Amy Risley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 367670 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Amy Risley |
| PRENOMES | Amy |
| SOBRENOME | Risley |
| ASSINATURA | RISLEY A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5491-134X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2005 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Doing Harm Was the Point’
This article analyses the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating thousands of immigrant families at the border. Using a rights-based and childist approach, I explore the policy’s severe consequences for children’s rights to family unity and protection from cruel and degrading treatment. I argue that family separations abandoned the best-interests principle and entailed severe rights violations and due process irregularities. The pol…
Think Globally, Act Locally
This article describes how comparative politics specialists can adopt community-engaged strategies and other innovative pedagogies to emphasize local–global connections. It discusses a comparative course on urban social movements that requires sustained, community-based learning. Students are placed in organizations advocating for refugee families, Latinx communities, and people in situations of homelessness. Engagement with community partners su…
Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies
What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated for children's rights, the environment, and freedom of
America Will Not Tolerate Slave Traders
The US government has implemented an ambitious set of policies designed to combat human trafficking and sex trafficking in women and girls in particular. This article argues that anti-trafficking discourse and policy can be understood as a project to sustain and strengthen US power. This power has been wielded through the use of foreign aid, which influences the actions of both state and non-state actors overseas. Existing policies reinforce unil…
Protecting Children and Adolescents in Uruguay
This article analyzes the advocacy efforts of civil societal actors in Uruguay who have sought to promote the rights of children. I discuss the strategies that members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used to achieve a greater presence in debates leading to significant policy changes in the area of child protection. Child advocates achieved relatively high levels of political mobilization and influence throughout the 1990s and early 2000s…
It's Not Easy Being Green”
This article analyzes the collective action frames used by members of Chilean nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) while engaging in policy advocacy. The focus is a large-scale dam project along the Bío Bío River that generated controversy for more than a decade due to its impact on the environment and indigenous communities. It is argued that the environmental advocates’ reliance on certain frames hindered their ability to influence policymaking…
From “Perverse” to Progressive
This article argues that social issues are central to the children’s rights movement in Argentina. For more than a decade, child advocates have traced the plight of children to poverty, marginality, and neoliberal economic reforms. In particular, they have framed the issue of child welfare as closely related to socioeconomic conditions, underscored the “perverse” characteristics of the country’s existing institutions and policies, and called for …
Post-Transitional Justice
The Power of Persuasion
This article examines the collective action frames that civil societal actors in Argentina have used while engaging in advocacy. It argues that by devising effective framing strategies, members of civil society organisations increase their chances of participating in the agenda-setting, formulation and adoption phases of policy-making. The relationship between framing and participation is supported by a comparative analysis of two cases of advoca…
The Political Potential of Civil Society
Perceptions that corruption is rampant in Argentina have fueled discontent with the country’s political institutions and elites. In response to this problem, members of various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society groups have rallied around demands for greater transparency. The article focuses on their recent efforts to promote national freedom of information legislation. An analysis of the activists’ attempts to influenc…
Putting People First
According to the United Nations (2007), an estimated 980 million people in developing countries live on less than one dollar a day. Each year, more than 500,000 women die from treatable and preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth across the globe (United Nations 2007). Between 600,000 and 800,000 individuals are trafficked across international borders annually for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation (United States D…
Framing Violence
This article analyzes civil societal discourses on violence in contemporary Argentina and identifies a gender ‘gap’ therein. I argue that class-based interpretations of violence have frequently eclipsed gendered understandings, even though the two perspectives are not mutually exclusive. Through an examination of the collective action frames that human rights advocates use, I demonstrate that activists often politicize two forms of violence that …
The Dubious Link
It's Not Easy Being Green”
This article analyzes the collective action frames used by members of Chilean nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) while engaging in policy advocacy. The focus is a large-scale dam project along the Bío Bío River that generated controversy for more than a decade due to its impact on the environment and indigenous communities. It is argued that the environmental advocates’ reliance on certain frames hindered their ability to influence policymaking…
Think Globally, Act Locally
This article describes how comparative politics specialists can adopt community-engaged strategies and other innovative pedagogies to emphasize local–global connections. It discusses a comparative course on urban social movements that requires sustained, community-based learning. Students are placed in organizations advocating for refugee families, Latinx communities, and people in situations of homelessness. Engagement with community partners su…
The Political Potential of Civil Society
Perceptions that corruption is rampant in Argentina have fueled discontent with the country’s political institutions and elites. In response to this problem, members of various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society groups have rallied around demands for greater transparency. The article focuses on their recent efforts to promote national freedom of information legislation. An analysis of the activists’ attempts to influenc…
Doing Harm Was the Point’
