Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice

✍ Scribed by Suzan Ilcan

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 527
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An original, thought-provoking synthesis of interdisciplinary perspectives on the movement of people and ideas in the contemporary world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction: Mobilities, Knowledge, and Social Justice
Part One. Frames of Belonging
1. Contending Frames of ‘Security’ and ‘Citizenship’: Lebanese Dual Nationals during the 2006 Lebanon War
2. Knowledge, Gender, and Changing Mobility Regimes: Women Migrants in Europe
3. Mundane Cosmopolitanism, Mobility, and Social Justice: A Neo-Durkheimian Approach
4. Integrating High-Tech Immigrants and Temporary Workers in Canada’s New Economy: Structural Limitations to Mobilities
Part Two. Governance and Expertise
5. Mobility Regimes: The Short Life and Times of North America’s Security and Prosperity Partnership
6. Mobile Citizens, Risky Subjects: Security Knowledge at the Border
7. Paradoxes of Humanitarian Aid: Mobile Populations, Biopolitical Knowledge, and Acts of Social Justice in Osire Refugee Camp
8. Payday Loans: Assembling the Immobile Subject of Fringe Credit
9. Geographical Indications, Mobility, and Identity
Part Three. Counter-Movements
10. Justice for Migrants: Mobilizing a Rights-Based Understanding of Migration
11. Critical Mass, Global Mobilities, and the Haudenosaunee: Struggles for Cultural Autonomy
12. International Copyright Law, Access to Knowledge, and Social Justice
13. ICTs as a Catalyst for Social Justice? A Capabilities Perspective
14. Mobilizing for Development: Promises, Perils, and Policy Implications of M4D
15. Symbolic Knowledge Mobilities and Biopolitical Governmentalities of Resistance of Solomon Islands’ Pipol Fastaem
16. Mobility, Human Rights Activism, and International Intervention in Darfur
Afterword
References
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

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