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Challenges In Localizing Global Human Rights, Ranita Ray, Badana Purkayastha
Challenges In Localizing Global Human Rights, Ranita Ray, Badana Purkayastha
Societies Without Borders
Drawing from ethnographic and historical data combined with document analysis, this article addresses two issues related to the mechanisms involved in localizing global human rights ideas: 1) the disharmony that may results when global ideas are concretized in the form of domestic laws and come in conflict with the ever shifting local rights consciousness and 2) the role of habitus in determining how human rights advocates respond to changing local rights consciousness. By examining the ways in which violence against women is addressed by a human rights commission in an Indian state, the disjuncture between local appropriations of global human …
Universal Moral Grammar: An Ontological Grounding For Human Rights, Vincent Walsh
Universal Moral Grammar: An Ontological Grounding For Human Rights, Vincent Walsh
Societies Without Borders
In this article I connect the principles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights to the issue of global social justice, and ask the question: is there a genetically endowed Universal Moral Grammar common to all human beings comparable to the Universal Grammar for language acquisition demonstrated so convincingly by Noam Chomsky and others?
‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights And The Case Of Domestic Violence, Stacy Missari, Christine Zozula
‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights And The Case Of Domestic Violence, Stacy Missari, Christine Zozula
Societies Without Borders
This article uses the first domestic violence case filed against the United States in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to discuss the politics of gender and domestic violence. We discuss how gender-neutral frameworks of the case in the U.S. ignore the interpersonal gender and power issues which often attend domestic violence cases. The case before the IACHR was arguably more successful in addressing gender by drawing from the human rights literature on women’s rights. However, given that this case is the first human rights charge against the United States by a domestic violence survivor, the specifically gendered framework …
Trafficking Risks For Refugees, Annie Wilson
Trafficking Risks For Refugees, Annie Wilson
Societies Without Borders
This article examines a number of risk factors in the life situation of refugees that place them in danger of falling prey to human traffickers. Among the factors discussed are protracted refugee situations, conflict situations and security, precarious economic conditions, the circumstances of women and children, the prevalence of sexual and gender-based discrimination and violence, physical and psychological trauma, and the absence of legal protection. The article examines the unintended consequences of enforcement and border controls in increasing trafficking risks for refugees. Stronger refugee protection is the fundamental building block for reducing trafficking risk. Additionally, mapping, assessment and targeted programs …
The Failures And Possibilities Of A Human Rights Approach To Secure Native American Women’S Reproductive Justice, Barbara Gurr
The Failures And Possibilities Of A Human Rights Approach To Secure Native American Women’S Reproductive Justice, Barbara Gurr
Societies Without Borders
This article has three purposes: the first is to bring to light current violations of Native American women’s basic right to health as these violations are produced by the federal government and imposed through the Indian Health Service. The second is to articulate the challenges of current human rights discourse in articulating and providing for Native Americans’ human rights within the United States. Third, this article offers a potential strategy for understanding and redressing the violation of Native women’s right to health through the rubric of reproductive justice. Drawing from over ten years of participant observation as well as semi-structured …
Help Create Order; Beggars Opera; Communication, George Snedeker
Help Create Order; Beggars Opera; Communication, George Snedeker
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Framed By Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists In The Modern World By Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Rachel Feinstein
Review Of Framed By Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists In The Modern World By Cecilia L. Ridgeway, Rachel Feinstein
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Anarchy As Order: The History And Future Of Civic Humanity By Mohammed Bamyeh, Dana M. Williams
Review Of Anarchy As Order: The History And Future Of Civic Humanity By Mohammed Bamyeh, Dana M. Williams
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
An American Sociologist In Iran, John L. Hammond
An American Sociologist In Iran, John L. Hammond
Societies Without Borders
I was invited to a conference in Tehran on Occupy Wall Street. I was hesitant to accept because I feared that my criticisms of US policy through the lens of OWS might lend support to the oppressive Iranian regime, but I thought it might be an opportunity to express solidarity with the Iranian people against possible US or Israeli aggression. In the end I decided to go and found it an eye-opening experience. On my return I was attacked as a terrorist by apologists for Israel and censored by Tehran University because, in a paper I submitted at the conference …
State-Society Incompatibility And Forced Migration: The Violent Development Of Afghanistan Under Socialist, Islamist, And Capitalist Regimes, Jeremy Hein, Tarique Niazi
State-Society Incompatibility And Forced Migration: The Violent Development Of Afghanistan Under Socialist, Islamist, And Capitalist Regimes, Jeremy Hein, Tarique Niazi
Societies Without Borders
