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Utilizing the ethos of human rights, this insightful book captures
the development of the moral imagination of these rights through
history, culture, politics, and society. Moving beyond the focus on
legal protections, it draws attention to the foundation and
understanding of rights from theoretical, philosophical, political,
psychological, and spiritual perspectives. The book surveys the
changing ethos of human rights in the modern world and traces its
recent histories and process of change, delineating the ethical,
moral, and intellectual shifts in the field. Chapters incorporate
and contribute to the debates around the ethics of care,
considering some of the more challenging philosophical and
practical questions. It highlights how human rights thinkers have
sought to translate the ideals that are embodied in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights into action and practice.
Interdisciplinary in nature, this book will be critical reading for
scholars and students of human rights, international relations, and
philosophy. Its focus on potential answers, approaches, and
practices to further the cause of human rights will also be useful
for activists, NGOs, and policy makers in these fields.
This book challenges the current thinking and strategies in the
field of global peace and security. It is clear that current global
public and private institutions are inadequate for the challenges
we face today. These challenges cut across borders and require a
more coordinated and concerted effort to find workable solutions.
This book therefore begins with the question of global leadership
and works its way back to the interconnected dynamics of global
modernity and conflict. It is divided into four parts, each
addressing a fundamental challenge to global peace and security. By
exploring how we break out of the current framework, in which we
understand global activities and the distribution of resources, and
this book provides new ways of understanding the material,
cultural, political, and spiritual relations that form the basis of
international society.
Women and Inequality in a Changing World explores the obstacles
women continue to face to their equal participation in all areas of
daily life — political, social, and economic — which persist
despite the growth in the education of girls, large scale social
movements, and political waves. The volume widens and deepens
understanding of women in relation to the inequalities they face,
based not only on gender, but also on race, class, religion, and
more. It also highlights the progress that women have made, and how
this progress contributes to the creation of more peaceful and
prosperous societies. This interdisciplinary book brings together
leading scholars and practitioners from across the globe to provide
a wide range of perspectives and experiences, examine crucial
questions, and offer new ideas and innovative solutions to
increasing the role of women moving forward. This book will be of
great interest to students and scholars of gender studies,
women’s studies, and political science, as well as practitioners
working at the intersection of women and global issues. The Open
Access version of this book, available at
http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives
(CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding
of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing,
by examining the concept from economic, human development,
architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of
view. Providing insights from both research and practice the volume
discusses how to develop happier cities and improve urban
infrastructure for the wellbeing of the whole population. The book
puts forth the argument that it is only in understanding the true
nature of infrastructure's reach - how it connects, supports, and
enlivens human beings - that we can truly begin to understand
infrastructure's possibilities. It connects infrastructure to that
most elusive of human qualities - happiness - examining the way
infrastructure is fundamentally tied to human values and human
well-being. The book seeks to suggest novel approaches, identify
outmoded undertakings, and define new possibilities in order to
maximize infrastructure's impact for all people - with a focus on
diversity, inclusion and equity. In seeking to define
infrastructure broadly and examine its possibilities systematically
this book brings together theory and evidence from multiple
disciplinary perspectives including, sociology, urban studies,
architecture, economics, and public health in order to advance a
startling claim - that our lives, and the lives of others, can be
substantively improved by greater adhesion to the principles and
practices of infrastructure design for happiness and wellbeing.
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to our understanding
of infrastructure, and it's influence on happiness and wellbeing,
by examining the concept from economic, human development,
architectural, urban planning, psychological, and ethical points of
view. Providing insights from both research and practice the volume
discusses how to develop happier cities and improve urban
infrastructure for the wellbeing of the whole population. The book
puts forth the argument that it is only in understanding the true
nature of infrastructure's reach - how it connects, supports, and
enlivens human beings - that we can truly begin to understand
infrastructure's possibilities. It connects infrastructure to that
most elusive of human qualities - happiness - examining the way
infrastructure is fundamentally tied to human values and human
well-being. The book seeks to suggest novel approaches, identify
outmoded undertakings, and define new possibilities in order to
maximize infrastructure's impact for all people - with a focus on
diversity, inclusion and equity. In seeking to define
infrastructure broadly and examine its possibilities systematically
this book brings together theory and evidence from multiple
disciplinary perspectives including, sociology, urban studies,
architecture, economics, and public health in order to advance a
startling claim - that our lives, and the lives of others, can be
substantively improved by greater adhesion to the principles and
practices of infrastructure design for happiness and wellbeing.
