Abstract This paper analyses how female journalists, writers, and activists disputed meanings of the Vietnam War (1954-1975). The article portrays women's movements in the US and Vietnamese contexts, exploring the transnational movement of ideas, people, and political activism they promoted. As a hypothesis, it affirms that the articulation between concepts of gender, war, and peace were at the base of convergences and differences that helped to modulate the transnational alliances of women, and to circulate their ideas.
Abstract In this interview, Margaret A. Simons describes her path to philosophy and existentialism, her struggles in the male-dominated field in the 1960s and 1970s, and her political activism in the civil rights and women's liberation movements. She also discusses her encounters with Simone de Beauvoir and Beauvoir's refusal to own her philosophical originality, suggesting that Beauvoir may have adopted a more conventional narrative of a female intellectual to circumvent the public's resistance to her radical ideas in the 1950s.
The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate change, and (5) the geopolitics of North and South.
The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate change, and (5) the geopolitics of North and South.
In: Adams , V , Behague , D P , Caduff , C A , Löwy , I & Ortega , F 2019 , ' Re-Imagining Global Health Through Social Medicine ' , Global Public Health , vol. 14 , no. 10 , pp. 1383-1400 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1587639
The conceptual and practical work done by social medicine and global health have often overlapped. In this paper, we argue that new efforts to apprehend 'the social' in social medicine offer important insights to global health along five lines of critical analysis: (1) reconfigurations of the state and new forms of political activism, (2) philanthrocapitalism and the economisation of life, (3) The economy of attention, (4) anthropogenic climate change, and (5) the geopolitics of North and South.
'Bijan' is a representation of personal experiences from the days of the Iranian Revolution and my involvement in student political activism; an interpretation of 'a moment of crisis' and 'abjection'. Abjection, as developed by Julia Kristeva, 'is what disturbs identity, system, order'. Recalling past events and people from a time of living through utter abjection, causes narrative to disrupt and shatter around the theme of suffering, making my narrative representations fragmented, ambiguous and discontinuous.
China's demand for coal is changing as a result of environment-related factors, including environmental regulation, developments in cleaner technologies, local pollution, improving energy efficiency, changing resource landscapes and political activism. We look at how this evolving demand picture could then translate into impacts on the coal price and then on the stranded asset risks faced by coal and coal-related assets in Australia - a country that is a large and growing coal exporter to China.
Based on a public opinion survey in 10 major cities in 2013, this study analyses the relationships between satisfaction of public policy and various geographic, demographic and social factors. It shows that urban Chinese citizens are generally satisfied with national policies, and less satisfied with local and life-related policies. The Chinese government needs to focus on Chinese urban residents' political activism and establish better formal institutions to improve its governance and deal with social instability.
The film Gandhi expands our understanding of how the virtue of care can function in the public sphere by portraying Gandhi dealing with Indian independence from Britain, the subjugation of women and Untouchables, and strife between Hindus and Muslims. Gandhi illustrates in his social and political activism how the virtue of care is animated by benevolence and structured by the building blocks of the care perspective: responsibility and need, relationship and mutual dependency, context and narrative.
This essay proposes several guiding parameters for ecofeminism's development as a moral theory. I argue that these provide necessary directives and contexts for ecofeminist analyses and social/ecological projects. In the past these have been very diverse and occasionally contradictory. Most important to the core of ecofeminism's vitality are close links between theory and political activism. I show how these originated in ecofeminism's history and advocate a continued participator? and activist focus in the future.
Theories of regime-society relations in Communist states stress the central role of coercion in maintaining political control. Based on a survey of Soviet emigrants, we examine whether Soviet citizens are deterred from nonconformity by the punitive actions of the KGB (individual deterrence), a perception of the KGB's coercive potential (general deterrence), or mistrust of other people. We find that few respondents were directly coerced by the KGB (and those who were had engaged in the most serious kinds of nonconformity); that those who had punitive contacts with the KGB in the past were not deterred from subsequent nonconformity; that the KGB's competent image was a general deterrent; and that trust in other people facilitated both nonconformist and compliant political activism. Those who came of political age under Khrushchev and Brezhnev were more likely to be involved in both kinds of activism than those who came of age under Stalin.
La constitucionalización del derecho en Colombia obedece a una participación activa del juez; en particular del juez constitucional. El precedente judicial fuente del derecho es una muestra de la inclusión del juez en el escenario constitucional como garante de la democracia y del derecho. El ideal democrático incluye irreversiblemente al juez constitucional y sus interpretaciones. La sobreinterpretación del derecho responde a una interpretación amplia de la Constitución y a la construcción de normas que en algo contribuyen a llenar las lagunas del derecho. Con ello; el neoconstitucionalismo; es constitucionalizar el ordenamiento jurídico ; The constitutionalization of law in Colombia is due to an active participation of the judge; in particular; of the constitutional judge. The judicial precedent source of law is an example of the inclusion of the judge on the constitutional stage as guarantor of democracy and law. The democratic ideal irreversibly includes the constitutional judge and his interpretations. The overinterpretation of law answers to a broad interpretation of the Constitution and to a building of norms that contribute something to fill the gaps in the law. Thus neoconstitutionalism is constitutionalizing the juridical order.
