Human Rights PRAXIS and the Struggle for Survival

Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival offers critical analysis of contemporary politics and options for students, scholars, organizers, and stakeholders to grapple with some of the most pressing social problems of human history.

William T. Armaline is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and Interdisciplinary Social Sciences and founder of the Human Rights Minor Program and Human Rights Institute at San José State University. His formal training and professional experience spans sociology, education, and human rights. Dr. Armaline’s interests, applied work, and scholarly publications address social problems as they relate to political economy, politics, human rights, racism, critical pedagogy, inequality and youth, mass incarceration, policing, and drug policy reform.

Davita Silfen Glasberg is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She is a past President of Sociologists without Borders. She is also a former Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UConn. Her research and teaching interests focus on human rights, political sociology, political economy, and systemic inequalities, including racism and gendered inequities as well as the intersectionality of these. She has published over a dozen books and dozens of articles in these fields.