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This essay proposes that the legal form of Native American tribal sovereignty lately deployed in the establishment of casinos and other risky enterprises is not simply an atavistic political‐legal curiosity. Rather, it is exemplary of contemporary forms of spatial governmentality which, as they emerge from layered mappings of spatial difference inherited from earlier ethno‐racial and colonial governmental forms, are being constructed as new privatized and market‐rationalized spatial regimes of enclosure and exclusion, mediated through environmental and other rhetorics of crime‐risk and control.

This article discusses the United Nations' Declaration of the Right to Development in the context of contemporary scholarly critiques both of development discourse and of rights discourse. Highlighting the geo‐spatial dimension of post‐World War II development theory, this article considers whether the recent assertion of an international right to development by leading human rights scholars from Africa and elsewhere may mark the beginning of a local, grassroots hijacking of managerial development discourse.

Considers descriptions of humankind's future, and the discourses of globalization that frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. The essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernity's architecture

The future outlines of the new global order are the constant object of speculation--economic, political, and metaphysical. From the sunny new world proclaimed by global free marketers to the rebellion against globalization unleashed in the streets of Seattle and Genoa, to the doomsdays envisioned by transnational terrorists and counterterrorists alike, this emerging global-millennial epoch is foretold alternately as redemption or apocalypse. The authors consider these sweeping descriptions of humankind's future, as well as the discourses of globalization that filter and frame them, from perspectives in anthropology, geography, law, sociology, and cultural studies. Their goal is not to resolve the ultimate semantic or philosophical question of what "globalization" really is; instead, their essays explore the forms, practices, and effects of governmentality integral to global modernity's architecture. In Globalization under Construction, the authors ask: What are the rationalities of government implicit in global modernity's project of mobilizing space, time, and difference? And what difference does it make to the globalization debates to put those rationalities in the foreground of critical analysis? Altogether, their work attempts to discern in the disparateness of contemporary events an emerging pattern of governmentality, techniques of governance and assemblages of intersecting arguments about the history of the present and the nature of the future that our present portends. A kaleidoscopic look at the intersections of globalization and governance

Examines the asymmetrical gender positions implicit in both theoretical & regulatory policy perspectives on commercial sexual activity, drawing on analysis of experiential interviews conducted with participants in sexual commerce in one US city. It is suggested that, in late-industrial societies, the self is constructed through consumption choices. In this context, masculinity is in part defined by new configurations of commercial practice & expressions of masculine privilege. In this gender construction, women's bodies are at once dismembered, commodified, disaggregated, reconfigured, & consumed. It is argued that this process is not captured by current models of sociolegal thought. These models, both sociobiological & postmodern, either fail to escape the traditional nature/culture antinomy common to 19th-century social theory, or embrace a false hope for emancipatory redemption in the market. The lived body as historicized & produced by economic & discursive representations is proposed as a preferable theoretical construct of subjectivity. 105 References. D. Ryfe