Nations worldwide consider education an important tool of economic and social development and currently time advocate the use of innovative strategies to prepare students for knowledge and skills acquisition. Especially in the last decade European countries have promoted a series of revisions in theirs curriculum and the way teachers are trained to put them into … Continue reading "Mauricio Pietrocola: “Innovative education and risk taking”"

I am at the beginning of a new project. Its specific shape will depend upon how much material I obtain from the Clinton presidential library and other government archives. I will briefly address these problems at our session. But I would like to use the session to present my preliminary ideas on the timing of … Continue reading "Judith Stein: “The United States, Globalization, and Neoliberalism”"

Sujatha Fernandes is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Who Can Stop the Drums? Urban Social Movements in Chávez’s Venezuela (Duke University Press, 2010) and Cuba Represent! Cuban Arts, State Power, and the Making of New Revolutionary Cultures (Duke … Continue reading "Sujatha Fernandes: “Invisible Women: Storytelling in the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign”"

Americans often associate “human rights” with Western NGOs that attempt to impose legal norms abroad. But, since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, intellectuals and activists in the United States have begun applying a human rights framework to domestic struggles over bread-and-butter issues. These campaigns have received little mainstream media attention, but they … Continue reading "Grace Davie: “Contemporary Campaigns for Social and Economic Rights in the United States: A Research Prospectus”"

This article analyzes the “translation” of social scientific concepts into language relevant to UN debates and drafting processes. The focus is on the Human Rights Council’s new Intergovernmental Working Group charged with negotiating a UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants. The first article of many international human rights instruments includes a specification of the … Continue reading "Marc Edelman: “Defining ‘peasant’ at the United Nations Human Rights Council”"

Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, received her B.A. from Brandeis University and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. Her main area of interest is immigration. She has studied Jamaicans in their home society as well as in New York and London, done … Continue reading "Nancy Foner: “Comparative Immigration and America’s Racial Legacy”"

Economic debates seem, at best, to become more sophisticated, without being resolved. Economics as a discipline has been unable to fulfill adequately the roles which society expects of it, and the reasons for this failure lie in the social and political contexts and consequences of economic ideas. When we discuss economic ideas, or teach and … Continue reading "Sanjay Reddy: “What’s Wrong with Economics”"

Chad Alan Goldberg is an ARC Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also affiliated with European Studies, Jewish Studies, and the Mosse Program in History. His primary research interest is the historical sociology of citizenship, broadly understood to include the development of … Continue reading "Chad Alan Goldberg: “Between Imaginaries of Domination and Supersession: Portrayals of the Relation between Jews and Capitalism in the German Sociological Tradition.”"