https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9281 Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:59:47 GMT 2026-06-22T23:59:47Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9385 Reconceptualizing human rights attitudes: understanding outcomes and determinants Shekka, K. Russell; Pederson, JoEllen Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9385 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9352 Precarity of Place: a complement to the growing precariat literature Banki, Susan The growing precarity literature offers some valuable ways of thinking about both the roots of and responses to precarity, whether defined existentially (as per Butler), economically (Standing) or intersubjectively (Neilson and Rossiter). Yet the term precarity, in its eagerness to encompass all those who experience it, fails to properly capture the challenges of one of its subset populations: that of noncitizens. Rather than discard the term altogether, this paper incorporates elements from the precariat literature and offers a counter (sub)concept: ‘precarity of place.’ The paper briefly reviews the precarity literature, then argues for the importance of a separate term for precarity of place, and then notes how the concepts are well aligned. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research, both theoretical and empirical. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9352 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9348 The First Shots: Zapatismo and Gender Justice. Kalinic, Ariana This paper is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico from 2005-2007 and explores the experiences of Zapatista women during the period of autonomy. Despite the early attention paid by the Zapatista movement to gender inequality, a gap remains between discourse and lived experiences. I have identified women’s participation within this gap as a process I am calling gendered autonomy, a sociological concept through which we can understand women’s work in autonomy building. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9348 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9351 New Strategies to Counter Florida’s War on Democracy: Voter Disenfranchisement, Human Rights, and the ACLU Friesen, Bruce K.; Ebenstein, Julie In 2004 the ACLU formed the Human Rights Program, dedicated to holding the U.S. government accountable to universal human rights principles in addition to rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. This paper explores the ACLU’s human rights initiative regarding felon voter disfranchisement in Florida. After providing background on the issue, we analyze strategies to protect the right to vote within the human rights framework; the most recent of which is the ACLU of Florida’s submission to the UN’s Human Rights Committee. The HRC’s response to that submission is considered in light of ongoing efforts to protect the right to vote. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9351 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9350 Economic and social rights of women in India: a critique Guylani, Manjinder In Indian Jurisprudence both Distributive and Corrective Justice Models are incorporated. The constitution of India in its Preamble itself, indicates the Justice for all, in all walks of life; whether social, political or economic. Further, the Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles ensure that the distribution of materials is equal and judicious. Similarly, in order to eliminate the effects of exploitation of certain classes in the past, several principles in Art 15,16,17,18 have also been incorporated in Indian constitution. As a result of these provisions many classes have been advantaged and the Corrective Justice model has done great job for these classes. But certain classes especially women could not get the benefit of this model in its true sense. We hear hundreds of schemes and legislations in pursuance of women empowerment. But as per Data of NCRB so many Rape cases, Dowry deaths, incidents of Domestic violence have been committed in past years. Inequality for women remains a major barrier to human development throughout Asia, the 2010 Report shows.2 So the paper is divided into four parts. First part examines the effect of constitutional scheme and policies in pursuance of Corrective Justice Model in context of women. In the second part of the paper, the deficiencies of this model are tried to be explored. In Third part of the paper the improvements in recent years is analysed. The last part of the paper talks about the way ahead or the suggestions for improvements are made with a discussion at the end Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9350 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9349 Power and justice in the democratic republic of Congo Birindwa, Kinley Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9349 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9347 The global diffusion of inequality since 1970 Babones, Salvatore Since 1970 income inequality has been stable or rising in almost every country in the world. It has not, however, risen at the same time or at the same rate throughout the world. This suggests the globalization, skills premium, and technological change explanations that prevail in the economics literature are likely incorrect, since all of these processes should in principle have relatively uniform global impacts. Instead, the timing and geo-cultural patterns of rising inequality bear the hallmarks of a diffusion model. Inequality has not arisen simultaneously around the world; it has "spread" from country to country in recognizable and sensible patterns. The diffusion model offers a simple, intuitively-appealing alternative to extraordinarily complex regression models of rising inequality. Diffusion can occur either through emulation (a macrophenomenological mechanism) or through coercion (a macrorealist mechanism). These two mechanisms are not mutually exclusive. Either or both can be used by national elites to effect major changes of policy regime. Diffusion by emulation and diffusion by coercion are two macro-level mechanisms that can be used as a template for understanding the implementation of inequality-increasing social and economic policies in diverse countries around the world. They can be differentiated through examination of the micro-level mechanisms through which diffusion occurred in specific historical cases. This injection of agency into the inequality debates requires extensive microlevel work on individual countries, but the clear existence of macro-level trends suggests that this micro-level work should be done within the context of some form of macro-level diffusion model. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/2123/9347 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z