This article analyses the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating thousands of immigrant families at the border. Using a rights-based and childist approach, I explore the policy’s severe consequences for children’s rights to family unity and protection from cruel and degrading treatment. I argue that family separations abandoned the best-interests principle and entailed severe rights violations and due process irregularities. The pol…
America Will Not Tolerate Slave Traders
The US government has implemented an ambitious set of policies designed to combat human trafficking and sex trafficking in women and girls in particular. This article argues that anti-trafficking discourse and policy can be understood as a project to sustain and strengthen US power. This power has been wielded through the use of foreign aid, which influences the actions of both state and non-state actors overseas. Existing policies reinforce unil…
Putting People First
According to the United Nations (2007), an estimated 980 million people in developing countries live on less than one dollar a day. Each year, more than 500,000 women die from treatable and preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth across the globe (United Nations 2007). Between 600,000 and 800,000 individuals are trafficked across international borders annually for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation (United States D…
Framing Violence
This article analyzes civil societal discourses on violence in contemporary Argentina and identifies a gender ‘gap’ therein. I argue that class-based interpretations of violence have frequently eclipsed gendered understandings, even though the two perspectives are not mutually exclusive. Through an examination of the collective action frames that human rights advocates use, I demonstrate that activists often politicize two forms of violence that …
The Dubious Link
Framing Violence
This article analyzes civil societal discourses on violence in contemporary Argentina and identifies a gender ‘gap’ therein. I argue that class-based interpretations of violence have frequently eclipsed gendered understandings, even though the two perspectives are not mutually exclusive. Through an examination of the collective action frames that human rights advocates use, I demonstrate that activists often politicize two forms of violence that …
The Political Potential of Civil Society
Perceptions that corruption is rampant in Argentina have fueled discontent with the country’s political institutions and elites. In response to this problem, members of various non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other civil society groups have rallied around demands for greater transparency. The article focuses on their recent efforts to promote national freedom of information legislation. An analysis of the activists’ attempts to influenc…
Putting People First
According to the United Nations (2007), an estimated 980 million people in developing countries live on less than one dollar a day. Each year, more than 500,000 women die from treatable and preventable complications of pregnancy and childbirth across the globe (United Nations 2007). Between 600,000 and 800,000 individuals are trafficked across international borders annually for the purposes of forced labor and sexual exploitation (United States D…
The Power of Persuasion
This article examines the collective action frames that civil societal actors in Argentina have used while engaging in advocacy. It argues that by devising effective framing strategies, members of civil society organisations increase their chances of participating in the agenda-setting, formulation and adoption phases of policy-making. The relationship between framing and participation is supported by a comparative analysis of two cases of advoca…
From “Perverse” to Progressive
This article argues that social issues are central to the children’s rights movement in Argentina. For more than a decade, child advocates have traced the plight of children to poverty, marginality, and neoliberal economic reforms. In particular, they have framed the issue of child welfare as closely related to socioeconomic conditions, underscored the “perverse” characteristics of the country’s existing institutions and policies, and called for …
Post-Transitional Justice
Protecting Children and Adolescents in Uruguay
This article analyzes the advocacy efforts of civil societal actors in Uruguay who have sought to promote the rights of children. I discuss the strategies that members of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) used to achieve a greater presence in debates leading to significant policy changes in the area of child protection. Child advocates achieved relatively high levels of political mobilization and influence throughout the 1990s and early 2000s…
It's Not Easy Being Green”
This article analyzes the collective action frames used by members of Chilean nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) while engaging in policy advocacy. The focus is a large-scale dam project along the Bío Bío River that generated controversy for more than a decade due to its impact on the environment and indigenous communities. It is argued that the environmental advocates’ reliance on certain frames hindered their ability to influence policymaking…
Civil Society Organizations, Advocacy, and Policy Making in Latin American Democracies
What explains civil society participation in policy making in Latin American democracies? Risley comparatively analyzes actors who have advocated for children's rights, the environment, and freedom of
America Will Not Tolerate Slave Traders
The US government has implemented an ambitious set of policies designed to combat human trafficking and sex trafficking in women and girls in particular. This article argues that anti-trafficking discourse and policy can be understood as a project to sustain and strengthen US power. This power has been wielded through the use of foreign aid, which influences the actions of both state and non-state actors overseas. Existing policies reinforce unil…
Think Globally, Act Locally
This article describes how comparative politics specialists can adopt community-engaged strategies and other innovative pedagogies to emphasize local–global connections. It discusses a comparative course on urban social movements that requires sustained, community-based learning. Students are placed in organizations advocating for refugee families, Latinx communities, and people in situations of homelessness. Engagement with community partners su…
Doing Harm Was the Point’
This article analyses the Trump administration’s policy of forcibly separating thousands of immigrant families at the border. Using a rights-based and childist approach, I explore the policy’s severe consequences for children’s rights to family unity and protection from cruel and degrading treatment. I argue that family separations abandoned the best-interests principle and entailed severe rights violations and due process irregularities. The pol…
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