The ‘Arab Spring’ in Global Perspective: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010–2014)

Lafi, Nora

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“…Economic, social, and political inequalities have become increasingly manifest in recent decades, affecting huge numbers of people in urban areas. Cities have become spaces for rights struggles, as evidenced very recently by the Arab uprisings (2011), the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York (2011), the Gezi protests in Turkey (2013), and the Yellow Vests movement in France (2018) (Göle, 2013;Jetten et al, 2020;Lafi, 2017). 1 Human rights institutions and practitioners have started to express the role of local administrations more frequently.…”

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Capabilities Indicators for Human Rights Cities in Turkey: A Gender-Specific Approach

Yücel

2021

Soc Indic Res

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There has been a growing movement around human rights cities (HRCs) in the last two decades, supported by citizens, public institutions, civil society organizations, and academia. Diverse HRC practices and approaches have accompanied this development. Most work to date has focused on processes and institutionalization and remains case-specific; comparative rights-based empirical research at the local level is rare. To fill this gap, this paper proposes indicators as a tool for assessment of human rights in cities. The development of the indicators forms part of a broader project initiated by Raoul Wallenberg Institute (RWI) Research Worldwide Istanbul and the Union of Turkish World Municipalities, in which seven Turkish municipalities have been collaboratively developing HRC capacities since mid-2017. This study focuses on gender as a cross-cutting component of the multidimensional human rights space. It utilizes a capabilities approach to transform an abstract notion of rights into concrete, observable concepts and indicators that connect human rights and the provision of public goods and services through the capabilities of citizens. The proposed gender indicators have been tested through a series of semi-structured interviews with contact persons in participating municipalities. The HRC processes in these municipalities serve as an exemplar for research and activism regarding HRCs, especially in a developing country context.

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Capabilities Indicators for Human Rights Cities in Turkey: A Gender-Specific Approach

Yücel

2021

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Institutional philanthropy and popular organising in Africa : some initial reflections from social movement activists

Mahomed¹

2020

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As popular forms of organising increasingly serve as sites for change in Africa, institutionalised private philanthropy, which has generally stayed away from such activist spaces is slowly engaging. While anecdotal knowledge exists, evidence-based analysis on these relationships is scarce. This study explored how African movements experience and see the role and nature of philanthropy in relation to their own functioning and objectives. It highlighted that it is not merely a question of whether it is appropriate for institutional philanthropy to engage, but the ‘how’ of engagement that matters most. As a result, different challenges and limitations emerged. The research reflected critical concerns raised by movements about philanthropic orientation, ideology, and practice, and called for radical mindset shifts from institutional philanthropy – particularly on aspects such as power, control, accountability, and impact – and provided practical observations for consideration.

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The ‘Arab Spring’ in Global Perspective: Social Movements, Changing Contexts and Political Transitions in the Arab World (2010–2014)

Cited by 2 publications

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Capabilities Indicators for Human Rights Cities in Turkey: A Gender-Specific Approach

Capabilities Indicators for Human Rights Cities in Turkey: A Gender-Specific Approach

Institutional philanthropy and popular organising in Africa : some initial reflections from social movement activists

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