Notes
1. For more on “actant” and actor-network-theory, see Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
2. See, for instance, Vincent Mosco, The Political Economy of Communication: Rethinking and Renewal (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1996).
3. Paul duGay, Stuart Hall, Linda James, Hugh Mackay and Keith Negus, Doing Cultural Studies: The Story of the Sony Walkman (London: Sage Publications, 1996).
4. Hardt and Negri's multitudes that offer resistance to a deterritorialized “empire” are represented as a “global” citizenry: Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
5. Raymond Williams, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976).
6. Edward Said, Orientalism (New York: Vintage, 1978).
7. Miranda Joseph, Against the Romance of Community (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002).
8. http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2006/59083.htm (accessed 23 April 2007).
9. Rachel Denber, “Glad to be Deceived: the International Community and Chechnya,” in Report 2004, Human Rights Watch, http://hrw.org/wr2k4/7.htm (accessed 25 April 2007).
10. “Ban urges international community to accept more refugees from Iraq,” Daily Star 18 April 2007, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=81521 (accessed 23 April 2007).
11. See International Rescue Committee testimony, “International Rescue Committee Senior Policy Advisor Anna Husarska testifies on Iraqi refugees before Congressional Human Rights Caucus,” http://www.theirc.org/news/ahusarska-iraqi-refugees-testimony0402.html (accessed 26 April 2007).
12. Liisa Malkki, Purity and Exile: Violence, Memory, and National Cosmology among Hutu Refugees in Tanzania (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).