American hegemony (Bartholomew and Breakspear 2004;Bricmont 2006;Kurasawa 2006;Pandolfi 2000). If an ''antipolitical'' idealism is highly dubious, so, too, is its opposite in the politically ontologizing game of human rights blackmail*/ namely, the assertion that the instrumentalization of human rights discourses reveals their very essence and underlying truth as ideological devices through which capitalist globalization and Western military interventionism can be made to appear valid (or at least palatable to liberals), veils that distort or conceal the actual imperatives of a world system structured by the Realpolitik of national self-interest and by economic exploitation.…”

Réfugié ou « Local Staff »?

“…À côté de cette structure gouvernementale existent des dizaines d'organismes humanitaires, d'ONG et d'agences des Nations Unies qui sont entrés au Kosovo durant la période dite « d'urgence humanitaire » qui se termina à la fin du mois de juin 2000 5 , et qui ont tous engagé des local staffs. Pandolfi (1999Pandolfi ( , 2000aPandolfi ( , 2000bPandolfi ( , 2002 a qualifié cette présence massive de « supracolonialisme ». L'analyse très critique qu'elle fait de l'impact radical des institutions internationales sur les sociétés dites « en transition », et particulièrement en Albanie et au Kosovo, est des plus éclairantes.…”