The state-centric theory of forced migration presents the nation-state as the ultimate sanctuary of citizen rights. It posits that forced migration results from state instability, which is caused by geopolitical or national identity conflict. In either case, it contends that the sources of forced migration are exogenous to the state. This paper argues that under certain conditions the state becomes an endogenous cause of refugees and internally displaced persons. These conditions occur when the state deploys violence to dominate society. Using the case of Afghanistan, we document that since 1973 a series of Socialist, Islamist, and Capitalist regimes have engaged …
Indirect Violence And Legitimation: Torture, Surrogacy, And The U.S. War On Terror, Eric Bonds
Indirect Violence And Legitimation: Torture, Surrogacy, And The U.S. War On Terror, Eric Bonds
Societies Without Borders
This paper contributes to the sociological study of legitimation, specifically focusing on the state legitimation of torture and other forms of violence that violate international normative standards. While sociologists have identified important discursive techniques of legitimation, this paper suggests that researchers should also look at state practices where concerns regarding legitimacy are “built in” to the very practice of certain forms of violence. Specifically, the paper focuses on surrogacy, through which powerful states may direct or benefit from the violence carried out by client states or other armed groups while at the same time attempting to appear separate from and …
Ethnopoetics: A Jamaican Deportee Tells His Story, Tanya Golash-Boza
Ethnopoetics: A Jamaican Deportee Tells His Story, Tanya Golash-Boza
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
A Comparative Analysis Of Mexican-And Europe And European- Origin Immigration To The United States: Proposing An Interactive Colonization Theory, Manuel Barajas
A Comparative Analysis Of Mexican-And Europe And European- Origin Immigration To The United States: Proposing An Interactive Colonization Theory, Manuel Barajas
Societies Without Borders
From the 1970s, Latin American immigration, mainly from Mexico, increased rapidly surpassing European migration in the 1980s for the first time in US history and now constituting over half of the total foreign-born population in the United States. In this paper, I compare this newer, Latin American wave of immigration to earlier, European waves and find that though a combination of push-pull and structural perspectives does much to explain the European experience, it fails to explain Mexican-origin migration and nature of incorporation. Therefore, I argue for an interactive colonization approach to understanding the uniqueness of the Mexicanorigin immigration experience.
Review Of Security And Everyday Life Edited By Vida Bajc And Willem De Lint, Toni Y. Sims-Muhammad
Review Of Security And Everyday Life Edited By Vida Bajc And Willem De Lint, Toni Y. Sims-Muhammad
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Just Places: Creating A Space For Place In Environmental Justice, Damayanti Banergee
Just Places: Creating A Space For Place In Environmental Justice, Damayanti Banergee
Societies Without Borders
This paper explores how discourses on sense of place and cultural heritage inform environmental justice conflicts. I argue that while economic distribution remains the overarching frame within environmental justice scholarship, cultural entitlement concerns are rarely discussed in the literature. I argue that environmental justice scholarship can draw upon place and cultural research to explore how cultural entitlement claims can be incorporated in environmental justice. I draw upon place literature to propose a three-dimensional typology of place. I call these three dimensions – political place, cultural place, and moral place. The proposed typology allows us to examine how discourses of place …
Symposium On The Implications Of The Asa Human Rights Statement For Research, Teaching And Service, Mark Frezzo, Judith Blau, Louis Edgar Esparza, Davita Silfen Glasbert, Bruce K. Friesen
Symposium On The Implications Of The Asa Human Rights Statement For Research, Teaching And Service, Mark Frezzo, Judith Blau, Louis Edgar Esparza, Davita Silfen Glasbert, Bruce K. Friesen
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Wikileaking The Truth About American Unaccountability For Torture, Lisa Hajjar
Wikileaking The Truth About American Unaccountability For Torture, Lisa Hajjar
Societies Without Borders
Grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions are international offenses and perpetrators can be prosecuted abroad if accountability is not pursued at home. The US torture policy, instituted by the Bush administration in the context of the “war on terror” presents a contemporary example of liability for gross crimes under international law. For this reason, classification and secrecy have functioned in tandem as a shield to block public knowledge about prosecutable offenses. Keeping such information secret and publicizing deceptive official accounts that contradict the truth are essential to propaganda strategies to sustain American support or apathy about the country’s multiple current …
Review Of Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, And Nicosia By Jon Calame And Esther Charlesworth, Daina Cheyenne Harvey
Review Of Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, And Nicosia By Jon Calame And Esther Charlesworth, Daina Cheyenne Harvey
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
The Human Rights Enterprise And Women’S Rights Organizing, Barret Katuna
The Human Rights Enterprise And Women’S Rights Organizing, Barret Katuna
Societies Without Borders
The highly-contested discourse of human rights figures prominently in the pronouncements of the United Nations, nation-states, and civil society entities. As a result, the human rights label may be applied to activist networks that do not necessarily characterize themselves as human rights networks. Yet, the principles of these networks clearly align with rights-based human dignity claims. How does human rights terminology impact analyses of activist organizations? How might organizations respond to this labeling? Furthermore, what are the methodological lessons to be learned from this process? In this article, I examine one case that highlights my application of a human rights …
