450 - Section on Political Economy of the World-System Paper Session. Human Rights and the Political Economy of the World System

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Recognizing that this year’s ASA meeting is taking place in Seattle, a designated “Human Rights City,” this panel will explore the relationships of human rights and the political economy of the world-system. Papers should address the question of how contemporary world-systemic crises impacted human rights—in particular in relation to climate change, immigration, violent conflict, and access to essential resources such as land and water? Panel organizers are most interested in work that goes beyond merely analyzing how world-systemic processes impact human rights to identify ways that people are coming together to demand human rights in the face of intensifying world-systemic crises. We encourage authors to consider what sociology has to say about how social movements and policy practitioners might improve the realization of human rights in local and/or translocal contexts.

Sub Unit

• Section on Political Economy of the World-System / Human Rights and the Political Economy of the World System

Session Organizer

• Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh

Presider

• Jackie Smith, University of Pittsburgh

Individual Presentations

• Embodied Resistance and Solidarity Activism in Contest to the US Security State - Chandra Russo, Colgate University

• From Core to Peripheral Nation-States: What are the Global Climate Change Impacts Across Socioeconomic Classes? - Greg Williams, Fielding Graduate University

• Why Black Rights Matter: Discursive Constructions of Black Political Rights in the Mississippi Freedom Movement - Michael Rosino, University of Connecticut

Discussant

• Manisha Desai, University of Connecticut