Join us as experts and scholars explore human rights as a mediating language for discussions of social justice and the global economy. How do democracy, social justice, and international human rights law constrain international trade and intellectual property? What responsibilities do wealthy nations have to end global poverty? What are the ethical obligations and claims for collective international action? What are the human rights dimensions of climate change and its consequences for people’s lives and livelihoods? Can international organizations and corporations ignore human rights? In what ways can economic policies and institutions be used to strengthen human rights policies around the world and advance social justice?
Overview
Human rights has become a mediating language for discussions of social justice and the global economy. The dynamism of the global economy is at once creating and destroying opportunities for people, shaping lives and livelihoods. Yet even as the language of human rights developed alongside capitalism, the fields of human rights and economics have evolved separately, following separate trajectories in both theory and practice.
This conference is designed to contribute to a nascent interdisciplinary conversation between human rights and economics. While human rights help frame these issues, "rights talk" can be mere rhetoric rather than contributing to a better understanding of the processes involved. This symposium explores the role human rights can and does play. It brings together theorists and practitioners from both fields who are concerned with equity and justice in the global economy in its many dimensions: its rules (trade, intellectual property, carbon emissions and climate change), its actors (corporations, multinational organizations), and its tools (the international human rights system). We bring together scholars, activists, and members of the public who are engaged in exciting initiatives in this nascent field. The contemporary issues of climate change, financial market crises, market volatility, and increasing inequality add to the urgency of seeking connections between human rights and the global economy.
This conference is the 25th in the Social Research conference series, founded by Arien Mack in 1988. This conference was organized in partnership with Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, Miriam Ticktin, and Nehal Bhuta. Professor Arien Mack has been Alfred and Monette Marrow Professor of Psychology at The New School for Social Research and editor of Social Research since 1970. Social Research: An International Quarterly is the flagship journal of The New School for Social Research. For a list of more than 70 degree programs at The New School, visit degree programs. For a list of other events at The New School, visit the university calendar. For general information about The New School, visit the quick facts page. For the history of this conference series, visit the Social Research conference series site.
The conference is made possible with generous support from the Climate Change Narratives, Rights and the Poor project at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway.
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