Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Social JusticeA Chinese Interdisciplinary Dialogue with G
This book explores human dignity, human rights and social justice based on a Chinese interdisciplinary dialogue and global perspectives. In the Chinese and other global contexts today, social justice has been a significant topic among many disciplines and we believe it is an appropriate topic for philosophers, theologians, legal scholars, and social scientists to sit together, discuss, enrich each other, and then deepen our understanding of the topic. Many of them are concerned with the conjuncture between social justice, human rights, and human dignity. The questions this volume asks are: what's the place of human rights in social justice? How is human dignity important in the discourse on human rights? And, through these inquiries, we ask further: how is possible to achieve humanist justice? This volume presents the significance, challenges, and constraints of human dignity in human rights and social justice and addresses the questions through philosophical, theological, sociological, political, and legal perspectives and these are placed in dialogue between the Chinese and other global settings. We are concerned with the norms regarding human dignity, human rights and social justice while we take seriously into account their practice. This volume consists of two main sections. The first section examines Chinese perspectives on human rights and social justice, in which both from Confucianism and Christianity are considered and the issues such as patriotism, religious freedom, petition, social protest, the rights of marginalized people, and sexual violence are studied. The second section presents the perspectives of Christian public theologians in the global contexts. They examine the influence of Christian thought and practice in the issues of human rights and social justice descriptively and prescriptively and address issues such as religious laws and rights, diaconia, majoritarianism, general equality, social-economic disparities, and climate justice from global perspectives including in the contexts of America, Australia, Israel and Europe. With contributions by experts from mainland China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, USA and Norway, the book provides valuable cross-cultural and interdisciplinary insights and perspectives. As such it will appeal to political and religious leaders and practitioners, particularly those working in socially engaged religious and civil organizations in various geopolitical contexts, including the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
Co-Creation in Theory and Practice
This book explores diverse experiences of Co-creation in neighbourhood settings across the Global North and Global South. Contributors theorise different processes of co-creation for community engagement and assess the effectiveness of these practices in empowering communities. They explore how exclusionary processes affecting the lives of citizens at the margins of urban society can be highlighted, challenged and reversed through community collaboration, arts practice and knowledge exchange.
Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies
Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies is the most complete guide for integrating next generation smart city technologies into the very foundation of urban areas worldwide, showing how to make urban areas more efficient, more sustainable, and safer. Smart cities are complex systems of systems that encompass all aspects of modern urban life. A key component of their success is creating an ecosystem of smart infrastructures that can work together to enable dynamic, real-time interactions between urban subsystems such as transportation, energy, healthcare, housing, food, entertainment, work, social interactions, and governance. Solving Urban Infrastructure Problems Using Smart City Technologies is a complete reference for building a holistic, system-level perspective on smart and sustainable cities, leveraging big data analytics and strategies for planning, zoning, and public policy. It offers in-depth coverage and practical solutions for how smart cities can utilize resident's intellectual and social capital, press environmental sustainability, increase personalization, mobility, and higher quality of life.
Money Code Space
Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic global economy--a world free from hierarchy and control. In their eyes, Bitcoin's underlying architecture, blockchain, hailed the dawn of decentralisation. Money Code Space shatters these emancipatory claims. In their place, Jack Parkin constructs a new framework for revealing the geographies of power that lie behind blockchain networks. Drawing on first-hand experience in cryptocurrency communities and start-up companies from Silicon Valley to London, Parkin untangles the complex web of culture, politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.
Understanding Terrorism and Political Violence
This book provides a multidisciplinary approach to understanding human behavior and uses it to analyze the forces shaping the life cycle of violent political movements. This new edition has been revised and updated, with three new chapters added. The second edition takes us deeper inside human motivations, which cause otherwise rational people to join dissident groups, willing to kill and be killed. In doing so, the book draws upon research on brain science, evolutionary biology, and social psychology to help explain pathological collective behavior. From the motivations of individual participants, the book turns to the evolution of terrorist groups by venturing into theories of organizational development. Together, these theories explain the life cycle - the birth, growth, transformation from an ideological group to a criminal syndicate, and demise - of a dissident organization. These hypotheses are supported with detailed case studies of three disparate terrorist movements: the nationalists of the IRA, the communist Naxalites of India, and the religious fundamentalists of al-Qaeda and ISIS. The book's theory leads to an explanation of the current global trend of rising tribalism and authoritarianism. The author warns that this latest wave of xenophobia and authoritarianism is likely to be exacerbated by climate change and the consequent rise in sea levels, which could displace millions from the areas least able to mitigate the effects of global warming to the countries that can. This book will be essential reading for students of terrorism studies, and of great interest to students of social psychology, political science, and sociology.
Upholding Justice
This book examines the social, psychological, behavioural, and legal perspectives of justice. It discusses contemporary and relevant issues of human rights, civic and legal rights of children; dignity of the third gender in India; food justice in a welfare state; rights of disabled; mental health challenges; and ethics and good governance.
