The 9/11 Generation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunaina Marr Maira
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Young People ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
South Asian ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
Political Solidarity ◽  
The U.S

In The 9/11 Generation, Sunaina Marr Maira uses extensive ethnography to understand the meaning of political subjecthood and mobilization for Arab, South Asian, and Afghan American youth. Maira explores how young people from communities targeted in the War on Terror engage with the “political,” forging coalitions based on new racial and ethnic categories, even while they are under constant scrutiny and surveillance, and organizing around notions of civil rights and human rights. The 9/11 Generation explores the possibilities and pitfalls of rights-based organizing at a moment when the vocabulary of rights and democracy has been used to justify imperial interventions, such as the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Maira further reconsiders political solidarity in cross-racial and interfaith alliances at a time when U.S. nationalism is understood as not just multicultural but also post-racial. Throughout, she weaves stories of post-9/11 youth activism through key debates about neoliberal democracy, the “radicalization” of Muslim youth, gender, and humanitarianism.

Intersectionality, Black Youth and Political Activism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Hill Collins
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Black Youth ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
And Behavior

For youth who are Black, Indigenous, female, or poor, coming of age within societies characterized by social inequalities presents special challenges. Yet despite the significance of being young within socially unjust settings, age as a category of analysis remains undertheorized within studies of political activism. This essay therefore draws upon intersectionality and generational analyses as two useful and underutilized approaches for analyzing the political agency of Black youth in the United States with implications for Black youth more globally. Intersectional analyses of race, class, gender, and sexuality as systems of power help explain how and why intersecting oppressions fall more heavily on young people who are multiply disadvantaged within these systems of power. Generational analysis suggests that people who share similar experiences when they are young, especially if such experiences have a direct impact on their lives, develop a generational sensibility that may shape their political consciousness and behavior. Together, intersectionality and generational analyses lay a foundation for examining youth activism as essential to understanding how young people resist intersecting oppressions of racism, heteropatriarchy, class exploitation, and colonialism.

Bangladesh in 2012

Asian Survey ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahrar Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
War Crimes Trial ◽  
The U.S

The year 2012 began well for Bangladesh. Economic performance was impressive, and there were some notable political developments, such as the starting of the War Crimes Trial. However, corruption remained a pressing issue, the rule of law and human rights in the country became increasingly tenuous, and the political environment continued to be turbulent and uncertain. Moreover, issues regarding the country’s relationship with both India and the U.S. were poorly resolved.

scholarly journals Direitos Humanos, Cidadania e Violência no Brasil: a qualidade da democracia em perspectiva | Human Rights, Citizenship and Violence in Brazil: the quality of democracy in perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. e50753
Author(s):  
Carlos Frederico Domínguez Ávila
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Legal System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Quality Of Democracy ◽  
Democratic Quality ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Personal Dignity

O artigo explora a evolução recente dos Direitos Humanos, da Cidadania e da Violência, e seus impactos na qualidade da democracia no Brasil. São utilizadas como unidades de análise três conjuntos de tópicos: a dignidade pessoal, os direitos civis, e os direitos políticos. Em geral, constata-se a existência de uma distância considerável entre a proclamação normativa desses Direitos Humanos no sistema legal, de um lado, e a efetiva promoção e execução desses direitos básicos na realidade política e social do Brasil.Palavras-chave: Direitos Humanos; Qualidade da Democracia; Brasil.ABSTRACTThe paper explores the evolution of Human Rights, Citizenship and Violence, and their impacts in the study of democratic quality in Brazil. It is used three set of basic rights as topics for research: the personal dignity, the civil rights, and the political rights. At the end, it is noted some distance between the existence of opportunities for Human Rights in the legal system of the country and the actual guarantee of those set of basic rights in the political and social Brazilian reality.Keywords: Human Rights; the Quality of Democracy; Brazil. Recebido em: 30 de Março 2020.

scholarly journals Law’s Wars, Law’s Trials The Fate of the Rule of Law in the U.S. ‘War on Terror’

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Richard L. Abel
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
State Power ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
The Political ◽  
Liberal State ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Broad Consensus

The rule of law is a foundation of the liberal state. There is broad consensus about its core, extending across the political spectrum. Our own experience tragically teaches that the rule of law is most endangered when those exercising state power feel threatened: during and after wars and in response to social protest.      

