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Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is assistant professor of political sociology at the School of Public Policy at Central European University.〔http://spp.ceu.hu/people/austin-choi-fitzpatrick〕 He specializes in social movements and human rights in both the United States and on the Indian subcontinent. He is also core faculty at the Center for Media, Data and Society.〔http://www.cmds.ceu.hu/faculty〕 He is a contributing member of the Mobilizing Ideas blog collective 〔http://mobilizingideas.wordpress.com/author/achoifitz/〕 and at Slate 〔http://www.slate.com/authors.austin_choifitzpatrick.html〕 His current project, funded by the National Science Foundation, explores the impact social movements have on human rights violators in rural India. Recent work along these lines can be found in a volume co-edited with Alison Brysk: From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery (University of Pennsylvania Press Series on Human Rights).〔http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14907.html〕 Choi-Fitzpatrick’s recent line of research explores the opportunities new technology affords social movements. In particular he focuses on the ways “drones” are used by civil society actors as they work to hold both businesses and governments accountable. Early efforts to both sketch an overview of public usage of the technology and to advance an ethical framework for its use are forthcoming in the Journal of International Affairs. He is working on an innovative method for estimating the size of protest events and other mass gatherings,〔https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTH5zDJdSuk〕〔http://www.sppdronelab.com〕 Choi-Fitzpatrick holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Notre Dame, where he was Assistant Director at the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change.〔http://cssm.nd.edu/〕 Prior to academia he worked as a human rights advocate. From 2003 through 2009 he was on staff at Free the Slaves, the sister organization of Anti-Slavery International, itself the world’s first and longest running human rights NGO. He studied human rights and international security at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies. ==Selected publications and features== * ''From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Rethinking Contemporary Slavery. Co-edited with Alison Brysk. Philadelphia, PA:University of Pennsylvania Press (series on Human Rights)'' *("Drones Will Change The Way We Estimate Crowd Sizes, and That’s a Big Deal" ) at Slate. *("How the FAA’s Drone Policy Will Affect the Rest of The World" ) at Slate. *("To seek and save the lost: human trafficking and salvation schemas among American evangelicals" ) at the European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 2014 *("Managing Democracy in Social Movement Organizations" ) at Social Movement Studies 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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