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Book Review Of Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction And Contested Citizenship: Immigration And Cultural Diversity In Europe, Ghoshal
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews two books about civil society and citizenship, including "Transnational Civil Society: An Introduction," edited by Srilatha Batliwala and L. David Brown and "Contested Citizenship: Immigration and Cultural Diversity in Europe," by Ruud Koopmans, Paul Statham, Marco Giungi and Florence Passy.
Note From The Editors, Blau, Farshad Araghi
Note From The Editors, Blau, Farshad Araghi
Societies Without Borders
The article offers information on the journal "Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences" and the categories that editors will consider in accepting manuscripts for the journal.
Under A Global Mask: Family Narratives And Local Memory In A Global Social Movement In Japan, Nomiya
Under A Global Mask: Family Narratives And Local Memory In A Global Social Movement In Japan, Nomiya
Societies Without Borders
The present paper examines motivational aspects of the global peace movement, using as a case the World Peace Now movement in Japan. This campaign, which has extensive international networks and synchronized actions with global “waves of protest”, is part of a global anti-war protest movement. Using data collected from interviews and a protest survey to gauge participation motives and attributed meanings to the participation, the paper argues that the campaign, despite its global outlook, is localized and historically idiosyncratic. Indifferent to the global, participants' motives are drawn from personal experiences and family narratives, and localized collective memory of the past. …
Immigrants' Rights In The Public Sphere: Hannah Arendt's Concepts Reconsidered, San Martín
Immigrants' Rights In The Public Sphere: Hannah Arendt's Concepts Reconsidered, San Martín
Societies Without Borders
Based on Arendt's concepts of public and private spheres, immigration issues can be approached from an emphasis on how the most fundamental of all human rights, which is being denied to immigrants, is the most basic constituent of the human condition: the ability to interact in the public realm through action and speech. The granting of this right would enable immigrants to become unique human beings, with the capacity for transformation. As they are presently deprived of these and other rights, they are confined to the most primitive sphere, that is, the one of pure survival. Therefore, a differentiation must …
Arguments For And Against Social Rights, Garrido Gómez
Arguments For And Against Social Rights, Garrido Gómez
Societies Without Borders
I investigate the semantic and practical complexity of social rights, together with the obligations which correspond to the public authorities in terms of putting them into practice. I also discuss the role of meaningful economic equality in the discourse of social rights, explaining the points at which the two concepts interact, and the ways that formal equality can be improved. Finally, I reach the conclusion that there are two distinct meanings of the concept of discrimination, one which is equivalent to any violation of the general principal of equality, and another stricter one, which is the infringement of equality when …
Windows On The Ninth World Social Forum In Belém, Velitchkova, Jackie Smith, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Windows On The Ninth World Social Forum In Belém, Velitchkova, Jackie Smith, Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
Societies Without Borders
This essay provides three windows on the Ninth World Social Forum in Belém, Brazil. We show the multiple ways in which the World Social Forum's plurality and reflexivity challenge traditional dichotomies to build the foundation for a new politics. We argue that the social forum process has developed mechanisms for remaining an open space while simultaneously creating opportunities for unified collective action. We show that the Forum produces complex analyses and comes up with strategies that correspond to these analyses. We provide some evidence for how the social forum process is trying to overcome organizational challenges related to resource distribution …
Global Movement Coalitions: The Global South And The World Trade Organization In Cancun, Esparza
Global Movement Coalitions: The Global South And The World Trade Organization In Cancun, Esparza
Societies Without Borders
A group of developing countries within the World Trade Organization, called the G22, formed in 2003 to bring attention to important economic concerns of the Global South. This coalition building at the global level is instructive to the literature on social movement coalition building and strategies in a transnational context. This article examines coalition building among nation-states within the context of the WTO. Drawing upon existing trading blocs, the G22 are able to leverage attention away from the WTO consensus. The declining significance of the global institution is a result of the breaking of this consensus.