The Political Role of Philippine Children and Young People as Represented in Youth Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Rita Faire
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Young People ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
The Political ◽  
Martial Law ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Political Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
High School Reading

Lualhati Bautista's Dekada '70 (1983) is a mainstay of Philippine high school reading. It tells the story of Amanda Bartolome and her five sons during the titular decade as they live under the shadow of Martial Law. And while youth activism is at the core of Dekada's narrative, existing scholarship on the book does not adequately reflect this. This article begins the work of addressing this gap by identifying schemas of Filipino children's and young people's participation in the socio-political sphere through the characters of the Bartolome brothers and reading them through the lens of Diane M. Rodgers's typology of children as social movement participants.

Managing Diversity

2019 ◽  
pp. 266-289
Author(s):  
Irene Bloemraad ◽  
Doris Marie Provine
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Public Support ◽  
The United States ◽  
Equal Treatment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Managing Diversity ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The U.S

Comparing the United States (U.S.) and Canadian responses to immigration in the context of each country’s civil rights struggles underscores the importance of history, geography, demography, and institutional structures in determining law and policy. Civil rights in the U.S. required a civil war over slavery and created an important role for courts to interpret constitutional mandates of equal treatment. Constitutionally enshrined individual rights came late to Canada and change occurred often through piecemeal legislative and bureaucratic action rather than litigation. Such differences in the trajectory of rights influence differences in immigration policy: active support and management of entry and integration in Canada versus an ambiguous welcome and laissez-faire incorporation in the U.S. Looking to the future, the political system and contentious views on immigration make policymaking difficult in the U.S., while Canadian policymakers enjoy more public support and flexibility as they take on the challenges and opportunities of immigration.

scholarly journals Review Essay: Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 451
Author(s):  
Alberto Costi
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Review Essay ◽  
War On Terror ◽  
The Political ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Fundamental Values ◽  
Potential Use

This article is a book review of Richard Ashby Wilson (ed) Human Rights in the 'War on Terror' (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005) (347 pages). In recent years, terrorism has metamorphosed the global security environment. States have been forced to redefine the nature of terrorism and to reassess the political, military and legal means necessary to protect the State, its institutions and its citizens. Costi states that this book places itself squarely within some of the main current debates surrounding the war on terror in which some of the contributors have been very much involved. The book advances four propositions: it challenges the view that terrorism is a novel problem requiring exceptional solutions, it shows the limits of unilateralism in globally managing the war on terror, it highlights the impact of the war on terror on human rights domestically and the potential use of an agenda of security over liberty by governments wishing to control their citizens ever more tightly, and it calls for an examination of terrorism in context. Costi concludes that the book will make readers think and perhaps inspire them to tackle terrorism without betraying the fundamental values that are the fabric of democratic societies.

scholarly journals The state, EndSARS protests and human rights violation in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-92
Author(s):  
Kenneth Chinedu Asogwa ◽  
◽  
Herbert C. Ede ◽  
Anthony Chinonso Ajah ◽  
Paul Hezekiah Omeh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
The State ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Police Brutality ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Rule ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Human Rights Violation

