Courtney Jung
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Jung |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney |
| FAMILY NAME | Jung |
| SIGNATURE | JUNG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 109 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Refuge, resettlement, open borders, and voluntary immobility: The Ethics of Immigration in a time of climate change
The First Nations Land Management Act: Twenty Years of Reconciliation
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 the FNLMA as a potential mechanism of reconciliation, noting both the ways in which the Act marks a …
Reconciliation: Six reasons to worry
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. Reconciliation may aim to restore a relationship that never existed in the first place, and may limit a…
The Collaborative Enterprise
How can businesses best tap diverse capabilities to generate new ideas, manufacture products, and properly execute strategy? In this groundbreaking, thoroughly researched book, organizational expert Charles Heckscher argues that, in a global network of creation and production, the dominant organizations will be those that master the still-uncodified skills of collaboration replacing the giants of the past century who thrived on the mastery of bur…
The politics of horizontal inequality: Indigenous opposition to wind farm development in Mexico
In less than a decade, foreign investors have erected more than 3,200 wind turbines across the Isthmus of Techuantepec investing billions of dollars and generating more than 90 per cent of Mexico’s wind energy. The isthmus is also home to more than one thousand indigenous communities whose ancestors settled in the region roughly 3,000 years ago. In most cases, wind farm construction has proceeded without significant community opposition. More 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
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Apsa Active and Award Committees
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Critical Theory and Practice: Bridging the Global and the Personal. A Lecture
Economic and Social Rights in National Constitutions
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 dataset that identifies the status of seventeen distinct economic and social rights in the world's constit…
Economic and Social Rights Across Time, Regions, and Legal Traditions: A Preliminary Analysis of the Tiesr Dataset
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 occur along three dimensions: time, region, and legal tradition. Most constitutions are new, and the co…
Political Representation
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain the subject of vigorous debate among historians, political theorists, lawyers, and citizens. In this volume, an eminent group of scholars move for…
Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies
In many societies, histories of exclusion, racism and nationalist violence often create divisions so deep that finding a way to deal with the atrocities of the past seems nearly impossible. These societies face difficult practical questions about how to devise new state and civil society institutions that will respond to massive or systematic violations of human rights, recognize victims and prevent the recurrence of abuse. Identities in Transiti…
Professor Zolberg Goes to Africa
This article is a personal and professional meditation on Zolberg's work regarding pluralism, heterogeneity, and his relation to The New School, historically situated
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas
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 voice to many of the world's poorest and most dispossessed. The moral force of indigenous claims re…
Why liberals should value ‘identity politics’
Problems and Prospects for Democratic Settlements: South Africa as a Model for the Middle East and Northern Ireland
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 imperfect democracy, subject to electoral constraints and legitimated by democratic principles that it viol…
Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition
In this work, Courtney Jung argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid and heterogeneous, as she finds they are in South Africa, ethnic and racial politics will not undermine the peaceful and democratic potential of the government
Breaking the cycle: Producing Trust Out of Thin Air and Resentment
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, uses, and sources of social capital. First, I seek to unpack the definition of social capital, disagg…
The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Neoliberalism, Cultural Rights, and the Mexican Zapatistas
LIKE millions of indigenous people elsewhere, Mexican Indians demand rights to cultural self-determination. They insist on the right to live according to traditional usos y costumbres, to self-government in accord with local practices and customs. They demand recognition as collective units, and have fought for the inclusion of the term pueblo—peoples—in the constitution. Their claims for collective rights include bilingual education, the right t…
Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition
Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African Left By Allison Drew. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000. 282p. $74.95
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 twentieth century. This rich book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of ties between the …
The Burden of Culture and the Limits of Liberal Responsibility
Race Matters
South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds
South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order
South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order
The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Neoliberalism, Cultural Rights, and the Mexican Zapatistas
LIKE millions of indigenous people elsewhere, Mexican Indians demand rights to cultural self-determination. They insist on the right to live according to traditional usos y costumbres, to self-government in accord with local practices and customs. They demand recognition as collective units, and have fought for the inclusion of the term pueblo—peoples—in the constitution. Their claims for collective rights include bilingual education, the right t…
Economic and Social Rights in National Constitutions
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 dataset that identifies the status of seventeen distinct economic and social rights in the world's constit…
Why liberals should value ‘identity politics’
Race Matters
Reconciliation: Six reasons to worry
