Lives in the Balance

Perspectives on Global Injustice and Inequality
Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10875-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 66, 6 Seiten, Format (B × H): 16 mm x 24 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology

We find ourselves in a world that reflects a tension between the totalizing discourses of global corporate capitalism and representative democracy on the one hand, and the contingent, fragmentary nature of post-colonial life on the other. How (indeed, whether) this dialectic will be reconciled in the new millennium is not merely a question for academic consideration, but has real implications for the lives of people in the 'developing' world who are caught at the interstices of these conflicting forces. What a comparative, critical sociological perspective can provide is a window into the souls of people struggling for self-determination, equality, and justice. It is in this spirit that we present this work focusing on the study of injustice and inequality in the world system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Werlhof, Claudia von

Maxted, Julia

Zegeye, Abebe

Ramirez, Francisco

Ben-Yehuda, Nachman

Oliverio, Annamarie

Harris, William V.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Pat Lauderdale, Ph.D. (1980) in Sociology, Stanford University, is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies and is Director of the Justice Studies, Law and Social Sciences Ph.D./J.D. Program at Arizona State University. His recent works includes The Struggle for Control, with Michael Cruit; comparative articles on indigenous jurisprudence; and a revision of Law and Society with James Inverarity.

Randall Amster, J.D. (1991), Brooklyn Law School, is a Doctoral student in the School of Justice Studies, Law and the Social Sciences, at Arizona State University. He was formerly the Associate Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review, in which he published an article analyzing the culpability standard in federal civil rights legislation. His present research interests focus on anarchism, ecology, and resistance.