“American Exceptionalism”—On What End Of The Continuum?, Assem Hasnain, Josh King, Judith Blau
“American Exceptionalism”—On What End Of The Continuum?, Assem Hasnain, Josh King, Judith Blau
Societies Without Borders
This paper draws from global understandings about Human Rights, recasting them in terms of a sociological conception of the dimensions of a Decent Society. We pose our questions within the framework of American Exceptionalism, because the assumptions that underlie that term have never been empirically examined. Can we conclude on the basis of this analysis that America, when compared with other countries, advances human rights? No. Can we conclude on the basis of this analysis that America, when compared with other countries, is a Decent Society? No. Can we conclude on the basis of this empirical analysis that America, when …
“Learning The Truth And Stating The Facts”: Us State Department Claims-Making And The Construction Of “Human Rights”, Nancy A. Matthews
“Learning The Truth And Stating The Facts”: Us State Department Claims-Making And The Construction Of “Human Rights”, Nancy A. Matthews
Societies Without Borders
Official US discourse claims US leadership and benevolence in promoting human rights worldwide. But US action on human rights is more complicated and paradoxical. My aim is to problematize “human rights” in particular discursive contexts in order to discover what is encompassed by this set of concepts and how the discourse about human rights exposes the relations of ruling (Smith 1990). I examine the discourse of the powerful, i.e., the US State Department in its Annual Country Reports on Human Rights. The repetition of facts, assertions, and ideas by a hegemonic institution constructs a reality that is difficult to counter. …
Review Of Fallgirls: Gender And The Framing Of Torture At Abu Ghraib By Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Amina Zarrugh
Review Of Fallgirls: Gender And The Framing Of Torture At Abu Ghraib By Ryan Ashley Caldwell, Amina Zarrugh
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Inside Al-Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden And The 9/11 By Saleem Shahzad, Sikandar Tangi
Review Of Inside Al-Qaeda And The Taliban: Beyond Bin Laden And The 9/11 By Saleem Shahzad, Sikandar Tangi
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
“Social Science Without Borders: Looking Back, Looking Forward”, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Mark Frezzo
“Social Science Without Borders: Looking Back, Looking Forward”, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Mark Frezzo
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
What Does A Sociology Without Borders Look Like?, Tanya Golash-Boza
What Does A Sociology Without Borders Look Like?, Tanya Golash-Boza
Societies Without Borders
In this essay, I consider what a sociology without borders would look like through an exploration of two questions: 1) How can sociology be mobilized to make the world a better place? and 2) What does a sociology of human rights look like? To answer these questions, I take the reader through a discussion of the history of Sociologists without Borders, the influence of Professor Judith Blau, and my own excursions into the sociology of human rights in the United States and abroad.
Sociologists Without Borders And The Meaning Of “Without Borders”: The Social Construction Of Organizational And Scholarly Boundaries, Davita Silfen Glasberg
Sociologists Without Borders And The Meaning Of “Without Borders”: The Social Construction Of Organizational And Scholarly Boundaries, Davita Silfen Glasberg
Societies Without Borders
This manuscript examines what it means to be “without borders” in an organizational and scholarly context.
Accomplishments Behind, Barriers Ahead: Doing Sociology Without Borders, Dave Overfelt
Accomplishments Behind, Barriers Ahead: Doing Sociology Without Borders, Dave Overfelt
Societies Without Borders
The mission of Societies Without Borders (SWB), to bring “scholars from different continents closer together by showing their different approaches of the same research materials”, creates a space for scholarship like none other. In this article I assess several approaches to doing a sociology without borders that have emerged from SWB, explore some of the remaining barriers to doing this sociology, and offer some ideas on how we might break down the borders that still impede our lives and sciences.
The Collaborative Dialogue Panel: Changing The Model Of The Professional Sociology Conference, Kenneth A. Gould
The Collaborative Dialogue Panel: Changing The Model Of The Professional Sociology Conference, Kenneth A. Gould
Societies Without Borders
The emergence of Sociologists Without Borders opened up new opportunities for social justice oriented intellectual engagement and collaboration. Given the opportunity to re-imagine the structure and function of professional conferences, a number of us who were focused on issues of environmental justice as a human right came together in 2006 to challenge the traditional model of serial paper presentations at panel sessions. The collaborative dialogue panel brings together sociologists focused on a specific social problem or issue, and asks them to work together to generate questions and answers in a public forum in dialogue with each other and with others …
To Be A Sociologist Without Borders, Judith Blau, Keri E. Iyall Smith
To Be A Sociologist Without Borders, Judith Blau, Keri E. Iyall Smith
Societies Without Borders
In a conversation with Keri E. Iyall Smith, Judith R. Blau shares her thoughts on the early days of Sociologists Without Borders/Sociólogos Sin Fronteras (SSF). She explains the impetus for the organization and some of its early victories. She then describes her work today with the Human Rights Center (HRC), where members of Carrboro and Chapel Hill are working together to live the dream of human rights.
Ssf, And It’S Identity, Rodney D. Coates
Ssf, And It’S Identity, Rodney D. Coates
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.