Labour Forces
This volume presents biographies, written by academics and journalists, of the leading figures in the history of the Labour Party since World War II. The biographies assess the personalities and political careers of key figures who reached the senior ranks in Labour politics but never became party leaders. There are studies of: charismatic left-wingers such as Nye Bevan and Tony Benn; pillars of the movement such as Ernie Bevin; senior and highly successful ministers like Denis Healey and Roy Jenkins; leading intellectuals and writers like Anthony Crosland and Michael Foot; and, arguably, the most important woman in Labour history - Barbara Castle. The biographies are set against a background of turbulent Labour history from the landslide victory of 1945 and the years of Labour achievement under Atlee, through the Wilson years - now beginning to enjoy some rehabilitation - via the "unelectability" and near-eclipse of the later 1970s and 1980s, to the triumph of new Labour in 1997. The book focuses on the impact of each individual on Labour's fortunes, their successes and failures, their legacy and place in the history of the Labour movement and of modern Britain.
Land Alienation and Politics of Tribal Exploitation in IndiaSpecial Focus on Tribal Moveme
Introduction.- Paradigm of Tribal Development in Post-Independence Era.- Land and the Tribals of India: Problems and Prospects.- Land Alienation and the Politics of Tribal Exploitation in Odisha.- Narayanpatna Movement in the Koraput District of Odisha.- Role of the State and Different Political Parties Towards Narayanpatna Movement.- Conclusion.
Creative Presence
This book contributes a transnational feminist intersectional analysis of artwork as a powerful force in world politics and argues that contemporary artwork is a site of knowledge production that provides vital insights for scholars of world politics.
Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century
What happened to veterans of the nations involved in the world wars? How did they fare when they returned home and needed benefits? How were they recognized--or not--by their governments and fellow citizens? Where and under what circumstances did they obtain an elevated postwar status?In this sophisticated comparative history of government policies regarding veterans, Martin Crotty, Neil J. Diamant, and Mark Edele examine veterans' struggles for entitlements and benefits in the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Taiwan, the Soviet Union, China, Germany, and Australia after both global conflicts. They illuminate how veterans' success or failure in winning benefits were affected by a range of factors that shaped their ability to exert political influence. Some veterans' groups fought politicians for improvements to their postwar lives; this lobbying, the authors show, could set the foundation for beneficial veteran treatment regimes or weaken the political forces proposing unfavorable policies. The authors highlight cases of veterans who secured (and in some cases failed to secure) benefits and status after wars both won and lost; within both democratic and authoritarian polities; under liberal, conservative, and even Leninist governments; after wars fought by volunteers or conscripts, at home or abroad, and for legitimate or subsequently discredited causes. Veterans who succeeded did so, for the most part, by forcing their agendas through lobbying, protesting, and mobilizing public support. The Politics of Veteran Benefits in the Twentieth Century provides a large-scale map for a research field with a future: comparative veteran studies.
Pranksters vs. Autocrats
The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world. The 2020 Brown Democracy Medal winner, Srdja Popovic, was a leader in the revolution that brought down the Milosevic regime in Serbia and he continues to help protestors around the world learn effective, sometimes humorous, nonviolent tactics. In 2020, he teamed up with Sophia A. McClennen to study the concept of "dilemma actions," which offers a structured, strategic approach to fighting back against authoritarianism, as well as for defending democracy.
A History of America in Ten Strikes
Recommended by The Nation, the New Republic, Current Affairs, Bustle, In These Times An "entertaining, tough-minded, and strenuously argued" (The Nation) account of ten moments when workers fought to change the balance of power in America"A brilliantly recounted American history through the prism of major labor struggles, with critically important lessons for those who seek a better future for working people and the world." -Noam ChomskyPowerful and accessible, A History of America in Ten Strikes challenges all of our contemporary assumptions around labor, unions, and American workers. In this brilliant book, labor historian Erik Loomis recounts ten critical workers' strikes in American labor history that everyone needs to know about (and then provides an annotated list of the 150 most important moments in American labor history in the appendix). From the Lowell Mill Girls strike in the 1830s to Justice for Janitors in 1990, these labor uprisings do not just reflect the times in which they occurred, but speak directly to the present moment.For example, we often think that Lincoln ended slavery by proclaiming the slaves emancipated, but Loomis shows that they freed themselves during the Civil War by simply withdrawing their labor. He shows how the hopes and aspirations of a generation were made into demands at a GM plant in Lordstown in 1972. And he takes us to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in the early nineteenth century where the radical organizers known as the Wobblies made their biggest inroads against the power of bosses. But there were also moments when the movement was crushed by corporations and the government; Loomis helps us understand the present perilous condition of American workers and draws lessons from both the victories and defeats of the past.In crystalline narratives, labor historian Erik Loomis lifts the curtain on workers' struggles, giving us a fresh perspective on American history from the boots up.Strikes include: Lowell Mill Girls Strike (Massachusetts, 1830-40)Slaves on Strike (The Confederacy, 1861-65)The Eight-Hour Day Strikes (Chicago, 1886)The Anthracite Strike (Pennsylvania, 1902)The Bread and Roses Strike (Massachusetts, 1912)The Flint Sit-Down Strike (Michigan, 1937)The Oakland General Strike (California, 1946)Lordstown (Ohio, 1972)Air Traffic Controllers (1981)Justice for Janitors (Los Angeles, 1990)
