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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">The<b> MIT Program
in Human Rights and Justice</b></font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="+1" color="#000000"> and</font> MIT Program in Women's Studies
present:</div>
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<div>Ananya Roy, University of California at Berkeley</div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+2" color="#000000"><b>MARKETIZED,
FEMINIZED, MEDIEVAL:<br>
SPATIAL RIGHTS AND REGIMES IN AN ERA OF NEOLIBERALISM</b></font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>Thursday, October
2, 2003</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000"><b>5-6:30
p.m.</b></font></div>
<div><font face="Times" size="+1"
color="#000000"><b>E38-714</b></font><font face="Times New Roman"
size="+1" color="#000000"> (7th floor conference room, Center for
International Studies, 292 Main Street)</font></div>
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</font><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">The term
neoliberalism conjures up images of IMF-imposed structural adjustment
and brutal privatization agendas. But alongside such crude forms
of market fundamentalism there also exists various projects of
compassion, from the Sustainable Human Development policies being
advanced by a kinder and gentler World Bank and USAID to civil society
organizations seeking to replace the privatized
state. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">This talk examines
three regimes of territorialized citizenship that together constitute
the logic of present-day neoliberalism. In marketized regimes,
states behave as entrepreneurs rather than regulators, and even
further, corporations become the state. In feminized regimes,
poor women are imagined and valorized as key agents of development and
leaders of their communities. In medieval regimes, the city is
carved up into competing zones of sovereignty with civil society
groups, be they homeowner associations or religious fundamentalist
groups, establishing de facto rule. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Times" size="+1" color="#000000">What do such
processes mean for rights, particularly the right to the production of
space? What are the ways in which such forms of citizenship are
contested and negotiated? In posing such questions, the talk indicates
some of the continuities between neoliberalism and Empire.
Arguing that this contemporary moment of Empire is the management of
universal justice - the talk and practice of just war in the name of
universal freedoms - it highlights the necessity of other forms of
rights-speak, critical approaches that can transcend the limiting
duality of local relativism versus imperial universalism.</font><br>
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<div>Susan Frick<br>
Program Assistant, Program on Human Rights and Justice<br>
Masachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Building E-38 Room 277<br>
292 Main Street<br>
Cambridge, MA 02138<br>
Tel: 617-258-7614<br>
Email: fricks@mit.edu<br>
Web: http://web.mit.edu/phrj</div>
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