Interdisciplinarity and Punishment in the Academy: Reflecting upon Researching and Teaching Human Rights in University Settings

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Evans
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
University Settings

Abstract This article reflects upon the experience of researching and teaching human rights, and related areas, in a number of university settings. It is argued, on the one hand, that interdisciplinarity is necessary, present and considered valuable in academic human rights scholarship. On the other hand, the article argues that disciplinary power is exercised in the academy with the effect of limiting the degree to which interdisciplinary research and teaching can take place in practice. As a consequence, interdisciplinary academics (and students) are punished. Both intellectual horizons and material opportunities are potentially constricted. Reflecting upon this potential, the article considers whether it is practically possible to reduce or avoid the disciplining and punishment of this kind of teaching and research in universities and concludes by making the case for a postdisciplinary reimagining of human rights in the academy.

scholarly journals Dilemmas about the scope of the Act on Prevention of Domestic Violence from a human rights perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (4/2019) ◽  
pp. 193-206
Author(s):  
Darko Simović
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Effective Prevention ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The One

The adoption of the Act on Prevention of Domestic Violence was driven by the creation of a more effective legal framework for the protection of victims of domestic violence, and, therefore, also by the alignment of the legal system of the Republic of Serbia with international obligations. The main novelties include multi-sectoral cooperation and primarily preventive nature of the law. However, from its very adoption, it has been pointed to its noticeably repressive character, as well as to provisions with potentially harmful impacts. Hence, this paper represents a contribution to the discussion on the importance and scope of the solutions provided for in the Act on Prevention of Domestic Violence. On the one hand, it points to major novelties intended to contribute to a more effective prevention of domestic violence. On the other hand, it questions the constitutionality and appropriateness of some of the legal solutions, arguing that, in particular respects, the lawmaker had to use a wiser and more subtle approach to conceptualising the provisions of this law.

Aesthetic values as an object of research: from an Aesthetic to Cultural studies’ generalization

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-41
Author(s):  
Lydia Lyashenko
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The One ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The purpose of the article is to prove the expediency and scientific, methodological, conceptual, and categorical potential of Cultural studies as a science that may offer an updated perspective for the study of the problem of aesthetic values. Methodology. Methods of scientific analysis, comparison, and generalization during the elaboration of the source base and the method of systematization are used to determine the traditional and innovative directions of research of the problem of aesthetic values. Scientific novelty. The article considers the interdisciplinary and generalizing potential of Cultural studies on the example of the problem of study aesthetic values. The existing tendency to move the analysis of problems of humanities from separate sciences to the plane of interdisciplinary is emphasized. It was accented on the novelty and relevance of such interdisciplinary research within Cultural studies. Conclusions. The approach of Cultural studies offers an increase in the scale of generalization from aesthetic to actually global, which combines the experience of studying scientific problems in the traditional and extended areas. Given the fact that on the one hand, all material and spiritual values which surround man were born from culture, because culture is the cumulative result of productive human activity, and, on the other hand, culture absorbs them, being phenomenon generalized, interdisciplinary approach of Cultural studies is able to suggest an updated perspective on this problem on the border of traditional and non-traditional sciences and through the improvement of its conceptual and categorical apparatus to offer new ways to study.

Droits de l’homme, droits de Dieu : Une inévitable tension ?

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Religious Obligation ◽  
Will Of God

The conflicts between rights of God and human rights are on the rise. On the one hand, there are some rights that are qualified as human rights in the most important international conventions and in many national constitutions. As such, they are to be respected always and everywhere. On the other hand, there are rights that are directly or indirectly attributed to the will of God. Their respect is regarded as a religious obligation to be upheld even when it implies the violation of human rights. These are the terms of the conflict and the fact that they sink their roots in non-negotiable beliefs – rights related to the very nature of man vs. rights dependent on the will of God–makes this conflict particularly serious and complex. This article discusses the structural and historical causes of this conflict and proposes a few strategies to reduce the tensions between these two sets of rights.

scholarly journals Integrative Knowledge Management in Interdisciplinary Research Clusters

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Jooß ◽  
Thomas Thiele ◽  
René Vossen ◽  
Anja Richert ◽  
Sabina Jeschke
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Epistemic Cultures ◽  
The One ◽  
Working Processes ◽  
Institutional Cultures

Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) is described as a specific mode of collaboration: Besides the clash of different institutional cultures (e.g. different expectations/working processes), there is a clash of epistemic cultures (i.e. styles of thinking, different languages). Former research shows that the involved researchers demand an integrative knowledge management to support the expected integration of cultures. In this paper two major aspects regarding integrative knowledge management for IDR are discussed. On the one hand the need for integrative knowledge management based on the researchers’ perspective is depicted in the context of a use case. On the other hand the concept of a virtual mean is elaborated, which supports these needs. Both aspects underline the importance of a process-accompanying support in close coordination with the respective needs of the involved researchers.

