Tethered Fates

Author : Shareen Hertel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190903856
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tethered Fates written by Shareen Hertel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1990s, human rights advocates, business leaders, and consumers have become increasingly attuned to mitigating sweatshop labor and other abuses in the supply chains that manufacture the clothing, electronics, and countless other products that we buy and use each day. But we know surprisingly little about how companies interact with people in the communities beyond the factory's walls. In many cases, community members are left out of the process of identifying both risks and solutions to problems in global supply chains, including how global companies could add social value in the localities where they operate. Business, governments, and civil society are supposed to be jointly responsible for shaping the remedies available to people harmed in the course of business activity, wherever it takes place. However, the answer to the question of how to do this remains underdeveloped and poorly executed. This book explores the conditions under which local communities and companies can work with one another and the types of remedies available in one of the most widespread and challenging sectors: light manufacturing. Tethered Fates draws on quantitative data (including the 7,000-company database of the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre) and original qualitative data to analyze regional and industry-specific trends in stakeholder dialogue globally and at the local level. The book features original interviews with community members in two factory towns in the Dominican Republic, whose perspectives shed light on the prospects for dialogue with companies and the challenges of everyday life in towns where light manufacturing takes place. Tethered Fates does more than simply explain why stakeholder dialogue often falls short as a vehicle for safeguarding economic rights and promoting community development. It also offers an assessment of the varieties of emerging policy alternatives for moving beyond the current state of practice.

Author : Ann Marie Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009098276
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demands of Justice written by Ann Marie Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clark demonstrates how human rights advocates developed unique tools to oppose human rights violations and seek justice in global politics.

Author : Jeffrey Bone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509941894
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the Extractive Sector written by Jeffrey Bone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers, and offers solutions to, the problems faced by local communities and the environment with respect to global mining. The author explores the idea of grievance mechanisms in the home states of the major mining conglomerates. These grievance mechanisms should be functional, pragmatic and effective at resolving disputes between mining enterprises and impacted communities. The key to this provocative solution is twofold: the proposal harnesses the power of industry-sponsored dispute mechanisms to reduce the costs and other burdens on home state governments and judicial systems. Critically, civil society actors will be given a role as both advocates and mediators in order to achieve a fair result for those impacted abroad by extractive enterprises. Compelling, engaging and timely, this book presents an innovative approach for regulating the foreign conduct of the extractive sector.

Author : Anthony Ewing
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802201130
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching Business and Human Rights written by Anthony Ewing and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business and human rights (BHR) is a rapidly developing field at the intersection of business, law, and public policy. Teaching Business and Human Rights is a practical guide and resource for the growing community of BHR teachers, students, and practitioners – from advocates and policymakers to business managers and investors. Chapter authors explain common BHR topics, suggest teaching approaches that work in the classroom, and identify helpful teaching resources. Chapters cover the building blocks of a BHR curriculum: foundational topics including corporate responsibility, human rights, and human rights due diligence; tools, such as legislation and litigation, to provide remedy and hold companies accountable for their human rights impacts; and the specific rights affected by businesses in different industries.

Author : Rose J. Spalding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197643159
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breaking Ground written by Rose J. Spalding and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural resource extraction, once promoted by international lenders and governing elites as a promising development strategy, is beginning to hit a wall. After decades of landscape gutting and community resistance, mine developers and their allies are facing new challenges. The outcomes of the anti-mining pushback have varied, as increasing payments, episodic repression, and international pressures have deflected some opposition. But operational space has been narrowing in the extractive sector, as evidenced by the growing adoption of mining bans, moratoria, suspensions, and standoffs. This book tells the story of how that happened. In Breaking Ground, Rose J. Spalding examines mining conflict in new extraction zones and reactivated territories--places where "mining as destiny" is a contested idea. Spalding's innovative approach to the mining story traces the construction of mine-friendly rules in up-and-coming mining zones, as late-comers gear up to compete with mining giants. Spalding also excavates the tale of mining containment in countries that have turned away from the extraction model. By challenging deterministic assumptions about the "commodities consensus" in Latin America, Breaking Ground expands the analysis of resource governance to include divergent trajectories, tracing movement not just toward but also away from extractivism. Spalding explores how people living in targeted communities frame their concerns about the impacts of mining and organize to protect local voice and the environment. Then she unpacks the emerging array of policy responses, including those that encompass national level mining rejection. Breaking Ground takes up a timeless set of questions about the interconnection between politics and the environment, now re-examined with a fresh set of eyes.

Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813951038
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All the Devils Are Here written by David Greven and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2024-04-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.

Author : Md. Sadique Ansari
Publisher : Md. Sadique Ansari
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whispers of Fate : Elara's Odyssey written by Md. Sadique Ansari and published by Md. Sadique Ansari. This book was released on with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a gripping literary journey with "Whispers of Fate: Elara's Odyssey" by M. S. Ansari. Set in the enchanting town of Halsted, this Hinglish and Hindi narrative weaves a tale of mystery, sorrow, and the elusive dance of fate. In the quaint town where cobblestone paths wind through blooming gardens, the story unfolds with the vanishing of Elara's mother, casting a haunting shadow over her idyllic world. As Elara navigates the corridors of her existence, the whispers of the townsfolk and the mysterious arrival of an enigmatic newcomer intertwine, unraveling a narrative laced with questions and suspense. Haunted by the unsolved enigma of her mother's disappearance, Elara's collegiate life takes an unexpected turn when the arrival of the mysterious figure disrupts the rhythms of routine. Clad in attire that speaks of distant lands and veiled mysteries, the newcomer becomes a focal point of intrigue, setting the stage for a revelation that lies shrouded in fate's capricious design. As the tapestry of Elara's life unfolds, readers are drawn into a world where each page holds the promise of answers yet to be revealed. "Whispers of Fate: Elara's Odyssey" is a captivating blend of adventure, horror, and the timeless pursuit of truth—a literary masterpiece that leaves readers eagerly turning the pages, craving the resolution to the suspenseful questions that echo through the corridors of Halsted.

Author : Wyn Kelley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119668506
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Companion to Herman Melville written by Wyn Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, this New Companion offers critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways. Editors Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research. In doing so, the contributing authors highlight the ways in which Melville himself was concerned with the utility of tools within fluid circuits of meaning, and how those ideas are embodied, enacted, and mediated. In addition to considering critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hem­ispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers: A thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his work Comprehensive explorations of Melville’s works, including Moby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales, and Israel Potter, as well as his poems and poetic masterpiece Clarel Practical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to Melville In-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural world Two symposium sections with concise reflections on art and adaptation, and on teaching and public engagement A New Companion to Herman Melville provides essential reading for scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.

Author : Caleb Johnston
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317503686
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration in Performance written by Caleb Johnston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows the travels of Nanay, a testimonial theatre play developed from research with migrant domestic workers in Canada, as it was recreated and restaged in different places around the globe. This work examines how Canadian migration policy is embedded across and within histories of colonialism in the Philippines and settler colonialism in Canada. Translations between scholarship and performance – and between Canada and the Philippines – became more uneasy as the play travelled internationally, raising pressing questions of how decolonial collaborations might take shape in practice. This book examines the strengths and limits of existing framings of Filipina migration and offers rich ideas of how care – the care of children and elderly and each other – might be rethought in radically new ways within less violently unequal relations that span different colonial histories and complex triangulations of racialised migrants, settlers and Indigenous peoples. This book is a journey towards a new way of doing and performing research and theory. It is part of a growing interdisciplinary exchange between the performing arts and social sciences and will appeal to researchers and students within human geography and performance studies, and those working on migration, colonialisms, documentary theatre and social reproduction.

Author : Beth Caudill
Publisher : Moonlight Mountain Books
ISBN 13 : 0996570969
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tethered: A Zodiac Shifters Book written by Beth Caudill and published by Moonlight Mountain Books. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: