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Global justice and transnational civil disobedience

open access: yesEthics & Global Politics, 2015
Almost all accounts of global justice recognise that the world, as it is, is unjust, and that something ought to be done about this. But what? In this paper, I argue that wealthy individuals have a duty grounded in the natural duty of justice to engage ...
Temi Ogunye
doaj   +1 more source

Civil Disobedience as Constituent/Dis-instituting Power: A New Anticapitalist Political Practice [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Mediante este trabajo pretendemos presentar una nueva lectura de la desobediencia civil, con el objetivo de revelar sus potencialidades de cara a la construcción de una democracia radical anticapitalista.
de Moura Costa Matos, Andityas Soares   +1 more
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Justifying Resistance to Immigration Law: The Case of Mere Noncompliance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Constitutional democracies unilaterally enact the laws that regulate immigration to their territories. When are would-be migrants to a constitutional democracy morally justified in breaching such laws?
Yong, Caleb
core   +1 more source

Fostering Women's Political Leadership Through Government Accountability: Evidence From OECD Countries

open access: yesPublic Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Women remain significantly underrepresented in political leadership worldwide. This study examines how different combinations of government accountability mechanisms enhance women's political representation (WPR) as a pathway to leadership in 30 OECD countries.
Samira Nazar, Seyed Ashkan Zarghami
wiley   +1 more source

Influencia de Henry D. Thoureau en Mahatma Gandhi y Martin Luther KIng, Jr.

open access: yesComhumanitas, 2011
Resumen Henry David Thoreau (Concord-Massachusetts, EE.UU. 1817-1862) es una de las figuras preeminentes del pensamiento norteamericano del siglo XIX.
Eduardo Mora Altamirano, Ph.D.
doaj   +1 more source

Awor nan ta yama nos criminal! (and now they can call us criminals!) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article, the author will question the seemingly obvious boundary between civil disobedience, as conceptualised by Rawls and Arendt, and several examples of criminal, or simply annoying, activities which don't meet their criteria, such as the case
Rothfusz, Jacquelien
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Why Autonomous Vehicles Are Not Ready Yet: A Multi‐Disciplinary Review of Problems, Attempted Solutions, and Future Directions

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

“Dreamers” and Others: Immigration Protests, Enforcement, and Civil Disobedience [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In this short paper I hope to use some ideas drawn from the theory and practice of civil disobedience to address one of the most difficult questions in immigration theory, one rarely addressed by philosophers or other theorists working on the topic: How ...
Lister, Matthew J.
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Existing Sustainability Interventions are Insufficient to Scale Up Cocoa Agroforestry in West Africa

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in agri‐food systems are required to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. In the West African cocoa sector, supply chain sustainability initiatives (SSIs) have emerged as key environmental governance tools to address these challenges and promote agroforestry.
Keessy Maria‐Prisca Kouakou   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Militant Morality: Civil Disobedience and Bioethics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1989
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/90558/1/3561983 ...
Cohen, Carl
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