Aryeh Neier
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691135151
- eISBN:
- 9781400841875
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691135151.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter explains that the driving force behind the protection of human rights worldwide, today and for roughly the past thirty-five years, has been the nongovernmental human rights movement. ...
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This chapter explains that the driving force behind the protection of human rights worldwide, today and for roughly the past thirty-five years, has been the nongovernmental human rights movement. Intermittently during the last two-and-a-half centuries, citizens' movements did play important roles in efforts to promote human rights, as during the development of the antislavery movement in England in the eighteenth century and the rise of the feminist movement in the United States in the nineteenth century. The contemporary human rights movement responds to victories and defeats by shifting focus from time to time, but it shows signs that it will remain an enduring force in world affairs. Efforts by those outside governments have been particularly important in extending the protection of rights beyond national boundaries, and it is in the present era that they have been most significant.Less
This chapter explains that the driving force behind the protection of human rights worldwide, today and for roughly the past thirty-five years, has been the nongovernmental human rights movement. Intermittently during the last two-and-a-half centuries, citizens' movements did play important roles in efforts to promote human rights, as during the development of the antislavery movement in England in the eighteenth century and the rise of the feminist movement in the United States in the nineteenth century. The contemporary human rights movement responds to victories and defeats by shifting focus from time to time, but it shows signs that it will remain an enduring force in world affairs. Efforts by those outside governments have been particularly important in extending the protection of rights beyond national boundaries, and it is in the present era that they have been most significant.
Baogang He
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780748699711
- eISBN:
- 9781474416139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748699711.003.0002
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Chapter 1 serves as a conceptual introduction for the book. It defines the key concepts of the national boundary/identity question and democratic governance (or management, or approach, or solution) ...
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Chapter 1 serves as a conceptual introduction for the book. It defines the key concepts of the national boundary/identity question and democratic governance (or management, or approach, or solution) related to the national boundary/identity question. It develops an analytical classification of different kinds of national boundary/identity or membership issues, qualifies the project of democratic management, and spells out the concrete components of democratic governance. It explores why democratic management of the boundary issue is desirable, and defends the universal project of democratic governance. This chapter is an intellectual foundation for the quest for democratic governance with regards to the Taiwan and Tibet issues.Less
Chapter 1 serves as a conceptual introduction for the book. It defines the key concepts of the national boundary/identity question and democratic governance (or management, or approach, or solution) related to the national boundary/identity question. It develops an analytical classification of different kinds of national boundary/identity or membership issues, qualifies the project of democratic management, and spells out the concrete components of democratic governance. It explores why democratic management of the boundary issue is desirable, and defends the universal project of democratic governance. This chapter is an intellectual foundation for the quest for democratic governance with regards to the Taiwan and Tibet issues.
Mancur Olson
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198294900
- eISBN:
- 9780191596728
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198294905.003.0002
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic Systems
The idea is advanced that it is the rationality of individuals in societies that makes them achieve their production potential rather than their per capita productive resources, and that the ...
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The idea is advanced that it is the rationality of individuals in societies that makes them achieve their production potential rather than their per capita productive resources, and that the low‐income countries of the Second and Third Worlds are poor mainly because they are much further below their potential incomes than are rich countries. If these countries were to improve their governance and institutions sufficiently, there would be huge gains from foreign investment and advanced technologies, which are for the most part, available at relatively modest cost to poor countries. The evidence for this view is taken from studies of the borders of countries and the flows of labour (migration) and capital that cross them, and data on per capita income in relation to population density.Less
The idea is advanced that it is the rationality of individuals in societies that makes them achieve their production potential rather than their per capita productive resources, and that the low‐income countries of the Second and Third Worlds are poor mainly because they are much further below their potential incomes than are rich countries. If these countries were to improve their governance and institutions sufficiently, there would be huge gains from foreign investment and advanced technologies, which are for the most part, available at relatively modest cost to poor countries. The evidence for this view is taken from studies of the borders of countries and the flows of labour (migration) and capital that cross them, and data on per capita income in relation to population density.
