Complicity and Redemption: Beyond the Insider/Outsider Research Dichotomy The authors look at the creation of possibilities for collaborative research by scholars and criminalized subjects. A collaboration between an academic/practitioner (Shoshana) and a formerly incarcerated woman (Tiina), the article aims to disrupt conventional ways of conducting and writing about research. The focus is on the process […]
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Simón E. Weffer, Dari Sylvester, James Mullooly, Alex Leigh Parnell, Rafael Maravilla, and Nicholas Lau
The Impacts of Foreclosure on Collective Efficacy and Civic Engagement: Findings from Two Central California Communities How has the foreclosure crisis and the neighborhood instability it produces affected residents’ sense of collective efficacy and civic engagement? Using 127 semi-structured interviews in two Central San Joaquin Valley communities, South Merced and Planada, we examine residents’ perceptions […]
Simone Weil Davis, with Bruce Michaels
Ripping Off Some Room for People to “Breathe Together”: Peer-to-Peer Education in Prison This article examines the construction of alliances against the dehumanizing effects of the prison-industrial complex by prison educators and their incarcerated peers. It argues that outside allies and faculty who work in higher-education prison programs affiliated with a university need to learn […]
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SOC 492 – Sociology of Art San Francisco State University Prof. Edward McCaughan CONTENTS • Ian Gregory Strachan, “Theater in the Bush: Art, Politics, and Community in the Bahamas.” Social Justice 34(1):80–96. • Cynthia Fowler, “Hybridity as a Strategy for Self-Determination in Contemporary American Indian Art,” Social Justice 34(1):63–79. • Amy Jo Goddard, “Staging Activism: […]
Social Justice for Workers in the Global Economy, Vol. 31: 3, 2004
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Ellen Reese, eds. What challenges do workers face in the global economy and how can they and their allies meet them? Essays in this special issue of Social Justice address aspects of this question through detailed case studies on the interface between global capitalism and neoliberalism as it affects workers 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 […]
Special issue: Latin America Revisited, Vol. 40-4
Edited by Edward McCaughan and Susanne Jonas. With articles by veteran observers and activists as well as up-and-coming scholars, this issue discusses the current state of Latin America, now two decades into the uneven transitions to democracy following an era of dictatorships and armed revolutionary conflicts. The issue’s first section analyzes the historical and ongoing […]
Spencer Headworth & Shaun Ossei-Owusu
The Accused Poor Although allegations of client fraud in the SNAP and TANF programs sometimes lead to criminal charges, the foundational welfare fraud case is administrative: it pertains specifically to agency rules regulating participation in public assistance programs. This article compares the legal rights and statuses of people accused of administrative “paper” offenses with those […]
Steve Martinot
On the Epidemic of Police Killings This essay seeks to clarify conceptually the common structure uniting many of the incidents in the recent crescendo of police killings of people of color, going beyond their shared racist framework. In tandem with the “new Jim Crow” that Michelle Alexander describes, these killings pertain to the role of the police as […]
Steve Martinot
Due Process and the Reconstruction of Democracy This article attempts to rescue the concept of due process from the limited field of legal procedure to look instead at its political potential as well as the effects of its denial. I argue that due process as a principle is at the core of any concept of […]
Steven Loyal & Stephen Quilley
Categories of State Control: Asylum Seekers and the Direct Provision and Dispersal System in Ireland The introduction of the system of direct provision and dispersal (DPDS) to house asylum seekers in Ireland was the result of a number of processes, performing several functions, inclduing the state’s twin desires to deter the further arrival of asylum […]
Steven Volk
Review: The Political Power of Music in Chile’s Popular Unity Period McSherry’s analysis opens the door to a reconsideration of political formation during the Popular Unity years, an essential historiographic contribution. book review, hegemony, Allende, Nueva Canción, Chile Citation: Social Justice Vol. 43, No. 1 (2016): 106-110
Structures of Power and Inequality, Vol. 24: 1, 1997
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue has a dual, but related focus: structural forces in the form of dominance based on race and gender within the United States and the integrative mechanisms operating at the hemispheric and global levels that reproduce global poverty and North-South disparities. This ensemble of forces conditions the tasks facing communities of […]
Susan A. Phillips
Rewriting Torture: Manufacturing a Primer of Abuse in US Domestic Prisons A college-level critical pedagogy project confirms that human rights reporting can play a role in prison abolition as opposed to reform. By writing an altered version of the ICRC torture papers, students compared US prison torture in domestic and military sites, confirmed the application […]
Susanne Jonas
Rethinking Immigration Policy and Citizenship in the Americas: A Regional Framework Susanne Jonas addresses the multiple cross-border realities affecting U. S. immigration policies as well as their political consequences throughout the Americas. Using a multidisciplinary approach, she lays out the need for a regional framework as the context for a discussion of existing versus alternative […]