Citizen Environmental Activism in China: Legitimacy, Alliances, and Rights-based Discourses

UbiqUitoUs sUstainability: Citizen sCienCe & aCtivism Ubiquitous Sustainability: Citizen Science & Activism

In this workshop we propose to explore new approaches to bring about real environmental change by looking at the success of empowering technologies that enable grassroots activism and bottom up community participation. Ubiquitous computing is transforming from being mostly about professional communication and social interaction to a sensor rich personal measurement platform that can empower ind...

"Human Rights"؛ "Citizen Rights"؛ "Human Rights Declaration"؛ " Middle Eastern States"

حقوق بشر و حقوق شهروندی از حقوق ذاتی و طبیعی انسان نشأت گرفته و در طول تاریخ بین اندیشمندان مناطق مختلف جهان و همچنین در مکاتب الهی توجه خاصی به آنها شده است. اما متاسفانه تا پایان جنگ جهانی دوم حقوق بشر بصورت گسترده اقبالی کسب ننمود. اگر چه با اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشر سال 1948 و دیگر کنوانسیون های مربوطه، حقوق بشر شکل جهان شمولی بخود گرفته ولی هنوز بسیاری از دولتهای خاورمیانه حاضر به پذیرش تمامی...

Environmental Activism and the Construction of Risk: Implications for Ngo Alliances

This paper argues that academic approaches to environmental policy that equate political pluralism with the representation of plural environmental rationalities are overoptimistic and avoid the complex ways in which risk is constructed. The paper discusses two cases of industrial poisoning in Thailand to illustrate how alliances between factory workers and middle class activists strengthened po...

Discourses on Employability: Constituting the Responsible Citizen

Citizen Complaints as Environmental Indicators: Evidence from China

Economic Growth Fund. We are grateful to our colleagues Hua Wang and C.H. Zhang for their assistance in developing the data base for this study. Thanks also to Tom Tietenberg, Gunnar Eskeland and Mainul Huq for many useful comments.