SOCIETIES WITHOUT BORDERS
Current Issue: Volume 10, Issue 1 (2015)
http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/
Articles
A New Societies Without BordersBrian K. Gran
Stories from the Margins: Refugees with Disabilities Rebuilding LivesBrent C. Elder
Mobilization, Strategy, and Global Apparel Production Networks: Systemic Advantages for Student Antisweatshop ActivismDale W. Wimberley, Meredith A. Katz, and John Paul Mason
Book ReviewsReview of Obama Power by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Bernadette N. Jaworsky (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014).Kubilay Y. Arin
Review of Global Coloniality and Power in GuatemalaAndrew Crookston
Review of Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human RightsJared Del Rosso
Review of Edges of Global Justice: The World Social Forum and its OthersManisha Desai
Review of The Anti-Slavery Project: From Slave Trade to Human TraffickingAnnie Fukushima
Review of Fair Trade from the Ground Up: New Markets for Social JusticeSilvia Giagnoni
Review of Jennifer Curtis, Human Rights as War by Other Means (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2014)Kubilay Y. Arin Mr
Film Reviews
Review of "Young and Gay: Jamaica’s Gully Queens” Produced and Directed by Christo Geoghegan of VICE NewsShaneda Destine
Review of "My Name is Khan"Farrukh Hakeem
Review of “Rape in the Fields. The Hidden Story of Rape on the Job in America”Suchitra Samanta
Thursday, May 28, 2015
The Year of International Human Rights - Webster University October 7-8th 2015
Dear friends,
I am helping to plan our annual human rights conference which will take place October 7-8th 2015 at Webster University. This is our 6th annual conference and sociologist Judith Blau will be our keynote speaker! I am writing to you for help with finding an academic or activist (or both) who works on hunger, food and poverty. This theme of the conference is the Millennium Development Goals so one of our sessions will need to focus on this goal. We pay for travel, hotel, incidentals and a modest honorarium. If you think this is something you would be interested in OR if you can put me in contact with an organization or another academic working on this issue please let me know. Here is the website for our conference.
http://www.webster.edu/arts-and-sciences/affiliates-events/yihr.html
Please respond to me privately at andreamiller31 (at) webster.edu Please share widely!
Andrea Miller, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Fellow, Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies
Webster University
470 E. Lockwood Ave
St. Louis, MO 63119
314-246-8698
I am helping to plan our annual human rights conference which will take place October 7-8th 2015 at Webster University. This is our 6th annual conference and sociologist Judith Blau will be our keynote speaker! I am writing to you for help with finding an academic or activist (or both) who works on hunger, food and poverty. This theme of the conference is the Millennium Development Goals so one of our sessions will need to focus on this goal. We pay for travel, hotel, incidentals and a modest honorarium. If you think this is something you would be interested in OR if you can put me in contact with an organization or another academic working on this issue please let me know. Here is the website for our conference.
http://www.webster.edu/arts-and-sciences/affiliates-events/yihr.html
Please respond to me privately at andreamiller31 (at) webster.edu Please share widely!
Andrea Miller, Ph.D.
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
Fellow, Institute for Human Rights & Humanitarian Studies
Webster University
470 E. Lockwood Ave
St. Louis, MO 63119
314-246-8698
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Explain to me: Why is the government closing remote Aboriginal communities?
By Rebecca Mitchell
Mamamia - 24 March 2015
If you haven’t been part of them, you’ve most likely at least heard of the recent protests against the closure of remote Aboriginal communities in Western Australia. You may have seen #SOSBlakAustralia trending on Facebook last week. Or maybe you follow Hugh Jackman on Instagram. Maybe you heard Tony Abbott say the government couldn’t subsidise “lifestyle choices” and the collective horrified gasp that followed. But chances are you’re asking — what the hell is going on?
Today, we’re here to explain.
Last year, the Federal government announced it would stop funding essential services in remote Australian communities — essentially transferring this responsibility to the states. Last week, WA Premier Colin Barnett said his state would have to “close” between 100 to 150 Indigenous communities, as a result.
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Mamamia - 24 March 2015
Today, we’re here to explain.
Last year, the Federal government announced it would stop funding essential services in remote Australian communities — essentially transferring this responsibility to the states. Last week, WA Premier Colin Barnett said his state would have to “close” between 100 to 150 Indigenous communities, as a result.