- Leading scholars in their respective disciplines and younger,
up-and-coming academics come together in this volume to contribute
essays on a vastly important topic with major relevance. - A mix of
qualitative and quantitative methods are used to clearly make the
case and provide evidence to support the structural basis of
racism, making this a useful volume for students and researchers
alike. - Authors go beyond the identification of structural forms
of racism and its myriad consequences and make suggestions for
multifaceted solutions. - Frames our current moment in an important
historical, theoretical, ideological, and policy-informed
framework, offering a wide range of breadth, but also critical
depth and clarity to contemporary issues.
Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of
children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration,
contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization,
structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered
trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has
contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of
international norms about children's welfare and heightened public
awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world.
This book's contributors - leading historians, literary scholars,
psychologists, social geographers, and others - provide fresh
perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced
in children's lives.
Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of
children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration,
contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization,
structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered
trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has
contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of
international norms about children's welfare and heightened public
awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world.
This book's contributors - leading historians, literary scholars,
psychologists, social geographers, and others - provide fresh
perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced
in children's lives.
- Leading scholars in their respective disciplines and younger,
up-and-coming academics come together in this volume to contribute
essays on a vastly important topic with major relevance. - A mix of
qualitative and quantitative methods are used to clearly make the
case and provide evidence to support the structural basis of
racism, making this a useful volume for students and researchers
alike. - Authors go beyond the identification of structural forms
of racism and its myriad consequences and make suggestions for
multifaceted solutions. - Frames our current moment in an important
historical, theoretical, ideological, and policy-informed
framework, offering a wide range of breadth, but also critical
depth and clarity to contemporary issues.
The concept of dignity is essential to discourses of human rights,
and to understand what dignity means and requires, we must address
a number of difficult questions with input from a wide range of
disciplines. How is human dignity protected, maintained, or ensured
in a rapidly changing world? What are the rights and
responsibilities that go hand in hand with the concept of dignity?
Which beliefs, discourses, individuals, and institutions threaten
its global application or block its reach across all categories of
difference? How is a consciousness of the importance of dignity
developing across the globe? This timely collection brings together
a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to give
urgent and sustained attention to such questions and to offer
interdisciplinary explorations into this most fundamental of
concepts. Contributors from a diversity of academic and cultural
backgrounds identify the challenges and opportunities in the realms
of research, policy, education, religion, international law, social
discourse, and media to define, broaden, and protect human dignity
within both public and private spheres. They also address the need
for reconstituting the current discourses on dignity to align them
more effectively with the intellectual, moral, emotional, and
spiritual capacities and concerns that animate the lives of human
beings, ultimately gesturing towards a framework for ensuring that
each member of the human race will be able to enjoy the conditions
that are required if each person is to have the opportunity to
realize their full human potential. For its rigorous
interdisciplinary inquiry into this deceptively simple concept and
for its practical implications for those pursuing real-world
solutions, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and
Human Rights is essential reading for researchers and students
working within international relations, legal and global studies,
philosophy, peace and conflict studies, and human rights and
humanitarian law.
The concept of dignity is essential to discourses of human rights,
and to understand what dignity means and requires, we must address
a number of difficult questions with input from a wide range of
disciplines. How is human dignity protected, maintained, or ensured
in a rapidly changing world? What are the rights and
responsibilities that go hand in hand with the concept of dignity?
Which beliefs, discourses, individuals, and institutions threaten
its global application or block its reach across all categories of
difference? How is a consciousness of the importance of dignity
developing across the globe? This timely collection brings together
a diverse array of field-leading contributors in order to give
urgent and sustained attention to such questions and to offer
interdisciplinary explorations into this most fundamental of
concepts. Contributors from a diversity of academic and cultural
backgrounds identify the challenges and opportunities in the realms
of research, policy, education, religion, international law, social
discourse, and media to define, broaden, and protect human dignity
within both public and private spheres. They also address the need
for reconstituting the current discourses on dignity to align them
more effectively with the intellectual, moral, emotional, and
spiritual capacities and concerns that animate the lives of human
beings, ultimately gesturing towards a framework for ensuring that
each member of the human race will be able to enjoy the conditions
that are required if each person is to have the opportunity to
realize their full human potential. For its rigorous
interdisciplinary inquiry into this deceptively simple concept and
for its practical implications for those pursuing real-world
solutions, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Dignity and
Human Rights is essential reading for researchers and students
working within international relations, legal and global studies,
philosophy, peace and conflict studies, and human rights and
humanitarian law.
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