scholarly journals Conflictividad política, pandemia de COVID-19 y nuevos paradigmas

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (Especial II) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Real World ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Exponential Entropy

Everything indicates that the year 2020 will end up signified by high levels of political conflict that set up an international scenario of exponential entropy with testimonies for order and global stability. Add to that the economic and social havoc generated by the pandemic of the new coronavirus, the outlook for 2021 is not encouraging at all. However, the question for social scientists and philosophers in general is these events to shape new political, economic and sociocultural paradigms in the world? The objective of reflections lies in presenting in the special issue, Vol. 38, II part, and at the same time analyzing the scenarios of political conflict in the real world in the context of COVID-19. The conclusion highlights the fact that, despite the expectations of social justice, sorrow and human rights of much of human societies, the theoretical and epistemological elements necessary to shape new or at least models of political, economic and social organization beyond social and liberal trajinisms are not apparent from what academic elites see.

scholarly journals BEING THE CHANGE: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN EXTERNSHIP PROGRAM EVALUATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Katie Spillane
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Power Distribution ◽  
Student Outcomes ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Justice Sociale ◽  
The World ◽  
Blind Spots

Around the globe, clinical legal education [CLE] narratives resonate with a desire to promote social justice and the vindication of human rights. Yet scholarship exploring CLE’s accomplishment of these aims is scant and generally focuses only on student outcomes. This literature appears to be based not on theory and results, but hope: the hope that changed students will change the world. To invest on hope alone is unwise, particularly when all stakeholders face financially precarious times. In this context, this article argues that the existing focus on student outcomes is disproportionate and unhelpful. The existing narrow focus on student outcomes marginalizes other stakeholders and creates significant blind spots in program evaluation. This article proposes a broader analysis that would ask what value systems and power distribution CLE programs themselves create or reinforce, focusing on both the immediate impact of CLE programming and reinforcing the values human rights education seeks to inculcate by incorporating these into the structure of CLE programs themselves. Aux quatre coins du monde, le discours sur l’enseignement juridique clinique est empreint d’une soif de promouvoir la justice sociale et de défendre les droits de la personne. Pourtant, les travaux des universitaires portant sur l’atteinte de ces objectifs sont rares et se concentrent généralement sur les résultats touchant les étudiants. Ces écrits semblent fondés non pas sur des théories et des résultats mais sur l’espoir : l’espoir que des étudiants transformés transformeront le monde. Miser sur l’espoir seul est une erreur, surtout quand tous les intervenants sont aux prises avec la précarité financière. Dans ce contexte, l’auteure de cet article soutient que les efforts actuels ciblés sur les résultats touchant les étudiants sont disproportionnés et inutiles. Ce ciblage étroit marginalise les autres intervenants et crée de gros angles morts dans l’évaluation des programmes. Dans son article, l’auteure propose une analyse élargie qui pose la question de savoir quels systèmes de valeurs et quelle répartition des pouvoirs les programmes d’enseignement juridique clinique créent ou renforcent, l’accent étant mis sur les répercussions immédiates de ces programmes et sur le renforcement des valeurs que l’éducation aux droits de la personne humaine semble inculquer par l’intégration de ces valeurs dans la structure même des programmes en question.

Mediterranean geographies of protest

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Fregonese
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Middle East ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Resistance Movements ◽  
State Security ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Mediterranean

This special issue of Euro-commentaries tackles the question of what links unprecedented anti-regime uprisings in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, with the largest protests in decades in several European cities. Beyond the specificities of individual cases, uprisings on both sides of the Mediterranean have highlighted strong and often violent collisions between resistance movements and state security. How are these collisions reshaping urban and political geographies in the Mediterranean? The papers presented here explore different aspects of the 2011 protests, and share the view that these are shaped by concerns for social justice, human rights and democracy, which are not a prerogative of the Arab world, but indicate instead more complex geographies.

Political Globalization and Citizenship: New Sources of Security Threats in Africa

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Shola Omotola
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
The Political ◽  
Security Threats ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
National Question ◽  
Political Globalization ◽  
Political Economic

AbstractThis article analyses the interface between political globalization, citizenship and security threats in Africa. Political globalization is assumed to be capable of engendering inclusive citizenship; in the same way, citizenship is considered to be central to the national question in Africa. It is around citizenship that most issues of human rights revolve, both at individual and group levels. The article argues that political globalization in Africa tends to limit the meaning, essence and substance of citizenship, even if the latter is defined from a minimalist perspective of duties-rights relationships. The marginalization and/or exclusionary politics engendered by political globalization, especially for vulnerable groups such as ethnic minorities, women and youth on all fronts - political, economic and socio-cultural, amount to a gross violation of individual and group rights. Consequently, rather than engender inclusive citizenship predicated upon fairness, equality and social justice, the political globalization processes seem to have done otherwise, thereby perverting democratization and citizenship to become sources of security threats in Africa.

