Tribute to Alonso Aguilar Monteverde: Ten Key Policies for Understanding the Neoliberal Transformation of Mexican Capitalism This tribute to teacher and social activist, Alonso Aguilar Monteverde, outlines crucial aspects of the neoliberal transformation of the Mexican socioeconomic system. Among the changes are aspects of the operation of capitalism in Mexico the political synthesis between economic […]
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Alejandro Alvarez Béjar
Global Economic Crisis and Social Movements in Mexico and North America Alvarez highlights modalities of social resistance in Mexico at the national and regional levels, taking into consideration the current phase of the global capitalist crisis. The author first identifies the characteristic features of the global crisis of neoliberal capitalism. He then discusses the significance […]
Asafa Jalata
The Oromo Movement: The Effects of State Terrorism and Globalization in Oromia and Ethiopia This essay critically explores the dialectical relationships between the Oromo national movement and the consequences of state terrorism and globalization in Oromia and Ethiopia. On one side, the Oromo people are struggling to empower themselves and gain control on their economic […]
Beyond National: Identities, Social Problems, and Movements, Vol. 26: 3, 1999
Ed McCaughan, ed. The articles in this issue attempt to add specificity and nuance to our understanding of the range of social processes implicit in the terms “globalization” and “transnationalism.” Globalization and, to a lesser extent, transnationalism are terms deployed with increasing frequency as shorthand for complex social processes that occur beyond national boundaries. Globalization […]
Beyond Transnational Crime, Vol. 34: 2, 2007
Sharon Pickering and Jude McCulloch, eds. This issue of Social Justice seeks to lay a foundation for a transnational or global criminology that begins with critical understandings of the state, borders, and crime. Transnational crime and its countermeasures confront the traditional borders of crime control, national security, politics, and international relations and require close attention […]
Criminal Justice & Globalization at the New Millennium, Vol. 27: 2, 2000
Robert P. Weiss, ed. Edited by Robert P. Weiss, this 300-page special millennium issue of Social Justice highlights the negative impact of neoliberal globalization on criminal justice, including escalating personal and business crime, growing corruption, heightened antiforeign sentiment and scapegoating that comes with labor migration, greater worker insecurity, and the expansion of a marginalized, contingent […]
Defending Rights and Just Futures in the Real World Order, Vol. 25: 2, 1998
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue demonstrates the interplay between world-systems theory, radical criminology, and human and civil rights struggles. Contributions emphasize theoretical concerns and implications for praxis and policy. Overarching themes concern the need to formulate imaginative global and local alternatives that take into account the shifting sands of historical advances in civil and political […]
Gatekeeper’s State: Immigration and Boundary Policing in an Era of Globalization, Vol. 28: 2, 2001
Jose Palafox, ed. This issue examines US-Mexico border policing in terms of the effects of US immigration and border policy on unauthorized migrants and on the well-being of US citizens. The Southwest border has been the key locus of militarized enforcement in the United States, with the deepest institutional ties between the military and police […]
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 […]
Gregory Shank
Anatomy of a Done Deal: The Fight over the Iran Nuclear Accord This article exploresthe political forces mostinvolvedin the contest over the Obama administration’s landmark signing, on July 14, 2015, of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, along with the permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany. The accord codifies in international law […]
Jaime Osorio
Super-Exploitation, and Dependency: Notes on The Dialectics of Dependency With the publication of Dialéctica de ladependencia (The Dialectics of Dependency) by Ruy Mauro Marini, Latin American social theory was able to culminate a great effort in the interest of formulating a theory of dependent capitalism and the laws by which it is reproduced. At the […]
Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Armed Conflict, Vol. 27: 4, 2000
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds. This issue makes practical links between US domestic and foreign policy, with articles on most crucial regions of the world and an emphasis on the work of activists. With US military spending already exceeding the military budgets of the next 12 countries combined, communities around the world and in […]
Noah De Lissovoy
Injury and Accumulation: Making Sense of the Punishing State This article suggests that the pervasive racialization of contemporary state violence calls for an analysis of the penal state that identifies racism and “coloniality” (i.e., the material and symbolic domination of communities of color) as essential components of late capitalism. This approach allows De Lissovoy to […]
Policing the Crisis–Policing in Crisis, Vol. 38:1-2, 2011
Kendra Briken and Volker Eick, eds. This issue of Social Justice discusses recent policing and security strategies, civil rights, and crime policy within the framework of the current financial and economic crisis. Contributors focus on various aspects of urban policing in crisis, such as recent developments in the “governance” of urban spaces. Some articles analyze […]
Privatization and Resistance: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization, Vol. 33: 3, 2006
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Volker Eick, and Ellen Reese, eds. This issue of Social Justice explores the danger of neoliberal globalization regarding social issues such as the privatization of housing, economic welfare, security, and the delivery of goods and services. Contributions on economic welfare and municipal services discuss how neoliberalism in the global North and South […]