course Top of Page WS 1022G GENDER‚ JUSTICE AND CHANGE Instructor: Bipasha Baruah Class times: Wednesdays 2:30 - 4:30 pm plus one hour tutorial The 21st century is a period of accelerating change focused around issues of gender‚ justice and activism. This course will introduce students to the ways in which movements for justice and change are informed by and take up gender issues in matters of education‚ health‚ poverty‚ globalization‚ the environment‚ etc. 2 hours plus a one hour tutorial‚
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will influence whether and for what purpose firms pursue CSR. He posits two types of institutional models and locates the United States in that model in which government is reluctant to constrain via regulation managers’ freedom in pursuing shareholder return and the expectation of CSR is weak. The second idea is that of GAP as a ‘global citizen.’ Although a multinational company such as GAP operates over national boarders‚ there exist no laws at International level to govern their activities
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Social Media is Politicizing 1 Introduction From the very beginning of its existence Internet has been reshaping the human society in a very radical fashion. It has eradicated the spatial constraint of communication and has provided an open platform which has given immense power to its users. Ubiquity of the Internet and multimedia devices has paved the way for a new kind of media the ‘social media’. According to Ahlqvist‚ Bäck‚ Halonen‚ and Heinonen (2008)‚ social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they
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Ghassan Ali Moussawi defines the Lebanese Gay Community as “informal social networks‚ institutions (such as nightclubs‚ bars‚ and restaurants) and activism”(103). Activism is mainly expressed through the use of Lebanon’s only LGBT non-profit organization‚ Helem‚ which was created in 2004. Helem is an NGO “dedicated to the protection and empowerment of LGBTQ individuals in Lebanon‚ bringing together advocacy and community services towards liberation from all types of legal‚ social and cultural discrimination”(Merabet
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each is an example of “activism” or “restraint” On the case of Plessy V. Ferguson ruled that segregation was legal as long as white and blacks are equal. Meanwhile the Brown V. Board of Education was that the racial segregation in public schools were unconstitutional. In the case of Plessy V.Ferguson is an example restraint. They didn’t want to get rid of segregation just make everyone equal. While with the Brown V. Board of Education that is an example activism. Activism is changing a policy and
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RESEARCH PAPER 3/2011 Leonardo Pierdominici Constitutional adjudication and the ’dimensions’ of judicial activism. Legal and institutional heuristics Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies Department of Law http://stals.sssup.it ISSN: 1974-5656 1 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1889042 Constitutional adjudication and the ’dimensions’ of judicial activism. Legal and institutional heuristics Leonardo Pierdominici Abstract The dominant approach to constitutional
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fundamentals. Hence‚ if FIIs’ investments are mocked (retail investors)‚ one may have a good recipe for profits. Our results can also imply that FIIs can have significant contribution in controlling agency problem and adding to existing literature on shareholder activism. Key words: India‚ Foreign Institutional Investor shareholding‚ Company fundamentals‚ Granger causality‚ Agency problem. Corresponding Author Amiya K. Sahu Assistant Professor Goa Institute of Management Poriem‚ Sattari‚ Goa - 403505
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people fighting for their rights‚ we have become accustomed to the idea that activism needs to be extreme; to cause riots‚ have aggression‚ and for people to be put in jail to make a point. We have created an image that there needs to be a fierce willingness to fight‚ in order for activism to be effective. As Malcolm Gladwell describes in “Why the Revolution Should not be Tweeted”‚ he reminds us of what ‘real’ activism is and how other generations have risked their lives to make a difference‚ in
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policy matters Judicial activism is not an easy concept to define. It means different things to different persons. Critics denounce judicial decisions as activist when they do not agree with them. Activism‚ like beauty‚ is often in the eye of the beholder. In India‚ the opening up of access to courts to the poor‚ indigent and disadvantaged sections of the nation through Public Interest Litigation‚ popularly known by its acronym PIL‚ is unexceptionable judicial activism. From 1979‚ the judiciary
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Patagonia Case Study Key Strategic Issues (Why Important / Summary of Internal / External Analyses) 1) Balancing Commitment to Business with Commitment to Environment A key issue facing management was balancing the company’s desire for environmentalism with its existence as a for-profit business. The idea of running a for-profit business implies operating at the lowest cost‚ growing as rapidly as financially feasible‚ and maximizing returns to financial stockholders ( I think it should be stockholder
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