Misa Izuhara (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422057
- eISBN:
- 9781447301424
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422057.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness ...
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With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness in the labour market, and increasing mobility within and beyond national boundaries. This book explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies around the world. It draws on theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses to discuss both newly emerging patterns of family reciprocity and more established ones which are affected by changing opportunities and pressures in contemporary societies. The book is split into two parts: the first reviews key theoretical and conceptual debates in this field, while the second offers new insights and an understanding of exchange practices based on case studies from different regions and different relationships.Less
With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are forming partly due to significant family changes, value shifts, precariousness in the labour market, and increasing mobility within and beyond national boundaries. This book explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies around the world. It draws on theoretical perspectives and empirical analyses to discuss both newly emerging patterns of family reciprocity and more established ones which are affected by changing opportunities and pressures in contemporary societies. The book is split into two parts: the first reviews key theoretical and conceptual debates in this field, while the second offers new insights and an understanding of exchange practices based on case studies from different regions and different relationships.
Graham Room
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347398
- eISBN:
- 9781447303787
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347398.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter explains that the development of the new knowledge-based economy is intimately bound up with the process of globalisation. It defines globalisation as the organisation of economic, ...
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This chapter explains that the development of the new knowledge-based economy is intimately bound up with the process of globalisation. It defines globalisation as the organisation of economic, social, or other activity in terms which transcend national boundaries. It notes that globalisation is only one element in the reorganisation of space that has been under way in recent decades. This chapter focuses on globalisation and the new economy, with the additional dimensions of spatial reorganisation.Less
This chapter explains that the development of the new knowledge-based economy is intimately bound up with the process of globalisation. It defines globalisation as the organisation of economic, social, or other activity in terms which transcend national boundaries. It notes that globalisation is only one element in the reorganisation of space that has been under way in recent decades. This chapter focuses on globalisation and the new economy, with the additional dimensions of spatial reorganisation.
Dan Shao
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834456
- eISBN:
- 9780824870263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834456.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter foregrounds individuals' experiences with community reconstruction and identity redefinition amid the borderland contestation over Manchuria. It examines how Aisin Gioro Xianyu, a Manchu ...
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This chapter foregrounds individuals' experiences with community reconstruction and identity redefinition amid the borderland contestation over Manchuria. It examines how Aisin Gioro Xianyu, a Manchu princess who tried to obtain Japanese support for the restoration of the Manchu regime, failed to negotiate her ethnic and national identities at her trial for treason after the Japanese empire collapsed. Living in an era replete with ethnic tension and international wars, Xianyu's repeated crossing of national boundaries puts her squarely within a generation of people who had complicated transnational and cross-ethnic profiles. Xianyu's trial reveals the political consequences for individuals of the deterritorialization of Manchuria and the ethnification of the Manchus.Less
This chapter foregrounds individuals' experiences with community reconstruction and identity redefinition amid the borderland contestation over Manchuria. It examines how Aisin Gioro Xianyu, a Manchu princess who tried to obtain Japanese support for the restoration of the Manchu regime, failed to negotiate her ethnic and national identities at her trial for treason after the Japanese empire collapsed. Living in an era replete with ethnic tension and international wars, Xianyu's repeated crossing of national boundaries puts her squarely within a generation of people who had complicated transnational and cross-ethnic profiles. Xianyu's trial reveals the political consequences for individuals of the deterritorialization of Manchuria and the ethnification of the Manchus.
M. A. Lourdes S. Bautista and Kingsley Bolton (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099470
- eISBN:
- 9789882207264
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099470.001.0001
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Sociolinguistics / Anthropological Linguistics
The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both linguistic and literary ...
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The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both linguistic and literary perspectives. The volumes in this series reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government, and education; “hybrid” Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book provides an overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.Less
The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both linguistic and literary perspectives. The volumes in this series reflect themes that cut across national boundaries, including the study of language policies; globalization and linguistic imperialism; English in the media; English in law, government, and education; “hybrid” Englishes; and the bilingual creativity manifested by the vibrant creative writing found in a swathe of Asian societies. This book provides an overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and retention, and the characteristics of Philippine English today.