Etats et Terrorismes en Afrique
Sur une question aussi fortement marqu矇e par des pr矇jug矇s et des a priori que celle du terrorisme, l'auteur parvient ? d矇limiter les donn矇es objectives 矇tay矇es par des exemples pr矇cis, et ? en d矇duire les connaissances n矇cessaires pour une prise de d矇cision plus inform矇e.Extrait de la Pr矇face de Me Adrien Houngb矇dji (ancien Premier Ministre, ancien Pr矇sident de l'Assembl矇e nationale du B矇nin)Ce livre propose une analyse syst矇matique des faiblesses structurelles des ?tats africains dans lesquels sont actifs des groupes terroristes, en miroir avec les strat矇gies de l矇gitimation, adopt矇es par ces derniers. Il est tir矇 de plusieurs ann矇es d'矇tude de la dynamique terroriste, et de pratique de l'aide ? la d矇cision en contexte de risque s矇curitaire li矇 au terrorisme sur le continent africain notamment dans le Sahel et le bassin du Lac Tchad, et en Afrique de l'Est.Un regard crois矇 sur les structuresL'ouvrage est divis矇 en deux parties. Dans la premi癡re partie consacr矇e ? l'analyse structurelle des ?tats d'une part, et des terrorismes d'autre part, il apporte un 矇clairage sur les risques pr矇cis que fait peser l'action terroriste sur la consolidation d'?tats viables et stables sur le continent. La seconde partie s'int矇resse aux options de politiques publiques efficaces de lutte antiterroriste. Cette partie revient notamment sur le r繫le des interventions militaires 矇trang癡res et sur les moyens pratiques par lesquels les arm矇es nationales peuvent s'assurer le soutien des populations locales en zone d'op矇ration. L'auteur pose aussi les bases d'un d矇bat lucide sur la question de la n矇gociation avec les groupes terroristes, en contexte africain. Puisque les terroristes nous 矇coutent, il nous appartient de leur parler Les principales conclusions sont de deux ordres. Sur le plan des structures, l'auteur 矇tablit que dans le contexte africain, les terrorismes sont avant tout un probl癡me de politique int矇rieure qui se nourrit de faiblesses structurelles des ?tats. Il rappelle ? ce titre que les ?tats doivent apporter des corrections n矇cessaires ? leur doctrine de la s矇curit矇, ? leurs sch矇mas d'utilisation de la force publique, et aux m矇canismes de redevabilit矇 des pouvoirs publics, entre autres. Sur le plan des politiques de lutte antiterroriste, l'auteur rel癡ve que l'environnement d'action des terrorismes - la clandestinit矇 - les place de fait dans une situation constante d'矇coute, o羅 ils doivent apprendre des politiques publiques d矇ploy矇es contre eux, et s'ajuster en cons矇quence. Ceci offre donc pour les ?tats, une fen礙tre de manoeuvre inesp矇r矇e qui pourrait se r矇sumer en ces termes: puisque les terroristes nos 矇coutent d矇j?, alors il nous appartient de leur parler , traduisant la n矇cessit矇 de cr矇er des politiques de lutte antiterroristes, non pas en r矇action aux actions terroristes, mais en pr矇vision du comportement que l'on veut instiguer chez ces acteurs.A propos de Claude BiaoClaude Biao est consultant, sp矇cialiste des conflits et du terrorisme en Afrique. Depuis 2016, il est analyste politique principal et cofondateur du cabinet d'矇tudes-conseil Stake experts, sp矇cialis矇 dans l'analyse et la veille s矇curitaire, et l'aide ? la d矇cision en contextes s矇curitaires volatiles sur le continent. Il a dirig矇 la premi癡re 矇dition bilingue (Fran癟ais, Anglais) de l'ATLAS G矇opolitique Africain 2020, paru en Avril.
Science and Constitution
Science is prior to technology. It is our inalienable human rights to share and receive searched out Pure Sciences Unmixed With Man-Made Technologies such as equal and opposite Apriori Framework of this Manifested Nature, Sirius Binary System, Mercurial System, Uranian System, Natural Magnetism, Barrier between Equal and Opposite Natural Mechanism [Solar System], Right Direction of Performing Prayer [Qibla], Appointed Day of Performing Hajj, and Appointed Day of Observing Idd.
Post-War Homelessness Policy in the UK
This book discusses homelessness policy in the UK from 1945 to 2019. It identifies five key factors that have driven policy: the favoured explanations for homelessness, distinctions between different groups of homeless people, demand for social rented housing, geographical differences and the forms of prevention preferred by policy makers. The account analyses how these factors have influenced key pieces of legislation such as the 1948 National Assistance Act, the 1977 Housing (Homeless Persons) Act and the 2002 Homelessness Act. It also identifies the key issues that policy has sought to address at different times, including children being taken into care because of their parents' homelessness, rough sleeping, the use of bed and breakfast hotels as temporary accommodation, social exclusion and welfare reform. In addition to published sources and archival material, the book draws on the experiences of two former Ministers and other key figures in the developmentof homelessness policy.
Eurovision and Australia
This book investigates Australia's relationship with the Eurovision Song Contest over time and place, from its first screening on SBS in 1983 to Australia's inaugural national selection in 2019. Beginning with an overview of Australia's Eurovision history, the contributions explore the contest's role in Australian political participation and international relations; its significance for Australia's diverse communities, including migrants and the LGBTQIA+ community; racialised and gendered representations of Australianness; changing ideas of liveness in watching the event; and a reflection on teaching Australia's first undergraduate course dedicated to the Eurovision Song Contest. The collection brings together a group of scholar-fans from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives -- including history, politics, cultural studies, performance studies, and musicology -- to explore Australia's transition from observer to participant in the first thirty-six years of its love affair with the Eurovision Song Contest.
