Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy

Shefner, Jon (Editor)/ Dahms, Harry F. (Editor)/ Jones, Robert Emmet (Editor)/ Jalata, Asafa (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1137289376 / ISBN 13: 9781137289377

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Beschreibung

352 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-1137289376

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1137289376
• ISBN-13: 9781137289377
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New
• Gewicht: 0,58 Kilogramm

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Inhaltsangabe

This compilation of interdisciplinary and community voices addresses issues of globalization, democracy, human rights, and how universities can act to promote steps towards greater social justice. As a relational concept, definitions of social justice reflect beliefs, values and priorities - which are neither consensually shared in modern societies, nor among social scientists who study it. This situation makes the concept exceedingly pliable and subject to ideological utilization. What implications result from efforts to advance social justice beyond the present status quo? These issues are especially pertinent to academic workers, who have been under the same kind of pressures that the rest of society has experienced. The current moment also poses a range of questions that challenge the role of the university. Can it continue to play a major role in advancing social justice when it is under severe political and public pressure to spend less, and to show concrete ’deliverables’?

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Timothy Adkins, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Benjamin Barton, University of Tennessee, USA Felix Bivens, Empyrean Research, USA Robert C. Blitt, University of Tennessee, USA Courtney Cronley, University of Texas, USA Walter Davis, Tennessee Health Care Campaign, USA Elizabeth A. East, University of Tennessee, USA Ben Feldmeyer, University of Cincinnati, USA John Gaventa, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Benjamin Gregg, University of Texas, USA Michael Handelsman, University of Tennessee, USA Jennifer Lantz, Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition, USA Eric Royal Lybeck, University of Cambridge, UK Katie Morris, Pellissippi State Community College, USA John Nolt, University of Tennessee, USA David A. Patterson, University of Tennessee, USA Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York, USA David Reidy, University of Tennessee, USA Barbara Risman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee, USA William V. Taylor, University of Tennessee, USA Jayanni Webster, Knoxville Chapter of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, USA Stacia West, University of Kansas, USA Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA