radical feminism and feminist critical (Burchill dan Linklater, 1996: 283). In the discipline of international law, there have been groups of feminism that brings perspective to dismantle the dominance of masculine values that have hitherto dominated system of international human rights law (Charlesworth, Chinkin, & Wright, 1991). The emergence of thought in international law that carries feminism, in the case of the dominance of masculine values which has been dominating. This theory is part of the
cold war period of the twentieth century, feminism in international law developed at a considerable level in last three decades. At least the word feminism is not now totally unknown to different parts of the world! Feminist scholars like Hilary Charlesworth, Christine Chinkin, Shelley Wright and others, remarkably contributed to the development of feminist theory in international law. However, decade to decade feminist approach in international law was different. Significant issues and events influenced
economic factors cannot be ignored longer for studying the international politics. All important international agendas from international security to development and climate change have an explicit or implicit economic dimensions. The political and economic future of nations can no longer be discussed in isolation and the status of every nation in the web of economic exchanges and political dealings must also be given due weightage. .International Political Economy (IPE) is a social science that attempts
how both feminists and cultural relativists criticize the international human rights. The feminist claims that international human rights is protecting only the male and that the rights doesn’t pay attention to women’s rights. But according to cultural relativists, international human rights only condemn the issues universally, whereas they think that the source of human rights is the culture itself, but people doesn’t pay attention to it. The paper addresses the opposition between feminist and cultural
Describe and assess the realist understanding of the following concepts: “anarchy”, “self-interest” and “power” Realists suggest that the international system is based on three key assumptions of anarchy, self-interest or egotism and power. Anarchy or the lack of central authority dominates international politics which causes states to act in self-interest i.e. make rational decisions to ensure survival in a world where all actors possess military capabilities. The interaction of these assumptions
Latin ‘victima’ which means ‘beast for sacrifice’ or ‘sacrificial animal’ and the word ‘victim’ became a keyword in official politics in the 1980s (Stringer 2015a). The four types of victimology perspectives are positivist, radical, critical and feminist. The idea of positivist victimology has been around since the nineteenth century (Alvesson & Skoldberg, 2010). Positivists believe that we can get true and unbiased knowledge of actuality by utilizing methods of natural sciences in sociology. For
aspects of difference such as race, class, ethnicity, sexual and social orientation. (Beneria and Permanyer, 2010) Positionality covers the idea of self-evaluation, people think about their own position and background and where they stand in society in relation to others. Both concepts highlight the idea of being aware of our own position and identity and be respectful of other peoples’ positions and identities. The main point of this argument is that in many developing countries, gender is still a big
When intersectionality and migration is concerned, it is surprising that intersectionality as a theory or a concept is almost non-existing in migration scholarship. While the majority of ethnographic research on migrant women has an intersectional understanding of one’s experience, studying how gender, race, ethnicity class, religion or migrantness
When it comes to caring for the environment, is there a gender difference? Do women care more about their environment? Eco -feminists argue that there is commonality ground between women’s subordination and environmental destruction. The patriarchy and capitalism often subordinate the nature and the environment. In the society also we could see the reflection of the subordination in terms of women’s subordination. They never are mere reflections but also the worst situation. Women consistently rank
that there is no form of inequality that stands alone, thus, there is an interconnected dimension of the hidden and evident structures of discrimination (Cockburn 1989). There have been several criticisms regarding intersectionality approach from feminists