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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.
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.
Freeing Software And Opening Space: Social Forums And The Cultural Politics Of Technology, Juris, Giuseppe Caruso
Freeing Software And Opening Space: Social Forums And The Cultural Politics Of Technology, Juris, Giuseppe Caruso
Societies Without Borders
The authors highlight how the World Social Forum (WSF), the annual meeting held by members of the anti-globalization or alter-globalization movement, has unexpected consequences for communications. They particularly explore what they refer to as the cultural politics of technology within the social forums through a comparative analysis of the political goals and struggles associated with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) use within the global, European and the U.S. social forum processes.
Feminists And The Forum: Is It Worth The Effort?, Hewitt
Feminists And The Forum: Is It Worth The Effort?, Hewitt
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 feminism. She identifies the ways in which her commitment to feminist research influence her scholarly practice. She reflects on the methodological challenges of scholar-activism and highlights several tenets of feminist methodology that bear particular importance for scholar-activists participating in and researching the social forum process.
The Us Social Forum: Building From The Bottom Up, Guerrero
The Us Social Forum: Building From The Bottom Up, Guerrero
Societies Without Borders
The article deals with the 2007 U.S. Social Forum (USSF). It particularly looks at the historical significance of the USSF. It argues that the USSF signified a turning point in both the emerging social movements within the U.S. and perhaps the global social forum process as well. It then discusses the salient characteristics of the USSF. It also traces how the USSF was organized by a sector of grassroots organizations largely overlooked in national politics.
The Meaning Of The Us Social Forum: A Reply To Whitaker And Bello's Debate On The Open Space, Ponniah
The Meaning Of The Us Social Forum: A Reply To Whitaker And Bello's Debate On The Open Space, Ponniah
Societies Without Borders
The article looks at the actual achievements of the U.S. Social Forum (USFF) in order to assess the differing positions of Walden Bello and Chico Whitaker, both representatives on the International Council of the World Social Forum (WFS). Bello argued that the Forum's open space methodology refuses to take a collective stand on any issues even on concerns as the war on Iraq. Meanwhile, Whitaker noted that the open space methodology left possible the opportunity for movements to independently build global coalitions that produced common manifestos.
Book Review Of The Rise Of The Global Left: The World Social Forum And Beyond, Rodríguez
Book Review Of The Rise Of The Global Left: The World Social Forum And Beyond, Rodríguez
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the book "The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond," by Boaventura De Sousa Santos.
Book Review Of The World Social Forum: Strategies Of Resistance And Another World Is Possible: Popular Alternatives To Globalization At The World Social Forum, Mccarthy
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews two books including "The World Social Forum: Strategies of Resistance," by Jose Correa Leite and "Another World Is Possible: Popular Alternatives to Globalization at the World Social Forum," edited by William Z. Fischer and Thomas Ponniah.
Mexican Immigration Scenarios Based On The South African Experience Of Ending Apartheid, Murguia, Kim Díaz
Mexican Immigration Scenarios Based On The South African Experience Of Ending Apartheid, Murguia, Kim Díaz
Societies Without Borders
How can we ameliorate the current immigration policies toward Mexican people immigrating to the United States? This study re-examines how the development of scenarios assisted South Africa to dismantle apartheid without engaging in a bloody civil war. Following the scenario approach, we articulate positions taken by different interest groups involved in the debate concerning immigration from Mexico. Next, we formulate a set of scenarios which are evaluated as to how well each contributes to the well-being of the populace both of Mexico and of the United States. The South African scenario model has proven to be an effective tool in …
Women's Health Transnational Networks, Corradi, Giovanna Vingelli
Women's Health Transnational Networks, Corradi, Giovanna Vingelli
Societies Without Borders
The emergence and diffusion of global networks working around health issues with a gender perspective (gender & health organizations) is a relatively new phenomenon characterizing the last three decades with growing interest in gender studies, sociology of health and sociology of social movements. A transnational dimension seems to be more fit to negotiate women's different conditions and interests - compared to traditional ones, whose actions remain limited to national arenas. We carried out exploratory research of about 284 international health-related organizations. Here we are going to present the results of a quantitative survey of 48 of them, dealing specifically on …
From Exclusion To Containment: Arendt, Sovereign Power, And Statelessness, Hayden
From Exclusion To Containment: Arendt, Sovereign Power, And Statelessness, Hayden
Societies Without Borders
Taking up Hannah Arendt's analysis of statelessness and her critique of sovereign power, this paper argues that the condition of 'rightlessness' has become normalized within the international order. In contrast to claims that globalization has undermined sovereignty, Arendt's work helps to illuminate how states continue to reinforce their power to exclude and contain stateless persons while simultaneously deploying the discourse of universal human rights. Current state policies reveal that rightlessness is deeply embedded within the logic of the inter-state system. In a globalizing world where states are increasingly called upon to conform to universal standards of human rights, millions of …
Critical Impairments To Globalizing The Western Human Rights Discourse, Imani
Critical Impairments To Globalizing The Western Human Rights Discourse, Imani
Societies Without Borders
This article focuses on the philosophical implications of Euro-centrism and Eurocentric discourse for the Western human rights narrative. It is argued that there is insufficient theoretical and practical consideration of those implications, particular for advocacy and activity in the so-called "Third World" where such arguments frequently become mere vehicles for the advance of economic and political neocolonialism. In many ways, colonialism with a humanistic, liberal democratic "face". Finally, a proposition is advanced that if the Western human rights discourse is to be effectively corrected and evolve into a global one, critiques of Euro-centrism from outside the Western discursive world must …
The Impact Of Recurring Natural Disasters On Chronic Poverty, Anwar
The Impact Of Recurring Natural Disasters On Chronic Poverty, Anwar
Societies Without Borders
Natural disasters disorder the existing everyday normative practices. The magnitude of any disaster creates risk and vulnerability in different ways that apply to different groups. The consequences of material and non-material risk and vulnerability downgrade the existing social structure and social order of the society, which reflects in the process of the cultural system, demographic scenario, social process, socialization, good governance and women empowerment. I use the concept "chronic poverty" as a condition created by intergenerational socio-economic and cultural processes. My analysis encompasses the interrelationship and interdependency between unequal access to resources and recovery process on the context of disaster …
Book Review Of The Witnesses: War Crimes And The Promise Of Justice In The Hague, Aspel
Book Review Of The Witnesses: War Crimes And The Promise Of Justice In The Hague, Aspel
Societies Without Borders
The article reviews the book "The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague," by Eric Stover .