Lives in the Balance: Perspectives on Global Injustice and Inequality (International Studies in Sociology & Social Anthropology) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004108750 ISBN 13: 9789004108752

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1997

Synopsis

The chapters in this book offer a critique on nation-statism, rational capitalism, and concentration of power in the post-colonial world, by focussing our attention on the cracks in the armor of the totalizing discourses of the dominant western paradigm, and by illuminating the continuing struggles for equality and power among those who remain marginalized in the new world (dis)order.

About this title

About the Author:

Pat Lauderdale, Ph.D. (1980) in Sociology, Stanford University, is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies and is Director of the Justice Studies, Law and Social Sciences Ph.D./J.D. Program at Arizona State University. His recent works includes The Struggle for Control, with Michael Cruit; comparative articles on indigenous jurisprudence; and a revision of Law and Society with James Inverarity.

Randall Amster, J.D. (1991), Brooklyn Law School, is a Doctoral student in the School of Justice Studies, Law and the Social Sciences, at Arizona State University. He was formerly the Associate Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review, in which he published an article analyzing the culpability standard in federal civil rights legislation. His present research interests focus on anarchism, ecology, and resistance.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 9004108750
• ISBN 13: 9789004108752
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 154
• Editor: Lauderdale Pat, Amster Randall