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: […]
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40th Anniversary Issue: Legacies of Radical Criminology in the US, Vol. 40:1-2
Legacies of Radical Criminology in the United States On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of our journal, we are proud to announce the release of a special issue examining the history and the future of radical criminology. Building upon an academic seminar on the legacy of the Berkeley School of Criminology, infamously shut down […]
Vol. 39:4
{click on the author’s name to read the abstract and purchase single articles} TABLE OF CONTENTS Victoria E. Collins and Dawn L. Rothe, United States Support for Global Social Justice? Foreign Intervention and Realpolitik in Egypt’s Arab Spring Micol Seigel, “Convict Race”: Racialization in the Era of Hyperincarceration Steve Martinot, On the Epidemic of Police Killings Harald Bauder, The Possibilities of […]
Gene Grabiner
Government and Market Surveillance, Emergence of Mass Political Society, and the Need for Progressive Social Change In this commentary, the author examines the political implications of the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The essay examines the larger post-World War II intelligence framework that sought to ensure polarized centers of wealth and power, and it also draws lessons […]
Harald Bauder
Possibilities of Open Borders and No Border An overarching constraint for free human mobility is that international political borders are only selectively permeable. Drawing on Ernst Bloch’s work on the possible, the author examines open-borders and no-border arguments and explores the conditions of their possibilities. Although open-borders and no-border narratives serve as a powerful negation of contemporary conditions […]
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 […]
Megan Sallomi
Coopting the Antiviolence Movement: Why Expanding DNA Surveillance Won’t Make Us Safer Expanding the number of individuals with DNA “profiles” stored in nationwide criminal databanks appears to be a promising criminal justice reform, particularly for resolving crimes of sexual violence. Bills like the Violence Against Women Act provide for DNA databank expansion, and many anti-rape organizations support this development. Yet, […]
Victoria Collins & Dawn Rothe
Micol Seigel
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 […]
Losing a Generation: Probing the Myths and Reality of Youth and Violence, Vol. 24: 4, 1997
Nancy Stein, Susan Roberta Katz, Esther Madriz, and Shelley Shick, eds. Youth violence is among the most hotly debated and most deeply misunderstood issues today. The “gangsta” has become the new red menace of the 1990s, the target of societal fears in a time of a widening gap between the rich and the poor. Poor […]
Beyond the Neoliberal Peace: From Conflict Resolution to Social Reconciliation, Vol. 25: 4, 1998
Ronnie D. Lipschutz and Susanne Jonas, eds. During the 1990s, the conventional approach to peacemaking in most of the countries torn by internal conflict and violence has been for powerful countries to establish a cease-fire between warring parties, followed by imposition of the dominant model of markets and electoral politics. This “neoliberal” approach is designed […]
Crossing Lines: Revisioning U.S. Race Relations, Vol. 25: 3, 1998
Elaine H. Kim, Susan Roberta Katz, and Anthony M. Platt, eds. This issue appears as the momentous changes of the last 20 years–the decline of the civil rights coalition, the demise of mass movements for social justice, the rise of New Right and neoliberal politics, the dramatically changing demographics of the country, and divisions among […]
Defending Rights and Just Futures in the Real World Order, Vol. 25: 2, 1998
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue demonstrates the interplay between world-systems theory, radical criminology, and human and civil rights struggles. Contributions emphasize theoretical concerns and implications for praxis and policy. Overarching themes concern the need to formulate imaginative global and local alternatives that take into account the shifting sands of historical advances in civil and political […]
Disdained Mothers & Despised Others: The Politics & Impact of Welfare Reform, Vol. 25:1, 1998
The articles in this special issue provide a general critical analysis of the political, social, and labor market effects of “welfare reform.” In particular, a useful essay on the impact of welfare policies on Asian immigrants fills a big void; another addresses the high incidence of domestic violence in the lives of welfare recipients; and […]
Shadows of State Terrorism: Impunity in Latin America, Vol. 26: 4, 1999
J. Patrice McSherry and Raúl Molina Mejía, eds. On the cusp of the 21st century, the long shadows of state terrorism still haunt Latin America. For millions of people in the region, the memory of predator states that turned on their own citizens persists; for some, as in Colombia today, political violence and state terrorism […]