Courtney Jung

• University of Toronto

The Future of Economic and Social Rights - edited by Katharine G. Young April 2019

Since 1999, The First Nations Land Management Act (FNLMA) has offered First Nations the opportunity to opt out of the clauses of the Indian Act that deal with land management. To date, 78 First Nations have gone through the process of writing and ratifying their own land codes to manage their own land transactions on reserve. This article assesses...

Since the release of the Final Report of the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, many non-Indigenous Canadians, politicians, and educational and cultural institutions have embraced reconciliation. Yet, many Indigenous people in Canada remain skeptical. In this article, I examine six reasons Indigenous people may resist reconciliation. Rec...

Response to Mala Htun review of Lactivism: How Feminists and Fundamentalists, Hippies and Yuppies, and Physicians and Politicians Made Breastfeeding Big Business and Bad Policy - Volume 15 Issue 2 - Courtney Jung

Inclusion without Representation in Latin America: Gender Quotas and Ethnic Reservations. By Htun Mala . New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 226p. $99.99 cloth, $29.99 paper. - Volume 15 Issue 2 - Courtney Jung

PurposeThis paper draws the connection between constructivist methods and critical theory and offers examples of the wide reach and analytical power of critical theorizing. Methodology/approachI lay out the potential for the scope of critical theory, and then I illuminate that scope by analyzing two vastly different subjects – the global indigenous...

Much has been written about the global convergence on constitutional supremacy, and the corresponding rise of an apparently universal constitutional discourse, primarily visible in the context of rights. In this Paper, we examine the global constitutional homogeneity claim with respect to economic and social rights. Based on a new and unique datase...

Nearly all written constitutions in the developing world contain one or more economic and social rights. However, some rights are more commonly enshrined than others, and there is wide variation in terms of whether such rights are identified as justiciable – enforceable in a court of law – or merely aspirational. The most interesting variations occ...

Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movement. By Todd A.Eisenstadt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 226p. $82.00. - Volume 11 Issue 1 - Courtney Jung

Much has been written about the global convergence on constitutional supremacy, and the corresponding rise of an apparently universal constitutional discourse, primarily visible in the context of rights. In this paper, we examine the global constitutional homogeneity claim with respect to economic and social rights. Based on a new and unique datase...

The following is drawn from an interview with Aristide and Vera Zolberg, conducted by Courtney Jung in May 2008.

Representative democracies struggle with the demands of ethnic minorities. In the last decade of the twentieth century, these struggles were exacerbated by the rise of new cultural claims and claimants. Democratization engendered discussions about citizenship and membership, which raised questions of national identity and belonging. The Soviet Unio...

The history of Mexican aboriginal classification illustrates the ways in which political interests and power relations operate to produce such classifications as race, class, and ethnicity. Such designations, in turn, produce political frames – a set of problems and solutions – that appear to match the category. Race maps onto representation; class...

A constructivist theory of identity formation highlights the contingent relationship between ethnicity and identity. Identity does not spring naturally from language and cultural practice; differences of language and cultural practice mediate identity when states use such differences to mark the boundaries of exclusion and selective inclusion. The...

The framework of transitional justice, originally devised to facilitate reconciliation in countries undergoing transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, is used with increasing frequency to respond to certain types of human rights violations against indigenous peoples. In some cases, transitional justice measures are employed in societies not...

Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. By Bobrow-StrainAaron. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 288p. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. - Volume 6 Issue 3 - Courtney Jung

Tracing the political origins of the Mexican indigenous rights movement, from the colonial encounter to the Zapatista uprising, and from Chiapas to Geneva, Courtney Jung locates indigenous identity in the history of Mexican state formation. She argues that indigenous identity is not an accident of birth but a political achievement that offers a new...

Intense ethnic, racial, and religious violence led many to classify South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine as intractable conflicts. Yet they diverged, with only South Africa achieving a lasting settlement. The authors explain why. The authors analyze them as a distinctive type of negotiated transition. The ancién regime is an imperfe...

According to Robert Putnam, social capital exists in a relationship of equilibrium. Its persistence or absence is infinite, locked in ‘vicious’ or ‘virtuous’ cycles. Using a fine-grained ethnographic account of the rise and fall of collective action in a small neighborhood of Cape Town, South Africa, this paper seeks to explore alternative forms, u...

Drawing on a wealth of new information made available by the opening of the Comintern archives, Drew sheds the light of hindsight on the relationship between the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) and, in turn, the Soviet Comintern, the South African liberation movement, and the white and black trade union movements in the first half of the twe...

The framework of transitional justice, originally devised to facilitate reconciliation in countries undergoing transitions from authoritarianism to democracy, is used with increasing frequency to respond to certain types of human rights violations against indigenous peoples. In some cases, transitional justice measures are employed in societies not...

The history of Mexican aboriginal classification illustrates the ways in which political interests and power relations operate to produce such classifications as race, class, and ethnicity. Such designations, in turn, produce political frames - a set of problems and solutions - that appear to match the category. The fact that the designation of a s...

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