Public Sociologies Reader

Judith Blau is professor of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is author of Architects and Firms, The Shape of Culture, Social Contracts and Economic Markets, Race in the Schools, and is coauthor, with Alberto Moncada of Human Rights: Beyond the Liberal Vision and Justice in the United States: Human Rights and the U.S. Constitution. She is past-president of the Southern Sociological Society and president of the U.S. chapter of Sociologists without Borders. Keri E. Iyall Smith is assistant professor of sociology at Stonehill College in Easton, MA. She teaches on the subjects of globalization, race and ethnicity, indigenous peoples, social problems, and introductory sociology. She has published articles in the fields of human rights and teaching sociology.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: A Public Sociology for Human RightsChapter 2 The Local and the Global: Critical Globalization StudiesChapter 3 The Local and the Global: Cosmopolitan CitizenshipChapter 4 The Struggle for Global Society in a World SystemChapter 5 A Movement Rising: Vision and Strategy from the Bottom UpChapter 6 Neoliberal Globalization and the Question of Sweatshop Labor in Developing Countries or RightsChapter 7 Framing Social Security RightsChapter 8 Latin America: Capital Accumulation and the Role of International OrganizationsChapter 9 Indigenous in Itself to Indigenous for ItselfChapter 10 Migrants, Rights, and StatesChapter 11 Understanding Disasters: Vulnerability, Sustainable Development, and ResiliencyChapter 12 Promoting SustainabilityChapter 13 Promoting Peace through Global GovernanceChapter 14 Ejidos: Local and Global PublicsChapter 15 Teaching Public SociologiesChapter 16 What Does Feminism Have to Say about Public SociologyChapter 17 The Challenge to Public Sociology: Neo-Liberalism's Illusion of Inclusion

Judith Blau and Keri Iyall Smith have brought together a bracing collection of essays dealing with the mission of sociology in a neo-liberal global order. Each essay is different, yet each sets out to examine the challenges of developing a sociology that can tame our borderless capitalism and the brutalities it brings in its wake.