Chris Phillipson
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847422057
- eISBN:
- 9781447301424
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847422057.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter explores the interaction between demography and globalisation. It observes that population ageing has been a major factor influencing changes in intergenerational relations, and such a ...
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This chapter explores the interaction between demography and globalisation. It observes that population ageing has been a major factor influencing changes in intergenerational relations, and such a demographic shift is firmly located in broader social and economic developments, including processes associated with globalisation. It also examines how demographic shifts and globalisation are currently influencing the nature of intergenerational relations by linking those two issues together, and asks, are any new forms of contact and reciprocity across generations emerging within and beyond national boundaries?Less
This chapter explores the interaction between demography and globalisation. It observes that population ageing has been a major factor influencing changes in intergenerational relations, and such a demographic shift is firmly located in broader social and economic developments, including processes associated with globalisation. It also examines how demographic shifts and globalisation are currently influencing the nature of intergenerational relations by linking those two issues together, and asks, are any new forms of contact and reciprocity across generations emerging within and beyond national boundaries?
Michel Hogue
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781469621050
- eISBN:
- 9781469623238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469621050.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This concluding chapter remarks on how the kinships and other social relations constructed from Plain Metis life continue to persist in the face of legal distinctions of race and nation. Metis ...
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This concluding chapter remarks on how the kinships and other social relations constructed from Plain Metis life continue to persist in the face of legal distinctions of race and nation. Metis economic power, military might, and cultural connections to neighbors and kin, so compelling in earlier decades, had lost much of their purchase in the altered contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The dispersal of these borderland communities ultimately exposed the connections between the marking of national and racial boundaries and the resettlement of the North American West. At the same time, the continued ability of individuals and families to move back and forth across the border suggests an unbroken (if diminished) sense of community that continues to transcend the international boundary even today.Less
This concluding chapter remarks on how the kinships and other social relations constructed from Plain Metis life continue to persist in the face of legal distinctions of race and nation. Metis economic power, military might, and cultural connections to neighbors and kin, so compelling in earlier decades, had lost much of their purchase in the altered contexts of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The dispersal of these borderland communities ultimately exposed the connections between the marking of national and racial boundaries and the resettlement of the North American West. At the same time, the continued ability of individuals and families to move back and forth across the border suggests an unbroken (if diminished) sense of community that continues to transcend the international boundary even today.
Sadhana Naithani
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734553
- eISBN:
- 9781621037699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734553.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This chapter discusses folklore studies and how the history of folklore research, critical studies on folklore collectors and their ideologies, and the socio-political implications of folklore ...
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This chapter discusses folklore studies and how the history of folklore research, critical studies on folklore collectors and their ideologies, and the socio-political implications of folklore studies have all been seen within national boundaries. The history of folklore as a subject and object of research is traced back to the early nineteenth-century romantic-nationalist movement in Germany. The global history of folklore research, on the other hand, is Eurocentric in its approach, to the extent that it is based on nineteenth-century European folklore collectors within Europe, although it is well known that in the same century a large number of Europeans collected folklore of countries on other continents. Much of this work outside the European continent was accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists.Less
This chapter discusses folklore studies and how the history of folklore research, critical studies on folklore collectors and their ideologies, and the socio-political implications of folklore studies have all been seen within national boundaries. The history of folklore as a subject and object of research is traced back to the early nineteenth-century romantic-nationalist movement in Germany. The global history of folklore research, on the other hand, is Eurocentric in its approach, to the extent that it is based on nineteenth-century European folklore collectors within Europe, although it is well known that in the same century a large number of Europeans collected folklore of countries on other continents. Much of this work outside the European continent was accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists.
Annabel Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300198003
- eISBN:
- 9780300210408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300198003.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter offers a reading of Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow, which chronicles the problems of Turkey. The novel utilizes the phrase “the silence of snow” to symbolize the enforced silence of the ...