The Far-Right in Contemporary Australia
This book is the first to elaborate on radical and extreme right movements in contemporary Australia. It brings together leading scholars to present cutting edge research on various facets and manifestations of Australia's diverse far-right, which has gained unprecedented public presence and visibility since the mid-2010s. The thematic breadth of the chapters in this volume reflects the complexity of the far-right in Australia, ranging from the attitudes of far-right populist party voters and the role of far-right groups in anti-mosque protests, to online messaging and rhetoric of radical and extreme right-wing movements. The contributions are theoretically grounded and come from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, sociology, politics, and urban studies, exploring issue of far-right activism on the micro and macro level, with both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Citizenship and Social Policy
This book highlights the parallel transformations of the concepts of citizenship and the welfare state, and their dependence on the dominant political ideology, from the post-war period to the present. Kourachanis presents the welfare state as an integral part of the capitalist state and consequently, suggests that any structural changes to the capitalist state will have major impacts on the texture and content of the restructuring of the welfare state. The research compares different formulations of citizenship and the welfare state, reflecting on social citizenship and the post-war (or Keynesian) welfare state, as well as welfare provision under neoliberalism. The research will be vital reading for academics, researchers and students of social and public policy, political and humanitarian studies, as well as policy makers and members of labour unions and activists.
China’s Emergency Management
In this timely book about the current state of research and practice of emergency management in China, the authors take as their basic premises that we now live in a risk society and that our collective ability to deal with disasters and their aftermath is more important than ever. Set within a multi-disciplinary framework that places risk, disaster and crisis, the three phases of emergency management, on an analytical continuum, and drawing on empirical data obtained through surveys, observations, and interviews, the study not only provides a thorough overview of recent progress in our theoretical understanding of the subject but also offers insights on how scientifically informed policies can improve the way emergency management is done in China.
Innovation with Spatial Impact: Sustainable Development of the Brazilian Cerrado
This book is unique and original, constituting a pioneering study in the use of spatial economics and related analytical approaches to Brazil's Cerrado agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains. This methodology is appropriate because Cerrado agriculture has been developed from scratch in a vast, previously barren area (204.7 million ha.) in which a spatial transformation has taken place. Until 40 years ago, this region, with its huge expanse of tropical savanna was believed to be unsuited to agriculture. Now, however, it has been transformed into an immense breadbasket, contributing to the mitigation of global food shortages. It also has contributed to the inland development of Brazil, promoting urbanization with a higher living standard and modern production techniques. This book identifies critical factors that enabled the transformation of the Cerrado. To understand the process of agricultural development and the formation of agro-industrial value chains, spatial economics and related approaches are essential because the process involves spatial interactions such as transportation, supply chains, knowledge spillovers, environmental constraints, migration, and urbanization. The book demonstrates that the initial development of Cerrado agriculture was a genuine spatial transformation with contributions from pioneering producers, agribusinesses, and central and local governments, as well as through international cooperation. It also discusses agriculture and agro-industrial value chains focusing on inclusive and sustainable development, a major concern of the international community particularly in terms of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Conservation, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice in India
This book highlights the environmental challenges that India faces due largely to high population and limited natural resources, making larger implications about environmental issues in developing countries and the role of the judiciary system when tackling these problems.
Latino Politics in America
Latino Politics in America discusses what it means to be a Latino American culturally and politically. It provides an in-depth examination of the individual communities that comprise the Latino culture, and how those bonds affect political development and decisions.
The Arctic Council
This pivot introduces the Arctic Council and its role as a platform for dealing with local, national, regional and global challenges of relevance to the "new" Arctic. Against the backdrop of climate change and increasing commercial activity, it considers what a future Arctic should look like, from ideas of total protection to expansive oil and gas extraction. It examines the Arctic's position on the political agenda, from Norway's High North hype to a more peripheral place in the foreign policy of the US and explores the Council's role as an important international forum for dialogue and cooperation on Arctic challenges and opportunities, and a significant arena for developing knowledge and learning about a changing region.
The Case against the Jones Act
How has an archaic, burdensome law been able to persist for a century?Passed in 1920, the Jones Act restricts the waterborne transport of cargo within the United States to vessels that are U.S.-flagged, U.S.-crewed, U.S.-owned, and U.S.-built. Meant to bolster the U.S. maritime sector, this protectionist law has instead contributed to its decline. As a result, today's U.S. oceangoing domestic fleet numbers fewer than 100 ships. Beyond leaving a shrunken and uncompetitive maritime sector in its wake, the law has also inflicted considerable damage on the broader U.S. public that range from higher transportation costs to increased pollution.The chapters in The Case against the Jones Act delve into some of the act's founding myths and the false narrative its supporters have helped to perpetuate. The book evaluates the law's costs, assesses its impact on businesses, consumers, and the environment, and offers alternatives for a way forward. The Jones Act's failures reveal that the status quo is untenable. Contributors to this volume hope that the evidence presented will spark discussion about the Jones Act and lay the groundwork for the repeal or significant reform of this outdated law.
The 9/11 Commission Report
This report is the office publication produced by the The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission), an independent, bipartisan commission created by congressional legislation and the signature of President George W. Bush in late 2002. The 9-11 Commission was chartered to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. The Commission was also mandated to provide recommendations designed to guard against future attacks.
Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains
Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains examines the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility on improving labor standards in global supply chains.Sarosh Kuruvilla charts the development and effectiveness of corporate codes of conduct to ameliorate "sweatshop" conditions in global supply chains. This form of private voluntary regulation, spearheaded by Nike and Reebok, became necessary given the inability of third world countries to enforce their own laws and the absence of a global regulatory system for labor standards. Although private regulation programs have been adopted by other companies in many different industries, we know relatively little regarding the effectiveness of these programs because companies don't disclose information about their efforts and outcomes in regulating labor conditions in their supply chains.Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains presents data from companies, multi-stakeholder institutions, and auditing firms in a comprehensive, investigative dive into the world of private voluntary regulation of labor conditions. The picture he paints is wholistic and raw, but it considers several ways in which this private voluntary system can be improved to improve the lives of workers in global supply chains.
Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains
Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains examines the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility on improving labor standards in global supply chains.Sarosh Kuruvilla charts the development and effectiveness of corporate codes of conduct to ameliorate "sweatshop" conditions in global supply chains. This form of private voluntary regulation, spearheaded by Nike and Reebok, became necessary given the inability of third world countries to enforce their own laws and the absence of a global regulatory system for labor standards. Although private regulation programs have been adopted by other companies in many different industries, we know relatively little regarding the effectiveness of these programs because companies don't disclose information about their efforts and outcomes in regulating labor conditions in their supply chains.Private Regulation of Labor Standards in Global Supply Chains presents data from companies, multi-stakeholder institutions, and auditing firms in a comprehensive, investigative dive into the world of private voluntary regulation of labor conditions. The picture he paints is wholistic and raw, but it considers several ways in which this private voluntary system can be improved to improve the lives of workers in global supply chains.
Chile and the United States 1880-1962
The key to the future of the United States relations with its sister republics in South and Central America may well be found in this exhaustive study of Chile-United States relationships. The South American nation's relatively small population belies the powerful influence it wields in all American Hemisphere councils.For more than a century a small and tightly-knit group of upper and middle social sectors, representing a fairly broad cross-section of functional interest groups, has controlled the country's destiny. From 1880 to 1933 the course they followed led to many abrasive diplomatic incidents with the great "Colossus of the North." By no means can the blame for these clashes be placed exclusively on Chile's doorstep. Yet, while the diplomatic tangle has been largely unraveled since 1933, the intervening years have served only to expose a far more serious and sensitive source of trouble between the two nations: the wide gulf that separates the governed and the governing in Chile.The two problems, as Professor Pike points out, are inextricably interwoven. It has been a case of a participating, privileged minority served by a nonparticipating, nonprivileged majority. But the difference today is that the formerly docile masses are growing restless.The United States has contributed significantly, even if indirectly to Chile's present social unrest. The material aspects of the American "way of life" expounded and exemplified by United States tourists, missionaries, businessmen, and movies have fired the Chilean people with a desire to attain them. The semi-feudal political, social, and economic order created by the Chilean ruling class perches atop a powder keg, the detonation of which could well pave the way for a dictatorship of the proletariat.The stake of the United States in this gathering crisis is clear. President Kennedy's establishment of the Alliance for Progress in 1961 indicates that the United States has at last officially recognized the gravity of the internal social problem, not only in Chile but throughout the Southern Americas. The program is premised on the belief that Latin-American governments can be pressured into internal reforms by making future aid and loans dependent upon their adoption, and that, form the opposite end of the social spectrum, so to speak, the nonprivileged, nonparticipating majorities cancan be trained to assume their new and rightful place in a democratic society on an intelligent and peaceful basis.The author abundantly documents the reasons underlying the basic Chilean distrust of the United States. Yet at the same time he points to the outmoded opinions of modern United States attitudes and policies stubbornly held by the people of Chile on every level. The righting of this distorted United States image is part of the task of the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, and for this reason among others, the importance of their assignments is impossible to overestimate. The final decision, of course, will be Chile's. Professor Pike's presentation will enable readers to form a balanced opinion of the proper course to pursue.
Political Malpractice in America
America is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War; survival of the republic is at real risk. Americans are losing confidence in the future and have almost no trust in our federal government. Our federal government has failed to respond effectively to the Covid-19 pandemic to arrest transmission and restart the economy. At the same time, we are seeing historic, widespread protests against systemic racism in America, which in itself is a manifestation of increasing inequality, as well as deep cultural bias. Our political leaders have failed us for the last forty years. Randall L. Hull proposes that startling thesis in this economic and political commentary that examines how we've arrived at this crisis and what we can do to reverse the political and cultural warfare that pervades our republic. He answers questions such as: - What steps can we take to reduce divisiveness in America?- How can we restore shared prosperity to the majority of Americans and rebuild our middle class?- How can we get politicians to work on a bipartisan basis again? Hull offers starting points to pursue a model of "balanced capitalism" based on large private-public partnerships to rebuild American infrastructure and new green energy capacity; such investments will both reduce disparities of wealth and begin to reverse damage from climate change. He also proposes ways to safeguard our elections and live up to the ideals of our founding fathers, the most important initiative of all. Find out how to keep working to "form a more perfect union" and fight political hypocrisy with the insights and ideas in Political Malpractice in America.
Politics and Policy in China's Social Assistance Reform
Every day in the People's Republic of China 70 million people receive help from the state through the minimum livelihood guarantee (dibao). What began as a reform in the city of Shanghai in the early 1990s is now a key component in the measures used by the Communist Party of China to maintain social stability and legitimacy. While scholars regularly discuss how effective dibao has been in alleviating poverty very little addresses what influenced its development. This book argues that in order to understand dibao we need to look at how the programme emerged and how it has developed in the years since. Drawing on newspaper articles, government reports and interviews with key officials and researchers, the book also addresses debate on the policy process in China as a whole.
Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism
Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice.In the context of urban sustainable development, the "details" of sustainability's current expressions perpetuate environmental injustice, untenable growth, and the destruction of functioning ecosystems. In response to this state of affairs, Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism aims to prompt new debates about the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice. Contributors explore policy, practice, and experience from cities around the world, including Calgary, Christchurch, Dortmund, Vancouver, and others. Written by scholars who live in these cities, chapters offer empirically rich descriptions for opening up new lines of thinking, theorizing, and debate about the sustainable city and its actual material expressions in place. By examining the sustainable city through various analytical framings, contributors urge readers to move from viewing the sustainable city as something everyone can agree on, to a highly politicized and contested process. Additional resources are provided for readers who may wish to extend their own research into a city or theme.SUNY Press has collaborated with Knowledge Unlatched to unlock KU Select titles. The Knowledge Unlatched titles have been made open access through libraries coming together to crowd fund the publication cost. Each monograph has been released as open access making the eBook freely available to readers worldwide. Discover more about the Knowledge Unlatched program here: https: //knowledgeunlatched.org/.
Breaking Boundaries
Analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making.Breaking Boundaries analyzes efforts made by communities and policy makers around the world to push beyond conventional approaches to environmental decision making to enhance public acceptance, sustainability, and the impact of those decisions in local contexts. The current political climate has generated uncertainty among citizens, industry interests, scientists, and other stakeholders, but by applying concepts from various perspectives of environmental communication and deliberative democracy, this book offers a series of lessons learned for both public officials and concerned citizens. The contributors offer a broader understanding of how individuals and groups can get involved effectively in environmental decisions through traditional formats as well as alternative approaches ranging from leadership capacity building to social media activity to civic technology.
101 Chambers
Although legislative studies is thriving, it suffers from one glaring weakness: a lack of truly comparative, cross-institutional research. Instead, research focuses overwhelmingly on the U.S. Congress. This unfortunate fixation limits the way scholars approach the testing of many compelling theories of legislative organization and behavior, and it ignores the invaluable research possibilities that comparison with the 99 American state legislative chambers offers. State legislatures are easily compared to Congress: They arise out of the same political culture and history. Their members represent the same parties and face the same voters in the same elections using the same rules. And the functions and roles are the same, with each fully capable of initiating, debating, and passing legislation. None of the methodological problems found when comparing presidential system legislatures with parliamentary system legislatures arise when comparing Congress and the state legislatures. However, while there are great similarities, there are also important differences that provide scholars leverage for rigorously testing theories. The book compares and contrasts Congress and the state legislatures on histories, fundamental structures, institutional and organizational characteristics, and members. By highlighting the vast array of organizational schemes and behavioral patterns evidenced in state legislatures, the authors demonstrate that the potential for the study of American legislatures, as opposed to the separate efforts of Congressional and state legislative scholars, is too great to leave unexplored.
Labor Under Fire
From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions of Americans, including social security, unemployment insurance, the minimum wage, and universal health care. With a membership of more than 13 million, it was also able to launch the largest labor march in American history -- 1981's Solidarity Day -- and to play an important role in politics.In a history that spans from 1979 to the present, Timothy J. Minchin tells a sweeping, national story of how the AFL-CIO sustained itself and remained a significant voice in spite of its powerful enemies and internal constraints. Full of details, characters, and never-before-told stories drawn from unexamined, restricted, and untapped archives, as well as interviews with crucial figures involved with the organization, this book tells the definitive history of the modern AFL-CIO.
Alternatives to Multilateralism
Analysis and case studies of emerging forms of private, public, and hybrid social and environmental governance.The effects of globalization on governance are complex and uncertain. As markets integrate, governments have become increasingly hesitant to enforce regulations inside their own jurisdictions. At the same time, multilateralism has proven unsuccessful in coordinating states' responses to global challenges. In this book, Lena Partzsch describes alternatives to multilateralism, offering analyses and case studies of emerging--alternative--forms of private, public, and hybrid social and environmental regulation. In doing so, she offers a unique overview of cutting-edge approaches to global governance.After laying the theoretical and empirical foundation of her argument, Partzsch presents three case studies from the countries most affected by these new forms of governance. Drawing on primary documents, interviews, and participatory observations, she analyzes cotton supply chains and voluntary (private) cotton certification in Ethiopia; public supply-chain regulation of "conflict resources" from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and hybrid governance of palm oil production in Indonesia. Partzsch finds that the new entanglement of public and private regulation fails to address social and environmental considerations in mainstream markets; argues that only in exceptional cases do alternative forms of regulation overcome the power asymmetries between actors in the consuming countries of the Global North and those in the producing countries of the Global South; and concludes that, while the paradigm of free trade fades, we must continue to develop viable alternatives in order to pursue collective norms of environmental sustainability and social justice.
