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The Politics of Immigrant Rights: Between Political Geography and Transnational Interventions

Patrick A. Taran, Human Rights of Migrants: Challenges of the New Decade, in THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS THE POLITICS OF IMMIGRANT RIGHTS: BETWEEN POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY AND TRANSNATIONAL INTERVENTIONS ... NETWORK DEPARTMENT OF LEGAL PROTECTION IN THE 0 Reef C. Ivey II Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law , USA III. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY: MEXICAN GENERAL CONSULATE

Perspectives on Past and Present Realities: Nadine Gordimer’s Voice on Social and Political Problems in South Africa

most important task of African politicians and intellectuals is to understand the nature of the social and political transformations taking place in their countries. This task was undertaken by Nadine ... Africa and anticipated many of the country’s social and political problems. In her novel A Guest of Honour, published in 1970, while her country was still struggling against apartheid, she painted the

Text and the City: George Grosz, Neue Jugend, and the Political Power of Popular Media

they also depicted the new artist as someone capable of withstanding or even mastering these shocks and transforming them into instruments of political action. Appearing as they did in the newspaper

Secularism Without Liberalism: Religious Freedom and Secularism in a Non-Liberal State

importance of this discussion. Instead, for the purposes of this Article, I find useful Professor Adhar’s conceptualization of secularism as denoting a political philosophy that “denies the existence or ... to them having a continuous hold over political power. Nonetheless, so long as the political philosophy conceptualizes political power as not being permanently tied to one particular religious group

The Supreme Court as a Babysitter: Modeling Zubik v. Burwell and Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project Rights

Supreme Court and Political Philosophy, 56 N.Y.U. L. REV. 519 (1981). Attempts to break through the minimalist versus maximalist decision-making paradigms are still decision oriented. See, e.g., Frank B ... id. An analysis of oral arguments before the Court indeed suggests that the Court was headed toward a tie vote. See id. 48. See Todd E. Pettys, Eight in the Eye of a Political Storm: Civil Cases in

Perturbed Anisotropic Opinion Dynamics with Delayed Information

formation models consider a time delay in the macroscopic description of the system [43–46] for instance as a means to describe a mechanism for observed instabilities in the dynamics of democratic political

Can a Virgin Microbe Have a History?: The Poisonous Gift of Dada

government collapsed at the end of the Great War, Berliners took notice of a placard asking “What is Dada? An art? A philosophy? A fire extinguisher? Or a state religion? Is Dada actually energy? or is it ... whimsical rogues’ gallery is one example; the political photomontages of John Heartfield are another, persisting beyond Dada as trenchant repudiation of the Third Reich. But before such a large target

The Dada Text and the Landscape of War

delved into all manner of definitions — ideological, stylistic, formal—allowing for political and social contexts, as well as literary and philosophical considerations. Yet how Dada functioned as an art ... form, a modernist movement, or political manifestation, generally defines Dada in terms that seem to exist beyond Dada, rather than in terms of what is unique to it. Pondering the question with which

Between Fluxus and the Situationist International: Gerz’s Postsachen

say that in our view the premises for revolution, on the cultural as well as the strictly political level, are not only ripe, they have begun to rot” (Debord and Wolman 14). 5 Debord’s definition of ... distributed at the Festum Fluxorum in Düsseldorf in February 1963. There he railed against “bourgeois sickness,” and called for a “flood and tide in art,” to be led by a cadre of “cultural, social and political

Unimodal Maps Perturbed by Heteroscedastic Noise: An Application to a Financial Systems

Université, Université de Toulon , CNRS, CPT, 13009 Marseille , France 2 The London School of Economics and Political Science , London , UK We investigate and prove the mathematical properties of a general

Measuring and Modeling the U.S. Regulatory Ecosystem

Agencies contained within these reports to measure the regulatory ecosystem, in which companies are organisms inhabiting a regulatory environment. While individuals across the political, economic, and ... the US supreme court . J. Stat. Phys . 1 - 27 ( 2015 ) 29. Clark , T.S. , Lauderdale , B.E. : The genealogy of law . Political Anal . 20 , 329 - 350 ( 2012 ) 30. Katz , D.M. , Stafford , D.K. : Hustle

Beyond Instrumentalism: A Substantivist Perspective on Law, Technology, and the Digital Persona

science, philosophy, social theory, anthropology, and sociology. It reflects the broader, more substantive impacts of technology on individuals and their communities, including political and social ... has been an instrumentalist one that treats technology as a tool for individuals to use while downplaying its broader social implications. However, the fields of philosophy of technology, science and

Scaling of the Clustering Function in Spatial Inhomogeneous Random Graphs

(M−1(k))k−2) and γ (k)/(T (M−1(k))k−2) are of the same order, which concludes the proof of (a), using (2.18). Now, we move on to proving (b). The philosophy is quite similar to that of the proof of (a

Does multiculturalism need a relativistic basis?

Gueye is Assistant Professor at the International Academy of Philosophy (IAP) in the Principality of Liechtenstein. His research interests are focused on social and political philosophy (especially ... specify the rules under which new groups may enter the society? (Kymlicka 2001: 59) has become, at least in the field of philosophy and political theory, a prosperous ground for various ideological trends

Granular Gas of Inelastic and Rough Maxwell Particles

moment [ 3, 5–8 ]. We now apply the same philosophy to a granular gas of inelastic and rough particles and propose the IRMM by choosing F (x ) = const in Eq. (7), i.e., νM JM[ξ 1| f , f ] = 4π n dξ 2

Australian multiculturalism

political traditions in a similar way as the Australian political system is embedded in the British (including Scottish and Irish) political philosophy and the Westminster model of government (e.g., Levey ... public clarifications of what multiculturalism is, the strong political backlash against uncontrolled migrations, and the paucity of informed debate about long term strategies of migrant settlement and

Negotiating the Eternal: The Paradox of Entrenching Secularism in Constitutions

described such provisions as an “absolute rigidity,”6 “indefinite entrenchment,”7 or “unamendable provisions.”8 The concept of “eternity” has been explored widely already in medieval philosophy; mainly since ... constitution, in an attempt to identify and explain the character of these existing constitutional arrangements. Thus, this is another attempt to understand constitutionalism as a form of political practice, and

Indigenous Law in Central America: A Key to Improving Life and Justice

where it is robust there is markedly less crime. Though its philosophy and approach differ from formal justice systems, participants find it fair and often prefer it even if they have access to the formal ... crimes that occurred in the 1970s and 1980s as a result of civil wars and extreme political instability.8 Gangs like MS139 and organized crime operations10 dominate and terrorize people in these countries

Back Matter, Dada/Surrealism, vol. 15

political contexts. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue of OCTOBER presents the most current and most significant texts by and about leading contemporary artists, scholars, and critics, both here ... on the Question of Value" "Deconstructing Memory: On Representing the Past and Theorizing Culture in France Since the Revolution" "The Intersection: Marxism and the Philosophy of Language" Yes! Enter

Front Matter, Dada/Surrealism, vol. 13

language and literature; particularly in relation to political historical, and cultural issues, and on critical methodology, literary history, and theories of language and literature. Individual issues are ... professors, instructors, and school teachers; $5 for students, retired and unem ployed persons. M/MLA 423 English/Philosophy Building, The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa 52242