Rebuilding Community Solidarity And Pluralism

Author : Donald G. Reid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040027881
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Community Solidarity and Pluralism written by Donald G. Reid and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critiques the traditional practice of community organization, change and development, and concludes that the present practice of Community Development (CD) and Social Policy and Planning (SP&P) is no longer capable of meeting the current challenges at the local or national level. The aim of this book is to identify the underlying motivations for the individual aggressive and collective antisocial behaviour that we witness in democratic society today and offer changes to the orientation of the current community change practice in order to build a system that can better address the present needs of society. This work identifies the factors that are moving society toward extremism and authoritarianism focusing particularly on the community level. Given the turmoil in communities that is degrading democracy and leading to authoritarianism today, the issues of Community Solidarity and Pluralism (CS&P) must be attended to before the traditional political, economic, and material issues that are regularly addressed by CD and SP&P practice can become the focus for change and development once again. This book will have widespread appeal to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students throughout the social sciences including sociology, social work, political science, economics, philosophy, environmental studies, and international and community development studies. It is also intended for the general reader who is interested in understanding the authoritarian forces that are attempting to infiltrate the democratic process.

Author : Andrew Mason
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521637282
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community, Solidarity and Belonging written by Andrew Mason and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-07-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically explores the relationship between the state, and different levels of community.

Author : Feyzi Baban
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030568946
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fostering Pluralism through Solidarity Activism in Europe written by Feyzi Baban and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection brings together academics, artists and members of civil society organizations to engage in a discussion about the ideas of living with others, through concepts such as cosmopolitanism, solidarity, and conviviality, and the practices of doing so. In recent years, right wing and populist movements have emerged and strengthened across Europe and North America, rejecting the value of cultural, ethnic and religious plurality. Governments in Europe and North America are weakening their commitment to the international refugee regime, erecting new barriers to entry. Even as governments fail to accommodate growing pluralism, however, civil society initiatives have emerged with the aim of welcoming newcomers, such as migrants and refugees, and finding alternative ways of living together in diverse societies. Motivated by a desire to show solidarity, these initiatives demonstrate enormous creativity in fostering pluralism in an environment that has largely become hostile to the arrival of newcomers. The contributions gathered here seek to explore such initiatives and the important work that they do in fostering ways of living together with others from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds. In focusing conceptually and empirically on discussions and examples of civil society initiatives, this book interrogates why, how and under what circumstances are some communities more welcoming than others.

Author : Eva Wollenberg
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 : 9793361719
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Though All Things Differ written by Eva Wollenberg and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluralism is a political belief that acknowledges individuals’ rights to pursue their interests, but requires society to resolve differences where they infringe upon each other. This guide shows how pluralism helps people to value social differences and provides clear principles and rules about how to coordinate those differences. The guide reviews pluralism’s origins, key elements and strengths and weaknesses. It examines how people think about differences, including the psychological obstacles that cause us to exclude or ignore others. Practices are examined with examples drawn from forest-related contexts: legal pluralism, multistakeholder processes and diversity in work teams. Questions are provided to help the reader assess and practice pluralism in their own settings. The guide concludes that understanding the political assumptions and principles of pluralism can enrich our understanding of current practices to develop fundamentally new approaches to forest decision-making.

Author : Melody C. Barnes
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839108134
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy written by Melody C. Barnes and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we create and sustain an America that never was, but should be? How can we build a robust multiracial democracy in which everyone is valued and everyone possesses political, economic and social capital? How can democracy become a meaningful way of life, for all citizens? By critically probing these questions, the editors of Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy seize the opportunity to bridge the gap between our democratic aspirations and our current reality.

Author : Jan Klabbers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107245168
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Normative Pluralism and International Law written by Jan Klabbers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses conflicts involving different normative orders: what happens when international law prohibits behavior, but the same behavior is nonetheless morally justified or warranted? Can the actor concerned ignore international law under appeal to morality? Can soldiers escape legal liability by pointing to honor? Can accountants do so under reference to professional standards? How, in other words, does law relate to other normative orders? The assumption behind this book is that law no longer automatically claims supremacy, but that actors can pick and choose which code to follow. The novelty resides not so much in identifying conflicts, but in exploring if, when and how different orders can be used intentionally. In doing so, the book covers conflicts between legal orders and conflicts involving law and honor, self-regulation, lex mercatoria, local social practices, bureaucracy, religion, professional standards and morality.

Author : Leszek Koczanowicz
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042016353
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and the Post-totalitarian Experience written by Leszek Koczanowicz and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2005 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the work of Polish and American philosophers about Poland's transition from Communist domination to democracy. Among their topics are nationalism, liberalism, law and justice, academic freedom, religion, fascism, and anti-Semitism. Beyond their insights into the ongoing situation in Poland, these essays have broader implications, inspiring reflection on dealing with needed social changes.

Author : Gregor McLennan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816628155
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pluralism written by Gregor McLennan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pluralism today is not much a particular school of thought or coherent body of theory. McLennan argues that pluralism is an indispensable reference point across a spectrum of social scientific debates.

Author : Ian Bryan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136007768
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political written by Ian Bryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Kelsen and Max Weber are conventionally understood as the original proponents of two distinct and opposed processes of concept formation generating two separate and contrasting theoretical frameworks for the study of law. The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political: Affinity and Divergence in Hans Kelsen and Max Weber contests the conventional understanding of the theoretical relationship between Kelsen’s legal positivism and Weber’s sociology of law. Utilising the conceptual frame of the juridico-political, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume analyse central points of affinity and divergence in the work of these two influential figures. Thus, the chapters collected in The Reconstruction of the Juridico-Political offer a comprehensive reconsideration of these affinities and divergences, through a comparison of their respective reconstruction of the notions of democracy, the State, legal rights and the character of law. From this reconsideration a more complex understanding of their theoretical relationship emerges combined with a renewed emphasis upon the continued contemporary relevance of the work of Kelsen and Weber.

Author : B. Vescio
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113742883X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction in Literary Studies written by B. Vescio and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pointing the way toward a revitalized future for the study of literature, Reconstruction in Literary Studies draws on philosophical pragmatism to justify the academic study of literature. In turn, Vescio connects the changing field to its social function as an institution.