Retreat From Injustice

Author : Nick O'Neill
Publisher : Federation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862874145
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retreat from Injustice written by Nick O'Neill and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Retreat from Injustice has the strengths and style of its predecessor: the account of human rights in Australia is firmly grounded in historical and international contexts; the availability and limitations of rights and freedoms are clearly detailed and illustrated with cases; and a particular spotlight is placed on key current human rights issues including terrorism, indigenous issues and asylum seekers.

Author : Nick O'Neill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862871212
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Retreat from Injustice written by Nick O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the major features of Australian human rights law with an overview of the development of human rights in world history, and the sources of Australian human rights law. Covers constitutional rights, political heritage, international covenants and standards and common law. Focuses on topics such as anti-discrimination and affirmative action laws, Aboriginal rights, Australia's treatment of refugees and immigrants, freedom of speech, and rights of people in the criminal justice system. Includes a table of cases, references and an index. O'Neill is acting president of the Guardianship Board, NSW. Handley is senior lecturer in law at the University of Wollongong.

Author : Brooke A. Ackerly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190662956
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Responsibility written by Brooke A. Ackerly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been well-established that many of the injustices that people around the world experience every day, from food insecurity to unsafe labor conditions and natural disasters, are the result of wide-scale structural problems of politics and economics. These are not merely random personal problems or consequences of bad luck or bad planning. Confronted by this fact, it is natural to ask what should or can we do to mitigate everyday injustices? In one sense, we answer this question when we buy the local homeless street newspaper, decide where to buy our clothes, remember our reusable bags when we shop, donate to disaster relief, or send letters to corporations about labor rights. But given the global scale of injustices related to poverty, environmental change, gender, and labor, can these individual acts really impact the seemingly intractable global social, political, and economic structures that perpetuate and exacerbate them? Moreover, can we respond to injustices in the world in ways that do more than just address their consequences? In this book, Brooke A. Ackerly both answers the question of what should we do, and shows that it's the wrong question to ask. To ask the right question, we need to ground our normative theory of global justice in the lived experience of injustice. Using a feminist critical methodology, she argues that what to do about injustice is not just an ethical or moral question, but a political question about assuming responsibility for injustice, regardless of our causal responsibility and extent of our knowledge of the injustice. Furthermore, it is a matter that needs to be guided by principles of human rights. As she argues, while many understand human rights as political goals or entitlements, they can also guide political strategy. Her aims are twofold: to present a theory of what it means to take responsibility for injustice and for ensuring human rights, as well as to develop a guide for how to take responsibility in ways that support local and global movements for transformative politics. In order to illustrate her theory and guide for action, Ackerly draws on fieldwork on the Rana Plaza collapse in 2013, the food crisis of 2008, and strategies from 125 activist organizations working on women's and labor rights across 26 countries. Just Responsibility integrates these ways of taking political responsibility into a rich theory of political community, accountability, and leadership in which taking responsibility for injustice itself transforms the fabric of political life.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 968 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The University of New South Wales Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gwilym David Blunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108480128
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Poverty, Injustice, and Resistance written by Gwilym David Blunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the poor have the right to resist causes of poverty, examining illegal immigration, social movements, and political violence.

Author : Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190648783
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Sense of Affirmative Action written by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "What makes affirmative action morally (un)justified? That is this book's core question. Its main contribution consists in a meticulous scrutiny of the strength of the six main arguments for-i.e., the compensation, the anti-discrimination, the equality of opportunity, the role model, the diversity, and the integration-based justifications-and the five main objections to affirmative action-i.e., the reverse discrimination, the stigma, the mismatch, the publicity, and the merit-based objections-and of how these arguments relate to one another. The book argues that all of the five main objections to affirmative action are either flawed or quite limited in terms of their implications. With regard to the arguments in favor of affirmative action, the book shows why the anti-discrimination and equality of opportunity-based arguments provide strong justifications for many affirmative action schemes. In light thereof and the fact that the five most influential arguments against affirmative action are all flawed or otherwise weak, the overall claim defended in the book is that many of the schemes that people have in mind when they discuss affirmative action (many of which are presently on the retreat) are justified. However, the book also emphasizes that any definitive answer to the question Is affirmative action morally (un)justified? must rest on a wide range of empirical results in the social sciences etc., e.g., about the likely effects of various affirmative action schemes; and that the question, when posed in such general form (unlike when it is asked about specific schemes of affirmative action), admits of no direct positive or negative answer"--

Author : Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Injustice and the Care of Souls written by Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes us stems from the larger social maladies at work in our lives. This unprecedented gathering of two dozen essays discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent within the church and society in an effort to broaden and inform pastoral caregivers with the knowledge and the skills needed to respond effectively to oppressed and marginalized persons. The volumes also help pastors to reflect on the ways their own social location has an impact on their ministries and to gain familiarity with resources available to support pastoral caregivers in a variety of contexts.

Author : Christian Coons
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190614072
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Self-Defense written by Christian Coons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteen new essays collected in this volume address questions concerning the ethics of self-defense, most centrally when and to what extent the use of defensive force, especially lethal force, can be justified. Scholarly interest in this topic reflects public concern stemming from controversial cases of the use of force by police, and military force exercised in the name of defending against transnational terrorism. The contributors pay special attention to determining when a threat is liable to defensive harm, though doubts about this emphasis are also raised. The legitimacy of so-called "stand your ground" policies and laws is also addressed. This volume will be of great interest to readers in moral, political, and legal philosophy.

Author : Melanie Altanian
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003806422
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Testimonial Injustice and Trust written by Melanie Altanian and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents novel approaches and perspectives to scholarship on epistemic injustice and particularly, testimonial injustice and their connections with public trust. Drawing from different philosophical schools of thought and approaches, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of the conditions, mechanisms and normative implications of testimonial injustice, a term most prominently introduced by Fricker (2007), and the role that trust can play in fostering testimonial justice. Through the application of theories of epistemic injustice, and testimonial injustice, to new contexts and cases, including gendered violence, disability, indigenous knowledge, genocide, vaccine hesitancy and the COVID-19 pandemic, the book sheds light on the real-world significance of these philosophical concepts. Testimonial Injustice and Trust introduces new directions for further research and will appeal to scholars and students in (critical) social and political epistemology, normative ethics as well as social and political philosophy more generally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Social Epistemology and Educational Philosophy and Theory.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Australian Journal of Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: