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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Global Justice"”.
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Poverty, politics and global justice
… an investigation into the ethics and politics of global poverty. The main focus will be on the multidimensional concept of poverty in relation to, global politics and justice in the context of contemporary political thought and philosophical research,. The research methodology used in this study …
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A Hybrid Theory of Global Justice
Although we have obligations to address global problems at a political level, we disagree on the source, justification, and content of these norms. For example, what kinds of obligations exist across national borders and why? What international actions are right and wrong? Who is required to …
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From Conflict of Laws to Global Justice
… be more disputed and insecure. At the same time, globalization requires a strong basis on which legal systems can be coordinated. It is therefore high time to reconsider the theory of choice of law. In my analysis, I have focused on the three major players in the conflicts dilemma: individuals, …
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Global justice buzz : the visual rhetoric of the Beehive Design Collective
… and politics function within the context of the global justice movement, postcolonial critiques and transnational feminist theory. I argue that the Bees' creative use of material rhetorics that combine art with political storytelling should be valued as an effective form of visual rhetoric, and …
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H. Odera Oruka and the Right to a Human Minimum: A Sagacious Quest for Global Justice
… philosophical discourses touching such important global issues as justice, human rights, ethical duty, ecology, humanism and politics. It specifically advances Oruka’s argument for <em>the right to a human minimum</em>, establishing how that ethical principle can be applicable in addressing some …
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Interpreting global justice : variations in perspectives of U.S. environmental organizations on environment, human rights, and social equity
… in the United States have engaged with the global justice movement differently depending on the extent to which they view human rights and social equity issues as part of their environmental work. These organizations, influenced by their organizational history and their work with …
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An Ethical Justification for Post-Trial Access to Anti-Retroviral Drugs for Participants and Host Populations in Developing Countries: A Global Justice Perspective
… of HIV/AIDS in developing countries engenders global health emergency which establishes the urgent need to address the issue of affordable access to anti-retroviral drugs in developing countries. The dissertation discusses an ethical justification for post-trial access to anti-retroviral drugs …
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This is what democracy looks like: the genesis, culture and possibilities of anti-corporate activism
This thesis is on exploration of the anti-globalisation, or as it is more accurately called by participants, the global justice movement. It explores the relationship between activists in the North and South. The project uses extensive interviews and participant observation techniques as a method …
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Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Perspectives
… humanitarian intervention is a perfect duty. The global community has a moral obligation to act decisively in the face of extreme human rights abuses. There are two contrasting theoretical perspectives regarding international relations and humanitarian intervention: statism and cosmopolitanism. …
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EXIT FROM THE MYOPIC IMPASSE: SOCIAL MOVEMENT STRATEGY IN THE AGE OF THE INTERNET
… assumptions found in recent literature on the Global Justice Movement (GJM). Specifically, it problematizes the largely acritical discourse regarding the emancipatory potential of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) vis-à-vis the GJM. Given that the speed with which worldwide …
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The Confederation Paysanne as 'peasant' Movement: Re-appropriating 'peasantness' for the advancement of organisational interests
… Campesina (1993) and active participant in the Global Justice Movement (the altermondialiste movement in France), the Confederation paysanne (CP) - which literally stands for 'peasant confederation' - has been presented in academic and activist circles as a key player in the struggle against …
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The significance of fairness/
… In Chapter 2 ("Fairness, Distributive Justice and Global Justice") I discuss justice in the distribution of resources, both within states and across different states. On one influential view, it is always unjust for one person to have less than another through no fault of her own. State …
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
… Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization </em>examines contemporary postcolonial narratives of migration written by women of color writing in English and in Italian under the rubric of “migritude.” Migritude literature describes the work of a disparate yet distinct group of …
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The Riddle of History Solved: How the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Narrated Bosnia’s History
… of international criminal law in shaping both global histories and contemporary realities. I focus on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and explore how five of the Tribunal’s Chambers, in the span of over 20 years, approached the questions of Bosnian history and …
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Human Capabilities and Collectivist Justice
The capability approach to justice, made popular by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum, has been a stalwart of the human development literature for the last 30 years, and its core ideals underwrite the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. This dissertation offers a new version of the …
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Lawyering from Below: Activist Legal Support in Contemporary Canada and the US
… model are highlighted as the key features of the global justice organizing era (1999-2005) while in the second age of austerity era (2008-2018), I discuss evolving approaches to law collective work in various protest movements and highlight a renewed focus on anti-repression as a framing praxis of …
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NO ONE IS ILLEGAL: DECOLONIAL COSMOPOLITANISM, MIGRANT SUBJECTIVITY, AND THE COMMUNICATION OF SOCIAL CHANGE
… means to communicate critically and ethically as global citizens in the context of postcolonial globality. Informed by critical and postcolonial iterations of cosmopolitan thought and guided by Sobré-Denton and Bardhan’s (2013) notion of cosmopolitan communication and peoplehood, this study offers …
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Decolonising Cosmopolitanism
… has recently become a topic on the global agenda of epistemic decolonisation. Cosmopolitanism, with its Greek etymology, is a term of art originating with Western moral and political philosophy. Yet, the term is now widely used across the humanities and social sciences, opening …
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Concepts of proportionality in investment protection of patents and access to health resources
This thesis seeks to demonstrate why investment protection of patented health resources is disproportionate and how the disproportionate power can be mitigated. The argument asserts that the protection of patented health resources under international investment agreements (“IIAs”) goes beyond the …
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