READ MORE....
Monday, May 11, 2015
What is the Human Rights Act and why does Michael Gove want to scrap it?
JON STONE
THE INDEPENDENT - Monday 11 May 2015
The Conservatives' manifesto says the party wants to scrap the Human Rights Act. David Cameron has appointed Michael Gove, the former education secretary, to be Justice Secretary; this means he'll be responsible for the policy. The Human Rights Act is a piece of law, introduced in 1998, that guarantees human rights in Britain. It was introduced as one of the first major reforms of the last Labour government. In practice, the Act has two main effects. Firstly, it incorporates the rights of the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic British law. What this means is that if someone has a complaint under human rights law they do not have to go to European courts but can get justice from British courts. Secondly, it requires all public bodies – not just the central government, but institutions like the police, NHS, and local councils – to abide by these human rights.
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THE INDEPENDENT - Monday 11 May 2015
The Conservatives' manifesto says the party wants to scrap the Human Rights Act. David Cameron has appointed Michael Gove, the former education secretary, to be Justice Secretary; this means he'll be responsible for the policy. The Human Rights Act is a piece of law, introduced in 1998, that guarantees human rights in Britain. It was introduced as one of the first major reforms of the last Labour government. In practice, the Act has two main effects. Firstly, it incorporates the rights of the European Convention on Human Rights into domestic British law. What this means is that if someone has a complaint under human rights law they do not have to go to European courts but can get justice from British courts. Secondly, it requires all public bodies – not just the central government, but institutions like the police, NHS, and local councils – to abide by these human rights.
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New Boston University professor's tweets spark racial furor
By: Jack Encarnacao, Antonio Planas
BOSTON HERALD - Monday, May 11, 2015
A Boston University spokesman said the administration is “offended” by an incoming African American Studies professor’s disparaging tweets about white people, which have gone viral and now have students at odds.
Saida Grundy, who starts in July as an assistant professor of sociology and African American Studies, has sent out several racially charged tweets in recent months, including calling “white college males” a “problem population,” declaring “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.” Other tweets stated “Deal with your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a *YALL* thing,” and “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible.”
The tweets were compiled by the web site SoCawlege.com last week before Grundy — described on BU’s website as a “feminist sociologist of race & ethnicity” — made her account private. They were also published by Fox News.
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BOSTON HERALD - Monday, May 11, 2015
A Boston University spokesman said the administration is “offended” by an incoming African American Studies professor’s disparaging tweets about white people, which have gone viral and now have students at odds.
Saida Grundy, who starts in July as an assistant professor of sociology and African American Studies, has sent out several racially charged tweets in recent months, including calling “white college males” a “problem population,” declaring “white masculinity is THE problem for America’s colleges.” Other tweets stated “Deal with your white (expletive), white people. slavery is a *YALL* thing,” and “Every MLK week I commit myself to not spending a dime in white-owned businesses. And every year I find it nearly impossible.”
The tweets were compiled by the web site SoCawlege.com last week before Grundy — described on BU’s website as a “feminist sociologist of race & ethnicity” — made her account private. They were also published by Fox News.
READ MORE....
Sunday, May 10, 2015
White America's Greatest Delusion: "They Do Not Know It and They Do Not Want to Know It”
By Tim Wise
AlterNet - May 6, 2015
Though perhaps overused, there are few statements that so thoroughly burrow to the heart of the nation's racial condition as the following, written fifty-three years ago by James Baldwin:
...this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it...but it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime
Indeed, and in the wake of the Baltimore uprising that began last week, they are words worth remembering.
It is bad enough that much of white America sees fit to lecture black people about the proper response to police brutality, economic devastation and perpetual marginality, having ourselves rarely been the targets of any of these. It is bad enough that we deign to instruct black people whose lives we have not lived, whose terrors we have not faced, and whose gauntlets we have not run, about violence; this, even as we enjoy the national bounty over which we currently claim possession solely as a result of violence. I beg to remind you, George Washington was not a practitioner of passive resistance. Neither the early colonists nor the nation's founders fit within the Gandhian tradition. There were no sit-ins at King George's palace, no horseback freedom rides to effect change. There were just guns, lots and lots of guns.
