UID:
almafu_9961252478102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (277 p.)
ISBN:
9781442236172
,
1-4422-3617-5
Serie:
State and Society in East Asia
Inhalt:
〈span〉〈span〉A thought-provoking treatment of the 'politics of justice' in China that focuses on legal activism by pollution victims and HIV/AIDS carriers. Wilson skillfully yokes together litigation, protest, and activities by civil society groups to give us a fresh perspective on regime legitimacy, legal change, political advocacy, rights consciousness, and the delivery of social justice in China.〈/span〉〈/span〉
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record.
,
Contents; Preface; List of Acronyms; List of Tables; 1 Introduction: "Tigers without Teeth?"; Dilemmas of Rule of Law and Civil Society in Nondemocratic Regimes; Challenges to the Pursuit of Legal Justice; Why Study Environmental Pollution Victims and HIV/AIDS Carriers?; Linking Civil Society Development, Litigation, and Rule of Law; Understanding the Divergent State Responses to Looming Crises; A Look Ahead; Notes; 2 State Management of Civil Society and the Judiciary; Contending Approaches to Chinese Civil Society; Civil Society and the Judiciary as Arenas of Contestation
,
Categories of Civil Society Organizations and Registration RulesSources of Civil Society Organization Autonomy; Regulatory Changes and Control over Civil Society Organizations; UNAIDS and the Rift with China's State over the Global Fund; China's Judiciary; Party and State Influence over the Courts; Sources of Judicial Autonomy; Civil Society and Reining in Cause Lawyers; Conclusion: China's State in the Trenches; Notes; 3 The Development of China's Environmental and HIV/AIDS Crises; Institutions and Epidemics in China; Marketization and Globalization; Legislation and Stigmatization
,
Ministry of HealthThe Spread of HIV/AIDS in China; Institutional Origins of China's Environmental Crisis; Environmental Regulations; Economic Institutions; The Environmental Protection Bureaucracy; China's Environmental Decline; The Mao Era (1949-1978); The Post-Mao Era (1978-Present); Conclusion: Institutional Origins and Responses to Crises; Notes; 4 Civil Society Responses to HIV/AIDS and Environmental Pollution; The Development of HIV/AIDS Organizations; SARS Crisis; China CARES Program; Limits to State-Centered Approaches to HIV/AIDS
,
International Efforts to Empower Chinese AIDS Groups and Their LimitsChinese Grassroots NGOs-Bounded Autonomy; A Fractured Civil Society: China's HIV/AIDS Organizations; Environmental Civil Society Groups; Emergence of Environmental Civil Society Groups; Environmental Legal Aid Groups; The Politics of Civil Society Development and Legal Aid; Notes; 5 HIV/AIDS Carriers Settling for Discrimination; Legal and Regulatory Context of HIV/AIDS Carriers' Rights; State Attempts to Keep HIV/AIDS Social Conflict Out of the Courts; Discrimination against HIV/AIDS Carriers
,
Discrimination and the Right to Health CareDiscrimination and Health Insurance; Employment Discrimination; Compensation for Contracting HIV/AIDS from the Mishandling of the Blood Supply; "We Cannot Control Our Anger Anymore"; Conclusion: Settling for Discrimination?; Notes; 6 Litigating for Pollution Victims' Rights; Development of Chinese Environmental Laws and Regulations; Development of Environmental Litigation in China; Joint Litigation; Health Damages; Right to Know; Halting Pollution Violations; Efforts to Improve Implementation of Environmental Regulations
,
"Scientific Development," "Harmonious Society," and Litigation
,
English
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
