Dissenting Voices In American Society

Author : William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science Austin Sarat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : 1139233777

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Dissenting Voices in American Society by William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence & Political Science Austin Sarat Pdf

Dissenting voices in American society: the role of judges, lawyers, and citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It brings together under the lens of critical examination dissenting voices that are usually treated separately: the protester, the academic critic, the intellectual, and the dissenting judge. It examines the forms of dissent that institutions make possible and those that are discouraged or domesticated. This book also describes the kinds of stories that dissenting voices try to tell and the narrative tropes on which those stories depend. In what voices and tones do dissenting voices speak? What worlds does dissent try to imagine and what in the end is the value of dissent? Where does dissent speak without actually speaking? Where do dissenting voices most often go unheard or unrecognized? Do we find dissent wherever we find discontent? Wherever we find expression? This book is the product of an integrated series of symposia at the University of Alabama School of Law. These symposia bring leading scholars into colloquy with faculty at the law school on subjects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in law.--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Dissenters
ISBN : 1107229774

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Dissenting Voices in American Society by Austin Sarat Pdf

A collection of essays and commentary that explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture.

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107014237

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Dissenting Voices in American Society by Austin Sarat Pdf

Dissenting Voices in American Society: The Role of Judges, Lawyers, and Citizens explores the status of dissent in the work and lives of judges, lawyers, and citizens, and in our institutions and culture. It brings together under the lens of critical examination dissenting voices that are usually treated separately: the protester, the academic critic, the intellectual, and the dissenting judge. It examines the forms of dissent that institutions make possible and those that are discouraged or domesticated. This book also describes the kinds of stories that dissenting voices try to tell and the narrative tropes on which those stories depend. This book is the product of an integrated series of symposia at the University of Alabama School of Law. These symposia bring leading scholars into colloquy with faculty at the law school on subjects at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary inquiry in law.

Author : David Mayers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139463195

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Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power by David Mayers Pdf

This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant. David Mayers explores the dissenting voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent, focusing on dissenters within the political and military establishment and on the recurrent patterns of dissent that have transcended particular policies and crises. The most stubborn of these sprang from anxiety over the material and political costs of empire while other strands of dissent have been rooted in ideas of exigent justice, realpolitik, and moral duties existing beyond borders. Such dissent is evident again in the contemporary world when the US occupies the position of preeminent global power. Professor Mayers's study reminds us that America's path to power was not as straightforward as it might now seem.

Author : David Allan Mayers,Professor Department of History and Department of Political Science David Mayers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0511270445

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Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power by David Allan Mayers,Professor Department of History and Department of Political Science David Mayers Pdf

A major rereading of US foreign policy from the purchase of Louisiana to the Korean War.

Author : Martin S. Stabb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292785755

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The Dissenting Voice by Martin S. Stabb Pdf

Political, social, and aesthetic change marked Latin American society in the years between 1960 and 1985. In this book, Martin Stabb explores how these changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals. Stabb posits that dissent—against ideology, against simplistic notions of technological progress, against urban values, and even against the direct linear expository style of the essay itself—characterizes the work of these contemporary essayists. He draws his examples from major canonical figures, including Paz, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and Cortázar, and from lesser-known writers who merit a wider readership, such as Monterroso, Zaid, Edwards, and Ibargüengoitia. This exploration overturns many conventional assumptions about Latin American intellectuals and also highlights some of the other achievements of authors famous primarily for novels or short stories.

Author : Ralph F. Young
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015079196161

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Dissent in America by Ralph F. Young Pdf

This concise collection of primary sources presents the story of US History as told by dissenters who, throughout the course of American history, have fought to gain rights they believed were denied to them or others, or who disagreed with the government or majority opinion. Each document is introduced by placing it in its historical context, and thought-provoking questions are provided to focus the student when s/he reads the text. Instructors are at liberty to choose the documents that best highlight themes they wish to emphasize.

Author : Garbriele Zamparini,Lorenzo Meccoli,William Blum
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317263722

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American Voices of Dissent by Garbriele Zamparini,Lorenzo Meccoli,William Blum Pdf

"Absolutely indispensable! An important resource in the struggle." Ken Loach, film director "Your book is just what we need at time when the American Left gets no coverage in the world's press and yet remains the hope for America and the world." Tony Benn, President, Stop the War Coalition "[This book] challenges the simplistic perception of Americans as SUV-driving, war-loving couch potatoes. There's a movement for peace and justice and this book gives it a voice." Mickey Z., writer With contributions by five Nobel Peace Prize winners, former government officials, scholars, religious leaders, journalists, activists, and prominent cultural figures, the documentary film XXI Century explores American reactions to recent global events captured through the lens of interviews and political rallies. This book presents selected excerpts from the filming of prominent U.S. citizens voicing their view on Bush administration policies in the century. These events include the much-contested 2000 election, the September 11, 2001, attacks, the impact of the USA Patriot Act, the accelerated growth of peace movements, the recruitment of U.S. soldiers, U.S. policy and attitudes toward the Middle East, sanctions and war in Iraq, and human rights violations. The speakers also consider how the rise of media spectacle and punditry at the expense of quality journalism inhibits the ability of Americans to react to these events as informed citizens. The voices of Americans, both ordinary and famous, resonate with passion and urgency in response to the injustice and far-reaching effects of the current U.S. foreign policy. American Voices of Dissent highlights the other side of the story and makes a case for global solidarity against U.S. imperialism.

