Adults from four religious/ethnic groupings: Arab Muslim, Arab Christian, Non-Arab Muslim, and North American Christian were administered measures of anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli sentiment to determine if the concepts were related. Correlation strength was r=.61, and anti-Semitism remained even when the effects of anti-Israeli sentiment were parceled out. The reasons for such differences are ...

Veganism is commonly described as the attempt to avoid, far possible, exploitation and consumption of animals animal products. While some people choose plant-based diet associated with veganism for health or other self-interested reasons, majority philosophical work on topic has been devoted discussion ethical justification (i.e., ‘ethical veganism’). Some argue that it a moral imperative if we...

In the spirit of this special issue to center on wronged individuals and groups, their account how wrongs should be understood repaired, what actions promote repair, article focuses groups by genocide entitlement epistemic reparation in aftermath genocide. I argue that requires not only fulfillment informational needs victims, survivors, descendants, including access archives, documents, provis...

Regulations that govern the social and environmental impacts of global firms and markets without state enforcement are a relatively new dimension of global business regulation. The growth of such voluntary “civil regulations” reflects both the expansion of legitimate authority in the global economy outside the state and the increasing use of alternative regulatory instruments to govern firms, i...

This paper discusses what kinds of computer information systems might be of broad social value in the context of the increasingly severe ecological and social consequences of economic growth, and how they might be built and maintained. The paper has two parts. The first offers a particular understanding of the ecological and social “limits” to economic growth. The second considers how this unde...

This paper reflects on lessons from the campaign against Shell’s sponsorship of the Royal Geographical Society in the mid-1990s, that took place in the aftermath of the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists from the Ogoni region of the Niger delta. It argues that the continuing relationship between a fossil fuel multinational company and the professional body representing British...

This paper argues that social reporting can be an important form of New Governance regulation to achieve stakeholder accountability. Current social reporting practices, however, fall short of achieving stakeholder accountability and actually may work against it. By examining the success and failures of other transparency programs in the United States, we can identify key factors for ensuring th...

Au EXPLORATION OF AMFRICA~ LIBMRIANSHTP’S treatment of the Library Bill of Rights in the 1960s. The author introduces two vying interpretations of the utility of the Library Bill of Rights, then examines the conflict surrounding these interpretations in order to probe their impact on the viability of the profession. Findings are based on both primary and secondary sources, including ALA’s Socia...

Historically, in both Australia and the United States, the issue of film censorship has been a source of conflict between the film industry, community groups and the government. This paper compares the methods used to regulate film content in each jurisdiction between 1900 and 1940. It argues that whilst the legal structure and community pressure groups played an important part in the form of c...

This is an experimental review essay responding to Michael Marder’s Plant-Thinking: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013). The essay departs from the ordinary structure of comparing three books on a similar theme. Instead three of Marder’s concepts, plant “nourishment,” “desire” and “language” are explored through readings of Gabrielle de Vietri’s installation...