2012
DOI: 10.1177/0160597612442168
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Daring to Be Dangerous: A Sociology for Our Troubled Times

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“…While academics do address the boycotts, most sources that we found are not research studies and tend to be grounded in oppositional political frameworks. One believes that Israel is a settler-colonial entity that illegally uprooted the indigenous Palestinian population (Bakan and Abu-Laban, 2009; Kalob, 2012; McMahon, 2014; Svirsky, 2015), whereas the other sees the establishment of Israel as a legitimate enterprise of the Jewish people, rooted in a valid Zionist-nationalist framework (Grossman, 2014; Mendes and Dyrenfurth, 2015; Rynhold, 2010). We present here the main issues discussed in BDS literature.…”
Section: Boycotts In Generalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…While academics do address the boycotts, most sources that we found are not research studies and tend to be grounded in oppositional political frameworks. One believes that Israel is a settler-colonial entity that illegally uprooted the indigenous Palestinian population (Bakan and Abu-Laban, 2009; Kalob, 2012; McMahon, 2014; Svirsky, 2015), whereas the other sees the establishment of Israel as a legitimate enterprise of the Jewish people, rooted in a valid Zionist-nationalist framework (Grossman, 2014; Mendes and Dyrenfurth, 2015; Rynhold, 2010). We present here the main issues discussed in BDS literature.…”
Section: Boycotts In Generalmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Humanist sociology stands for a rejection of the influence of corporate capitalism on our discipline and world. In his 2011 AHS Presidential address, for instance, Dennis Kalob (2012) urges us “to dare to confront corporate capitalism” and articulates its problematic influence on our food systems, a system where “food is not produced by agribusiness to feed a hungry world, but to make a profit” while simultaneously millions go hungry (Kalob 2012:109). Kalob (2012) argues that our highest duty as professional humanist sociologists should be to not just study injustices but act to rectify them.…”
Section: Locavorism As Humanist Sociologymentioning
confidence: 99%