Ed McCaughan, ed. The articles in this issue attempt to add specificity and nuance to our understanding of the range of social processes implicit in the terms “globalization” and “transnationalism.” Globalization and, to a lesser extent, transnationalism are terms deployed with increasing frequency as shorthand for complex social processes that occur beyond national boundaries. Globalization […]
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25th Anniversary Commemoration, Vol. 26: 2, 1999
Gregory Shank, ed. Twenty-eight contributors offer short memoirs, reflections, or longer critiques that commemorate a quarter century of publishing Social Justice. They candidly assess what has been accomplished (or not) since 1974 in terms of a progressive agenda and suggest future directions. The essays reflect the geographical diversity that has characterized the journal’s contents from […]
Human Rights, Gender Politics, and Postmodern Discourses, Vol. 26: 1, 1999
Gregory Shank (coord.) Three themes stand out in this issue of Social Justice. The first is human rights violations as they apply within the U.S., in NATO’s war in Kosovo, in Tibet, and vis-à-vis girl children and young women worldwide. The second centers on the contest over gender issues in social policy: the Christian Right’s […]
Neoliberalism, Militarism, and Armed Conflict, Vol. 27: 4, 2000
Gwyn Kirk and Margo Okazawa-Rey, eds. This issue makes practical links between US domestic and foreign policy, with articles on most crucial regions of the world and an emphasis on the work of activists. With US military spending already exceeding the military budgets of the next 12 countries combined, communities around the world and in […]
Critical Resistance to the Prison-Industrial Complex, Vol. 27: 3, 2000
ISSUE OUT OF PRINT — DIGITAL COPY AVAILABLE Rose Braz et al., eds. This special issue of Social Justice, edited by Critical Resistance, focuses on prison abolition as a goal and theme. The issue is broadly divided into system analyses and articles centering on organizing for change, that is, reports of struggles against the system […]
Criminal Justice & Globalization at the New Millennium, Vol. 27: 2, 2000
Robert P. Weiss, ed. Edited by Robert P. Weiss, this 300-page special millennium issue of Social Justice highlights the negative impact of neoliberal globalization on criminal justice, including escalating personal and business crime, growing corruption, heightened antiforeign sentiment and scapegoating that comes with labor migration, greater worker insecurity, and the expansion of a marginalized, contingent […]
Race, Class, and State Crime, Vol. 27: 1, 2000
Gregory Shank (coord.) Two themes stand out in this issue. The first concerns the intersection of race, class, and crime. Discussion centers on excessive police violence, criminalization based on racial and ethnic markers, the viability of electoral work versus strategies of civil disobedience, and the varieties of multiculturalism. The second theme revolves around patterns of […]
In the Aftermath of Welfare ‘Reform’, Vol. 28: 4, 2001
Sylvie C. Tourigny and Delores Jones-Brown, eds. This issue evaluates the fallout of efforts to reform welfare in the United States through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. It documents the ideological shifts in Republican circles that shaped the debate, and which are finding echoes in conservative politics in Australia and […]
Law, Order, and Neoliberalism, Vol. 28: 3, 2001
Philomena Mariani, ed. This issue on the antiterrorist state and articles solicited before September 11 in which contributors explore the relationship between neoliberalism and models of criminal justice, the political and ideological factors driving criminal justice policy in the United States, and the willingness of other countries to follow the United States in adopting the […]
Gatekeeper’s State: Immigration and Boundary Policing in an Era of Globalization, Vol. 28: 2, 2001
Jose Palafox, ed. This issue examines US-Mexico border policing in terms of the effects of US immigration and border policy on unauthorized migrants and on the well-being of US citizens. The Southwest border has been the key locus of militarized enforcement in the United States, with the deepest institutional ties between the military and police […]
New Pedagogies for Social Change, Vol. 29: 4, 2002
Susan Roberta Katz and Cecilia Elizabeth O’Leary, eds. In the United States today, we are witnessing the dominance of a “new market economy” paradigm in the field of education. As a result, we are currently facing increased state and nationwide efforts to control learning and teaching under the guise of “standards” and “accountability.” At the […]
Global Threats to Security, Vol. 29: 3, 2002
Robert M. Gould and Patrice Sutton, eds. This issue explores threats to the survival of the world community due to the assault on all forms of life from an interplay of toxic chemicals, ozone depletion, climate change, and habitat destruction. After the September 11 attacks on the United States, the global outlook for harnessing the […]
Globalization and Environmental Harm, Vol. 29: 1-2, 2002
Gregory Shank, ed. This double issue deals with the environmental crimes of entities with a global reach–the World Bank, the US military, the chemical industry, and toxic waste disposers–and the responses of activists and victims to these policies and practices. Do such practices constitute “crimes of globalization”? How can activist engagement and human rights law […]
Elizabeth “Betita” Martinez: A Life in Struggle, Vol. 39: 2-3
Please note: This issue is out of print. However, you may still purchase the digital version (pdf download).
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 […]
The Intersection of Ideologies of Violence, Vol. 30: 3, 2003
Alberto Arenas, Gilberto Arriaza, and Victoria Sanford, eds. This issue explains violence at the local and global levels, as well as its manifestations in society’s structural, material, cultural, and political spheres. Four central ideologies of violence discussed are patriarchal domination, white supremacy, religious fundamentalism, and savage competition and individualism, nurtured by an extreme concentration of […]