Sounds, Images, Politics and Place

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 57-62
Author(s):  
Richard Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The U.S

The author discusses the concepts he has developed while gathering sound(s) and images for projects engaging politics and place, often at sites where human rights abuses have taken place. These works include recordings made at several Japanese-American and Aleut internment sites and at Nazi concentration camps, as well as borderlands works, environmental works on water use in the U.S. Southwest, and works addressing climate change in the Arctic.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Tallberg ◽  
Karin Bäckstrand ◽  
Jan Aart Scholte
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Comprehensive Treatment ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
The Core ◽  
Governance Institutions

Legitimacy is central for the capacity of global governance institutions to address problems such as climate change, trade protectionism, and human rights abuses. However, despite legitimacy’s importance for global governance, its workings remain poorly understood. That is the core concern of this volume, which engages with the overarching question: whether, why, how, and with what consequences global governance institutions gain, sustain, and lose legitimacy. This introductory chapter explains the rationale of the book, introduces its conceptual framework, reviews existing literature, and presents the key themes of the volume. It emphasizes in particular the volume’s sociological approach to legitimacy in global governance, its comparative scope, and its comprehensive treatment of the topic. Moreover, a specific effort is made to explain how each chapter moves beyond existing research in exploring the book’s three themes: (1) sources of legitimacy, (2) processes of legitimation and delegitimation, and (3) consequences of legitimacy.

Impact of Climate Change on Elderly People in the Arctic, with Special Focus on the European High North: A Human Rights Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 573-602
Author(s):  
Shahnaj Begum
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Average Temperature ◽  
The Arctic Region

Abstract Elderly people face increasing challenges in the Arctic region, with global warming figuring prominently among these. The rising average temperature in the region is causing not only the rapid melting of sea ice, but also a range of environmental, social, cultural and economic problems. While the population at large in the region suffers from these problems, the elderly are among the most vulnerable. Climate change has affected their lives in different ways – physically, socially, politically, culturally and psychologically – and the impacts have serious implications for their human rights. This is an issue that has not been adequately researched, particularly in the context of the European High North, and this paper undertakes to present the salient concerns in this regard.

The European Union Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EUGHRSR)

2021 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-318
Author(s):  
Tom Ruys
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Council Decision ◽  
Council Regulation ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Country Specific ◽  
Individual Human

On December 7, 2020, the Council of the European Union adopted two legal instruments, Council Decision (CFSP) 2020/1999 and Council Regulation (EU) 2020/1998, which together make up the new EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EUGHRSR). Similar to the U.S. “Global Magnitsky Act,” and in contrast with the EU's existing country-specific sanctions regimes, the EUGHRSR seeks to address human rights abuses worldwide, by providing for the imposition of travel bans as well as financial sanctions on individual human rights offenders—state and non-state alike. The list of designated (natural and legal) persons will be reviewed on a periodic basis.

scholarly journals U.S. Arctic Leader: With Shell Oil out, Arctic Lost Attention

Eos ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randy Showstack
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Far North ◽  
The U.S

Shell's drilling activities in the Arctic drew the world's eyes to the far north and to issues like climate change and oil spills, the U.S. special representative for the Arctic said in a recent talk.

The new rebels

Lovecidal ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Speaking Out ◽  
Public Scrutiny ◽  
And Control ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Chinese Civil Society

This chapter examines not only the unrest in Tibet but also that among China's civil society. It explores social media as a platform for speaking out against the human rights abuses, as well as the limitations of social media given the Chinese government's attempts at censoring these platforms on the matter of Tibet—an act that shares similarities with the U.S. government's own attempts at information surveillance and control as depicted in the previous chapters. The chapter then turns to Chinese civil society at large, as well as the emerging socio-political significance of the legal profession as China's rule of law consistently comes under public scrutiny.

Guantanamo

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-125
Author(s):  
Carl Lindskoog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Guantanamo Bay ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prison Camp ◽  
The U.S

Chapter 5 examines the government’s first detention camp at the U.S naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the experience of the Haitian refugees—the original Guantanamo detainees—held there from 1991 to 1994. An important part of this history also involves the government’s detention of HIV-positive Haitians in the world’s first and only “HIV prison camp.” Examining the political and legal challenges to the government’s use of off-shore detention at Guantanamo, this chapter illuminates the history of the legal struggle over the government’s authority to detain in such extraterritorial facilities and debates over how far the U.S. Constitution might reach beyond the United States’ territorial boundaries, and when exercising the U.S. Constitution can lead to human rights abuses.