Can Their Free Speech Violate Your Human Rights? The Case for Criminalizing Holocaust Denial in Brazil
Dr. Milena Gordon Baker analyzes Holocaust denial in Brazil from the perspective posed by intolerance and hate speech, specifically in the context of penal law. Using these concepts and contexts, she investigates which legal approach should be used to confront Holocaust denial and appropriately respond to the core issues raised. Leveraging the perspective of international penal law supported by local legislation, she asks whether Holocaust denial should be criminalized in Brazil, making existing constitutional guarantees effective in order to repudiate racism and actively combat hate speech."The publication of Milena Gordon Baker's thesis could hardly have come at a better time. By coincidence, at the precise moment when I was reviewing her text, the construction of the Holocaust Monument in the city of Rio de Janeiro had just started. Like other cities in Brazil that boast major Holocaust memorials and museums, my city too is finally fulfilling its promise to raise a worthy monument to the victims. Steps to preserve and pay tribute to the memory of the victims of the unspeakable genocide go hand in hand in many countries--as Dr. Baker demonstrates--with making it a crime to deny the Holocaust. The book you are about to read provides important food for thought on this subject..." --Ellen Gracie Northfleet, Former Brazilian Supreme Court Justice
Migraci籀n y Desarrollo Econ籀mico
Durante 40 a簽os la migraci籀n internacional y el desarrollo econ籀mico adquieren importancia creciente en M矇xico ante los problemas de la deuda externa en 1982, el cambio del modelo econ籀mico sustitutivo de importaciones con alto crecimiento econ籀mico en los a簽os sesenta del siglo anterior por el modelo neoliberal de privatizaciones masivas, apertura y desregulaci籀n acelerada de la econom穩a nacional provocado por la crisis del endeudamiento externo ese a簽o que genera la desaparici籀n de las pol穩ticas p繳blicas de desarrollo econ籀mico regional y sectorial, el abandono del mercado interno y la generaci籀n de empleo, que producen un bajo crecimiento econ籀mico y la migraci籀n creciente a los Estados Unidos por m獺s de seis lustros de 780 mil a 12 millones de migrantes. Este proceso, resultado de una larga migraci籀n internacional entre ambos pa穩ses con m獺s de 100 a簽os de historia genera una creciente interdependencia econ籀mica por la participaci籀n de los migrantes mexicanos en mercados laborales espec穩ficos como la agricultura, la construcci籀n, la hosteler穩a, alimentos y servicios no calificados, con un aporte importante a la econom穩a de ese pa穩s en t矇rminos de mano de obra, impuestos y apoyo al sistema de pensiones. M矇xico se ha visto beneficiado con la reducci籀n de las tensiones en el raqu穩tico mercado laboral y un flujo creciente de remesas que ha beneficiado a m獺s de 1.6 millones de familias y ha sido un apoyo fundamental en las finanzas p繳blicas nacionales y el desarrollo regional en las zonas de mayor intensidad migratoria internacional.Tres temas centrales articulan la estructura de este libro, la participaci籀n creciente de las mujeres en la migraci籀n a Estados Unidos, la migraci籀n de retorno a M矇xico, incluida la posibilidad del retorno de migrantes calificados y la recurrencia de las crisis econ籀micas y la urgencia de aplicar un nuevo tipo de pol穩ticas p繳blicas de desarrollo econ籀mico y migraci籀n con enfoque de derechos que incluya de manera especial los problemas, las demandas y propuestas de las organizaciones migrantes mexicanas en Estados Unidos y sus comunidades en M矇xico.
Einsatz in BolivienAls Seniorexpertin unterwegs
Mehr Gerechtigkeit und Teilhabe der indigenen Bev繹lkerung Boliviens an der Entwicklung des Landes: F羹r diese Ziele tritt die Organisation K'anchay ein. In den Tiefen der Cordillera Central bekommen Kinder und Jugendliche eine integrierte Ausbildung ohne Hunger und ohne Diskriminierung. Sie werden dar羹ber hinaus in nachhaltiger Landwirtschaft ausgebildet. Die Autorin darf als Seniorexpertin Fortbildungen f羹r junge Erwachsene in vier Internaten der NGO durchf羹hren. Dabei macht sie ihre eigenen Erfahrungen mit diesem Land der klimatischen und landschaftlichen Extreme sowie der touristischen Highlights. Manchmal ist sie frustriert und mutlos. Aber am Ende siegt die Freude, Kinder und Jugendliche bei der Erreichung ihrer Ziele von Selbstbestimmung und Teilhabe unterst羹tzt und dabei das Land noch besser kennengelernt zu haben.
Unrestricted Warfare
2020 Hardcover Facsimile of the 1999 Edition. Unrestricted Warfare is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army. Its primary concern is how a nation such as the People's Republic of China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of strategies. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means. Such means include using International Law (see Lawfare) and a variety of economic means to place one's opponent in a weakened position and circumvent the need for direct military action.Of the various strategies discussed perhaps the most relevant is that of attacking networks. Networks are increasingly important in not only data exchange but also transportation, financial institutions, and communication. Attacks that disable networks can easily hamstring large areas of life that are dependent on them for coordination. One example of network warfare would be shutting down a network that supplies power. If there is a significant failure in the power grid caused by the attack, massive power outages could result, crippling industry, defense, medicine, and all other areas of life.The English translation of the book was made available by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in 1999. Errors in translations are the sole responsibility of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service and not of Albatross Publishing.