Terrorist Threats to the Environment in Iraq and Beyond

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Mohamed Al-Damkhi ◽  
Rana Abdullah Al-Fares
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Gulf War ◽  
Major Event ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Environmental Destruction ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Effective Strategies ◽  
The World

The environmental consequences of political conflict are a growing problem throughout the world. Not only nations, but a variety of terrorist and insurgent groups have shown a disturbing tendency to make use of intentional environmental destruction in the pursuit of their political agendas. Currently, scenarios of environmental terrorism in Iraq are particularly dire, due to the changing political situation in that country, the vulnerability of its petroleum infrastructure, and the precedent set by the catastrophe in Kuwait during the 1991 Gulf War. The international community should remain aware of the real threat of sudden, intentional environmental destruction, and should take preventative steps, while preparing for the possibility of a major event. Steps can be taken to provide for security and emergency response, while the promotion of social justice and educational initiatives can help to decrease the likelihood of such an event. Further research should be conducted to identify the most effective strategies for reducing the threat of environmental terrorism in specific regions.

scholarly journals PREFACE: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN CHILD, YOUTH AND FAMILY STUDIES

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shannon A. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Family Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Selection Of

<p>This special issue of the <em>International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies</em> offers critical insights into contemporary social justice issues impacting the lives of children and young people, their caregivers, and their communities. The authors write from a range of fields as they question taken-for-granted knowledges within social work, child welfare, health promotion, psychology, sociology, education, human rights, and women’s studies. As such, the collection includes feminist, post-colonial, post-structural, and post-modern analyses organized through an editorial standpoint of critical pedagogy. The preface offers additional insights into my own personal, professional, epistemological, and pedagogical locations that illuminate my role of guest editor, and further contextualizes the transdisciplinary selection of manuscripts within a social justice discourse.</p>

Introduction to the Special Issue-Trade and environment: local versus multilateral reforms

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
SCOTT BARRETT
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Trade Liberalization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
State Of The Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Good For

[We] must ensure that ordinary citizens in all countries actually benefit from tradeÑa trade that...protects the environment.President William J. ClintonState of the Union Address, 19 January 1999The hullabaloo that was the World Trade Organization's millenium meeting in Seattle has shown us that ordinary people have serious misgivings about the multilateral trading regime-both the rules and the process. Future progress in trade liberalization will depend on convincing the wider public that trade agreements are good for the environment and good for development (including labour and human rights), not just GDP. This is more than a public relations challenge. The concerns voiced by the Seattle protesters-some of them, anyway-raise profound intellectual questions.

Freemasonry in Turkey: a by-product of Western penetration

2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
PAUL DUMONT
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Annual Income ◽  
Considerable Part ◽  
Turkish Republic ◽  
Colonial Expansion ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Political Economic

Towards the middle of the nineteenth century, various European Masonic obediences set up lodges throughout the Ottoman empire, many in Istanbul, while another important centre was Smyrna. Freemasons were also active in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Cyprus and Macedonia. Lodges were established in the main political, economic and cultural centres of the Empire. There was a strong parallelism between the Ottoman Masonic geography and that of European colonial expansion. It is easy to delineate the social and ethnic structure of lodges, but we know less about what was going on behind the walls of Masonic temples. For sure, Ottoman Freemasons, like their brethren in other parts of the world, when not busy with ‘table works’ or ceremonies, dedicated themselves to philanthropic activities. A considerable part of the annual income of the lodges was used to finance various charitable works (assistance to orphans, to brethren in distress …) and to fund educational institutions. The lodges were also places for the discussion and exchange of ideas about current themes: socialism, feminism, venereal diseases, progress of science, etc. Some mingled with politics, displaying a highly nationalistic discourse. The politicization of Ottoman/Turkish freemasonry climaxed during the years of the Young Turk revolution (1908–1914), when an autochthonous obedience was created. One of the goals of the new organization, coldly received by most European freemasonries, was to rid the Ottoman Empire of foreign penetration. After the proclamation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, this national freemasonry continued to flourish, except for 13 years between 1935 and 1948 when Masonic activity was banned.

scholarly journals Social justice, health equity, and mental health

2022 ◽  
pp. 008124632110709
Author(s):  
Dinesh Bhugra ◽  
Rachel Tribe ◽  
Daniel Poulter
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Help Seeking ◽  
Mental Illnesses ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Stigma And Discrimination ◽  
The World ◽  
Poor Outcomes

There is considerable evidence to indicate that stigma and discrimination against people with mental illnesses are widely prevalent across nations. Research also shows that individuals with mental illnesses are likely to die 15–20 years younger than those who do not have these illnesses. In addition, they are more likely to experience delays in help-seeking leading to poor outcomes and are more likely to experience physical illnesses. Stigma and discrimination appear to play a major role in depriving people with mental illnesses of their basic rights. Their economic, political, social, and human rights are often ignored. In this article, we describe the capability to be healthy and basic principles of social justice related to mental health. We discuss findings of discrimination often embedded in laws of countries around the world in the context of basic human rights. We believe that clinicians have a key role as advocates for their patients. Clinicians and policymakers need to work together to bring about social and health equity.

scholarly journals "Cultural acupuncture": Fan activism and the Harry Potter Alliance

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Real World ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Politically Active

Fan activists have struggled to defend series from cancellation, defend themselves from cease and desist orders, promote alternative representations, and raise money for charity. Building on this background, this article examines how the Harry Potter Alliance encourages young people to speak out as fans on a broad range of human rights and social justice issues through what the group's leader, Andrew Slack, calls "cultural acupuncture." The group's practice of mapping the fictional content world onto real-world concerns helps empower young people to become civicly engaged and politically active.

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