Religious Institutions and Civic Engagement: A Test of Religion's Impact on Political Activism in Mexico
In: Comparative politics, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 1
ISSN: 0010-4159
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In: Comparative politics, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 1
ISSN: 0010-4159
In: International affairs, Band 68, Heft 4, S. 679-692
ISSN: 0020-5850
World Affairs Online
In: International journal of sustainability in higher education, Band 20, Heft 2, S. 245-263
ISSN: 1758-6739
Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential for environmental and social impacts from university-level educational travel programs.
Design/methodology/approach
This study analyzes the sites visited by 17 education travel programs to the Westfjords (Iceland) from 2014 to 2016. It uses a geographic information system (GIS) project to examine the potential for environmental and social impacts from these programs on local communities and environments. It compares them with similar data on general tourism to the region.
Findings
The results reveal that educational travel programs visit sites that are generally in moderately sensitive areas environmentally and socially. They visit different sites from general tourists and sites that are more sensitive environmentally and socially.
Research limitations/implications
The research area was limited to the Westfjords of Iceland, and thus, the results may not apply globally to all educational travel destinations.
Practical implications
These findings suggest that education travel programs carried out by and for universities the potential to have negative effects on the locations they visit. Universities need to design their educational travel programs so as to limit such impacts to host environments and communities and explicitly educate student participants about sustainable travel behaviors.
Originality/value
This is the first study to combine GIS with several environmental and social metrics to assess impacts from educational travel programs. Further, it is the first study to map the frontstage–backstage continuum as a quantitative metric.
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Catholic Church Advocacy in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 446-457
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: Politics and religion: official journal of the APSA Organized Section on Religion and Politics, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 27-54
ISSN: 1755-0491
AbstractWhy do religious organizations facilitate secular political activism in some settings but not others? I contend that where religious institutions are characterized by decentralized local governance, they are more likely to facilitate political activism. Drawing on nine months of field research and 60 interviews, I conduct a qualitative comparison between the Mexican states of Chiapas and Yucatán. I argue Chiapas exhibits highly decentralized governance by the Catholic Church whereas Yucatán exhibits centralized clerical management. This difference accounts for why Chiapas experiences high levels of indigenous political activism while Yucatán experiences very little political activism.
In: Comparative politics, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 211-230
ISSN: 0010-4159
World Affairs Online
In: Comparative politics, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 211-230
ISSN: 2151-6227
In: Environmental management: an international journal for decision makers, scientists, and environmental auditors, Band 45, Heft 5, S. 1155-1163
ISSN: 1432-1009
In: History of political economy, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 363-381
ISSN: 1527-1919
In: Growth and change: a journal of urban and regional policy, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 10-14
ISSN: 1468-2257
In: The American journal of economics and sociology, Band 30, Heft 2, S. 133-158
ISSN: 1536-7150
In: American journal of international law: AJIL, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 65-68
ISSN: 2161-7953
On March 13,1930, a conference will meet at The Hague to make progress in the codification of international law about territorial waters. Implicit in the plans for this meeting are two assumptions. The first, that it is better to codify the law rather than to follow the road traveled by the American Law Institute and " restate" it. The second, that codification may more wisely be expressed in spatial than in causal terms. As to the first assumption, is it right? As to the second, it is submitted that, irrespective of whether one is drafting a custom or a code, the particular subject of territorial waters should be examined and set forth in causal rather than in spatial terms. It is submitted that the law of territorial waters has been, is, and in its nature must remain a thing of custom, not statute or treaty, and that any attempt to treat it differently will have the effect which thirtyfour years ago the late F. W. Maitlan prophesied was to be expected from the excesses of restricting by putting enactments into constitutions in the United States. " First," he said, " you will get the effect of a dam,—and then you will get the effect of a flood." Both have been seen.