Edited by Christopher Williams This issue examines environmentally mediated injury and seeks to change the perception of those who suffer from that of sick patients who are simply in need of treatment, to one of “environmental victims” who deserve justice. It reflects a wide range of interested parties and national perspectives, with academic contributors, frontline […]
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Global Threats to Security, Vol. 29: 3, 2002
Robert M. Gould and Patrice Sutton, eds. This issue explores threats to the survival of the world community due to the assault on all forms of life from an interplay of toxic chemicals, ozone depletion, climate change, and habitat destruction. After the September 11 attacks on the United States, the global outlook for harnessing the […]
Globalization and Environmental Harm, Vol. 29: 1-2, 2002
Gregory Shank, ed. This double issue deals with the environmental crimes of entities with a global reach–the World Bank, the US military, the chemical industry, and toxic waste disposers–and the responses of activists and victims to these policies and practices. Do such practices constitute “crimes of globalization”? How can activist engagement and human rights law […]
Michael Schwab
Sharing Power: Participatory Public Health Research with California Teens Michael Schwab describes the work of young people in four pilot projects conducted as part of the planning project. Young people from Richmond, Oakland, and Los Angeles developed strategies to address issues that they selected–for example, violence in their community, a lack of recreation centers, and […]
Sandra Meucci and Michael Schwab
Children and the Environment: Young People’s Participation in Social Change Issue Introduction children, children’s rights, environmentalism, space, geographical, youth Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 3 (1997): 1-10
Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism, Vol. 41-1/2
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Special issue: Foreclosure Crisis in the United States, Vol. 40-3
Edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Ellen Reese. This issue focuses on the various ways in which the real estate foreclosure crisis affected families and communities in the United States. The crisis, created by the contradictions of global financial capitalism, transformed many neighborhoods and communities into empty wastelands and was especially devastating to black and […]
Education, Militarism, and Community, Vol. 38:3, 2011
Gregory Shank and Stefania De Petris (coord.) This issue of Social Justice revolves around prominent influences on public education, including corporatization, militarism, and communities mobilizing in defense of their own interests. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf): Editors, Introduction: Education, Militarism, and Community [Free Download] Adalberto […]