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Democracy, Education, And Free Speech: The Importance Of #Feesmustfall For Transnational Activism, Lindsey Peterson Ph.D, Kentse Radebe, Somya Mohanty Ph.D
Democracy, Education, And Free Speech: The Importance Of #Feesmustfall For Transnational Activism, Lindsey Peterson Ph.D, Kentse Radebe, Somya Mohanty Ph.D
Societies Without Borders
South African students across numerous university campuses joined together in the second half of 2015 to protest the rising cost of higher education. In addition to on-campus protesting, activists utilized Twitter to mobilize and communicate with each other, and, as the protests drew national attention, the hashtag #FeesMustFall began trending on Twitter. Then, what began as a localized movement against tuition increases became a global issue when a court interdict was granted by a South African court against the use of the #FeesMustFall hashtag. This paper traces that global spread of the #FeesMustFall hashtag on Twitter as a response to …
The Technology Bias: What Google Teaches Us About Child Rights, Yvonne Vissing Ph.D, Sarah Burris M.A., Quixada Moore-Vissing Ph.D
The Technology Bias: What Google Teaches Us About Child Rights, Yvonne Vissing Ph.D, Sarah Burris M.A., Quixada Moore-Vissing Ph.D
Societies Without Borders
Technology both helps and hinders what we know about human rights. Use of Google is of central importance to both the Sociology of Knowledge and the creation of internet literacy. In this study, different search engines are compared regarding content of “child rights” in the fifty United States. Findings include: importance of algorithmic loading of sites; number of hits may not reflect the importance or accuracy of a topic; different search engines produce different findings; and personalized searches result in different results. Personalization of searches in accordance to one’s previous search history may result in people being given information that …
The Impact Of Rural Poverty On Women’S Health Outcomes In Ethiopia: A Review Of A Walk To Beautiful, Christine A. Wernet Ph.D
The Impact Of Rural Poverty On Women’S Health Outcomes In Ethiopia: A Review Of A Walk To Beautiful, Christine A. Wernet Ph.D
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Rural Poverty On Women's Health Outcomes In Ethiopia: A Review Of A Walk To Beautiful, Christine A. Wernet
The Impact Of Rural Poverty On Women's Health Outcomes In Ethiopia: A Review Of A Walk To Beautiful, Christine A. Wernet
Societies Without Borders
It is estimated that 2-3 million women worldwide suffer from the debilitating effects of birth injuries such as fistulas. This hidden epidemic is both preventable and highly curable, yet poor women, especially those who live in the rural areas of underdeveloped countries continue to be profoundly negatively impacted physically, psychologically, and socially by this condition. The moving documentary, A Walk to Beautiful, highlights this global problem.
What Google Teaches Us About The Child Rights Movement, Yvonne Vissing, Sarah Burris, Quixada Moore-Vissing
What Google Teaches Us About The Child Rights Movement, Yvonne Vissing, Sarah Burris, Quixada Moore-Vissing
Societies Without Borders
Technology both helps and hinders what we know about human rights. Use of Google is of central importance to both the Sociology of Knowledge and the creation of internet literacy. In this study, different search engines are compared regarding content of “child rights” in the fifty United States. Findings include: importance of algorithmic loading of sites; number of hits may not reflect the importance or accuracy of a topic; different search engines produce different findings; and personalized searches result in different results. Personalization of searches in accordance to one’s previous search history may result in people being given information that …
Review Of “Rape In The Fields. The Hidden Story Of Rape On The Job In America”, Suchitra Samanta
Review Of “Rape In The Fields. The Hidden Story Of Rape On The Job In America”, Suchitra Samanta
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its Others, Manisha Desai
Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its Others, Manisha Desai
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
A New Societies Without Borders, Brian K. Gran
A New Societies Without Borders, Brian K. Gran
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Stories From The Margins: Refugees With Disabilities Rebuilding Lives, Brent C. Elder
Stories From The Margins: Refugees With Disabilities Rebuilding Lives, Brent C. Elder
Societies Without Borders
First-hand accounts of resettlement are seldom heard from refugees with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to facilitate a space for refugees with disabilities to tell their life histories, and their experiences related to resettlement. A global ethnographic framework was used to gather life history interview data from six refugees with a label of disability who have resettled in the United States. To better understand participants’ life histories, multiple theoretical perspectives were utilized including: critical cultural theory, critical race theory (CRT), critical disability studies (CDS), and disability studies (DS) which helped to interpret and navigate the nebulous intersections of …
Review Of Global Coloniality And Power In Guatemala, Andrew Crookston
Review Of Global Coloniality And Power In Guatemala, Andrew Crookston
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Mobilization, Strategy, And Global Apparel Production Networks: Systemic Advantages For Student Antisweatshop Activism, Dale W. Wimberley, Meredith A. Katz, John Paul Mason
Mobilization, Strategy, And Global Apparel Production Networks: Systemic Advantages For Student Antisweatshop Activism, Dale W. Wimberley, Meredith A. Katz, John Paul Mason
Societies Without Borders
The U.S. antisweatshop movement is a major branch of Global North labor rights activism. We focus on the movement’s college student sector, which has been active and moderately effective since its 1997 birth. Using principles from social movement theory and global political economy, we examine (1) these student labor rights groups’ campus context, (2) global production networks (GPNs), and (3) how campus context and GPNs intersect to facilitate student antisweatshop activity and effectiveness in ways distinct from the non-campus U.S. movement. U.S. college campuses are places of pre-existing collective identity and dense interaction, facilitating antisweatshop mobilization. Collegiate apparel GPNs that …
Review Of Torture: A Sociology Of Violence And Human Rights, Jared Del Rosso
Review Of Torture: A Sociology Of Violence And Human Rights, Jared Del Rosso
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Anti-Slavery Project: From Slave Trade To Human Trafficking, Annie Fukushima
Review Of The Anti-Slavery Project: From Slave Trade To Human Trafficking, Annie Fukushima
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Fair Trade From The Ground Up: New Markets For Social Justice, Silvia Giagnoni
Review Of Fair Trade From The Ground Up: New Markets For Social Justice, Silvia Giagnoni
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Jennifer Curtis, Human Rights As War By Other Means (Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press 2014), Kubilay Y. Arin Mr
Review Of Jennifer Curtis, Human Rights As War By Other Means (Philadelphia: University Of Pennsylvania Press 2014), Kubilay Y. Arin Mr
Societies Without Borders
Jennifer Curtis, author of Human Rights as War by Other Means, traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equality. While reading this remarkable study, I asked myself to what extent her criticism of human “rights discourse has functioned as a war by other means” in Northern Ireland.
Review Of "Young And Gay: Jamaica’S Gully Queens” Produced And Directed By Christo Geoghegan Of Vice News, Shaneda Destine
Review Of "Young And Gay: Jamaica’S Gully Queens” Produced And Directed By Christo Geoghegan Of Vice News, Shaneda Destine
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of "My Name Is Khan", Farrukh Hakeem
Review Of "My Name Is Khan", Farrukh Hakeem
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Global Coloniality And Power In Guatemala By Egla Martínez-Salazar, Andrew Crookston
Review Of Global Coloniality And Power In Guatemala By Egla Martínez-Salazar, Andrew Crookston
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
African American Women, Hiv/Aids, And Human Rights In The Us, Monica L. Melton
African American Women, Hiv/Aids, And Human Rights In The Us, Monica L. Melton
Societies Without Borders
In the US alone, 84 percent of women’s HIV infections are due to heterosexual contact (CDC 2013). Fifty percent of all people globally who are living with HIV/AIDS are women (UNAIDS 2009), yet, HIV-positive women’s perspectives on prevention are mostly missing from the trajectory of scholarly literature on HIV/AIDS. I thought it imperative to go to the source (women living with HIV/AIDS) to get an insiders perspective on HIV prevention. Thirty HIV-positive Black women were recruited to participate in the study, which lasted seven months. These women live in a Florida innercity and range in age from 21 to 60. …
Transwomen, The Prison-Industrial Complex, And Human Rights: Neoliberalism And Trans-Resistance, Emmi Bevensee
Transwomen, The Prison-Industrial Complex, And Human Rights: Neoliberalism And Trans-Resistance, Emmi Bevensee
Societies Without Borders
This article introduces complexity into understandings around the relationships between human rights, being transgender, and interacting with the prison-industrial complex. It looks at struggles and interventions against neoliberal mainstream agendas that do not address the underlying causes of state violence against transpeople, especially trans women of color. This essay employs in-depth research and analysis primarily employing the lens and tools of intersectional subalternity, personal experience, and extensive community activism around these complex issues to show that human rights struggles that do not challenge neoliberal politics generally fail to meet the needs of trans people facing massive structural violence with the …
A Word From The New Editors, Bruce Friesen, Brian K. Gran
A Word From The New Editors, Bruce Friesen, Brian K. Gran
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg
Rules Vs. Rights? Social Control, Dignity, And The Right To Housing In The Shelter System, Barret Katuna, Davita Silfen-Glasberg
Societies Without Borders
Sometimes the mechanisms that are in place to protect human rights lead to human rights violations. Drawing on data from ten months of fieldwork at a homeless shelter’s women’s program in a New England city. The authors trace the compromise of human dignity that accompanies one shelter’s effort to help clients fulfill their human right to housing.
