Norman Gerass Political Thought From Marxism To Human Rights

Author : Mark Cowling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319740482
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Norman Geras’s Political Thought from Marxism to Human Rights written by Mark Cowling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical account of the main controversies involving Norman Geras, one of the key modern political thinkers. It moves from his youthful Trotskyism on to his book on Rosa Luxemburg, then his classic account of Marx and human nature, and his highly regarded discussion of Marx and justice. Following this, Geras tried to elaborate a Marxist theory of justice, which involved taking on-board aspects of liberalism. Next he attacked the post modernism of Laclau and Mouffe and criticised Rorty’s pragmatism, and then elaborated a contract of mutual indifference from a detailed study of the Holocaust. Lastly he wrote a book on human rights and humanitarian intervention, defending the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Cowling varies from exposition and admiration, to ideas about how Geras’s work should be interpreted, to criticism of his Trotskyism and of his support for the invasion of Iraq. The book will appeal to readers interested in Norman Geras and Marxism in particular, and social and political theory in general.

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030623165
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Decolonising Conflicts, Security, Peace, Gender, Environment and Development in the Anthropocene written by Úrsula Oswald Spring and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-25 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book 25 authors from the Global South (19) and the Global North (6) address conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development. Four parts cover I) peace research epistemology; II) conflicts, families and vulnerable people; III) peacekeeping, peacebuilding and transitional justice; and IV) peace and education. Part I deals with peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, Gandhi’s non-violent policy and disobedient peace. Part II discusses urban climate change, climate rituals, conflicts in Kenya, the sexual abuse of girls, farmer-herder conflicts in Nigeria, wartime sexual violence facing refugees, the traditional conflict and peacemakingprocess of Kurdish tribes, Hindustani family shame, and communication with Roma. Part III analyses norms of peacekeeping, violent non-state actors in Brazil, the art of peace in Mexico, grass-roots post-conflict peacebuilding in Sulawesi, hydrodiplomacyin the Indus River Basin, the Rohingya refugee crisis, and transitional justice. Part IV assesses SDGs and peace in India, peace education in Nepal, and infrastructure-based development and peace in West Papua. • Peer-reviewed texts prepared for the 27th Conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) in 2018 in Ahmedabad in India.• Contributions from two pioneers of global peace research:a foreword by Johan Galtung from Norway and a preface by Betty Reardon from the United States.• Innovative case studies by peace researchers on decolonising conflicts, security, peace, gender, environment and development in the Anthropocene, the new epoch of earth and human history.• New theoretical perspectives by senior and junior scholars from Europe and Latin America on peace ecology, transformative peace, peaceful societies, and Gandhi’s non-violence policy.• Case studies on climate change, SDGs and peace in India; conflicts in Kenya, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Brazil and Mexico; Roma in Hungary;the refugee crisis in Bangladesh; peace action in Indonesia and India/Pakistan; and peace education in Nepal.

Author : Johan Galtung
Publisher : Coronet Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transarmament and the Cold War written by Johan Galtung and published by Coronet Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johan Galtung
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peace, War and Defense written by Johan Galtung and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betty A. Reardon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319118099
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betty A. Reardon: Key Texts in Gender and Peace written by Betty A. Reardon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-11-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a rich collection of Betty A. Reardon’s writing on gender studies, sexism and the war system, and human security from a feminist perspective. Betty A. Reardon is a pioneer of gender studies who, as a feminist, identified the structural relationship between sexism and the war system and, as a scholar, a shift from national to human security. As a pioneer in contemporary theories on gender and peace, Betty A. Reardon has continually developed research on the integral relationship between patriarchy and war, and has been an outspoken advocate of gender issues as an essential aspect of peace studies, of problems of gender equity as the subject of peace research, and of gender experience as a crucial factor in defining and attaining human security. Her work evolved in the context of international women’s movements for human rights, peace and the United Nations, and is widely drawn upon by activists and educators in order to introduce a gender perspective to peace studies and education and a peace perspective to women’s studies.

Author : Betty Reardon
Publisher : Unesco
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolerance: Primary-school resource unit written by Betty Reardon and published by Unesco. This book was released on 1997 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher : United Nations
ISBN 13 : 9213627335
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, the Environment and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific written by United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and published by United Nations. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the first Asia-Pacific report that comprehensively maps out the intersections between gender and environment at the levels of household, work, community and policy. It examines gender concerns in the spheres of food security, agriculture, energy, water, fisheries and forestry, and identifies strategic entry points for policy interventions. Based on a grounded study of the reality in the Asia-Pacific region, this report puts together good practices and policy lessons that could be capitalized by policymakers to advance the agenda of sustainable development in Asia and the Pacific.

Author : Günther Baechler
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformation of Resource Conflicts written by Günther Baechler and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection of contributions to this volume addresses such burning issues as natural resource management, conflict transformation, and co-operation in sub-regions of the Horn of Africa. The individual pieces of action-oriented field research constitute the final report of the international research project on Environmental Conflict Management (ECOMAN). ECOMAN focuses on theory and practice of environmental conflict management in the Horn of Africa. On one hand it draws from the discussion launched in the mid-nineties about environmental security, and about political, legal, and institutional approaches to deal with highly complex and multi-party conflict. On the other hand it refers to traditional and/or local mechanisms of conflict regulations if and when resource use and distribution is involved. It adopts mainly a transformatory approach using process-oriented and interactive problem solving methods.

Author : John David Ebert
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786471425
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Catastrophe written by John David Ebert and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disasters, both natural and man-made, are on the rise. Indeed, a catastrophe of one sort or another seems always to be unfolding somewhere on the planet. We have entered into a veritable Age of Catastrophes which have grown both larger and more complex and now routinely very widespread in scope. The old days of the geographically isolated industrial accidents, of the sinking of a Titanic or the explosion of a Hindenburg, together with their isolated causes and limited effects, are over. Now, disasters on the scale of Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill or the Japan tsunami and nuclear reactor accident, threaten to engulf large swaths of civilization. This book analyzes the efforts of Westerners to keep the catastrophes outside, while maintaining order on the inside of society. These efforts are breaking down. Nature and Civilization have become so intertwined they can no longer be separated. Natural disasters, moreover, are becoming increasingly more difficult to differentiate from "man-made." Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Betty A. Reardon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319089676
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Betty A. Reardon: A Pioneer in Education for Peace and Human Rights written by Betty A. Reardon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betty A. Reardon is a world-renowned leader in the fields of peace education and human rights; her pioneering work has laid the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary integration of peace education and international human rights from a gender-conscious, global perspective. This collection of reflective inquiry and ongoing research gathers essential works on peace education and human rights (1967-2014) and provides access to Reardon’s key works. These texts have been foundational to the field of peace education during the past five decades of her practical experience. The unique conceptualization of a holistic framework for organizing content and the practical and specific descriptions of pedagogies for the practice of critical peace education in schools and universities, have made them essential resources for peace educators around the world; several have already become standard texts for basic courses in the field. The book also includes an overview of Reardon’s career and a bibliography of her publications.