High-profile crimes: when legal cases become social causes

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (01) ◽  
pp. 44-0634-44-0634
Keyword(s):  
Legal Cases ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Social Causes

Before and After the Central Park Jogger: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes

Contexts ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 38-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Chancer
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
The Political ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Central Park ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Social Causes

A number of recent high-profile criminal cases have served as vehicles for public debates about race, gender, and class prejudice. What are the implications of these cases for the legal system and for the political activists who become involved with them?

scholarly journals River Goddesses, Personhood and Rights of Nature: Implications for Spiritual Ecology

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly D. Alley
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Hindu Nationalism ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Spiritual Ecology ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Legal Traditions ◽  
The World ◽  
Legal Interventions

Designating rights for nature is a potentially powerful way to open up the dialogue on nature conservation around the world and provide enforcement power for an ecocentric approach. Experiments using a rights-based framework have combined in-country perspectives, worldviews, and practices with legal justifications giving rights to nature. This paper looks at a fusion of legal traditions, religious worldviews, and practices of environmental protection and advocacy in the context of India. It takes two specific legal cases in India and examines the recent high-profile rulings designating the rivers Ganga, Yamuna, and their tributaries and glaciers as juristic persons. Although the rulings were stayed a few months after their issuance, they are an interesting bending of the boundaries of nature, person, and deity that produce Ganga and Yamuna as vulnerable prototypes. This paper uses interview data focusing on these cases and document and archival data to ask whether legal interventions giving rights to nature can become effective avenues for environmental activism and spiritual ecology. The paper also assesses whether these legal cases have promoted Hindu nationalism or ‘Hindutva lite’.

scholarly journals At Least I’m My Own Boss! Explaining Consent, Coercion and Resistance in Platform Work

2020 ◽  
pp. 095001702095266
Author(s):  
Christina Purcell ◽  
Paul Brook
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Social World ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Good Sense ◽  
Legal Cases ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Social ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Conditions Of Work

Platform work has grown significantly in the last decade. High-profile legal cases have highlighted the grey area which platform work inhabits in terms of the employment relationship and have raised concerns about the quality and conditions of work. Platform operators claim they are neutral intermediaries, yet often control over scheduling and tasks lies with them. This article presents a theoretical framework that integrates macro and micro-level analyses to account for the production of hegemony and playing out of consent, coercion and resistance within platform work. It does so by rearticulating Burawoy’s concept of hegemonic despotism by drawing upon Foucauldian notions of neoliberal governmentality and reasserting the centrality of Gramsci’s work in understanding power and hegemony, in particular the concept of contradictory consciousness and the dialogical contest between hegemonic ‘common sense’ and ‘good sense’, which constitutes our understanding and sense-making in the social world.

Computers and diffraction analysis

1989 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 44-45
Author(s):  
J. A. Eades
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
Electron Diffraction ◽  
Diffraction Analysis ◽  
Electron Diffraction Analysis ◽  
Image Simulation ◽  
Correct Interpretation ◽  
High Profile ◽  
High Resolution Images ◽  
Image Simulations

For well over two decades computers have played an important role in electron microscopy; they now pervade the whole field - as indeed they do in so many other aspects of our lives. The initial use of computers was mainly for large (as it seemed then) off-line calculations for image simulations; for example, of dislocation images.Image simulation has continued to be one of the most notable uses of computers particularly since it is essential to the correct interpretation of high resolution images. In microanalysis, too, the computer has had a rather high profile. In this case because it has been a necessary part of the equipment delivered by manufacturers. By contrast the use of computers for electron diffraction analysis has been slow to prominence. This is not to say that there has been no activity, quite the contrary; however it has not had such a great impact on the field.

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