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Globalization under Construction This page intentionally left blank Globalization under Construction Governmentality, Law, and Identity Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer, Editors University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London Copyright 2003 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Globalization under construction : governmentality, law, and identity / Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer, editors. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8166-3965-5 (hardcover : alk. paper) —ISBN 0-8166-3966-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Globalization. I. Perry, Richard Warren. II. Maurer, Bill, 1968– JZ1318 .G6792 2003 303.48´2—dc21 2003008777 The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Acknowledgments vii Globalization and Governmentality: An Introduction Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer ix 1. Global Strategic Vision: Managing the World Susan Roberts 1 2. Zones of New Sovereignty in Southeast Asia Aihwa Ong 39 3. International Political Economy as a Cultural Practice: The Metaphysics of Capital Mobility Bill Maurer 71 4. Spanish Immigration Law and the Construction of Difference: Citizens and “Illegals” on Europe’s Southern Border Kitty Calavita and Liliana Suárez-Navaz 99 5. South Asian Workers in the Gulf: Jockeying for Places Karen Leonard 129 6. Illegality, Borderlands, and the Space of Nonexistence Susan Bibler Coutin 171 7. Christian Conversion and “Racial” Labor Capacities: Constructing Racialized Identities in Hawai‘i Sally Engle Merry 203 8. Sex and Space in the Global City Lisa Sanchez 239 9. Works in Progress: Traditional Knowledge, Biological Diversity, and Intellectual Property in a Neoliberal Era Rosemary J. Coombe 273 10. Rebooting the World Picture: Flying Windows of Globalization in the End Times Richard Warren Perry 315 Contributors 357 Index 361 Acknowledgments The essays in this volume derive from the conference “New World Orders? The Contested Terrains of Globalization,” held at the Univer- sity of California, Irvine, in 1998. This event was funded by conference grants from the University of California’s systemwide Institute on Global ConXict and Cooperation, from the UC Irvine Center for Global Peace and ConXict Studies, and from the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology. The preparation of this manuscript has been supported in part by a research grant from Irvine’s Center for Global Peace and ConXict Stud- ies (“Alternative Globalizations,” awarded to Paula Garb, Bill Maurer, and Richard Perry). In addition to the contributors to this volume, other participants in the conference included David Smith, John Torpey, James Ferguson, Kathleen McAfee, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, Kate Sullivan, Joachim Blatter, Helen Ingram, Ruth Buchanan, Suzana Sawyer, Iain Boal, David McDermott Hughes, Pamela Doughman, Roger Rouse, Victoria Bernal, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Paula Garb, Nahum Chandler, Alison Brysk, and Barbara Yngvesson. Many of the conference papers spe- ciWcally on transnational environmental issues were published as the book ReXections on Water: New Approaches to Transboundary Environmental Cooperation and ConXict, edited by Helen Ingram and Joachim Blatter (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001). This volume and the conference from which it derives are both VII VIII– ACKNOWLEDGMENTS elements of a several-year collaboration of UC Irvine faculty, visiting faculty, and graduate students. In 1996, Richard Perry submitted a grant proposal titled “Law as Regimes of Culture in the Global Era” to fund a cluster of visiting faculty. This grant brought Rosemary Coombe, Nahum Chandler, and Susan Coutin to the Irvine campus as Chan- cellor’s Visiting Faculty in the spring of 1997 (Coutin has since become a permanent member of the Irvine faculty). At the same time, Perry also submitted a conference proposal, “The End of History and the Gov- ernmentality of Space.” The following year, this proposal was revised in collaboration with Bill Maurer, Rosemary Coombe, Susan Coutin, Helen Ingram, and John Whiteley and was ultimately awarded the funding that made the “New World Orders?” conference possible. For crucial advice and support, the editors offer special thanks to Helen Ingram, John Whiteley, James Ferguson, Liisa Malkki, and Kitty Calavita. This book beneWted greatly from the help of a number of other colleagues, coworkers, and student assistants. We are grateful for the efforts of Judy Omiya, Barbara Atwell, Andrea Denish, Norma Mendoza, Mirela Marinelli, Melanie Craig, Padraic McCoy, Scott Kaminski, Tamara Teghillo Campbell, and Dimitri Bogazianos. Globalization and Governmentality: An Introduction Richard Warren Perry and Bill Maurer Global Positionings In this volume, scholars from a variety of disciplines not only question the exorbitant popular hype around “globalization,” but also seek to build upon the pioneering global theorizing of the 1990s (represented by David Harvey, Saskia Sassen, Arjun Appadurai, Manuel Castells, and Anthony Giddens, among numerous others). Much of that theoretical work has focused on epistemic shifts of recent decades, shifts described in terms of a causal relation between globalization phenomena and the “postmodern condition.” This is marked by a new economy made possible by its “infor- mational mode of production” that has created a new global “space of Xows” (Castells 1998), “an economy with the capacity to work in real time on a planetary scale” (Castells 1996, 92). This global space is dis- tinguished by Xexible production, Xexible political identities, porous borders, and an accompanying general fragmentation or Xuidness (an ongoing process of disaggregation or “unbundling”) of modernity’s foundational concepts—the territorial nation-state, and its national soci- ety, economy, and raison d’état. “Globalization” is also a discursive topos; it is a space of debate, both popular and academic, that has emerged as the “successor to the debates on modernity and postmodernity in the understanding of sociocultural change and as the central problematic for social theory” IX
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