In Your Hands - The Realization Of A Dream, Koenig
In Your Hands - The Realization Of A Dream, Koenig
Societies Without Borders
The author talks about Human Rights Cities, an initiative wherein communities learn about human rights as a way of life. The author discusses the achievements of the People's Movement for Human Rights Learning (PDHRE) as an international service organization. She states that Human Rights Cities enables all citizens to participate as equals in the decision-making processes which affect their lives. She cites the impact of the Human Rights Cities on the lives of the Toba indigenous community in Rosario, Argentina.
World Social Forum 2009: Time To Bring The Wsf To The Usa, Ponniah
World Social Forum 2009: Time To Bring The Wsf To The Usa, Ponniah
Societies Without Borders
I had the opportunity to both attend the Inauguration of the 44th President of the United States and to participate in the World Social Forum hosted in Belém, Brazil. The Inaugural was attended by 1.8 million citizens, which included a notably large percentage of African-Americans, from all over the country. The World Social Forum had over 133,000 participants from around the world with a substantial number of Pan-Amazonic social movements. In both cases I witnessed a mobilized, dynamic civil sphere aspiring to a new, better society. The key to achieving another world is to bring these spheres together.
Review Of Bringing Human Rights Home, Neubeck
Review Of Bringing Human Rights Home, Neubeck
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the three volumes of the book "Bringing Human Rights Home," edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa and Martha F. Davis, including "A History of Human Rights in the United States," volume 1, by Elizabeth Borgwardt, "From Civil Rights to Human Rights," volume 2, by Dorothy Thomas, and "Portraits of the Movement," volume 3, by Greg Asbed.
Review Of Globalization And America: Race, Human Rights And Inequality & When Welfare Disappears: The Case For Economic Human Rights, Ramsaran
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews two books on human rights, including "Globalization and America: Race, Human Rights and Inequality," edited by Angela J. Hattery, David G. Embrick and Earl Smith, "When Welfare Disappears; The Case for Economic Human Rights," by Kenneth J. Neubeck.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, And Human Rights, Elias
W.E.B. Du Bois, Race, And Human Rights, Elias
Societies Without Borders
Du Bois' sociological thought reveals an overlooked tension in the pursuit of human rights, a tension between universal human rights for all people, in general, and a race-specific human rights agenda for blacks, in particular. Du Bois recognizes both universal human rights for all individuals, groups, nations, and international bodies (regardless of race, gender, class, and other human divisions) and case-specific human rights for particular individuals, groups, nations, and international bodies (with regard to race, gender, class, and other human divisions). I aim to demonstrate why Du Bois' acknowledgment of universal and case-specific human rights, and dynamics of their interrelationship, …
Invoking Human Rights And Transnational Activism In Racial Justice Struggles At Home: Us Antiracist Activists And The Un Committee To Eliminate Racial Discrimination, Falcón
Societies Without Borders
In February 2008, over 120 members of US civil society representing a range of domestic non-governmental organizations attended a United Nations hearing regarding the US government's compliance with the International Convention to Eliminate All Forms of Racial Discrimination. In this article, I analyze a distinct form of transnational activism that requires US racial justice activists to identify human rights standards and principles upon which to build their assertions of racial injustice, necessitating a fluency in the language of human rights and the ability to negotiate and lobby with members of a UN committee.
