New Issue--Societies Without Borders/Nuevo nº-"Societes Without Borders"

Societies Without Borders

Human Rights and the Social Sciences

Volume 8, Issue 2

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo Book Review Editor, Tugrul Keskin
Editorial Assistant, Brian Gresham

Articles
MAHMOUD “MAX” KASHEFI, EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY
The “Arab Spring” and its Theoretical Significance: Samuel Huntington’s Theory, “The Clash of Civilizations,” Revisitedhttp://societieswithoutborders.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/kashefifinal2013-9-17.pdf
SEAN CHABOT & MAJID SHARIFI, EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
The Violence of Nonviolence: Problematizing Nonviolent Resistance in Iran and Egypt
STEVEN L. ARXER, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS— DALLAS
Constructing Gendered NGO Selves: Utilizing Identity Work to Assess NGO Gender Advocacy and Politics
Notes From the Field
DEEB PAUL KITCHEN II, FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY
A Critical View of Graduate Unions
PABLO LAPEGNA, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
The Expansion of Transgenic Soybeans and the Killing of Indigenous Peasants in Argentina
Book Reviews
JOELLEN PEDERSON, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
Review of Immigration, Labor, and the Politics of Belonging in France by Elaine Thomas

NATHANIEL A. DAVIS
Review of Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, Deportations in Post- 9/11 America by Tanya Maria Golash-Boza

Attention:
On the occasion of the American Congress of Sociology, that will be held from August 10th to August 13th, 2013 in New York, we will take the opportunity to celebrate our first meeting of Sociologists Without Borders-US.
The General Meeting of SSF will be held on Tuesday, August 13, 6:30pm-8:15pm. All are welcome!

In the interest of fostering a collegial, informal meeting we will meet at 6:15pm in the lobby of the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers.

We hope to see you all there! Please bring your colleagues and students!

For more info about the Congress:

http://www.asanet.org/am2013/am2013.cfm 

Atención:
Con motivo del Congreso Americano de Sociología, que va a celebrarse del 10 al 13 de agosto del 2013 en Nueva York, NY, aprovecharemos para celebrar nuestra primera reunión de Sociólogos sin Fronteras-US.

La Junta General se llevará a cabo el martes 13 de agosto de 18:30 pm- 20:15pm.  

Todos sois bienvenidos!

Con el interés de promover una reunión colegial informal nos reuniremos a las 18:15 pm en el lobby del Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers.

Esperamos veros a todos allí! Por favor traed a vuestros colegas y estudiantes!

Para más info del programa del Congreso:

 

http://www.asanet.org/am2013/am2013.cfm

New Issue--Societies Without Borders/Nuevo nº-"Societes Without Borders"

Societies Without Borders

Human Rights and the Social Sciences

Volume 8, Issue 1

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo Book Review Editor, Tugrul Keskin
Editorial Assistant, Brian Gresham

Articles
ANGELA ELENA FILLINGIM, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA—BERKELEY
Mobilization after Repression: Reconsidering The Role of Testimonies and Exiles in Post-War El Salvador
LYUSYENA KIRAKOSYAN, VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY
Linking Disability Rights and Democracy: Insights From Brazil
ERIN RIDER, JACKSONVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
Negotiating Uncertainty in the Right to Asylee Status
Notes From the Field
LUIS F. NUÑO, WILLIAM PATTERSON UNIVERSITY
Mexicans in New York City
NICHOLAS GIBSON, UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI”I—MĀNOA
Stress Theory, Health, and Health Care: Self-care Technology and Self-Identity Reinvigoration
KATHRYN STROTHER RATCLIFF & TRISHA TIAMZON, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
FOOD: A Human Rights Issue Ignored in Sociology
ERIC BONDS, UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON
Grappling with Structure, Social Construction, and Morality: Towards a Human Rights Approach to Social Problems Instruction

