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Shah, Nisha. "Meta(phor)mosis - Reflections on the Transformation of Political Space" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, Mar 05, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71458_index.html>

Shah, N. , 2005-03-05 "Meta(phor)mosis - Reflections on the Transformation of Political Space" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p71458_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: International Relations scholars have generally come to agree that a social, cultural, economic and political transformative process is underway that the term globalization captures well. Scholarship in International Relations has focussed on the spatial transformation of political space. Questions about this transformation have lead to new questions about the proper locus and nature of political community in an increasingly globalized world. Most of the literature on this question posits the existence of a new 'global polity', underwritten by cosmopolitan values, that contrasts with the territorial state. By contrast, my paper seeks to problematise this representation of the global space as a single polity and its necessary association with cosmopolitanism. Using Bauman's metaphor Tourists and Vagabonds and Klein's metaphor of Fences and Windows, this paper will put the single polity claim under critical scrutiny. My purpose is to demonstrate that the global space is comprised of many polities divided by lines of inclusion and exclusion that are in part the product but also productive of a new dynamic of global politics in the context of globalization. This paper is a start towards a theoretical interpretation of the political content and context of globalizing space through a critical examination of one of the dominant normative discourses surrounding globalization.

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