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Enraged, Rattled, and Wronged examines psychological entitlement--an inflated sense of one's worthiness over other groups--as an overlooked but essential feature of persistent inequality and resistance to social progress. What happens when entitled people feel marginalized? How does their inflated sense of entitlement make them vulnerable to manipulation by the demagogues who use them? What are they willing to destroy to cling to their status and power? This book explores the ways in which entitlement preserves and perpetuates inequality, calling dominant groups to join the vibrant movements for change.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Different Paths to the Same Courts -- Chapter 2. Disadvantage and Withdrawal -- Chapter 3. Privilege and Delegation -- Chapter 4. Punishing Withdrawal, Rewarding Delegation -- Conclusion -- Appendix. The Study's Methods -- Notes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

The monograph deals with identities in Slovenia at the time of current breaks and turbulences. The first part of the monograph addresses the majority identities; first, European identity at the time of the rise of nationalism, and then Slovenian national identity in the context of the economic crisis and new populist policies in Europe and beyond. In the second part, the authors deal with minority identities - from religious and ethnic to sexual - that place them in the time span from Slovenia's accession to the EU until the time of the economic crisis, the rise of populism and neoconservative policies. In the third section, minority identities are placed in the context of culture, which is one of the important elements of identity construction and preservation.--Publisher's website

"What is social justice? At this point, there is considerable disagreement. For many, the term social justice is baffling and useless, with no real meaning. Most who use it argue that social justice is the moral fairness of the system of rules and norms that govern society. Do these rules work so that all persons get what is due to them as human beings and as members of the community? Shifting from the will of individuals in rendering justice to the outcome of the system of rules in achieving justice can be a dangerous leap. To some, it suggests that virtually every inequality arises because the rules of the game are unfair and that the state must intervene whenever there are unequal outcomes. The dangers of this leap are the primary focus of Is Social Justice Just?, whose twenty-one authors accepted an invitation to "explore, reassess, and critique the concept of social justice-relating it to ongoing debates in economics, history, philosophy, politics, public policy, religion, and the broader culture.""--

What might gender justice look like in matrilineal Malawi? Ideas about gender and human rights have exerted considerable influence over African policy makers and civil society organisations in recent years, and Malawi is no exception. There, concerted efforts at civic education have made the concepts of human and women's rights widely accessible to the rural poor, albeit in modified form. In this book, Jessica Johnson listens to the voices of ordinary Malawian citizens as they strive to resolve disputes and achieve successful gender and marital relations. Through nuanced ethnographic description of aspirations for gender and marital relationships; extended analysis of dispute resolution processes; and an examination of the ways in which the approaches of chiefs, police officers and magistrates intersect, this study puts relationships between law, custom, rights, and justice under the spotlight.

Umschlag -- Titel -- Inhalt -- Roman Birke und Carola Sachse: Einleitung -- I. Frauenrechte und Menschenrechte in internationalen Kontexten -- Birgitta Bader-Zaar: Das Frauenwahlrecht als Menschenrecht? Politische Rechte im Kontext der Diskurse über Geschlechterdifferenz und universelle Gleichheitsansprüche -- Regula Ludi: Geschlechtergleichheit als Menschenrecht? Überlegungen zur Bedeutung der Menschenrechtssprache im Völkerbund -- Roman Birke: Zwischen Aktivismus und Diplomatie. Eleanor Roosevelts Bedeutung für internationale Menschenrechte, 1936-1962 -- II. Regionale Frauen- und Menschenrechtsdiskurse im Kalten Krieg -- Irene Stoehr: Lieber geben als nehmen? Westdeutsche Frauenorganisationen in menschenrechtspolitischer Perspektive, 1948-1959 -- Celia Donert: Frauenrechte und Menschenrechte im Kalten Krieg. Osteuropäischer Frauenrechtsaktivismus zwischen 1945 und 1970 -- Karin Riegler: Die Rechte der Bürgerinnen. Affirmative Action als Instrument zur Förderung der Gleichberechtigung im Erwerbsleben in den Vereinigten Staaten -- III. Feministische Kritiken an Politik und Semantik der Menschenrechte -- Sonja Dolinsek: Haben Prostituierte Menschenrechte der ist Prostitution eine Menschenrechtsverletzung? Transnationale Kontroversen im 20. Jahrhundert -- Anke Graness: Afrikanische feministische Perspektiven auf den Menschenrechtsdiskurs. Der ethnologische Blick und seine Konsequenzen -- Franziska Martinsen: Stereotype Zuschreibungen: Die Rolle von Frauen in internationalen Menschenrechtsabkommen und UN-Deklarationen -- Bibliographie -- AutorInnen -- Impressum

International economic law is not neutral in the interests it protects and offends. This text examines how current international legal regimes constitute and sustain economic injustice, and presents a forceful case for ridding international law of its hallmarks of fostering poverty, inequality, and dispossession.

The essays in this volume open up reflection on the implications of social inequality for theorizing about moral responsibility. Collectively, they focus attention on the relevance of the social context, and of structural and epistemic injustice, stereotyping and implicit bias, for critically analyzing our moral responsibility practices.

Introduction -- Stigma -- Legal protection from discrimination -- Stigma and litigation -- The anti-stigma principle -- Public action to combat discrimination -- Stigma, synergy and intersectionality -- Legal protection against "fattism" -- Tattoos : beyond anti-discrimination law?

Progressive theorists and activists insist that contemporary capitalism is deeply flawed from a normative point of view. However, most accept the liberal egalitarian thesis that the serious shortcomings of market societies (financial excess, inequality, and so on) could be overcome with proper political regulation. Building on Marx's legacy, Tony Smith argues in 'Beyond Liberal Egalitarianism' that advocates of this thesis (Rawls, Habermas, Stiglitz, et al.) lack an adequate concept of capital and the state. These theorists also fail to comprehend new developments in world history ensuring that the 'destructive' aspects of capitalism increasingly outweigh whatever 'creative' elements it might continue to possess. Smith concludes that a normative social theory adequate to the twenty-first century must explicitly and unequivocally embrace socialism