Book Reviews
DANA M. OLWAN, SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Review of Between Feminism and Islam: Human Rights and Sharia Law in Morocco by Zakia Salime
ALLIE SHIER, MCGILL UNIVERSITY
Review of Women Suicide Bombers: Narratives of Violence by Julie V.G. Rajan
ARIA NAKISSA, CROWN CENTER FOR MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES—BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY
Review of Islam and Human Rights Tradition and Politics by Ann Elizabeth Mayer
Erratum
Fallgirls: Gender and the Framing of Torture at Abu Ghraib

New Issue--Societies Without Borders/Nuevo nº-"Societes Without Borders"

New Issue--Societies Without Borders/Nuevo nº-"Societes Without Borders"

Societies Without Borders

Human Rights and the Social Sciences

Volume 7, Issue 4

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo

Book Review Editor, Tugrul Keskin

Editorial Assistant, Brian Gresham

A Special Issue of Societies Without Borders: Human rights and the Social Sciences
DAVID L. BRUNSMA, VIRGINIA TECH; KERI E. IYALL SMITH, SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY; MARK FREZZO, UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
“Social Science without Borders: Looking Back, Looking Forward”

Articles/Artículos

DAVITA SILFEN GLASBERG, UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
Sociologists Without Borders and The Meaning of “Without Borders”: The Social Construction of Organizational and Scholarly Boundaries

TANYA GOLASH-BOZA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA— MERCED
What Does A Sociology Without Borders Look Like?

DAVE OVERFELT, ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Accomplishments Behind, Barriers Ahead: Doing Sociology Without Borders

KENNETH A. GOULD, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK— BROOKLYN COLLEGE
The Collaborative Dialogue Panel: Changing The Model of The Professional Sociology Conference

LOUIS EDGAR ESPARZA, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY—LOS ANGELES; JUDITH BLAU, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA—CHAPEL HILL
Wired Nation: How The Tea Party Drove an Anti-Immigrant Campaign

BRUCE K. FRIESEN, UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA; MARK FREZZO, UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI; BRIAN K. GRAN, CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
Of Tools and Houses: Sociologists Without Borders and the AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition

MICHAEL BRIGUGLIO, UNIVERSITY OF MALTA
Nature, Society and Social Change

Expressions
RODNEY D. COATES, MIAMI UNIVERSITY
SSF, And It’s Identity
Interview
JUDITH BLAU, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA— CHAPEL HILL & KERI E. IYALL SMITH, SUFFOLK UNIVERITY
To Be a Sociologist Without Borders
Photography
KENNETH A. GOULD, CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK— BROOKLYN COLLEGE; JEREMY “GERM” DEHART
Homage To Maps; Still; To The Occupation

 

New Issue--Societies Without Borders/Nuevo nº-"Societes Without Borders"

Societies Without Borders

Human Rights and the Social Sciences

Volume 7, Issue 3

Edited by David L. Brunsma, Keri E. Iyall Smith, and Mark Frezzo

Book Review Editor, Tugrul Keskin

Editorial Assistant, Brian Gresham

Articles

MANUEL BARAJAS, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY— SACRAMENTO

A Comparative Analysis of Mexican-and Europe and European- Origin Immigration to the United States: Proposing an Interactive Colonization Theory

ERIC BONDS, UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON

Indirect Violence and Legitimation: Torture, Surrogacy, and the U.S. War on Terror

ASEEM HASNAIN, JOSH KING, AND JUDITH BLAU, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA—CHAPEL HILL

“American Exceptionalism”—On What End of the Continuum?

