Review Essays
Volume 8 (2008)
The Promise of Economic Rights and the Welfare State
By Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right. By Roy Adams. Ottawa: Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2006.
The Welfare State Nobody Knows: Debunking Myths about U.S. Social Policy. By Christopher Howard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Economic Rights in Canada and the United States. Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch Jr. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Keywords: economic rights; welfare rights; Canada; U.S.; labor rights; social democracy.
Moving Beyond Markets and Minimalism: Democracy in the Era of Globalization
By Richard Burchill
Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization. By Michael Goodhart. London: Routledge, 2005.
Keywords: globalization; democracy; neoliberalism; minimalism; international law; social justice.
Memory and Violence in Israel/Palestine
By K.M. Fierke
Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Indiana University Press, 2006.
Memory and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa. Edited by Ussama Makdisi and Paul A. Silverstein. Indiana University Press, 2006.
Keywords: Israel; Palestine; narratives; memory; violence; Middle East; Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Rights and the Hijâb: Rationality and Discourse in the Public Sphere
By Howard Adelman
The Rights of Others: Aliens, Residents, and Citizens. By Seyla Benhabib. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 251 pp.
Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space. By John R. Bowen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 290 pp.
Muslim Girls and the Other France: Race, Identity Politics & Social Exclusion. By Trica Danielle Keaton. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006. 223 pp.
Human Rights and Religion: The Islamic Headscarf Debate in Europe. By Dominic McGoldrick. Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing, 2006. 320pp.Keywords: headscarves; nationalism; immigration; integration; feminism; discourse ethics
By Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America. By Heide Fehrenbach. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
The Holocaust and Catholic Conscience: Cardinal Aloisius Muench and the Guilt Question in Germany. By Suzanne Brown-Fleming. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006.
A Woman in Berlin. By Anonymous. New York: Henry Holt, 2000.
Twice Persecuted: Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany. By Johanna Krause. Waterloo, Canada: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007.Keywords: post-war Germany; race; gender violence; rape; Nazi atrocities
By Srini Sitaraman
Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace. By Vandana Shiva. Boston, MA: South End Press, 2005.
Gender, Water, and Development. Edited by Anne Coles and Tina Wallace. New York: Berg, 2005.
Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power. By Sanjeev Khagram. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004.Keywords: water rights; development; privatization; dams; sanitation
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