Political Battles On Women’S Bodies: Post-Election Conflicts And Violence Against Women In Internally Displaced Persons Camps In Kenya, Roseanne Njeri Njiru
Political Battles On Women’S Bodies: Post-Election Conflicts And Violence Against Women In Internally Displaced Persons Camps In Kenya, Roseanne Njeri Njiru
Societies Without Borders
The Kenya 2007 December presidential election results were violently challenged. For months, political protests accompanied by violent attacks and violent reaction by government security forces, led to “ethnic cleansing” particularly in the Rift Valley region resulting in deaths of more than 1,500 people and internal displacement of about 450,000 others. Women and young girls experienced various forms of gender violence during and after the conflicts in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps. Using in-depth interviews with women living in a camp, NGOs and government agencies, this article focuses on the continuing bodily violence that internally displaced women face in their everyday …
Insiderness, Outsiderness, And Situated Accessibility – How Women Activists Navigate Un’S Commission On The Status Of Women, Daniela Jauk
Insiderness, Outsiderness, And Situated Accessibility – How Women Activists Navigate Un’S Commission On The Status Of Women, Daniela Jauk
Societies Without Borders
The goal of this article is to explain micro-political aspects of women’s participation within the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) by explicating how NonGovernmental Organization’s (NGO) representatives negotiate and perceive their work. Data from ethnographic participant observation of CSW meetings between 2009 and 2012 demonstrate the simultaneity of both clear insider/outsider distinctions as well as blurred and permeable boundaries between the intergovernmental body of the CSW and civil society in the form of women’s rights activists who attempt to shape CSW outcomes. Concepts of fluid insiderness and outsiderness (Naples 1996) help explain that women activists perceive themselves simultaneously …
Pride In Istanbul, Susan C. Pearce
Pride In Istanbul, Susan C. Pearce
Societies Without Borders
In June of 2013, Istanbul, Turkey held its annual Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Pride parade. This year’s parade was performed in a particular historical context: in the midst of an anti-government uprising that had begun in Istanbul and spread throughout Turkey. This context loaned a particular flavor to the Pride parade, and there was a reciprocity between the recent protest movement and LGBT activism. These field notes describe the June 2013 parade and its relationship to the socio-political context, drawing from these observations some preliminary conclusions regarding human rights and gender as Turkey interacts with transnational human rights regimes such …
Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its “Others” By Janet M. Conway, Manisha Desai
Review Of Edges Of Global Justice: The World Social Forum And Its “Others” By Janet M. Conway, Manisha Desai
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Anti-Slavery Project: From The Slave Trade To Human Trafficking By Joel Quirk, Annie Isabel Fukushima
Review Of The Anti-Slavery Project: From The Slave Trade To Human Trafficking By Joel Quirk, Annie Isabel Fukushima
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, And Memory By Rene Lemarchand (Editor), Nicole Fox
Review Of Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, And Memory By Rene Lemarchand (Editor), Nicole Fox
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Review Of Heart Of Sky, Heart Of Earth Directed By Frauke Sandig And Eric Black, Beth Williford
Review Of Heart Of Sky, Heart Of Earth Directed By Frauke Sandig And Eric Black, Beth Williford
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.
Our Years As Editors, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Mark Frezzo
Our Years As Editors, David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, Mark Frezzo
Societies Without Borders
No abstract provided.