T穩o Bernie
"This book is a true behind the scenes look at the historic Bernie 2020 Latino outreach operation and Chuck's unique story of redemption through his personal journey to Bernie." -Jeff Weaver, Bernie 2020 Senior Advisor
Donald Trump and the White Americans
Donald Trump, the disgraced, former President of the United States of America, is the epitome of "The White Man's," white privilege and power in America. He is a throwback to every "White Man" who terrorized, demoralized, massacred, enslaved, raped, abused, and destroyed every African, Native American and African American in Africa and America. The only terrorists in America have been white Americans. The white collective has terrorized, mutilated, massacred, burnt, lynched, burnt the properties, stolen land, burnt towns, raped and murdered communities of African Americans, and Native Americans, Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans. There will always be racism in the United States of America, as long as the only history taught in middle and high schools across the country is white history. white children are taught that only they matter, that only they are heroes, that no one else does or has done anything in America that matters, except for white Americans. Donald Trump and the rest of his white supremacist administration, his base, and voters, are the very people, the same people who raped our African and African American women and girls, took our babies from us on the slave ship, bashed their heads against the wooden planks and cast their bodies into the ocean, snatched babies, toddlers and children from their mothers and sold them to pedophiles and houses of prostitution. Donald Trump and these same white people put us in cages with no food, no water, no soap, no nothing and then sold us into a lifetime of slavery. These ignorant white people actually believe that Donald Trump cares about them and will make America white for "The White Man" again and as the President of the White People of the United States of America, if he is elected again, he damn well will do all that for "The White Man" and much, much, more.
Rescuing Retirement
Everyone deserves to be able to retire with dignity, but this core feature of the social contract is in jeopardy. Companies have swerved away from pensions, and most of the workforce has woefully inadequate retirement savings. If we don't act to fix this broken system, rates of impoverishment for senior citizens threaten to skyrocket, and tens of millions of Americans reaching retirement age in the coming decades will be forced to delay retirement and will experience a dramatic drop in their standard of living. In Rescuing Retirement, Teresa Ghilarducci and Tony James offer a comprehensive yet simple plan to help workers save for retirement, increase retirement savings by earning higher returns, and guarantee lifelong income for everyone. Built on people's own money in individual Guaranteed Retirement Accounts, the plan requires no new taxes, no more bureaucracy, and no increase in the deficit. Speaking to Americans' growing anxiety about their ability to retire, Rescuing Retirement provides answers to anyone wanting to understand the growing movement to protect a period of life once considered a deserved time of rest and creativity and offers a practical guide to the future of secure retirement.
Political Malpractice in America
America is more divided now than at any time since the Civil War; survival of the republic is at real risk. Americans are losing confidence in the future and have almost no trust in our federal government. Our federal government has failed to respond effectively to the Covid-19 pandemic to arrest transmission and restart the economy. At the same time, we are seeing historic, widespread protests against systemic racism in America, which in itself is a manifestation of increasing inequality, as well as deep cultural bias. Our political leaders have failed us for the last forty years. Randall L. Hull proposes that startling thesis in this economic and political commentary that examines how we've arrived at this crisis and what we can do to reverse the political and cultural warfare that pervades our republic. He answers questions such as: - What steps can we take to reduce divisiveness in America?- How can we restore shared prosperity to the majority of Americans and rebuild our middle class?- How can we get politicians to work on a bipartisan basis again? Hull offers starting points to pursue a model of "balanced capitalism" based on large private-public partnerships to rebuild American infrastructure and new green energy capacity; such investments will both reduce disparities of wealth and begin to reverse damage from climate change. He also proposes ways to safeguard our elections and live up to the ideals of our founding fathers, the most important initiative of all. Find out how to keep working to "form a more perfect union" and fight political hypocrisy with the insights and ideas in Political Malpractice in America.
Culture and Values at the Heart of Policy Making
Why do so many government policies fail to achieve their objectives? Why are our political leaders not held to account for policy failures? Drawing on his years of experience as a senior government policy maker, as well as on global research, Stephen Muers uses examples ranging from the collapse of the Soviet Union to Cold War Germany, the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum to expose the crucial impact culture and values have on policy success and political accountability. This illuminating study sets out why policy makers need to take culture seriously, how culture and values shape the political system and presents essential, practical recommendations for what governments should do differently.
PELLETB Test Prep California
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Overexploited
Overexploited: An Editorial on the Overexploitation of the American CitizenBy: Joe Smith Overexploited: An Editorial on the Overexploitation of the American Citizen, by Joe Smith, is an editorial observation of how the common United States citizen has been exploited to the benefit of elite classes over our history and in our present day. The book shows how, in today's society, a new series of exploitative practices have put the American person in a situation where life is a struggle. The American Dream is becoming more and more unattainable to working class citizens, and the American promise of a better life through hard, honorable work isn't promised anymore. The author uses past and present examples to show how the economic system is set-up to benefit powerful elites. The only cure for this overexploitation is a collaborative effort to change the system in such a way that a more balanced format is practiced. This book explains that not only can this be done, it has to be done. About the AuthorJoe Smith is a retired teacher living in Wisconsin. He volunteers much of his time helping young people.
Long Shot
As a member of the 1992 world-champion Chicago Bulls, a dashiki-clad Hodges delivered a handwritten letter to President George H. W. Bush demanding that he do more to address racism and economic inequality. Hodges was also a vocal union activist, initiated a boycott against Nike, and spoke out forcefully against police brutality in the wake of the Rodney King beating. But his outspokenness cost him dearly. In the prime of his career, after ten NBA seasons, Hodges was blackballed from the NBA for using his platform as a professional athlete to stand up for justice. In this powerful, passionate, and captivating memoir, Hodges shares the stories--including encounters with Nelson Mandela, Coretta Scott King, Jim Brown, R. Kelly, Michael Jordan, and others--from his lifelong fight for equality for African Americans.
