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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Associations, clubs, societies
The idea of citizenship and conceptions of what it means to be a
good citizen have evolved over time. On the one hand, good
citizenship entails the ability to live with others in diverse
societies and to promote a common set of values of acceptance,
human rights, and democracy. On the other hand, in order to compete
in the global economy, nations require a more innovative,
autonomous, and reflective workforce, meaning good citizens are
also those who successfully participate in the economic development
of themselves and their country. These competing conceptions of
good citizenship can result in people's participation in
activities, such as profit-driven labor exploitation, that
contradict human rights and democratic tenants. Thus, global
citizenship education is fundamental to teaching, learning, and
redressing sociopolitical, economic, and environmental exploitation
around the world. Detailing the historical development of this
field of study to achieve recognition, Global Citizenship
Education: Challenges and Successes provides a critical discourse
on global citizenship education (GCE). Authors in this collection
discuss the underpinnings of global citizenship education via
contemporary theories and methodologies, as well as specific case
studies that illustrate the application of GCE initiatives. Editors
Eva Aboagye and S. Nombuso Dlamini aim to motivate learners and
educators in post-secondary institutions not only to understand the
issues of social and economic inequality and political and civil
unrest facing us, but also to take action that will lead to
equitable change in both local and global spaces.
In Animals as Legal Beings, Maneesha Deckha critically examines how
Canadian law and, by extension, other legal orders around the
world, participate in the social construction of the human-animal
divide and the abject rendering of animals as property. Through a
rigorous but cogent analysis, Deckha calls for replacing the
exploitative property classification for animals with a new
transformative legal status or subjectivity called "beingness." In
developing a new legal subjectivity for animals, one oriented
toward respecting animals for who they are rather than their
proximity to idealized versions of humanness, Animals as Legal
Beings seeks to bring critical animal theorizations and animal law
closer together. Throughout, Deckha draws upon the feminist animal
care tradition, as well as feminist theories of embodiment and
relationality, postcolonial theory, and critical animal studies.
Her argument is critical of the liberal legal view of animals and
directed at a legal subjectivity for animals attentive to their
embodied vulnerability, and desirous of an animal-friendly cultural
shift in the core foundations of anthropocentric legal systems.
Theoretically informed yet accessibly presented, Animals as Legal
Beings makes a significant contribution to an array of
interdisciplinary debates and is an innovative and astute argument
for a meaningful more-than-human turn in law and policy.
At the 2019 UN climate change conference, activists and delegates
from groups representing Indigenous, youth, women, and labour
rights were among those marching through the halls chanting
"Climate Justice, People Power." In The New Climate Activism, Jen
Iris Allan looks at why and how these social activists came to
participate in climate change governance while others, such as
those working on human rights and health, remain on the outside of
climate activism. Through case studies of women's rights, labour,
alter-globalization, health, and human rights activism, Allan shows
that some activists sought and successfully gained recognition as
part of climate change governance, while others remained
marginalized. While concepts key to some social activists,
including gender mainstreaming, just transition, and climate
justice are common terms, human rights and health remain "fringe
issues" in climate change governance. The New Climate Activism
explores why and how these activists brought their issues to
climate change, and why some succeeded while others did not.
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