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Published: 01 March 2014
... a concept of urban community rights based on social bonds among diverse neighbors. The chapter shows how tenants' assertion of community rights against owners' prerogative challenged a pillar of postwar American ideology, namely, citizenship based on homeownership. community control Cooper Square...
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Published: 03 July 2015
... for the protection of their community rights, as well as the intraracial tensions that developed as the police failed to treat Harlemites fairly. Johnson James Weldon New York Police Department riots self protection legalism New Negro activist New York Age San Juan Hill self defense third degree New York...
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Whose Harlem Is This, Anyway? Community Politics and Grassroots Activism during the New Negro Era
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Shannon King
Published online: 24 March 2016
Published in print: 03 July 2015
... of the twentieth century to the Great Depression, black Harlemites mobilized around local issues—such as high rents, jobs, leisure, and police brutality—to make their neighborhood an autonomous black community. This book argues that Harlemites' mobilization for community rights raised the black community's racial...
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Fracked Taxpayers and Communities: Shale Economics in the US and Argentina
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Shanti Gamper-Rabindran
Published: 11 August 2021
... and informed consultation FPIC land rights Gutiérrez Omar Sapag Jorge Biden Joe COVID 19 pandemic private benefits social risks Indigenous rights legal privileges community rights corporate welfare In the United States, which pioneered the shale industry, and in Argentina, which is hyped...
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Published: 29 March 2007
... as an instrument in assessing implementation on the national level rather than as a means to modify the procedural rules. Moreover, this principle was recently debated as to whether it affords an improved level of protection by the national court with respect to the community rights. rights of private parties...
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“Colored People Have Few Places to Which They Can Move” Tenants, Landlords, and Community Mobilization
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Shannon King
Published: 03 July 2015
...This chapter examines the Harlem tenant movement for better housing conditions and lower rent. The Harlemites interpreted high rents as a form of racism predicated on residential segregation. Hence, tenant activists persistently argued that they have the community right to fair rents, responsible...
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Published: 03 July 2015
... in Harlem. Thus, the expansion of white ownership of Harlem leisure institutions and the throng of slumming whites threatened the autonomy of the black community and their community rights. buffet flats community building congregation Negro Mecca New York Age Prohibition respectability community...
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Conclusion
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Shannon King
Published: 03 July 2015
... of social mobility. The array of oppositional and political activity and tactics displayed in the black district and throughout the city represent blacks' efforts to enact their community rights, not necessarily to achieve civil rights. Furthermore, the diversity of political activity also showed blacks...
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Eschewing Special Rights
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James G Dwyer
Published: 01 April 2025
... and explore whether and how application of those principles might differ as between autonomous adults and children because of differences in their characteristics or circumstances. UNCRC group-specific rights human rights parental rights community rights The dominant approach to reasoning about...
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Published: 28 February 2013
... with reference to the adequacy of the law in addressing the problems of the forest dwellers and their communities, recognition of rights, and definition of individual forest rights and community rights. It analyses the progress in the implementation of the Act in respect of awareness generation; prescribed...
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Human Rights in Natural Resource Development: Public Participation in the Sustainable Development of Mining and Energy Resources
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Donald M. Zillman (ed.) and others
Published online: 22 March 2012
Published in print: 04 April 2002
...-cultural-social protection for this and succeeding generations. A recognised human right since the 1940s, public participation today is assuming many different legal and political forms — citizen involvement, indigenous peoples' rights, local community rights, sustainable development agreements, public...
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Ebb Tide: The Receding Years
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Thomas J. Osborne
Published: 10 November 2017
... to visit again the people and places that had meant the most to him. He reflected on the Earth, the cosmos, and nature; citizen activism to save the coast; property rights versus community rights; purposeful living and public service; and death. He confronted his last months with the same fearlessness...
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Reconciling Liberalism and Communitarianism
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Beth J. Singer
Published: 01 February 1999
... recognized entitlements and obligations to respect them—rights are not adversarial. They do not divide people from one another, nor do they set them against governments or states. At least in principle, then, individual and community rights are compatible. collectivism and individualism communitarianism...
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Indigenous Peoples
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Russel Lawrence Barsh
Published: 07 August 2008
... not only succeeded in achieving recognition of collective property in communities, but also in juxtaposing community rights with the rights of states—a dynamic tension governed by competing claims to good stewardship. There has also been recognition, at least in practice, of indigenous peoples’ right...
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Indigenous Peoples
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Russel Lawrence Barsh
Published: 18 September 2012
...indigenous peoples self determination biological diversity public participation International Labour Organisation CSD indigenous peoples international law international environmental law community rights political rights external self-determination cultural property rights land 1...
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State Succession in Cultural Property
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Andrzej Jakubowski
Published online: 20 August 2015
Published in print: 01 June 2015
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Rights
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Paul Craig
Published: 28 September 2006
...This chapter analyses the role of rights in the Community legal order and their impact on judicial review. It begins with a discussion on the evolution of Community rights, revealing the input from the European Court of Justice (ECJ), the Court of First Instance (CFI), and the Community political...
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Expanding democracy
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Katherine Fierlbeck
Published: 01 August 2008
... Hobbes individualism rationalism material well-being feminist neutrality community rights The metaphysical problem of our age is not in fact to reveal the universal in the inequality of social conditions, but to found differentiation in the limitless standardization of the networks. (J.M. Guéhenno...
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When Tenants Claimed the City: The Struggle for Citizenship in New York City Housing
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Roberta Gold
Published online: 20 April 2017
Published in print: 01 March 2014
... ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America. The book emphasizes the centrality of housing to the racial and class reorganization of the city after the war, the prominent role of women within the tenant movement, and their fostering of a concept of “urban community rights” grounded...
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