Jihad, Race And Western Media, Post-September 11, Tagg
Jihad, Race And Western Media, Post-September 11, Tagg
Societies Without Borders
The article examines jihad within what is loosely referred to as “the Western imagination.” Through the analysis of both popular stereotypes and the broader historical context of religious antagonism and (neo)colonialism, the paper discusses both contemporary political rhetoric and a pair of liberal post September-11 political cartoons. While European and North American political leaders have often stereotyped Muslims in order to justify various “axis of evil” bandwagons and further political and economic interests throughout the Islamic Crescent, I argue here that the liberal media's critiques also often rely on fallacious embodied stereotypes. The pervasiveness of such representations has important implications …
Si Me Permiten Hablar: Limitations Of The Human Rights Tradition To Address Racial Inequality, Bonilla-Silva, Sarah Mayorga
Si Me Permiten Hablar: Limitations Of The Human Rights Tradition To Address Racial Inequality, Bonilla-Silva, Sarah Mayorga
Societies Without Borders
In this paper we address some of the major limitations of the human rights tradition (HRT) in addressing issues of racial inequality. We contend that the universalist and individual-based framework of HRT fails to appreciate the significance of society's racial structure. More importantly, HRT ignores how race fractured the world system creating differently valued human bodies. In addition to addressing some of the shortcomings of HRT, we present challenges for those in the tradition and advance several alternatives for academics who want to work towards the elimination of race-based inequality in the world.
Human Rights Across National Borders, Dores
Human Rights Across National Borders, Dores
Societies Without Borders
In Pakistan are visible thousands of children living alone in the streets, used by different kind of people for underground proposes. Then one finds them older entering Greece borders, bringing with them the underground exploitative activities as well as the solidarity support of local population living where migrant pass. Looking to the youngsters migrant flow from Afghanistan to Europe, is it possible to understand it when sociologist look at it as a problem of national stock and flow? Or does sociology need to adopt without borders methodologies?
Contestatory Performative Acts In Transnational Political Meetings, Lane
Contestatory Performative Acts In Transnational Political Meetings, Lane
Societies Without Borders
Young people are often more eager to use creative and artistic potential when acting politically. The article focuses on moments where contestatory performative acts take place in three different transnational political meetings. With these three examples it is shown how these moments of disruption and disorder - when something unexpected captures the core of the political gathering - are crucial elements for deep democracy. In such moments where the political speeches and the practices of the meeting do not match, young political actors are in a crucial role to initiate contestatory performative, and often carnivalesque, acts to execute the issue. …
What Will States Really Do For Us? The Human Rights Enterprise And Pressure From Below, Armaline, Davita Glasberg
What Will States Really Do For Us? The Human Rights Enterprise And Pressure From Below, Armaline, Davita Glasberg
Societies Without Borders
International human rights standards and treaties have been plagued with disputes over the relevance and power of international law with regard to state sovereignty. These disputes commonly result in states' failure to realize the rights and standards outlined by such human rights instruments. What if states cannot or will not provide fundamental dignities to their people? Moreover, how does global restructuring affect states' ability to implement human rights? We explore these questions through what we call the “human rights enterprise,” which includes conflicts between rulers and the ruled over the realization of human rights practice. As such, human rights are …
Book Review Of The Origins Of African-American Interests In International Law & Eyes Off The Prize: The United Nations And The African American Struggle For Human Rights, 1944-1955, Embrick
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the books "The Origin of African-American Interests in International Law," by Henry J. Richardson III and "Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955," by Carol Anderson.
Foreword: After Guantanamo, Michael P. Scharf, Sonia Vohra
Foreword: After Guantanamo, Michael P. Scharf, Sonia Vohra
Faculty Publications
“Guantanamo Bay.” To many around the world those two words conjure up haunting images of orange jumpsuit-clad detainees imprisoned behind barbed-wire fences, subjected to the cruelest imaginable interrogation techniques, and held indefinitely without trial, or awaiting trial before military commissions whose procedures violate international law. It is no surprise, then, that the new U.S. administration perceived the Guantanamo Bay detention center and associated detainee policies as an indelible stain on America's moral authority and an impediment to the success of future U.S. foreign policy.
Foreword: Security Detention, Michael P. Scharf, Gwen Gillespie
Foreword: Security Detention, Michael P. Scharf, Gwen Gillespie
Faculty Publications
Foreword to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University organized a two-day experts meeting on security detention, Cleveland, OH, 2009
Is The World Social Forum The Privileged Space For Reinventing Labor As A Global Social Movement?, Waterman
Is The World Social Forum The Privileged Space For Reinventing Labor As A Global Social Movement?, Waterman
Societies Without Borders
The author highlights how the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, has unexpected consequences for labor. He argues that WSF represents a global pressure-cooker of contemporary progressive and emancipatory social movements and ideas. He believes this is the case for the international trade union and labor movement. He reflects on such matters, including the reasons for distinguishing between progressive and emancipatory, unions and labor.
