Youth Crime, Moral Panics, and the News: The Conspiracy Against the Marginalized in Canada This article examines the role of the media in scapegoating youth and of manipulating or decontextualizing the perception of youth by the public. This “blaming” is found in historic constrictions and can be intervened with postmodern conceptions of power and its […]
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Children and the Environment, Vol. 24: 3, 1997
Edited by Sandra Meucci and Michael Schwab This special issue is about involving children in environmental planning and urban change. Taking children seriously as self-determining social actors has led to increasing acceptance of children’s place in movements to shape the future. The term “environment” is used broadly to mean children’s rights, social welfare policy, how […]
Dana Saunders
Invisible Youth Reappear! A Review of Two Youth-Produced Videos Another medium used by young people to express themselves is video. In “Invisible Youth Reappear!” Dana Saunders reviews two youth-produced videos, one about life in a refugee camp in Bosnia, the other about racism. Material of this kind is increasingly finding its way to mass audiences, […]
Diane F. Reed and Edward L. Reed
Children of Incarcerated Parents Diane and Edward Reed alert us to the plight of the five million children who are victimized by the criminalization of their parents. Often they lose one or both of their parents, their homes, and all that anchors them; many respond with sadness, withdrawal, depression, diminished school performance, alcohol and drug […]
Don Reneau
Z and Me Adults fear for the safety of children is a central theme of Don Reneau’s “Z and Me,” an excursion into the author’s relationship with his two-year-old son. Bewitched by a society in which children’s perceptions and abilities (especially those under five, six, or seven) are vastly underrated, we adults have become accustomed […]
Ilaria Salvadori
A Dragon in the Neighborhood: City Planning with Children in Milan, Italy Ilaria Salvadori describes an Italian project that was part of an international UNICEF-sponsored research program to engage children in planning activities to improve their environments. The author records and analyzes how children in one district in Milan became involved in traffic-flow design when […]
Jermaine Ashley, Dawn Samaniego, and Lian Cheun
How Oakland Turns Its Back on Teens: A Youth Perspective Jermaine Ashley, Dawn Samaniego, and Lian Cheun describe how Youth for Oakland United, the site of another of their pilot projects, is working for positive alternatives to crime and incarceration. Speaking of the critical need for safe common spaces for teens and citing preventative measures […]
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 […]
Peggy Saika Interviews Sipfou Saechao
And Do You Feel Like This Is Your Country? Sipfou Saechao, a 16-year-old Laotian, discusses growing up in the Bay Area. adolescence, Asian Americans, environmental groups, girls, youth programs and projects Citation: Social Justice Vol. 24, No. 3 (1997): 221-225
Roger Hart, Collette Daiute, Selim Iltus, David Kritt, Michaela Rome, and Kim Sabo
Developmental Theory and Children’s Participation in Community Organizations This article discusses the changing ecology of children from different cultures as their identity and their understanding of the social world take shape. Identity is essentially a social concept, one that feminist psychological theorists link to political struggle, and children need to be involved in community in […]
Sandra Meucci
What Is a Children’s Policy, Anyway? Sandra Meucci shows how children’s needs for protection is a problematic basis for social policy. Not only does “child protection” derive from an implicitly patronizing power relationship with children, but “protective” policy has also historically been driven by adult fears over the “dangerous classes” of immigrant children, illiteracy, 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
Sangre Latina
Mantel on the Table The script “Mantel on the Table,” written and performed by the young people in one of the pilot projects, the Sangre Latina Youth Theater Group, provides another window into children’s subjective expression of environmental concerns. In this sophisticated satire, a television talk show becomes the backdrop for these Latino teenagers to […]
Vol. 48-2 – Neoliberalism in Higher Education
Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues edited by Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez TABLE OF CONTENTS Editors’ Introduction Neoliberalism in Higher Education: Practices, Policies, and Issues [free pdf download] Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. & Rubén O. Martinez Changing Higher Education in the United Kingdom: Examining Three Trends through a Neoliberal Lens Amy Perry […]
Vol. 48-3
TABLE OF CONTENTS ABSTRACTS [pdf download] Entangling Intentionality: Reflections on Torture and Structure Ergün Cakal Carving the Terrain of Freedom: The Multidimensionality of Youth-Focused Abolition Geography Kaitlyn J. Selman Violent Symbiosis: The History of CCJ’s Role in Legitimizing Racialized Police Violence Ryan Phillips, Brian Pitman & Stephen T. Young “Oscar Did Not Die in Vain”: […]
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 […]