scholarly journals Guest Editorial: State Violence - Practices and Responses.

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. i-vii
Author(s):  
Tobia Fattore ◽  
Kate Gleeson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Guest Editorial ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
International Perspectives

The collection of articles in this special issue highlights the benefits of interdisciplinarity for understanding the complexities of state violence. The authors include legal and political scholars, criminologists, historians, social workers, sociologists, anthropologists and literary theorists, who, by adapting their disciplinary lenses and international perspectives have provided a fulsome understanding of modes of state violence, its effects on citizens and communities, and ways in which civil society and state instrumentalities may aim to prevent, respond to and seek redress and remedies for the injuries inflicted by the state in this threshold year of 2020.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-460
Author(s):  
Alfred Evans ◽  
Eleanor Bindman
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political System ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
The State ◽  
Civil Society Organization ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Recent Developments

This article serves as an introduction to this special issue on recent developments in civil society organization and strategies in Russia. Despite the widespread assumption that the increased restrictions placed on NGO activity by the state in recent years have hampered their ability to operate, we argue that civil society in Russia continues to show signs of vitality. This is demonstrated by the fact that protests by ordinary Russians have grown and have often led to the formation of new groups and movements which have had some success in campaigning on specific issues. As the articles in this special issue highlight, one of the key tools affecting whether or not such movements can be successful in achieving their aims is that of framing. When organizations are able to frame the issue they are campaigning on in such a way as to resonate with ordinary people and avoid directly challenging the balance of power within Russia’s political system, they tend to enjoy more success than those groups which tend to take a more confrontational stance and thus face greater pushback and sanction from the authorities. This serves to highlight that NGOs and other civil society groups in Russia employ a range of different strategies and enjoy very different relationships with the authorities as a result.

Guest Editorial Special Issue on Security for IoT: The State of the Art

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 369-371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kui Ren ◽  
Pierangela Samarati ◽  
Marco Gruteser ◽  
Peng Ning ◽  
Yunhao Liu
Keyword(s):  
Guest Editorial ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Editorial Special Issue

scholarly journals Poverty as a Political Choice: a Comparative Analysis of Reports of the UN Rapporteur’s Visits to the UK and Spain

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Cummins ◽  
Emilio José Gómez-Ciriano
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis paper presents a comparative analysis of two reports by the UN Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, one for Spain and one for the UK. In both countries, austerity policies were introduced following the banking crisis of 2008. The UN Rapporteur reports highlight the damage that was done by welfare retrenchment. In particular, the reports document the impact of austerity on the most vulnerable individuals and communities. The paper uses Somers' (2008) conceptual model of citizenship as the basis for a comparative analysis of two reports. Somers' (2008) model of citizenship is a triadic one which sees the state, market and civil society as competing elements. Each one can serve to regulate and limit the influence or excesses of the other two. Somers argues that neoliberalism has seen the dominance of the market at the expense of the role of the state and the institutions of civil society. Austerity policies saw the market dominating. Having examined the context of the two reports and their conclusions, the paper discussed the implications for individual social workers’ practice and the role of social work as a profession in tackling poverty and marginalisation.

Revolutionary Law Abidance: Kachin Rebel Governance and the Adoption of ihl in Resistance to Myanmar State Violence

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 872-904
Author(s):  
Alicia de la Cour Venning
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Field Research ◽  
State Violence ◽  
The State ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Rebel Governance ◽  
International Legal System

Although armed opposition actors are increasingly prevalent within contemporary conflicts, ethnographies seeking to understand and explain their relationship with international law are scarce. While scholars highlight the state-centric nature of international law, discussing at length how it privileges state over non-state actors, few examine the way rebels perceive and relate to the international legal system. Drawing on seven months of field research among Kachin civil society and the Kachin Independence Organisation / Army (kio/A), this article demonstrates how the kio/A’s nascent engagement with international law is being strategically pursued as part of a broader rebel governance project. Ethnographic research exposes the oft neglected rebel perspective. It reveals how rebels interact with international humanitarian norms as a means to facilitate and mediate relations with both local and international actors, in an attempt to promote nation building aspirations and thereby strengthen resistance to state violence.

scholarly journals Toward Collaborative Cross-Sector Business Models for Sustainability

2020 ◽  
pp. 000765032095902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esben Rahbek Gjerdrum Pedersen ◽  
Florian Lüdeke-Freund ◽  
Irene Henriques ◽  
M. May Seitanidi
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
The State ◽  
Collaborative Cross ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Holistic Perspective ◽  
Sustainability Problems ◽  
Sustainability Challenges

Sustainability challenges typically occur across sectoral boundaries, calling the state, market, and civil society to action. Although consensus exists on the merits of cross-sector collaboration, our understanding of whether and how it can create value for various, collaborating stakeholders is still limited. This special issue focuses on how new combined knowledge on cross-sector collaboration and business models for sustainability can inform the academic and practitioner debates about sustainability challenges and solutions. We discuss how cross-sector collaboration can play an important role for the transition to new and potentially sustainability-driven business models given that value creation, delivery, and capture of organizations are intimately related to the collaborative ties with their stakeholders. Sustainable alternatives to conventional business models tend to adopt a more holistic perspective of business by broadening the spectrum of solutions and stakeholders and, when aligned with cross-sector collaboration, can contribute new ways of addressing the wicked sustainability problems humanity faces.

The State and Civil Society in Pakistan: From Crisis to Crisis

Asian Survey ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 673-690
Author(s):  
Iftikhar H. Malik
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
The State

An Introduction to the Special Issue on Energy and the Environment

Commonwealth ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Borick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue

“An Introduction to the Special to the Special Issue on Energy and the Environment” provides an overview of the state of the literature relating to Pennsylvania in these areas of public policy. It then introduces each of the articles in this issue of the journal. 

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