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. Reconciliation may aim to restore a relationship that never existed in the first place, and may limit a…
Problems and Prospects for Democratic Settlements: South Africa as a Model for the Middle East and Northern Ireland
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 imperfect democracy, subject to electoral constraints and legitimated by democratic principles that it viol…
South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds
Economic and Social Rights Across Time, Regions, and Legal Traditions: A Preliminary Analysis of the Tiesr Dataset
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 occur along three dimensions: time, region, and legal tradition. Most constitutions are new, and the co…
Breaking the cycle: Producing Trust Out of Thin Air and Resentment
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, uses, and sources of social capital. First, I seek to unpack the definition of social capital, disagg…
The Burden of Culture and the Limits of Liberal Responsibility
Collaborative Enterprise
South Africa's Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order
South African Democracy Revisited: A Reply to Koelble and Reynolds
Race Matters
The Burden of Culture and the Limits of Liberal Responsibility
Discordant Comrades: Identities and Loyalties on the South African Left By Allison Drew. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2000. 282p. $74.95
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 twentieth century. This rich book makes a unique contribution to our understanding of ties between the …
Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition
In this work, Courtney Jung argues that when ethnic and racial identities are politically fluid and heterogeneous, as she finds they are in South Africa, ethnic and racial politics will not undermine the peaceful and democratic potential of the government
Breaking the cycle: Producing Trust Out of Thin Air and Resentment
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, uses, and sources of social capital. First, I seek to unpack the definition of social capital, disagg…
The Politics of Indigenous Identity: Neoliberalism, Cultural Rights, and the Mexican Zapatistas
LIKE millions of indigenous people elsewhere, Mexican Indians demand rights to cultural self-determination. They insist on the right to live according to traditional usos y costumbres, to self-government in accord with local practices and customs. They demand recognition as collective units, and have fought for the inclusion of the term pueblo—peoples—in the constitution. Their claims for collective rights include bilingual education, the right t…
Then I Was Black: South African Political Identities in Transition
Problems and Prospects for Democratic Settlements: South Africa as a Model for the Middle East and Northern Ireland
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 imperfect democracy, subject to electoral constraints and legitimated by democratic principles that it viol…
Why liberals should value ‘identity politics’
The Moral Force of Indigenous Politics: Critical Liberalism and the Zapatistas
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 voice to many of the world's poorest and most dispossessed. The moral force of indigenous claims re…
Political Representation
Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political representation have never been well defined and remain the subject of vigorous debate among historians, political theorists, lawyers, and citizens. In this volume, an eminent group of scholars move for…
Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies
In many societies, histories of exclusion, racism and nationalist violence often create divisions so deep that finding a way to deal with the atrocities of the past seems nearly impossible. These societies face difficult practical questions about how to devise new state and civil society institutions that will respond to massive or systematic violations of human rights, recognize victims and prevent the recurrence of abuse. Identities in Transiti…
Professor Zolberg Goes to Africa
This article is a personal and professional meditation on Zolberg's work regarding pluralism, heterogeneity, and his relation to The New School, historically situated
Economic and Social Rights Across Time, Regions, and Legal Traditions: A Preliminary Analysis of the Tiesr Dataset
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 occur along three dimensions: time, region, and legal tradition. Most constitutions are new, and the co…
Economic and Social Rights in National Constitutions
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 dataset that identifies the status of seventeen distinct economic and social rights in the world's constit…
Critical Theory and Practice: Bridging the Global and the Personal. A Lecture
The Collaborative Enterprise
How can businesses best tap diverse capabilities to generate new ideas, manufacture products, and properly execute strategy? In this groundbreaking, thoroughly researched book, organizational expert Charles Heckscher argues that, in a global network of creation and production, the dominant organizations will be those that master the still-uncodified skills of collaboration replacing the giants of the past century who thrived on the mastery of bur…
The politics of horizontal inequality: Indigenous opposition to wind farm development in Mexico
In less than a decade, foreign investors have erected more than 3,200 wind turbines across the Isthmus of Techuantepec investing billions of dollars and generating more than 90 per cent of Mexico’s wind energy. The isthmus is also home to more than one thousand indigenous communities whose ancestors settled in the region roughly 3,000 years ago. In most cases, wind farm construction has proceeded without significant community opposition. More 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
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Apsa Active and Award Committees
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Reconciliation: Six reasons to worry
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. Reconciliation may aim to restore a relationship that never existed in the first place, and may limit a…
The First Nations Land Management Act: Twenty Years of Reconciliation
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 the FNLMA as a potential mechanism of reconciliation, noting both the ways in which the Act marks a …
Political science (23 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Law (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works)