Social Forums - Challenges And New Perspectives, Whitaker
Social Forums - Challenges And New Perspectives, Whitaker
Societies Without Borders
The author challenges the participants of the World Social Forum (WSF), an annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, to be reflective about the tradition of the forum and its methodology. He indicates some possibilities that are emerging in relation to the activities to be organized with the 2008 Global Day of action. He argues that even with few participants at the 2008 Forum, it was a big step forward to increase the African civil society political participation and articulation at the continental level.
In Defense Of World Social Forum Vii, Karides, Ponniah Thomas
In Defense Of World Social Forum Vii, Karides, Ponniah Thomas
Societies Without Borders
The article argues that the overall World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, process embodies an uneven, often contradictory, but evolving democratization with WSF advancing this agenda thru its presence in Nairobi, Kenya. It focuses on the WSF held in Nairobi, which is described as one of the most peripheralized countries. It begins by presenting the roots of the WSF and eventually concludes with the achievements of the addition of the WSF held in Nairobi.
Another Structure Of Knowledge Is Possible: The Social Forum Process And Academia, Sherman
Another Structure Of Knowledge Is Possible: The Social Forum Process And Academia, Sherman
Societies Without Borders
The author highlights how the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, has unexpected consequences for epistemology. He considers the possibilities opened by the emergence of the social forum process for the reconstruction of the structures of knowledge. By structures of knowledge, he means following the disciplinary organization and hegemonic approaches since the late nineteenth century in the social sciences.
Note From The Editors, Blau, Alberto Moncada
Note From The Editors, Blau, Alberto Moncada
Societies Without Borders
The article introduces a series of articles including one by Patrick Bond on the preliminary planning of the World Social Forum (WSF) and another by Michael Guerrero on the 2007 U.S. Social Forum.
Reformist Reforms, Non-Reformist Reforms And Global Justice: Activist, Ngo And Intellectual Challenges In The World Social Forum, Bond
Societies Without Borders
The author reflects on his involvement with the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, held in Nairobi, Kenya because he participated in the preliminary planning. As a social scientist, he reflects on the forum's significance in global society and vis-a-vis global capitalism. He also explores the debate in South Africa over the merits of WSF.
Sociology, Human Rights, And The World Social Forum, Frezzo
Sociology, Human Rights, And The World Social Forum, Frezzo
Societies Without Borders
The author contends that the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, mobilizes the principles of prefigurative politics and subsidiarty to avoid the pitfalls of developmantism. He also argues that the principles of prefigurative politics and subsidiarity, in echoing the sentiments of movements led by indigenous activists, feminists and environmentalists, have facilitated the spread of the forum model across the world.
Reading Nairobi: Place, Space, And Difference At The 2007 World Social Forum, Conway
Reading Nairobi: Place, Space, And Difference At The 2007 World Social Forum, Conway
Societies Without Borders
The author seeks to elaborate an approach to more adequately analyze the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, both as somewhat coherent global political process while also recognizing the exploding plurality of the WSF as a multi-faceted phenomenon. He presents an interpretative framework that allows for different and intersecting levels of analysis. To assess the significance of the Nairobi event in Africa, he situates it in the history of the WSF process.
The World Social Forum, A Globalisation From Below?, Pleyers
The World Social Forum, A Globalisation From Below?, Pleyers
Societies Without Borders
The author argues that the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, came out as an initiative from committed intellectuals and cosmopolitan activists. He outlines the emergence process of an influential and well-connected activist cosmopolitan elite within the alter-globalization movement. He then focuses on consequences of the divide between hyper mobile, globe-trotting leaders and local and regional grassroots activists.