Author : William Kaplan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773550704

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Why Dissent Matters by William Kaplan Pdf

An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.

Author : Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780190274283

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Privacy Revisited by Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr Pdf

Rapid technological change, the advent of Big Data, and the creation of society-wide government surveillance programs have transformed the accessibility of highly personal information; these developments have highlighted the ambiguous treatment of privacy and personal intimacy. National legal systems vouchsafe and define "privacy," and its first cousin "dignity," in different ways that reflect local legal and cultural values. Yet, in an increasingly globalized world, purely local protection of privacy interests may prove insufficient to safeguard effectively fundamental autonomy interests - interests that lie at the core of self-definition, personal autonomy, and freedom. Privacy Revisited articulates the legal meanings of privacy and dignity through the lens of comparative law, and argues that the concept of privacy requires a more systematic approach if it is to be useful in framing and protecting certain fundamental autonomy interests. The book begins by providing relevant, and reasonably detailed, information about both the substantive and procedural protections of privacy/dignity in the U.S., Canada, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and among Council of Europe member states. Second, the book explores the inherent tension between affording significant legal protection to the right of privacy (or human dignity) and securing expressive freedoms, notably including the freedom of speech and of the press. The author then posits that the protection of privacy helps to illuminate some of the underlying social and political values that lead the U.S. to fail to protect privacy as reliably or as comprehensively as other liberal democracies. Finally, the book establishes that although privacy and speech come into conflict with some regularity, it is both useful and necessary to start thinking about the important ways in which both rights are integral to the maintenance of democratic self-government.

Author : John Loughery,Blythe Randolph
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982103507

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Dorothy Day by John Loughery,Blythe Randolph Pdf

“Magisterial and glorious” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette), the first full authoritative biography of Dorothy Day—American icon, radical pacifist, Catholic convert, and advocate for the homeless—is “a vivid account of her political and religious development” (Karen Armstrong, The New York Times). After growing up in a conservative middle-class Republican household and working several years as a left-wing journalist, Dorothy Day converted to Catholicism and became an anomaly in American life for the next fifty years. As an orthodox Catholic, political radical, and a rebel who courted controversy, she attracted three generations of admirers. A believer in civil disobedience, Day went to jail several times protesting the nuclear arms race. She was critical of capitalism and US foreign policy, and as skeptical of modern liberalism as political conservatism. Her protests began in 1917, leading to her arrest during the suffrage demonstration outside President Wilson’s White House. In 1940 she spoke in Congress against the draft and urged young men not to register. She told audiences in 1962 that the US was as much to blame for the Cuban missile crisis as Cuba and the USSR. She refused to hear any criticism of the pope, though she sparred with American bishops and priests who lived in well-appointed rectories while tolerating racial segregation in their parishes. Dorothy Day is the exceptional biography of a dedicated modern-day pacifist, an outspoken advocate for the poor, and a lifelong anarchist. This definitive and insightful account is “a monumental exploration of the life, legacy, and spirituality of the Catholic activist” (Spirituality & Practice).

Author : Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851097746

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Encyclopedia of African American History [3 volumes] by Leslie M. Alexander,Walter C. Rucker Pdf

A fresh compilation of essays and entries based on the latest research, this work documents African American culture and political activism from the slavery era through the 20th century. Encyclopedia of African American History introduces readers to the significant people, events, sociopolitical movements, and ideas that have shaped African American life from earliest contact between African peoples and Europeans through the late 20th century. This encyclopedia places the African American experience in the context of the entire African diaspora, with entries organized in sections on African/European contact and enslavement, culture, resistance and identity during enslavement, political activism from the Revolutionary War to Southern emancipation, political activism from Reconstruction to the modern Civil Rights movement, black nationalism and urbanization, and Pan-Africanism and contemporary black America. Based on the latest scholarship and engagingly written, there is no better go-to reference for exploring the history of African Americans and their distinctive impact on American society, politics, business, literature, art, food, clothing, music, language, and technology.

Author : Ralph Young
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781479819836

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Dissent by Ralph Young Pdf

Examines the key role dissent has played in shaping the United States, focusing on those who, from colonial times to the present, dissented against the ruling paradigm of their time, responding to what they saw as the injustices that prevented them from fully experiencing their vision of America. --Publisher's description.

Author : Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase,Ursula Lehmkuhl
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789203998

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Enemy Images in American History by Ragnhild Fiebig-von Hase,Ursula Lehmkuhl Pdf

Author : American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : African Americans
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118159990

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The ... Annual Report of the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States by American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States Pdf