Losing a Home to Mortgage Foreclosure: Temporary Setback or Chronic Stressor? The foreclosure crisis has been a stressful, life-changing event for millions of people. In this article, we use Pearlin’s (1989) theory of social stress to examine the levels, causes, and duration of foreclosure-related stress on 180 Alabama homeowners who either defaulted on a mortgage […]
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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 […]
Public Health in the 1990s: In the Shadow of Global Transformation and Militarism, Vol. 22: 4, 1995
Edited by Patrice Sutton and Robert Gould Public Health in the 1990s is an excellent compendium of some of the most important global public health issues that we currently face, including violence, occupational and environmental health, women’s health, AIDS, health care delivery, landmines, chemical and nuclear weapons, and nuclear waste cleanup. Among the contributions are […]
Sarah Whetstone & Teresa Gowan
Carceral Rehab as Fuzzy Penality: Hybrid Technologies of Control in the New Temperance Crusade The steep escalation of mandatory drug rehabilitation since 1989 has incorporated “strong-arm” rehab as a central node of carceral control. This article draws on ethnographies of three Midwestern male residential rehab facilities that reflect three dominant treatment paradigms, which result in […]
Special Issue: Bhopal and After: The Chemical Industry as Toxic Capitalism, Vol. 41-1/2
Published December 2014
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 […]