Mexico: Economic Change without Democracy The article analyses the way in which ceaseless capitalist modernization established the bases for building the legitimacy of bourgeois domination in Mexico during the twentieth century. It explains how the strategy of accelerated modernization ultimately required a controlled reform of the state, directed from above, which was carried out to […]
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Jody Williams
Landmines: A Global Socioeconomic Crisis The public health effects posed by the persistence of a global commitment to weapons and violence in conducting international relations–militarism–are presented by Jody Williams By forcefully splintering the worldwide social fabric and directly and indirectly forestalling the achievement of universal social and economic well-being militarism is dually destructive of the […]
Joe Sim
“We Are Not Animals, We Are Human Beings”: Prisons, Protest, and Politics in England and Wales, 1969-1990 This article discusses the policy implications of the disastrous road of warehousing a growing underclass. In both the UK and United States, understaffing, gross overcrowding, and a general deterioration in the quality of prison life have made prisoners […]
John F. Wozniak, with Francis T. Cullen and Tony Platt
Book Symposium: Richard Quinney’s The Social Reality of Crime: A Marked Departure from and Reinterpretation of Traditional Criminology Three authors address the influence of Richard Quinney’s The Social Reality of Crime on their work and on progressive criminology more generally. commentary Citation: Social Justice Vol. 41, No. 3 (2014): 197-215
John Horton
The Chinese Suburban Immigration and Political Diversity in Monterey Park, California John Horton uses ethnographic interviews, exit polls, and census data to research the ethnic transformation of Monterey Park (a suburb of Los Angeles), occasioned by the influx of Chinese immigrants and the ensuing economic, social, and political transformations as well as dislocation. In spite […]
John Isbister
Are Immigration Controls Ethical? John Isbister challenges Americans to reflect on the ethics involved in immigration issues. “Ethics” is not to be confused with interests. If we look only at interests, some Americans benefit while others can be negatively affected by immigration. Ethics, by contrast, implies a focus on the equal moral worth of all […]
John K. Simon
Michel Foucault on Attica: An Interview This interview was conducted soon after Foucault’s visit to the prison at Attica after studying exclusion and prison reform in France. He uses the metaphor that at first sight you have the impression you are visiting more than just a factory, that you are visiting the inside of a […]
John Lowman and Brian MacLean
Prisons and Protest in Canada John Lowman and Brian MacLean report 69 major prison “disturbances” in the mid-1970s. In the 1980s alone in the United States, there were dozens of serious disturbances and, although many were not progressive, some showed prisoner unity and politicality. If the rationale for prison has changed over the past 150 […]
John McMurtry
The Social Immune System and the Cancer Stage of Capitalism When we think of a society’s “defense system,” we think of its armed forces. We have long been conditioned to do this. The military-industrial establishment and the armaments business are the world’s most powerful institutions of organized violence and international trade. For them to preserve […]
John Saxe-Fernández
NAFTA: The Intersection of the Geopolitics and Geoeconomics of Capital This analysis of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) compares it to earlier experiments in geopolitical and geoeconomic “enlargement” that were tested in the long period between the establishment of a new world order based on the Treaty of Versailles and the emergence of […]
Jonathan Simon
A Radical Need for Criminology Simon seeks to “recover some pure strains of the left-liberal criminology of the 1970s,” inviting a reconsideration of the Black Panther Party’s program for self-defense and Susan Griffin’s important essay on “Rape: The All American Crime.” He calls for a regeneration of the criminological imagination and new forms of radical […]
Jonathan Simon
They Died with Their Boots On: The Boot Camp and the Limits of Modern Penality Jonathan Simon’s article continues the philosophical discourse on current practices of punishment. The Clinton administration, with its ethics of obligation, has been a strong supporter of penal boot camps. The 1994 crime bill contains $150 million for grants to the […]
Jordan T. Camp
The Bombs Explode at Home: Policing, Prisons, and Permanent War In 1967 Dr. Martin Luther King observed: “The bombs in Vietnam explode at home. The security we profess to seek in foreign ventures we will lose in our decaying cities.” His words resonated amidst widespread social protest against Cold War policies designed to contain communism […]
Juan D. Ochoa
Shine Bright Like a Migrant: Julio Salgado’s Digital Art and Its Use of Jotería Ochoa explores the digital art of Undocuqueer movement activist Julio Salgado through what the author conceptualizes as a jotería analytic that is informed by Chicana feminisms, queer of color critique, and Chicana/o Studies. Similar to the political project of Chicana lesbian […]
Juan Fal
Argentina’s Model of Accumulation: Twenty Years of Ruptures and Continuities Responding to current debates about the nature of Argentina’s economic model, this article analyzes the ruptures and continuities in the country’s model of accumulation and power bloc since the 1990s. The author argues that changes facilitated by the devaluation of Argentina’s currency in 2002 benefited […]
Juan Herrera
Spatializing Chicano Power: Cartographic Memory and Community Practices of Care This article endeavors to broaden the scope of the Chicano movement by moving away from an analysis of militant and protest forms of organizing. Instead, Herrera analyzes neighborhood grassroots organizing and institution-building projects centered on practices of community care. Utilizing ethnographic engagement with several community-based […]