The Cultural Constitution of Political Economy(2006) Seeing War of the Worlds(2006) Ward Churchill and Innocence(2005) Frodo or Gollum: U.S. Foreign Policy and Iraq(2003) Grasping the Mundane (2003) Intertwined Timelines: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the USA(2001) Radical Islam as a Prelude to Secularization? (2001) Does Righteousness Deliver Evil? (2001) Two Approaches to the Meanings of Terror Ithaca article and video Buzzsaw Interview

Circuits of Conversion: From 14,000 to 1 Present Dangers Wading in the Deep: Supporting Emergent Anarchies Celebrating the End of the Cold War

International Relations and the Problem of Difference Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War The Global Economy as Political Space

The Rites of Dispossession (PDF) Cultural Constitution of Political Economy (PDF) A Medium of Others (PDF) Savage Smith and the temporal walls of capitalism (PDF) If Only You Could See What I Have Seen with Your Eyes: Staging an Encounting Between Social Science and Literature (PDF)

Interrogating Imperialism: Conversations on Gender, Race, and War

"If, in the time of imperialism, 'peace' truly is just a moment between ongoing wars of exploitation, then Interrogating Empire offers us hope in that bleak landscape. The world-ranging essays in this anthology give us cogent analyses of the connections between U.S. economic and military power, and patterns of neo-colonialism and capitalist expansion around the globe. But, more importantly, the writers offer historical examples and critical thoughts on how we who are in opposition to this system can build solidarity and link our power across boundaries of nation, gender, and class."-Minnie Bruce Pratt, Professor of Women's Studies and Writing, Syracuse University, and author of Identity: Skin Blood Heart

"A striking and hugely important collection that brings debates about empire in the contemporary world right up to date. Challenging cherished notions of both left and right, it demands we take a fresh look at domestic and international politics and the relation between them, and gives us the tools to do so. A vital contribution in today’s context, and essential reading for all students of international politics."--Jenny Edkins, University of Wales Aberystwyth

"At a time when it seems that nothing new can be said about American empire--and no words can approximate its projections--the essays in this collection offer a different and disturbing portrayal of what it means to be an empire's subject. Thoughtful, sincere, moving, yet never bitter, Interrogating Empire tells us what the world may look like to those who look at our comfortable SUV-driven world from the outside in; how lonely, how scary, how shameful it might be to live under the empire's wings."--Aida Hozic, University of Florida, Gainesville

"Riley and Inayatullah have put together a powerful collection. Interrogating Empire challenges specific disciplines, all academics, and indeed, all Americans to move beyond chosen “willful ignorance,” to understand how they are complicit in the construction of the US empire. The contributing authors in this very commanding collection show readers that US imperialism is internal as well as external – most recently exemplified by its apartheid society treatment of poor people in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina and its expanding occupation in the Middle East. There is, therefore, no 'us' and 'them,' as successive US administrations try to project and have convinced most Americans. Readers will come to understand how and why the US state could simultaneously repress democracy and freedom in the US, while claiming to promote it in the Middle East. Interrogating Empire challenges us to do something if we really care to stop US empire-building in both its ideology and action. The authors ask us to do the interrogation of empire with them, to open our minds to a more expansive way of knowing, and to use our collective voice to stop the fast encroaching police state that is in the making in the US. The empire requires internal strength to have external force. As the authors show, the empire should be stopped, it can be stopped, and it must be stopped. This book is a must read."--Linda Carty, Africana Studies, Syracuse University

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

ISBN-13: 9781403974624

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword Cynthia Enloe ix
Introduction Naeem Inayatullah Robin L. Riley 1
Bandung Women: Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Necessary Risks of Solidarity Elisabeth Armstrong Vijay Prashad 15
Shame and Rage: International Relations and the World School of Colonialism Himadeep Muppidi 51
Patriotism in the U.S. Peace Movement: The Limits of Nationalist Resistance to Global Imperialism Shampa Biswas 63
Deja Vu: The Fantasy of Benign Military Rule in Pakistan Ayesha Khan 101
Bewildered? Women's Studies and the War on Terror Monisha Das Gupta 129
Trading Places: Juxtaposing South Africa and the United States Hannah Britton 155
Valiant, Vicious, or Virtuous? Representation, and the Problem of Women Warriors Robin L. Riley 183
Not Just (Any)body Can Be a Patriot: "Homeland" Security as Empire Building M. Jacqui Alexander 207
Afterword: Newly Seeing Zillah Eisenstein 241
Contributors 245
Index 247