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This chapter offers a reading of Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow, which chronicles the problems of Turkey. The novel utilizes the phrase “the silence of snow” to symbolize the enforced silence of the Turkish state about its genocidal past and ethnically exclusionist present. Aside from political censorship, Snow also tells the story of romance between the main protagonist Ka and a divorcée named Ipek. Another crucial theme in Snow is the head scarf issue, which, according to Pamuk, is part of the worldwide debate on nationalism and national boundaries.Less
This chapter offers a reading of Orhan Pamuk's novel Snow, which chronicles the problems of Turkey. The novel utilizes the phrase “the silence of snow” to symbolize the enforced silence of the Turkish state about its genocidal past and ethnically exclusionist present. Aside from political censorship, Snow also tells the story of romance between the main protagonist Ka and a divorcée named Ipek. Another crucial theme in Snow is the head scarf issue, which, according to Pamuk, is part of the worldwide debate on nationalism and national boundaries.
Abigail C. Saguy
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300098006
- eISBN:
- 9780300135305
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300098006.003.0035
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law
This chapter addresses the issue of how sexual harassment has traveled across national boundaries, in the case of France, drawing on a cross-national sociological study of how sexual harassment has ...
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This chapter addresses the issue of how sexual harassment has traveled across national boundaries, in the case of France, drawing on a cross-national sociological study of how sexual harassment has been defined in the United States and France. It describes sexual harassment law in action, drawing primarily from twenty in-depth interviews, conducted in 1996 and 1997, with ten French and ten American lawyers who have worked in the area of sexual harassment. The argument is further informed by an additional forty in-depth interviews, conducted between 1995 and 2000, with French and American activists, public figures, human resource personnel, and union activists; legal analysis of statutes and jurisprudence in the two countries; content analysis of more than six hundred articles published in the American and French popular press from 1975 to 2000; and twenty-three brief telephone interviews conducted during the summer of 1997 with the human resource or personnel departments in French corporate workplaces.Less
This chapter addresses the issue of how sexual harassment has traveled across national boundaries, in the case of France, drawing on a cross-national sociological study of how sexual harassment has been defined in the United States and France. It describes sexual harassment law in action, drawing primarily from twenty in-depth interviews, conducted in 1996 and 1997, with ten French and ten American lawyers who have worked in the area of sexual harassment. The argument is further informed by an additional forty in-depth interviews, conducted between 1995 and 2000, with French and American activists, public figures, human resource personnel, and union activists; legal analysis of statutes and jurisprudence in the two countries; content analysis of more than six hundred articles published in the American and French popular press from 1975 to 2000; and twenty-three brief telephone interviews conducted during the summer of 1997 with the human resource or personnel departments in French corporate workplaces.
Annabel Patterson
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300198003
- eISBN:
- 9780300210408
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300198003.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter offers a reading of V. S. Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River, which chronicles the rapid changes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after independence. It first provides a ...
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This chapter offers a reading of V. S. Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River, which chronicles the rapid changes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after independence. It first provides a historical background on the arbitrary drawing or redrawing of national boundaries in Africa before discussing its implications for nationalism or internationalism in the region.Less
This chapter offers a reading of V. S. Naipaul's novel A Bend in the River, which chronicles the rapid changes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after independence. It first provides a historical background on the arbitrary drawing or redrawing of national boundaries in Africa before discussing its implications for nationalism or internationalism in the region.
Mamoru Akamine
Robert Huey (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780824855178
- eISBN:
- 9780824872953
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824855178.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
A discussion of the Ryukyu Archipelago and its shifting historical boundaries is followed by an overview of the Ryukyu kingdom’s emergence as an important player in East Asian trade, concluding with ...
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A discussion of the Ryukyu Archipelago and its shifting historical boundaries is followed by an overview of the Ryukyu kingdom’s emergence as an important player in East Asian trade, concluding with a discussion of how recent historiography of the region has been changed by the emergence of previously lost ancient documents.Less
A discussion of the Ryukyu Archipelago and its shifting historical boundaries is followed by an overview of the Ryukyu kingdom’s emergence as an important player in East Asian trade, concluding with a discussion of how recent historiography of the region has been changed by the emergence of previously lost ancient documents.