Studies on Hong Kong's contentious politics have focused primarily on the high tides of mobilization. Scant attention is paid to what became of the intense mobilizations following their decline. This article spotlights the "abeyance" politics of community activism, in which activists sought to make territorial communities an arena of social and political participation in quieter times after mass mobilizations. Drawing on the concept of abeyance from political sociology, we argue that community activism served as "abeyance structures" after the mass mobilizations in the early 2010s, a major protest cycle preceding the 2019 anti-extradition movement. Based on mixed methods and original data, we argue that these abeyance structures not only allowed activists to maintain their political engagement but also gave rise to various practices of "lived citizenship" in territorial communities. These practices produced a changing sense of political subjectivity among citizens, establishing a more grounded notion of democracy that emphasizes their participation in local affairs and social entitlements. Our findings aim to enrich the literature on movement abeyance and provide a nuanced understanding of political activism in Hong Kong beyond street politics. (China J/GIGA)
"The Haitian Revolution may have galvanized subjects of French empire in the Americas and Africa struggling to define freedom and 'Frenchness' for themselves, but Lorelle Semley reveals that this event was just one moment in a longer struggle of women and men of colour for rights under the French colonial regime. Through political activism ranging from armed struggle to literary expression, these colonial subjects challenged and exploited promises in French republican rhetoric that should have contradicted the continued use of slavery in the Americas and the introduction of exploitative labour in the colonisation of Africa"--Provided by publisher
Globalna ekološka kriza, uzrokovana nerazumnim postupanjem čoveka i njegovih ekonomskih aktivnosti prema prirodi i njenim resursima, stvorila je klimu za razvoj nove ekološke paradigme, koja naglašava intrinzične vrednosti prirode, tesnu povezanost društva i životne sredine i značaj njihovog uzajamnog delovanja. Promena pogleda na svet postaje nužan korak u uspostavlјanju optimalnog, uzajamnog dejstva čoveka i prirodne sredine. Ekološka znanja su najprimarniji element ekološke svesti. Nezaobilazni element ekološke svesti je i ekološko ponašanje koje treba razvijati i podsticati. Na formiranje poželјnog ekološkog ponašanja utiču objektivni i subjektivni činioci. Objektivni činioci su, na primer, stanje životne sredine (stepen degradacije eko-sistema), društveno-ekološka infrastruktura, nivo tehničko-tehnološke razvijenosti. U subjektivne činioce koji su značajni za ekološko ponašanje spadaju stavovi, očekivanja, politička opredelјenja, individualne i društvene vrednosti. Za psihologiju, od posebnog značaja su vrednosti koje podržavaju ponašanja orijentisana prema zaštiti životne sredine. Istraživanjem smo ispitivali ekološke vrednosne orijentacije, kao i spremnost na ekooško angažovanje studenata tri grupe fakulteta: rudarsko-geološkog, geografskog-geoprostorne osnove životne sredine, kao i fakulteta društvenih usmerenja (ekonomski, pravni, filozofski…). Rezultati istraživanja su pokazali da ispitanici imaju solidno razvijene ekološke vrednosti koje su preduslov pro-ekoloških ponašanja i aktivnosti u zaštiti životne sredine. U prilog tome ide i nalaz da su ispitani studenti u priličnoj meri spremni da se angažuju u aktivnostima poput reciklaže raznih materijala, korišćenja javnog prevoza i da preduzimaju druge mere koje doprinose održivom stilu života. ; The global environmental crisis, caused by the unreasonable behavior of human beings and their economic activities that affect nature and its resources, has created a basis for the development of new environmental paradigm, which emphasizes the intrinsic value of nature, the close connection between society and the environment and the importance of their mutual influence. Changing the view of the world becomes a necessary step in establishing the optimum of the interplay between humans and the natural environment. Environmental knowledge is the most primary element of environmental awareness. The indispensable outcome of environmental awareness is ecological behavior that should be developed and encouraged. The formation of desirable behavior affect environmental objective and subjective factors. Objective factors are, for example, environmental conditions (degree of degradation of eco-system), socio-ecological infrastructure, the level of technological development. The subjective factors important for ecological behavior includes attitudes, expectations, political affiliation, personal and social values. For psychology, of particular importance are the values that support the behavior oriented towards environmental protection. This research examined the ecological value orientation and willingness to ecological involvement of students from the three groups of faculties: for mining and geology, for geography (environmental department), and faculties of social orientation (economic, law, philosophy . . . ). The results showed that the respondents have a well-developed environmental values that are a prerequisite for pro-environmental behavior and activities that leads to protection of the environment. Thus, the students were pretty much willing to engage in activities such as recycling various materials, use of public transportation and take other measures that contribute to a sustainable lifestyle.
