Publications
2024 Mun, Jimin, Cathy Buerger, Jenny T. Liang, Joshua Garland, and Maarten Sap. "Counterspeakers’ Perspectives: Unveiling Barriers and AI Needs in the Fight against Online Hate." In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1-22.
2024 Catherine Buerger and Susan Benesch. “Dangerous Speech as an Atrocity Early Warning Indicator: Measuring Changing Conflict Dynamics.” Genocide Studies and Prevention. 18(1).
2022. Buerger, Cathy and Glavinic, Tonei. "Prevent Violence, Strengthen Democracy: Electoral Codes of Conduct for the United States," Peace and Conflict Studies: 29(1). Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/pcs/vol29/iss1/3
2021 Buerger, Catherine. “#iamhere: Collective Counterspeech and the Quest to Improve Online Discourse.” Social Media + Society. 7(4).https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20563051211063843
2021 Buerger, Catherine. “Human Rights Hackers: Crafting Advocacy in Accra, Ghana.” Journal of Legal Pluralism. 53(2): 206-226. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07329113.2021.1871707
2017 Hertel, Shareen; Tagliarina, Corinne, and Buerger, Catherine. “Cheap Talk on Food: Party Politics in India and the Challenge of Implementing the Right to Food.” Human Rights Quarterly. May 2017. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44488997
2015 Buerger, Catherine and Holzer, Elizabeth. “How Does Community Participation Work? Human Rights and the Hidden Labor of Interstitial Elites in Ghana.” Journal of Human Rights Practice. 7(1):72-87. https://academic.oup.com/jhrp/article-abstract/7/1/72/2189504?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Dangerous Speech and the 2024 U.S. Election: Monthly reports on the findings of research documenting dangerous speech in the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Topics include:
2024. “Counterspeech: A Literature Review
2024. Cathy Buerger. “Collective Counterspeech: External and Internal Impacts.” In Harmful Speech and Contestation. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (Ed).
2024 Catherine Buerger. “Collective Counterspeech in Conflict Fragile Countries: Risks and Possibilities.” In Countering Hate Speech in Conflict-Affected Situations. Babak Bahador, Rachel Brown, Craig Hammer and Laura Livingston (Eds).
2024 Garland, Joshua, and Catherine Buerger. "Seeing the Full Picture: The Value of Interdisciplinary Counterspeech Research." In Counterspeech: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Countering Dangerous Speech, Stefanie Ullman and Marcus Tomalin (eds), pp. 67-82. Routledge.
2018 Buerger, Catherine and Wilson, Richard. “The Practice of Human Rights.” In Jeremy MacClancy (ed.), Exotic No More: Anthropology on the Front Lines. 2nd Edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2017 Martinez, Samuel and Buerger, Catherine. “Human Rights.” Oxford Bibliography Series. Available: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766567/obo-9780199766567-0103.xml
2017 Buerger, Catherine. “Legal Borderlands: Ghanaian Human Rights Advocacy. Between the Layers of Law.” in Human Rights Encounter Legal Pluralism. Eva Brems, Mark Goodale, and Giselle Corradi (Eds) Oxford: Hart Publishers.
2016 Buerger, Catherine. “Contested Advocacy: Negotiating between Rights and Reciprocity in Nima and Maamobi, Ghana.” in Global Urban Justice – the Rise of Human Rights Cities. Barbara Oomen, Martha Davis & Michele Grigolo (Eds). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
2014 Buerger, Catherine. Book Review of Jean Godefroy Bidima’s Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings. African Conflict and Peacebuilding Review. 4(2):160-162.
2013 Buerger, Catherine. “Achieving Women’s Economic Rights, in Policy and Practice: A Case Study of Women’s Economic Rights in Ghana.” The State of Economic and Social Human Rights: A Global Overview. Lanse Minkler (Ed.) London: Cambridge University Press.
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