JEREMY HEIN AND TARIQUE NIAZI, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN—EAU CLAIRE

State-Society Incompatibility and Forced Migration: The Violent Development of Afghanistan Under Socialist, Islamist, and Capitalist Regimes

Notes From the Field

JOHN L. HAMMOND, HUNTER COLLEGE AND GRADUATE CENTER—CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK

An American Sociologist in Iran

Expressions

TANYA GOLASH-BOZA, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA— MERCED

Ethnopoetics: A Jamaican Deportee Tells His Story

Book Reviews

TONI Y. SIMS-MUHAMMAD, UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA— LAFAYETTE

Review of Security and Everyday Life edited by Vida Bajc and Willem de Lint

DAINA CHEYENNE HARVEY, COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS

Review of Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth

Nuevo nº Societies Without Borders

It is our pleasure to announce that Societies Without Borders (the premier journal for Human Rights research) has just released Issue 1 of Volume 7. As this journal was the first to champion interest in the field of Human Rights, we have had no shortage of submissions this year, and the quality (as well as the quantity) of the content we have included in the first issue of this volume reflects that. Inside you will find highly edifying pieces of research, such as:

Es un placer anunciar que Societies Without Borders   (la principal revista para la investigación de los Derechos Humanos) acaba de lanzar el número 1 de Volumen 7. Como este diario fue el primero en interesarse  en el campo de los Derechos Humanos, no hemos tenido escasez de presentaciones de este año, y la calidad (así como la cantidad) de los contenidos que hemos incluido en la primera edición de este volumen lo demuestra. En su interior se encuentran piezas muy edificantes de la investigación, tales como:

Ø  Barbara Gurr’s “The Failures and Possibilities of a Human Rights Approach to Secure Native American Women’s Reproductive Justice,” where the current violations of Native American’s women’s right to basic health are revealed and the challenges of articulating the human rights needs of Native Americans within the United States is examined.

Ø  Ranita Ray and Bandana Purkayastha “Challenges in Localizing Global Human Rights,” where the authors draw upon ethnographic and historical data via document analysis to address two mechanisms in the localization of global human rights.

Ø  Stacy Missari and Christine Zozula “‘Woman As…’: Personhood, Rights and The Case of DomesticViolence,” in which the authors discuss the politics of     gender and domestic violence using the first court case filed in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights against the United States.

Ø  (One of our two Notes From the Field) Vincent Walsh’s “Universal Moral Grammar: An Ontological Grounding for Human Rights,” where the principles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights are connected to the issue of global justice in pursuit of the question: is there a genetically endowed Universal Moral Grammar common to all human beings?

Ø  (Our second Note from the Field) Annie Wilson’s “Trafficking Risks for Refugees,” which discusses a number of the risk factors in the life situation of refugees that places them in danger of falling prey to human traffickers. 

Ø  Last (but certainly not least) in our Expressions section we have three excellent pieces of poetry from George Snedeker (Help Create Order; Beggar’s Opera; Communication), a review of Cecilia L. Ridgeway’s Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World by Rachel Feinstein, and a review of Mohammed Bamyeh’s Anarchy as Order: The History and Future of Civic Humanity by Dana M. Williams.

Comunicado de Sociólogos sin Fronteras Latinoamerica – SSFL//Announcement from Sociologists without Borders LATIN AMERICA (SSFL)

Estimados amigos de SSF Think Tank:

SOCIÓLOGOS SIN FRONTERAS LATINOAMÉRICA (SSFL) abrió dos talleres en La Cumbre de los Pueblos que se realizarán a 17 y 19 de Junio.
Se trata de un espacio donde nuestros amigos de SSF Think Tank pueden proponer sus contribuciones sobre los temas que consideran importantes para combinar Sociología y Solidaridad en la Cumbre de los Pueblos. Sin embargo, se contempla el propósito de discutir los principios de responsabilidad universal, con respecto a los fundamentos éticos y filosóficos: la subjetividad, la dominación y la emancipación.
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Dear Friends of SSF Think Tank:
Sociologists without Borders LATIN AMERICA (SSFL) have opened two workshops in the People's Summit that will take place on June 17th and 19th.
This is a place where our friends of SSF Think Tank can submit their contributions on the subjects they consider important to combine sociology and Solidarity in the People's Summit.
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