Autor: Kathryn R. Libal

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Kathryn Libal, Ph D, is Assistant Professor in Community Organization at the School of Social Work and Associate Director of the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut. She has published on women”s and children”s rights movements in Turkey and on the advocacy of international non-governmental organizations on behalf of Iraqi refugees. Her current scholarship has focused on the localization of human rights norms and practices in the United States, including a co-edited volume with Dr. Shareen Hertel on Human Rights in the United States: Beyond Exceptionalism (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and a new project on the politics of food security and food policy in the United States as a human rights concern. Kathryn Libal is also co-director, with Dr. David Richards, of the Economic and Social Rights Group at the University of Connecticut. Scott R. Harding, Ph D, MSW, is Associate Professor in Community Organization at the School of Social Work, University of Connecticut. He teaches courses on community organizing, social welfare policy, poverty and inequality and war, militarism and social work. His research addresses “political social work, ” including community organizing and collaborations to strengthen local communities and address forms of social exclusion. He has worked on social justice and international solidarity issues for more than 25 years. He was Executive Director and Policy Coordinator for the California Homeless & Housing Coalition and has served as a board member for national, state and local organizations in California, Kansas and Connecticut. He is a Board Representative of the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA), a Council Member of the Council on Social Work Education’s (CSWE) Council on Global Learning, Research and Practice, and former Editor of the Journal of Community Practice.




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Kathryn R. Libal & Scott Harding: Human Rights-Based Community Practice in the United States
A transformative model for community social work rooted in basic social and economic rights is the basis of this timely Brief. With specific chapters spotlighting the rights to health care, nutritiou …
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€64.19
Libal Kathryn R. Libal & Berthold S. Megan Berthold: Refugees and Asylum Seekers
This volume engages human rights, domestic immigration law, refugee policy in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and scholarship to examine forced migration, refugee resettlement, asylum seeker e …
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DRM
€76.62