Editors’ Introduction: Immigration, a Civil Rights Issue Issue overview immigration Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 3 (1996): 1-8
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Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, and Lisa Rofel
Reflections on the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing and Huairou, 1995 This is a report on the fourth world conference on women held in Beijing and Huairou in September 1995. Much of the coverage in the United States used the occasion of the conference to portray China as the nemesis of capitalist democracy. Women’s […]
Rita Maran
After the Beijing Women’s Conference: What Will Be Done? In two of the largest overlapping global gatherings ever held, 47,000 individuals attended the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women (FWCW) and its parallel event, the Non-Governmental Organizations’ Forum on Women (NGO Forum) in China in September 1995. The FWCW, a government-to-government formal conference, was […]
Peter Beilharz
Australian Laborism, Social Democracy, and Social Justice into the 1990s From the outside, the experience of the Australian labor movement has always seemed different. Since its inception, Australian labor has been happy to promote the image of its own exceptionalism. From its earlier strengths, through its tepid, near-British postwar period, and the real excitement — […]
Atilio A. Borón
Governability and Democracy in Latin America The first part of this article explores the meaning of democracy and citizenship, and their tortured relationship to the structures of domination inherent in capitalist societies. The second provides antecedents to the impact of the recession and the liberal-inspired adjustments to the conditions of life of the popular classes […]
Carlos M. Vilas
Latin America and the New World Order This article details the growing marginalization of Latin America in the world economy in the 1990s. The region had embarked on a scheme of moderate growth with low salaries, high capital profitability, and social exclusion, in a context of broad trade and financial opening as well as growing […]
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
Japan: Beyond the ‘Lessons of Growth’ The fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the Soviet bloc marked a dramatically visible turning point in the history of Eastern Europe. It is also becoming increasingly clear that these events marked a less visible, but nonetheless profound, turning point in the history of many other […]
Lin Chun
Situating China In the 1990s, China was undergoing profound social transformations and moving somewhere beyond the previously known experiences of either traditional socialism or classical and present-day variations of capitalism. The author briefly examines the ambiguous post-Mao reform process and attempts to grasp the changes in their historical and international contexts. Alternatives and future possibilities […]
William K. Tabb
The East and the World Today This article primarily discusses the nations of the Asia region that have loomed large in the discussion of “the East Asian Economic Miracle.” The author’s method is not so much as to consider particular countries in isolation, but rather to discuss the emergence of a regional economy. He concentrates […]
George Aseniero
Asia in the World-System The world economic crisis, whose arrival Andre Gunder Frank was among the earliest to announce and systematically analyze to a disbelieving world, rather imperceptibly left the sphere of controversy (“Crisis? What crisis?”) some time ago and entered the realm of fact acknowledged by all. This essay focuses on the region that […]
Nirmal Kumar Chandra
India in the South Asian Context This article explores the political economy of development in India. It then discusses political issues that reached threatening proportions in the 1990s, almost paralyzing the political process. The most serious challenge since independence to the integrity of the country was triggered by the destruction of the 465-year-old Babri Masjid […]
Faysal Yachir
Wither the Arabic World? The author begins with the question: What is the Arab world? The most common answer is that it is a cultural rather than an ethnic reality. Indeed, the Arabs lack real ethnic unity, just as the Spanish or French, commonly called Latins, cannot be considered to be ethnic Romans. Physical types […]
Fawsy Mansour
The Arab World Today The basic question confronting the Arab world is why, in the mid-1990s, it was sliding back into a position of deepening dependency, stalled development, and increasing marginalization, despite having been one of the major participants and beneficiaries of the national liberation movement that in the second half of the twentieth century […]
Bernard Founou-Tchuigoua
The State Subregion in the Future of Africa Although the neoliberal reorganization of the world sets aside a place for Africa — as a reserve of the natural resources necessary for protecting the global environment and sustaining industrial production — it provides no such place for the region’s peoples. In this article the author underscores […]
Mahmood Mamdani
Indirect Rule, Civil Society, and Ethnicity: The African Dilemma This article seeks to present an interpretation of post-independence African politics. The author’s central argument is that Saharan African countries face a threefold challenge in the post-independence period: decolonizing the state, deracializing civil society, and restructuring unequal external relations of dependency. Of these, the critical task […]
Kiva Maidanik
The Problem of ‘Alternativeness’ in Russia’s Past, Present, and Eventual Future The author outlines the imperatives and elements faced by post-Soviet Russia that provide the historical opportunity for a different development. One alternative for overcoming the structural crisis combines the market with political democracy and social and national defense, aiming at a mixed economy. This […]