In November 2017, there was an online protest against police brutality and highhandedness in Nigeria. By October 2020, the citizens’ discontent and dissatisfaction with the activities of the police led to a mass revolt against the institution, specifically against the Special Anti-Robbery Squads (SARS) of the force. The response of the Nigerian state to the protest was total repression and subjugation of the demonstrators. Given the scale of the protest and the government’s response, this momentous event has attracted scholarly attention. The extant literature has identified governance deficit, illiteracy of police officers, the dynamics of the political economy and youth activism as factors that fueled the protest. The present study, therefore, explores the character of the state in the post-colonial society as a link towards the understanding of the fundamental issues that triggered the protests. Through the use of secondary sources of data collection and content analysis, the work found out that there is a trend and pattern of authoritarian governance and violation of human rights by the Nigerian state, which seems to have emanated from the long years of military rule and colonisation. The implication of the foregoing is that the state ought to imbibe democratic ethos as a condition for upholding the fundamental human rights of its citizens.

scholarly journals Akomodasi Politik Hukum di Indonesia terhadap Hak Asasi Manusia Berdasarkan Generasi Pemikirannya

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Jefri Porkonanta Tarigan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Treatment Compliance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Human Rights Protection ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Political Configuration

Keberadaan jaminan atas perlindungan HAM telah menjadi unsur penting dalam negara hukum yang demokratis dan berdasarkan konstitusi. Indonesia sebagai negara hukum, telah mewujudkan jaminan perlindungan HAM yang tertuang dalam konstitusinya yaitu Undang-Undang Dasar 1945. Meskipun demikian, pencantuman jaminan HAM di Undang-Undang Dasar tidaklah cukup, melainkan harus diikuti pula oleh Undang-Undang yang berlaku sebagai bentuk politik hukum perlindungan HAM di Indonesia. Muatan suatu produk hukum termasuk akomodasi HAM akan sangat ditentukan oleh visi politik kelompok penguasa. Akomodasi politik hukum di Indonesia terhadap konsepsi HAM berdasarkan generasi pemikirannya terus mengalami perkembangan sejak memasuki era reformasi. Produk hukum mengenai HAM menjadi lebih banyak dihasilkan dibandingkan sebelum reformasi. Konfigurasi politik pada saat dimulainya reformasi tahun 1998 dan peralihan dari rezim otoriter ke alam demokrasi turut melatarbelakangi produk hukum mengenai HAM. Pada era demokrasi, produk hukum yang dihasilkan pun didominasi oleh akomodasi terhadap HAM generasi pertama yakni hak sipil dan hak politik yang dipandang sebagai suplemen utama bagi penyelenggaraan negara demokrasi. Meskipun demikian, adanya pembagian generasi HAM bukan berarti membedakan perlakuan pemenuhan dan perlindungannya karena masing-masing saling berkaitan dan dibutuhkan.The guarantee of human rights protection has become an important element in a democratic and contitutional law state. Indonesia as a law state, has put human rights protection guarantees enshrined in its constitution, UUD 1945. However, the inclusion of human rights guarantees in the constitution is not enough, but must be followed by the Act in force as a law politics of human rights protection in Indonesia. Accomodation of human rights protection will be determined by the political vision of the ruler. Accommodation of law politics in Indonesia for the conception of human rights based on the generation have been developing since the reformation era. Act of human rights became more widely produced than before the reformation era. Political configuration at the 1998’s reformation and the transition from an authoritarian regime to democracy era is background of human rights protection development. In the era of democracy, law product is dominated by the accommodation on the first generation of human rights like civil rights and political rights. They are seen as a major supplement for the holding of democratic countries. Nevertheless, the distribution of generation of human rights does not mean differentiating treatment compliance and protection because they each are related and necessary.

scholarly journals The Coca Plant and Bolivian Identity

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Russo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Indigenous Identity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Political Battle

The political battle rages between the U.S. government, the U.N. and the Bolivian President, Evo Morales, about his efforts to protect, legalize and preserve the symbol of the Andean indigenous identity: the coca plant. The human rights of indigenous populations are being violated by culturally insensitive governments in compliance with U.S. and U.N. law. The questions posed are: Is coca cocaine? What are the economic benefits of the production of coca and who benefits? What is the relationship between coca and Bolivian identity? What would be the impact in the global community if coca is eradicated permanently?

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