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Book Review Of Democracy Works: Joining Theory And Action To Foster Global Change, Meredith Katz
Book Review Of Democracy Works: Joining Theory And Action To Foster Global Change, Meredith Katz
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Book Review Of The Endgame Of Globalization, Tugrul Keskin
Book Review Of The Endgame Of Globalization, Tugrul Keskin
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Expressions Of Human Rights: You Live: A Poem Of Love, Rodney Coates
Expressions Of Human Rights: You Live: A Poem Of Love, Rodney Coates
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
The Contested Terrains Of Public Sociology: Theoretical And Practical Lessons From The Movement To Defend Public Housing In Pre- And Post-Katrina New Orleans, John Arena
Societies Without Borders
In this article I argue professional and policy sociology are antagonistic, rather than compatible with the theory and practice of a critical, organic, public sociology in de- fense of human rights and social justice. Drawing upon my graduate school experi- ence and relationship with New Orleans public housing movement, I show how prac- ticing public sociology in various terrains required unmasking and opposing the apo- litical pretenses of professional sociology and the agenda-setting of neoliberal govern- ment and corporate patrons of policy sociology. The current global economic crisis and assault on university budgets is strengthening the policy and professional sociolo- …
Teaching And Speaking To Social Change: A Digital Storytelling Approach Addressing Access To Higher Education, Aline C. Gubrium, Timothy Scott
Teaching And Speaking To Social Change: A Digital Storytelling Approach Addressing Access To Higher Education, Aline C. Gubrium, Timothy Scott
Societies Without Borders
In this article, we briefly review neoliberal economic rationales used to inform educa- tional reforms, juxtaposed with the function of public education as a public good. We then introduce a new participatory visual method grounded in a human rights educa- tion approach, digital storytelling. Digital storytelling can serve triple purposes: as a data collection technique used by social researchers to critically assess participants’ experiences as they are affected by education reforms, as a collaborative method for political organizing, and as a tactic for building awareness to address these reforms. We review a digital storytelling workshop as it was carried out …
Designing Rights-Based School Feeding Programs, George Kent
Designing Rights-Based School Feeding Programs, George Kent
Societies Without Borders
Rights-based school feeding programs could serve as a basis for experiential learning about rights, and through that means, improve both nutritional and educational out- comes. Rights-based school feeding programs would give students the means to act to ensure that specific standards are met. Rights are supposed to be enforceable claims to specific goods or services. There must be some sort of institutional authority to which rights-holders whose claims are not satisfied can appeal to have the situation correct- ed. Enforceability means that the duty bearers, those who are to fulfil rights/ entitlements, must be obligated to do so, and they …
Notes From The Field: Development And Daughters: Changing Familial Roles In Rural Bangladesh, Roslyn S. Fraser
Notes From The Field: Development And Daughters: Changing Familial Roles In Rural Bangladesh, Roslyn S. Fraser
Societies Without Borders
The now-globalized economy has had far-reaching effects on family structure and gender roles around the world. One striking aspect of globalization is the rapid expan- sion of a global labor market resulting in large waves of labor migration. The effects of labor out-migration of men from rural Bangladesh have not yet been well docu- mented, but preliminary data show that these effects may be surprising and profound. The absence of men in many rural Bangladeshi families necessitates a change in how women‟s roles are perceived and experienced. As men leave for work, women may be buffering the effects of economic …
Book Review Of Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations In Global Politics, Delia Popescu
Book Review Of Advocating Dignity: Human Rights Mobilizations In Global Politics, Delia Popescu
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Women, Peace And Security: An Analysis Of The National Action Plans Developed In Response To Un Security Council Resolution 1325, Gumru, Jan Marie Fritz
Women, Peace And Security: An Analysis Of The National Action Plans Developed In Response To Un Security Council Resolution 1325, Gumru, Jan Marie Fritz
Societies Without Borders
This research analyzes the 11 national action plans that were adopted between June 2005 and October 2008 as a response to the United Nations Security Council's Resolution 1325. Resolution 1325, one of the most important UN resolutions within the field of peace and security, was adopted unanimously on 31 October 2000. The resolution highlights the consequences of violent conflict on women and girls and the important role of women in peacebuilding and post-conflict processes. In 2002 and again in 2004, UN member states were invited to prepare national action plans in order to take strong steps towards the implementation of …
Japan's Contribution To Global Constitutionalism, Kimijima
Japan's Contribution To Global Constitutionalism, Kimijima
Societies Without Borders
In this paper I want to approach the theme of “globalization and Japan” from the standpoint of constitutional studies. Constitutions and constitutionalism are important means of reining in political power, and in the modern sovereign state system, constitutions and constitutionalism have been conceived on the level of single states. However, as many scholars have observed, one can see the global spread of power in, for example, the worldwide deployment of the US military using overseas bases throughout the world, and the worldwide activities of transnational corporations based in the US, Europe, and Japan. In sum, this is the global spread …
Beyond Collapse: Reclaiming Rationality And Scientific Method From The Global Disorder, Mcmurtry
Beyond Collapse: Reclaiming Rationality And Scientific Method From The Global Disorder, Mcmurtry
Societies Without Borders
This analysis explains why the currently instituted value-sets of “rationality” and “scientific method” select for unforeseen consequences of economic, social and ecological system collapse. Laying bare the era's unifying paradigm of “rational choice” across theory (e.g., game theory, contractarianism, prisoner's dilemma) and practice (global business, geostrategic analysis, armed war and mass-media sport), the analysis exposes the systematic disconnection of rationality and its lead vector of scientific method from the needs and capacities of life-systems. Only if rational and scientific standards are grounded in life-enabling purpose and means consistent with it, the argument shows, can they be made coherent with life …