Instrumentalism and Human Rights

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erasmus Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

This comment examines the impact of Buchanan’s and Sreenivasan’s critique of the mirroring view on some established theories of human rights, in particular on ‘political’ accounts like Joseph Raz’s, which consider human rights to be a subclass of moral rights. It is argued that, on the one hand, such theories are not best understood as relying on the mirroring view, and, on the other hand, that they have resources to defend the mirroring view against Buchanan’s and Sreenivasan’s criticisms.

Statecraft, Witchcraft, God’s Craft: Religious Diversity and the Forces of Law in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-284
Author(s):  
Marian Burchardt
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Other ◽  
Power Struggles ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

AbstractLegal anthropologists and sociologists of religion increasingly recognize the importance of law in current controversies over religious diversity. Drawing on the case of South Africa, this article explores how such controversies are shaped by contestations over what counts as ‘religion’. Analyzing the historical context and emergent forms of institutional secularity from which contemporary contestations over religious diversity draw, the article explores debates and practices of classification around religion, tradition, and culture, and the ways in which these domains are co-constituted through their claims on the law: on the one hand through an analysis of religion-related jurisprudence; on the other hand through an examination of the debates on witchcraft, law, and religion. I argue that the production of judicial knowledge of ‘religion’, ‘culture’, and ‘tradition’ is tied up with contestations over the power to define the meaning of the domains. In fact, contrary to notions of constitutionality in which rights seem to exist prior to the claims made on their basis, in a fundamental sense rights struggles help to constitute the contemporary human rights dispensation. Against the Comaroffs’ claim that judicialization depoliticizes power struggles, I show that legal claims making remains vibrantly political.

scholarly journals Cheating in chess: a call for an integrated disciplinary regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 57-83
Author(s):  
Salomėja Zaksaitė
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Sports Law ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Broad Concept ◽  
The One

This article examines recent regulation in the sport of chess with a focus on cheating. On the one hand, disciplinary law in chess could be considered relatively underdeveloped compared with other sports. On the other hand, however, this kind of ‘underdevelopment’ might be appropriate since chess governing bodies have not yet introduced interventionist rules. These two interacting perspectives shape the aim and the objectives of legal research designed to protect the chess community from cheating by suggesting adequate disciplinary measures. The analysis focuses mainly on two forms of cheating: computer-assisted cheating and match-fixing. The broad concept of cheating and relatively young legal regulation in an under-researched sport call for interdisciplinary analysis, therefore, knowledge of sports law, human rights as well as criminology is applied.

scholarly journals Putting theory into practice: the creation of REALs in the context of today's universities

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Ann Kitts ◽  
John T. Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Active Learning ◽  
Learning Communities ◽  
Constructivist Learning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
External Reviews

Bringing together theory and practice in the context of university teaching is no mean feat. On the one hand, lecturers are challenged and motivated intellectually by the theoretical arguments in the field of education of thinkers such as Grabinger and Dunlap, who have written extensively about comprehensive constructivist learning communities which they term Euch Environments for Active Learning (REALs) (Grabinger and Dunlap, 1995; Grabinger and Dunlap, 1998; Grabinger, Dunlap and Duffield, 1997). Yet, on the other hand, they are also challenged and demotivated on a day-to-day basis with the practicalities of teaching increasing numbers of students with a decreasing unit of resource in institutions where competition for funding is fierce and where there is pressure from external reviews of research and teaching performance.DOI:10.1080/0968776990070202

The fundamental principles of the Red Cross, peace and human rights

1980 ◽  
Vol 20 (217) ◽  
pp. 171-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacques Moreillon
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Common Factor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The theme of this paper is not an easy one. The difficulty of our subject is twofold: on the one hand, two of its three facets (peace and human rights) raise conceptual and interpretative problems; on the other hand, to deal with them together would involve finding a common factor, something which is not obvious even—perhaps especially—within the limited framework of the Red Cross movement.

scholarly journals Rights of Man, Rights of God: An Unavoidable Tension?

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-255
Author(s):  
Silvio Ferrari
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Will ◽  
The One ◽  
International Conventions ◽  
Religious Obligation ◽  
Will Of God

Abstract The conflicts between rights of God and rights of man are on the rise. On the one hand, there are some rights that are qualified as human rights in the most important international conventions and in many national constitutions. As such, they are to be respected always and everywhere. On the other hand, there are rights that are directly or indirectly attributed to the will of God. Their respect is regarded as a religious obligation to be upheld even when it implies the violation of human rights. These are the terms of the conflict and the fact that they sink their roots in non-negotiable beliefs—rights related to the very nature of man versus rights dependent on the will of God—makes this conflict particularly serious and complex. This article discusses the structural and historical causes of this conflict and proposes a few strategies to reduce the tensions between these two sets of rights.

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