Michael Dennis
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032917
- eISBN:
- 9780813038407
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032917.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Beyond the political maneuvering in Richmond, some Virginians kept alive the notion that government could play a positive role in resolving complex social problems. That belief was founded on an even ...
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Beyond the political maneuvering in Richmond, some Virginians kept alive the notion that government could play a positive role in resolving complex social problems. That belief was founded on an even more basic assumption: that social and economic injustice existed, one which mainstream media could not accept in the era of the NASDAQ miracle. The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) was only one of these groups, but its multi-issue focus made it a particularly prominent fixture on the landscape of progressive reform in Virginia. The VOP began to address the need for a multiracial movement focused on social democratic reform. It raised questions that Virginia business leaders and political elites preferred to ignore. Fostering collective possibilities, it sought to alleviate the sense of fragmentation that afflicted American society in the years after the activist 1960s.Less
Beyond the political maneuvering in Richmond, some Virginians kept alive the notion that government could play a positive role in resolving complex social problems. That belief was founded on an even more basic assumption: that social and economic injustice existed, one which mainstream media could not accept in the era of the NASDAQ miracle. The Virginia Organizing Project (VOP) was only one of these groups, but its multi-issue focus made it a particularly prominent fixture on the landscape of progressive reform in Virginia. The VOP began to address the need for a multiracial movement focused on social democratic reform. It raised questions that Virginia business leaders and political elites preferred to ignore. Fostering collective possibilities, it sought to alleviate the sense of fragmentation that afflicted American society in the years after the activist 1960s.
Jeremy Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469623764
- eISBN:
- 9781469625188
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469623764.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, Russian and Former Soviet Union History
This chapter describes the Chinese reemergence on the world stage in the 1970s, particularly following their entry into the UN in 1971, and China's attempt to put itself at the head of a rising Third ...
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This chapter describes the Chinese reemergence on the world stage in the 1970s, particularly following their entry into the UN in 1971, and China's attempt to put itself at the head of a rising Third World movement. In order to rebuild its global standing in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, China sought help from the Third World, which blamed the developed nations for economic injustice. The mantle of “Third World unity” in the struggle for economic justice against the “two superpowers” (USA and Soviet Union) provided China with exactly the platform it needed. The Soviet Union answered this reemergence by creating a “natural alliance” between the developing world and the socialist camp against the West. This policy was successful and ultimately situated the Soviet Union as the main champion of the revolution.Less
This chapter describes the Chinese reemergence on the world stage in the 1970s, particularly following their entry into the UN in 1971, and China's attempt to put itself at the head of a rising Third World movement. In order to rebuild its global standing in the wake of the Cultural Revolution, China sought help from the Third World, which blamed the developed nations for economic injustice. The mantle of “Third World unity” in the struggle for economic justice against the “two superpowers” (USA and Soviet Union) provided China with exactly the platform it needed. The Soviet Union answered this reemergence by creating a “natural alliance” between the developing world and the socialist camp against the West. This policy was successful and ultimately situated the Soviet Union as the main champion of the revolution.
Jana Evans Braziel
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034577
- eISBN:
- 9780813038247
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034577.003.0005
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
There is a huge financial difference between the citizens of Haiti and the United States. This chapter thus points out that there is a need to be vigilant about the methods used by first world ...
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There is a huge financial difference between the citizens of Haiti and the United States. This chapter thus points out that there is a need to be vigilant about the methods used by first world countries as well as international financial institutions which are contributing to political destabilization and may even result in violence and terror in third world countries. The chapter asks the question: what factors contributed to the destabilization of Haiti in its bicentennial year? The chapter proposes an interdisciplinary approach for understanding pressing capitalist development issues with the help of literary forms of representation reflecting on the experiences of poverty and economic injustice.Less
There is a huge financial difference between the citizens of Haiti and the United States. This chapter thus points out that there is a need to be vigilant about the methods used by first world countries as well as international financial institutions which are contributing to political destabilization and may even result in violence and terror in third world countries. The chapter asks the question: what factors contributed to the destabilization of Haiti in its bicentennial year? The chapter proposes an interdisciplinary approach for understanding pressing capitalist development issues with the help of literary forms of representation reflecting on the experiences of poverty and economic injustice.
Bindu Puri
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- June 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199453528
- eISBN:
- 9780199085361
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199453528.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Gandhi rejected the central idea of the 1948 Declaration that human rights belong to human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This may appear odd, given Gandhi’s central role in the ...
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Gandhi rejected the central idea of the 1948 Declaration that human rights belong to human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This may appear odd, given Gandhi’s central role in the historical struggle for basic equality and freedom for the oppressed and most vulnerable in society. This chapter reconstructs Gandhi’s position on human rights, his insistence on duty, non-violence or ahimsa, and local and concrete engagement with social, political, and economic injustice. It is evident that Gandhi’s own specification of what justice requires was similar to the UDHR; Gandhi opposed human rights discourse only because he did not accept the presuppositions of the early liberal conception of human rights set forth in the UN Charter. It shows that Gandhi’s position can be understood as involving unilateral duties towards others while justice as satyagraha requires non-violent resistance.Less
Gandhi rejected the central idea of the 1948 Declaration that human rights belong to human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This may appear odd, given Gandhi’s central role in the historical struggle for basic equality and freedom for the oppressed and most vulnerable in society. This chapter reconstructs Gandhi’s position on human rights, his insistence on duty, non-violence or ahimsa, and local and concrete engagement with social, political, and economic injustice. It is evident that Gandhi’s own specification of what justice requires was similar to the UDHR; Gandhi opposed human rights discourse only because he did not accept the presuppositions of the early liberal conception of human rights set forth in the UN Charter. It shows that Gandhi’s position can be understood as involving unilateral duties towards others while justice as satyagraha requires non-violent resistance.