Domestic Violence And Women's Rights In Nigeria, Bazza
Domestic Violence And Women's Rights In Nigeria, Bazza
Societies Without Borders
Studies have shown that globally domestic violence accounts for nearly one quarter of all recorded crimes. Women have been subjected to various forms of violence ranging from rape, battering, trafficking and even murder. Although the degree differs from society to society, the occurrence has profound and destructive consequences including psychological, physical, emotional and social disorders. The fact that domestic violence prevails across all strata of the Nigerian society is no longer debatable. Despite the spirited efforts made by the world bodies such as the United Nations (e.g. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights) …
From Rights To Justice: Women Of Color Changing The Face Of Us Reproductive Rights Organizing, Luna
From Rights To Justice: Women Of Color Changing The Face Of Us Reproductive Rights Organizing, Luna
Societies Without Borders
The history of government racism is part of the explanation of the limited contemporary use of human rights in the US. This history poses a challenge to mainstream organizations' ability to organize using human rights, yet some contemporary organizations embrace these concepts that are in full use within international settings. This article focuses on the emergent reproductive justice movement, a women of color-based social movement which complicates the narrow focus on protection of legislation such as Roe v. Wade by integrating human rights analysis of domestic social problems. In doing so, this paper expands understanding of uses of human rights …
Book Review Of Contract And Domination & The Darker Nations: A People's History Of The Third World, Hiers
Book Review Of Contract And Domination & The Darker Nations: A People's History Of The Third World, Hiers
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the books "Contract and Domination," by Carol Pateman and Charles Mills and "The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World," by Vijay Prashad.
Societies Without Borders: Human Rights & The Social Sciences, Welcome To Farshad Araghi - A Longer Title - More Issues Per Volume, Blau, Farshad Araghi
Societies Without Borders: Human Rights & The Social Sciences, Welcome To Farshad Araghi - A Longer Title - More Issues Per Volume, Blau, Farshad Araghi
Societies Without Borders
The article introduces Professor Farshad Araghi as co-editor and offers information on the contents of the journal. Araghi is the chair of the Department of Sociology at Florida Atlantic University and writes about global sociology, social theory, sociology of agriculture and human displacement and world-historical analysis. He received numerous awards including the Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award. The journal is a multidisciplinary incorporating the universality and borderlessness of human rights as a main theme.
Exorcising The Specter Of Development: Human Rights In The 21st Century, Frezzo, Farshad Araghi
Exorcising The Specter Of Development: Human Rights In The 21st Century, Frezzo, Farshad Araghi
Societies Without Borders
With the commodification of rights as private privileges under neoliberal capitalism, movements in the Global South have begun to reinterpret the human rights canon. Cosmopolitan notions of human rights have spread from the Global South only to face parochial resistance from postmodern intellectuals and neoliberal power structures in the Global North. In advancing a vision of “cosmopolitanism from below” as an antidote to neoliberalism, these alliances have articulated their demands in terms of economic and social rights. In the process, they have ruptured the connection - crucial to US hegemony from the late 1940s through the early 1970s - between …
'Doing Religion' Overseas: The Characteristics And Functions Of Ghanaian Immigrant Churches In Toronto, Canada, Mensah
Societies Without Borders
While the importance of immigrants' transnational economic activities is readily acknowledged, the cultural factors that facilitate their initiation and sustenance of memberships in multiple locations have been overlooked. It is this lacuna that the present study addresses, using Ghanaian immigrant churches in Toronto as a case study. The paper examines how Ghanaian immigrant churches were founded; how they are organized; and the kinds of social services they provide. While the churches facilitate the settlement of Ghanaian immigrants, through the provision of social services, they seem to, inadvertently, undermine their eventual integration into the broader Canadian society.
Discouragement Amongst Ageing Workers In Malta Within An Eu Context, Brown, Michael Briguglio
Discouragement Amongst Ageing Workers In Malta Within An Eu Context, Brown, Michael Briguglio
Societies Without Borders
This paper investigates perceptions of unemployed ageing workers in Malta, in relation to disadvantages in the labour market and to discouragement with regard to chances of finding stable employment. The principal results are that educational level and number of breadwinners in one's household significantly affect perceptions; and that there are cases manifesting the 'discouraged worker effect', even though they are still registering to find employment. This challenges traditional views arguing that this effect is present only among individuals who already gave up the job search completely. This paper concludes that the struggle for productive employment requires mass representation of trade …
Decent Society Index: A Research Note, Judith, Jenniffer Santos, Chelsea Sessoms
Decent Society Index: A Research Note, Judith, Jenniffer Santos, Chelsea Sessoms
Societies Without Borders
People everywhere are discovering that their own views about a decent society are widely shared around the world. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights already made this clear in 1948 by referring to “a common understanding” of rights and freedoms and a “recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.” A challenge for social scientists is to develop dimensions for an index that measures variation in the extent to which societies are decent. Such an index would be useful in research for comparative and analytical purposes, and it could …
Book Review Of A Brief History Of Neoliberalism, Keskin
Book Review Of A Brief History Of Neoliberalism, Keskin
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the book "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," by David Harvey.
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.