Browsing by Subject "social movements"

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    Legal Empowerment of the Poor: The Re-emergence of a Lost Strand of Human Rights?
    (The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, 2012-01) von Broembsen, Marlese
    This paper considers the contribution of the UNDP’s Legal Empowerment of the Poor (LEP) framework to the rights and poverty reduction discourse. It argues that the value of LEP, as envisaged by its architect, Stephen Golub, is less of a new development paradigm, but rescues one of the strands of the rights-based approaches from a contested discourse, which is being lost to an overly legalistic interpretation. I respond to the critique that the LEP framework lacks conceptual rigour, by initiating a discussion on power and empowerment, the objective of which is to contribute to LEP’s conceptual development. LEP’s focus on power, as opposed to law, critically distinguishes it from the dominant rights-based discourse, yet little attention is paid in LEP literature to constructing a coherent concept of power or empowerment. This paper aims to contribute to the concept of empowerment within the LEP framework. I draw on the work of Lukes and the substantial body of work on empowerment by development scholars.
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    The Role of Courts and Constitutions in the New Politics of Welfare in Latin America.
    (Cambridge University Press, 2013) Brinks, Daniel M; Forbath, William
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    Shadowboxing: Representations of Black Feminist Politics
    (St. Martin's Press, 1999) James, Joy
    Shadowboxing presents an explosive analysis of the history and practice of black feminisms, drawing upon political theory, history and cultural studies in a sweeping interdisciplinary work. James charts new territory by synthesizing theories of social movements with cultural and identity politics. She brings into the spotlight images of black female agency and intellectualism in radical and anti-radical political contexts, challenging readers to rethink understandings of the changing Africana presence in American culture.
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    States vs. Social Movements: Protests and State Repression in Asia
    (Cogitatio, 2022) Lukito, Josephine; Cui, Zhe; Hu, An; Lee, Taeyoung; Ozawa, João V.S.
    This study considers how governments use state‐sponsored propaganda and state violence in tandem to repress social movements and, in so doing, exacerbate polarization. We specifically focus on cases in young and non‐democracies in East and Southeast Asia: China and Hong Kong, the Free Papua Movement in Indonesia, and Myanmar’s more recent coup. Using a time series analysis, our analysis reveals a temporal relationship between state propaganda and violence; however, we do not find much evidence that these state actions Granger‐cause social movement activities. The exception to this is in Myanmar, where we find that repressive state actions decrease activity in Facebook groups criticizing the Tatmadaw, which in turn increases offline protest activities.
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