Shabnam Koirala-Azad and Emma Fuentes, eds. This issue of Social Justice reflects the research and voices of scholars who are concerned with issues of power and representation in academic scholarship. This work challenges existing hierarchies and power dynamics in social science research, creating new possibilities for research in the academy. Given the expansion of global […]
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Applied Research and Social Justice, Vol. 30: 4, 2003
Laurie M. Joyner and Edward J. McCaughan, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines how social science research can contribute to the pursuit of social justice through its direct application to resolving concrete social problems, aiding organizing efforts, informing public policy, influencing legislation, or changing institutions. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read […]
Beenash Jafri
COMMENTARY Intellectuals Outside the Academy: Conversations with Leanne Simpson, Steven Salaita, and Alexis Pauline Gumbs These conversations with independent academics Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Steven Salaita, and Leanne Simpson were inspired by the following questions: How do we make sense of intellectual work that happens outside of the chokehold of academic institutions? Is it possible to […]
Ellen Reese
Defending Homes and Making Banks Pay: California’s Home Defenders League Using participant observation and in-depth interviews, this article explores efforts by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) to organize homeowners against foreclosures and unfair lending practices in Southern California. Through protest and advocacy, ACCE’s Home Defenders League has helped families facing foreclosure to […]
Lisa Wright, Dawn Moore, and Vincent Kazmierski
Policing Carceral Boundaries: Access to Information and Research with Prisoners This article discusses the struggle of researchers and imprisoned populations to gain access to information about spaces of confinement. The authors provide a framework for penetrating the borders of the carceral system that is based on the experiences of many critical researchers who have been […]
Review Symposium: Progressive Punishment, by Judah Schept
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion, by Judah Schept Contributors: Michelle Brown, Alessandro De Giorgi, Keramet Reiter & Judah Schept FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate […]
Vol. 41-3
This issue includes a special section on PENAL ABOLITION AND PRISON REFORM; plus articles on US militarism in Latin America, hackers and privacy, the Víctor Jara case, and grassroots peacemaking in El Salvador. TABLE OF CONTENTS Militarism and Its Discontents: Neoliberalism, Repression, and Resistance in Twenty-First-Century US–Latin American Relations Ginger Williams & Jennifer Leigh Disney “It […]
Vol. 44-4
FRONT MATTER (pdf download) Abstracts (pdf download) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles The Idea of Progress, Industrialization, and the Replacement of Indigenous Peoples: The Muskrat Falls Megadam Boondoggle Colin Samson Material Conditions of Detroit’s Great Rebellion Mark Jay & Virginia Leavell Myanmar: Promoting Reconciliation between the Rohingya Muslims and Buddhists of Rakhine State Katja Weber & […]
Vol. 48-4
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Universal Basic Income, Social Justice, and Marginality: A Critical Evaluation Anthony J. Knowles Police as Supercitizens Brittany Arsiniega & Matthew Guariglia Crossing the Line(s): The School of the Americas, Radical Pedagogy, and Sacrificial Activism Ralph Armbruster Sandoval From Fledgling Network to the Creation of an Official Division of the […]
Vol. 49-1/2
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Eddie Ellis, Credible Messengers, and the Neoliberal Imagination of Anti-Violence David C. Brotherton Police Abolitionism: A Marxist Critique Howard Ryan Abolitionist Entanglements with Guards: Engagements to Deepen Analysis and Organizing Erica R. Meiners Uncomfortable Kinship: An Ethnography of the Professional World of Gang Experts and Street Outreach Workers in […]
Vol. 49-4
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Seize the Space: Angela Davis, Michel Foucault, and the Meaning of La Bataille Michael Welch A Community Vision of Police Abolition: Lessons on Theorizing from Below Jesse S.G. Wozniak Self-Harm in Prison and Abolition Feminism: Resisting Resistance Narratives and Framing Self-Harm as Carceral Violence Kolleen Duley Abolition as a […]
William Calathes and Matthew G. Yeager
Sweetheart Settlements, the Financial Crisis, and Impunity: A Case Study of SEC v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. This article highlights the inherentlimitationsand current failures of securities laws, with a particular focus on the abdication of power by state agents to protect the public interest from financial frauds. Through a case study of SEC v. Citigroup […]