Keri E. Iyall Smith

Comparing State and International Protections of Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights:

Globalization has created the space for indigenous peoples to seek rights in new and creative ways. This article introduces the relational concept between indigenous peoples and others. Then it defines human rights and identifies three generations of human rights as expressed in doctrine and the protections they provide. After discussing the application of human rights to indigenous peoples, the author examines human rights in two cases: the Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement and the Zapatistas (Maya) movement. In each case she seeks to discover which structure—either the state or international system—offers greater openings for the rights that the indigenous groups seek. To discover the range of rights apportioned to indigenous peoples, the author also looks at several state constitutions in the Americas. The findings suggest that the rights of indigenous peoples are better protected by international doctrine.

Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights

David L. Brunsma, Keri Iyall Smith, and Brian K. Gran

Neoliberalism, Globalization, and Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life

the quest for a predictable human being amounted to an attack on the liberal democratic conception of the free citizen. The sociologists who disdained the public as an audience treated ordinary people as a pathological mass, and believed in the mass society theory of politics, lined up, more or less consistently, on the same side of these disputes. This is a complicated, well-told story that sheds an interesting light on many issues in the history of American sociology. Haney has made good use of the available archives and read the contemporary literature widely. There is a problem, however, of point of view: not Haney’s problem, but rather a problem for the critics, such as Mills and Lynd, and a problem for the present. The critics lacked a viable counter-model to the model of public-professional relations, and of the public, provided by consensus Columbia sociology. Haney appeals to Dewey’s writings on the public and his ideas of a participatory dialogue, which was itself scientific, and which he opposed to the model of expert tutelage of an ignorant but submissive public. This model was a dead letter by the mid-thirties, in part because it was rejected by scientists, and had been killed off in relation to sociology by Lundberg’s widely read Can Science Save Us? Lundberg was overoptimistic about the capacity of sociology to deliver on its promises, but he did articulate a coherent picture: that citizens choose democratically with respect to values, while science provides the rest—the facts and the casual knowledge. And this picture has proven to be both astonishingly resilient and astonishingly difficult to live up to. GLOBAL DYNAMICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

New Agoras and Old Institutions: The Case of Human Rights

Existing human rights doctrine and enforcement structures often fail to protect human welfare. The new agora project (Jenlink and Banathy 2002) offers a structure to democratically re-build human rights. To examine the role of new agoras in re-crafting old institutions, I begin by identifying the context of human rights: globalization, diverse identities, and democracy. After analyzing the impact of diversity on democratic structures, I introduce human rights as conceived by Banathy’s (2000) Third Generation. With this in mind, I am prepared to examine the challenges and opportunities for shaping a new operationalization of human rights using the new agora structure.