Civil Disobedience in Islam–a Contemporary Debate
Monday, 05 December 2022
by Research Assistants
Civil Disobedience in Islam, written by Muhammad Haniff Hassan (2018) provides an analysis of opposing arguments that either support or condemn political dissent. Hassan defines civil disobedience as a pacifist movement against an authority that breaks the law and that is orchestrated for the purpose of producing a change within the governing institution that has
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Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Monday, 10 January 2022
by Prof. Souaiaia
While working on my recent work, Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights, I struggled with the application of the systems thinking framework to the topic of human rights. I wanted the framework to yield practical recommendations that promote and foster fundamental rights. By the end of the project, I realized that such expectations are
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Is social media-enabled collective behavior creating a crisis?
Monday, 19 July 2021
by Prof. Souaiaia
Characterizing the effects of scaled-up communication technology on societies around the world as a global phenomenon with new risks to humanity, seventeen researchers, from anthropology, biology, philosophy, psychology, and some interdisciplinary programs, penned the research note, Stewardship of Global Collective Behavior, explaining the nature of the problem and recommending solutions. The main thesis of the
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Muslims and the Western Conception of Rights
Thursday, 15 April 2021
by Research Assistants
Editorial Review by M. R. Whitehead Since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, little has changed. Human rights abuses have persisted around the globe, across cultures and societies, and despite the timeworn discussion of how to prevent them. This book pushes back against the discourse’s inertia, putting moral universalism and cultural relativism
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The War on the Uyghurs: China’s Internal Campaign against a Muslim Minority
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
by Editorial Team
Years before COVID-19 was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan, the Chinese government had already set its targets on another purportedly dangerous pathogen: Islamist extremism, which Chinese officials said was ‘infecting’ the Uyghurs, the predominantly Muslim indigenous peoples of northwest China’s Xinjiang region. In 2014 and 2015, the People’s Republic of China (PRC)’s
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Achieving Human Rights
Tuesday, 16 March 2021
by Editorial Team
Achieving Human Rights, a compilation of fourteen chapters, attempts to provide a coherent account of the struggle to achieve hu- man rights in the early years of the twenty-first century. Falk goes to great length to personalize, for readers, the practice and protection of human rights by locating freedom and responsibility in the countless daily
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Human Rights in Global Health: Rights-Based Governance for a Globalizing World
Friday, 02 October 2020
by Editorial Team
Reviewed by Unni Gopinathan Institutions of global governance play a critical role in diffusing norms and influencing the behaviour of states and non-state actors [1, 2]. Previously, scholars have examined how policies promoted by global governance institutions impact human rights [3], how these institutions can advance human rights norms [4–6], and how organizational culture influences
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Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
Friday, 16 August 2019
by Editorial Team
In Property, Institutions and Social Stratification in Africa, Franklin Obeng-Odoom offers a new comprehensive exploration of inequalities within Africa and between Africa and the rest of the world, drawing on stratification economics. The book offers compelling and crucial insight into the deficiencies of mainstream economics when it comes to addressing the roots of poverty and inequality in African countries and provides new evidence of neocolonialism and exploitation of African resources across the continent, yet the challenge remains of how to bring African countries the rewards of their past, present and future property.
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For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq
Tuesday, 18 June 2019
by Review Editors
Why is the use of international law becoming increasingly prevalent in global affairs? What are the consequences of the widespread use of such an incoherent, colonial and imperial law as the lingua franca? In For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq, Ayça Çubukçu asks these highly important questions and reveals the ambivalent
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Interpreting the Arab Spring
Monday, 17 June 2019
by Prof. Souaiaia
Since the events widely known as the Arab Spring started in 2011, scholars and researchers have produced more than 200 books and ten times as many journal articles. For an event that is, by some measures, still ongoing, this body of knowledge is astounding. This broad interest speaks to several key facts. First, the region
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