We are here because of blood, and mostly that of others; here because of our insatiable and rapacious desire to take by force the land and labor of those others. We are the last people on Earth with a right to ruminate upon the superior morality of peaceful protest. We have never believed in it and rarely practiced it. Rather, we have always taken what we desire, and when denied it we have turned to means utterly genocidal to make it so.
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AlterNet - May 6, 2015
Though perhaps overused, there are few statements that so thoroughly burrow to the heart of the nation's racial condition as the following, written fifty-three years ago by James Baldwin:
...this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it...but it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime
Indeed, and in the wake of the Baltimore uprising that began last week, they are words worth remembering.
It is bad enough that much of white America sees fit to lecture black people about the proper response to police brutality, economic devastation and perpetual marginality, having ourselves rarely been the targets of any of these. It is bad enough that we deign to instruct black people whose lives we have not lived, whose terrors we have not faced, and whose gauntlets we have not run, about violence; this, even as we enjoy the national bounty over which we currently claim possession solely as a result of violence. I beg to remind you, George Washington was not a practitioner of passive resistance. Neither the early colonists nor the nation's founders fit within the Gandhian tradition. There were no sit-ins at King George's palace, no horseback freedom rides to effect change. There were just guns, lots and lots of guns.
We are here because of blood, and mostly that of others; here because of our insatiable and rapacious desire to take by force the land and labor of those others. We are the last people on Earth with a right to ruminate upon the superior morality of peaceful protest. We have never believed in it and rarely practiced it. Rather, we have always taken what we desire, and when denied it we have turned to means utterly genocidal to make it so.
READ MORE......
Monday, May 4, 2015
CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS - Societies Without Borders
CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWERS - Societies Without Borders
Societies Without Borders
http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/
Editor, Brian K. Gran (Case Western Reserve University)
Societies Without Borders(http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/ ), an online journal published by Sociologists Without Borders, is seeking book reviewers in the fields of sociology, international studies, political science, economics and cultural studies. In keeping with its mission to make the scholarly analysis of economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental rights accessible to as wide an audience as possible, Societies Without Borders is a peer-reviewed journal.
If you are interested in reviewing books for our Journal, please send your short CV to tugrulkeskin (at) pdx.edu. We have a list of books to review that you will find below; please contact me in the event that you are interested in any of the titles. Alternatively, you may also propose titles that you are willing to review.
Submissions deadlines for the coming year are June 1 and September 1, 2015.
I will mail (NOT OUTSIDE OF THE US) any of the following books to you if you express interest:
Binational Human Rights The U.S.-Mexico Experience William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller, Editors University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights Renée Jeffery University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights. Bruce K. Friesen. Springer, 2014
Human Rights and Disability Advocacy Edited by Maya Sabatello ad Marianne Schulze University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Immigration Judges and U.S Asylum Policy - Banks Miller, Linda Camp Keith and Jennifer S. Holmes. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
Societies Without Borders
http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/
Editor, Brian K. Gran (Case Western Reserve University)
Societies Without Borders(http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/swb/ ), an online journal published by Sociologists Without Borders, is seeking book reviewers in the fields of sociology, international studies, political science, economics and cultural studies. In keeping with its mission to make the scholarly analysis of economic, political, social, cultural, and environmental rights accessible to as wide an audience as possible, Societies Without Borders is a peer-reviewed journal.
If you are interested in reviewing books for our Journal, please send your short CV to tugrulkeskin (at) pdx.edu. We have a list of books to review that you will find below; please contact me in the event that you are interested in any of the titles. Alternatively, you may also propose titles that you are willing to review.
Submissions deadlines for the coming year are June 1 and September 1, 2015.
I will mail (NOT OUTSIDE OF THE US) any of the following books to you if you express interest:
Binational Human Rights The U.S.-Mexico Experience William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller, Editors University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Amnesties, Accountability, and Human Rights Renée Jeffery University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Moral Systems and the Evolution of Human Rights. Bruce K. Friesen. Springer, 2014
Human Rights and Disability Advocacy Edited by Maya Sabatello ad Marianne Schulze University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014
Immigration Judges and U.S Asylum Policy - Banks Miller, Linda Camp Keith and Jennifer S. Holmes. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015
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