1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464134803321

Autore

Price Richard <1941->

Titolo

Rainforest warriors [[electronic resource] ] : human rights on trial / / Richard Price

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011

ISBN

0-8122-4300-5

1-283-89027-5

0-8122-0372-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Collana

Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Disciplina

323.1196

Soggetti

Saramacca (Surinamese people) - Civil rights

Saramacca (Surinamese people) - Legal status, laws, etc

Human rights - Suriname

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Africans discover America -- Earth, water, sky -- Sovereignty and territory -- Resistance redux -- Judgment day -- American dreams.

Sommario/riassunto

Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life-part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe. The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990's, its government began awarding extensive logging and mining concessions to multinational companies from China, Indonesia, Canada, and elsewhere. Saramaka Maroons, the descendants of self-liberated African slaves who had lived in that rainforest for more than 300 years, resisted, bringing their complaints to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In 2008, when the Inter-American Court of Human Rights delivered its landmark judgment in their favor, their efforts to protect their



threatened rainforest were thrust into the international spotlight. Two leaders of the struggle to protect their way of life, Saramaka Headcaptain Wazen Eduards and Saramaka law student Hugo Jabini, were awarded the Goldman Prize for the Environment (often referred to as the environmental Nobel Prize), under the banner of "A New Precedent for Indigenous and Tribal Peoples." Anthropologist Richard Price, who has worked with Saramakas for more than forty years and who participated actively in this struggle, tells the gripping story of how Saramakas harnessed international human rights law to win control of their own piece of the Amazonian forest and guarantee their cultural survival.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886082903321

Autore

Kaiser Robert

Titolo

Research Interviews : A Practical Guide to Qualitative Data Collection with Experts in Political Science / / by Robert Kaiser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden : , : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

3-658-45333-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (89 pages)

Collana

Springer Texts in Political Science and International Relations, , 2730-9568

Disciplina

320.0721

Soggetti

Political science

Comparative government

Sociology - Methodology

Methodology of Political Science

Comparative Public Policy

Comparative Politics

Sociological Methods

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction -- The Conceptual Phase: The Nature of the Expert and Types of Knowledge -- The Operational Phase: Interview Guide, Interviewees, and Interview Situation -- The Analytical Phase:



Securing Interview Data and Theory-Guided Analysis -- The Interpretational Phase: Making (scientifically relevant) sense of expert interviews -- Annotated Literature Selection -- References.

Sommario/riassunto

The textbook is primarily aimed at students and younger researchers and offers a concise but systematic practical guide to planning and conducting qualitative expert interviews in political science. It provides a methodologically sound and application- or problem-oriented approach to this form of independent qualitative data collection. The English translation of this book, originally in German, was facilitated by artificial intelligence. The content was later revised by the author for accuracy and adapted to an international readership. The Author Dr. Robert Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Politics and Political Theory at the University of Siegen (Germany). .