Bridge of Understanding, Bridge of Straw

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
Eileen H. Tamura
Keyword(s):  
Pearl Harbor ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
Fishing Boat ◽  
War Effort ◽  
Relocation Centers ◽  
The U.S

Joseph Kurihara was a son of immigrants, a Japanese American who did everything he could to become a bridge of understanding. Ultimately, however, he came to believe that the bridge that he had built was made of straw.How did he come to this conclusion? When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Kurihara immediately volunteered his services for the war effort. He volunteered a number of times but to no avail. Instead, he was rejected and—like other Japanese Americans and their parents—he was forced to leave his home and job, and move to what the U.S. government first called “concentration camps” and later, euphemistically, “relocation centers.” What Kurihara learned later, he said, was that his “Japanese features” and his job as a fishing-boat navigator made him suspect in the eyes of the U. S. government, and as a result FBI agents had been tailing him since the Pearl Harbor attack. He could accept these actions as government mistakes.

scholarly journals The Future of Corporate Liability for Extra territorial Human Rights Abuses: The dutch Case Against Shell

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 36-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Jägers ◽  
Katinka Jesse ◽  
Jonathan Verschuuren
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Oil Spills ◽  
Nongovernmental Organization ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
Transnational Companies ◽  
Royal Dutch Shell ◽  
Petroleum Development ◽  
Corporate Liability ◽  
Dutch Court ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. limits the potential of the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) as a means of legal redress for victims of human rights abuses caused by transnational companies. Interestingly enough, almost simultaneously with the Kiobel decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, a Dutch court issued its rulings in five cases concerning Nigerian individuals, supported by a Dutch environmental nongovernmental organization (NGO), in their claims against Royal Dutch Shell (RDS), headquartered in the Netherlands, and its Nigerian subsidiary, Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, Ltd. (SPDC). These cases relate to oil spills for which the plaintiffs believed Shell should be held liable.

While We Were Sleeping: From Dystopia to Global Awakening

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 80-97
Author(s):  
Karen Abney-Korn ◽  
Shawn Cassiman ◽  
Dana Fleetham
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Media Consumption ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Human Rights Abuses ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Global And Local

Abstract Activists and academics have been sounding the alarms for years: climate change, globalization, capitalism, human rights abuses, and more. The alarms appeared to fall upon the deaf ears of the slumbering “multitude.” The Arab Spring, European movements, global and local attacks upon labor, and the Occupy Wall Street movement have awakened us from a slumber reliant upon vacuous media, consumption, alienation and isolationism. In shattering this spell, Occupy Wall Street has called us into the streets in record numbers, opening space for a new opportunity to imagine. Some scholars argue, “. . . we need Marxism to understand the structure of society and anarchism to prefigure or anticipate a new society” (Lynd and Grubacic 2008:xiii). We agree. In this article, we employ a local Occupy case study to briefly discuss 1) the historical contributions to Occupy Wall Street, 2) and to argue that it is precisely the opportunity to imagine, to anticipate, to challenge the “real” that holds the most promise for the development, and future, of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Sea-ice Melting, Collective Inuit Peoples’ Rights and the Human Rights Discourse: A Critical Legal Analysis of the Nunavut Governance System

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Sandrine Le Teno ◽  
Christine Frison
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sea Ice ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Collective Rights ◽  
Legal Standards ◽  
United Nations Declaration

Climate change has increasing visible effects on the environment, particularly in the Arctic, where the sea-ice melted faster in 2020 than any time before. It directly threatens the Inuit people’s survival, whose livelihood is mainly based on traditional modes of subsistence (hunting, fishing and gathering). In light of the environmental crisis, this paper carries out a critical analysis of the Nunavut (Canada) legal framework, granting Inuit specific rights regarding their traditional way of life. While recognizing that this framework implements international human rights legal standards, we argue that the human right lens presents limitations in addressing climate change impacts on Inuit livelihood. By acknowledging the developments following the adoption of the United Nations Declarations on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and on the Rights of Peasants and Other Peoples Living in Rural Areas, leading to the recognition of some collective rights to communities and people living of the land, we address the gaps of human rights –which are mainly individual –to reflect the importance of recognizing collective rights in the adaptation to the global climate change challenge. Indeed, the paper argues for the necessity to recognize the community level in the climate international governance scene. Human Rights –Inuit –United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples –Indigenous Rights –Climate Change –Collective rights –United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas –Nunavut Land Claim Agreement.

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