Anti-Politics

"The purpose of this paper is to analyse and critique non-emancipatory and anti-political forms of opposition to globalisation and to the current Eurozone management of the global financial crisis. It will question, amongst other themes, critiques of globalisation that present themselves as mere critiques of capitalist excess or capital’s ‘transnational’ form. This opens up the problem of the national /global antinomy
as well as of responses that contain a nationalist or traditionalist element. The paper draws primarily on a critical discussion of the
work of ‘European New Right’ philosopher Alain de Benoist. In de Benoist’s writings it detects an anti-political rejection of the political divide between left and right, which aligns it with contemporary neo-fascist opposition to the Eurozone crisis.
The paper will reflect upon this alignment through a discussion of Marxist critical theory, putting forward the argument that capitalist processes must be understood as non-personal domination rather than as a system of individual greed or wilful exploitation. This should also open up the possibility to re- evaluate some of the recent progressive, yet largely populist, movement mobilisations directed at the crisis."

This paper presents a discursive analysis of the arrival, operation, and effects of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on international development from a socio-legal perspective. CSR has become a priority on the international development agenda as frameworks for development promote the contraction of the state's role and seek to encourage corporate participation in addressing social issues. It is argued here, however, that CSR discourse represents an expansion of development as an antipolitics machine. As a discourse, CSR possesses a powerful capacity for selfperpetuation, allowing it to appropriate and rephrase social dissent in its own terms, and cancelling genuine political contestation. Through institutionalization, regularization and managerial capture, CSR exemplifies how discursive practices and structures embody a constellation of power relations that constrain action and obscure the intrinsically political nature of development.

"Cílem práce je popsat změny anti-systémové opozice v Čechách za státního socialismu a po změně režimu na demokratický, konkrétně v časovém období od
počátku normalizace až do pádu komunismu v kontrastu s polistopadovou érou až do současnosti. Po obecném porovnání anti-systémových opozic autorka staví proti sobě
dvě konkrétní protestní události důležité pro daná období. První jsou násilně potlačené demonstrace v lednu 1989 známé jako Palachův týden a druhou alterglobalizační protesty proti zasedání Mezinárodního Měnového Fondu a Světové Banky v září 2000."