Joy James, ed. This issue of Social Justice, guest edited by Joy James (Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, Providence), is a dialogue among scholars, activists, and former US political prisoners. Contributors discuss the prison-industrial complex, dissent against US military interventions in the post-September 11 period, the war on youth in America, and racism […]
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Race, Security, and Social Movements, Vol. 30: 1, 2003
Gregory Shank (coord.) This issue took shape during the buildup to the Bush administration’s preemptive war against Iraq and the worldwide mobilization against it. Its contents appropriately reflect a longer view of US militarism and populist nationalism, the criminalization and repression of domestic dissent, and the movements that have challenged the power arrangements that sustain […]
Native Women and State Violence , Vol. 31: 4, 2004
Andrea Smith and Luana Ross, eds. This issue addresses the relationship between gender violence and colonialism. Although violence against women occurs during colonization, the colonial process is itself structured by sexual violence. The violence of colonization takes the obvious historical form such as the massacres of indigenous peoples in the Americas, but is also expressed […]
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 […]
Resisting Militarism and Globalized Punishment, Vol. 31: 1-2, 2004
Tony Platt and Gregory Shank, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the widening net of incarceration, immigration policing, and drug and crime enforcement as well as the role of an increasingly authoritarian national security state in a globalized 21st-century economy. The phenomenon is transnational in scope, though the contributions here focus mainly on developments […]
Race, Racism, and Empire: Reflections on Canada, Vol. 32: 4, 2005
Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, eds. This special issue of Social Justice, guest edited by Enakshi Dua, Narda Razack, and Jody Nyasha, focuses attention on the unique manner in which race, racism, and empire are articulated in the Canadian context. Currents in Canadian critical race scholarship include theorizing the relationship between race, racism, […]
Waging War over Public Education and Youth Services: Challenging Corporate Control of Our Schools and Communities, Vol. 32: 3, 2005
Gilberto Arriaza, Emma Fuentes, and Susan Roberta Katz, eds. This issue of Social Justice, co-edited by Susan Roberta Katz (University of San Francisco), Gilberto Arriaza (San Jose State University), and Emma Fuentes (University of San Francisco), helps us comprehend the war being waged over public education and services for our communities, youth, and children. It […]
The Many Faces of Violence, Vol. 32: 2, 2005
Gregory Shank, ed. Each contribution to this issue of Social Justice reveals a facet of the many forms that violence takes. Given its immediacy, we often focus on the scourge of interpersonal predatory violence. Arguably, though, structural violence, including racism, and institutional violence take a greater human toll. State violence, in the form of warfare, […]
Emerging Imaginaries of Regulation, Control, and Repression, Vol. 32: 1, 2005
Ronnie Lippens and Tony Kearon, eds. In an age of transition, such as ours, the role of the imaginary in the production and reproduction of social order is becoming ever more important. In his The Time of the Tribes, the French sociologist Michel Maffesoli “the imaginary is increasingly granted a role in structuring society.” This […]
Deaths in Custody and Detention, Vol. 33: 4, 2006
Jude McCulloch and Phil Scraton, eds. This is a special issue on the investigation of, and inquiry into, deaths in custody and detention (including state hospitals and mental health, police and prison custody, and young offenders’ institutions). The volume sets out to consider how advanced democratic states inquire into and investigate deaths in controversial circumstances. […]
Privatization and Resistance: Contesting Neoliberal Globalization, Vol. 33: 3, 2006
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., Volker Eick, and Ellen Reese, eds. This issue of Social Justice explores the danger of neoliberal globalization regarding social issues such as the privatization of housing, economic welfare, security, and the delivery of goods and services. Contributions on economic welfare and municipal services discuss how neoliberalism in the global North and South […]
Art, Power, and Social Change, Vol. 33: 2, 2006
Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David, eds. This issue of Social Justice is the first of two on the topic, with both edited by Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David. The essays explore many dimensions of the role of art in processes of social change. Some address the power of art as a voice of […]
Immigration Rights and National Insecurity, Vol. 33: 1, 2006
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue features essays on the future implications of the great immigration battle of 2006, the deportation phenomenon in Europe and the Caribbean, pro-immigrant social movements, and the relationship of the war on drugs to the control of immigrant communities. Other contributions address current debates on the militarization of the public sphere, […]
Securing the Imperium: Criminal Justice Privatization and Neoliberal Globalization (Vol. 34, Nos. 3-4, 2007)
Bob Weiss, ed. This issue of Social Justice discusses the current resurgence, global expansion, and market concentration of the private security industry. Privatization of police, prisons, and the military is addressed in terms of the United States, China, Latin America, the UK, Australia, and South Africa. The issue covers capturing new capitalist frontiers; global market […]
Beyond Transnational Crime, Vol. 34: 2, 2007
Sharon Pickering and Jude McCulloch, eds. This issue of Social Justice seeks to lay a foundation for a transnational or global criminology that begins with critical understandings of the state, borders, and crime. Transnational crime and its countermeasures confront the traditional borders of crime control, national security, politics, and international relations and require close attention […]
Art, Identity, and Social Justice, Vol. 34: 1, 2007
Emmanuel David and Ed McCaughan, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the role of various media–the visual arts, theater, and performance–in the social justice struggles of communities as diverse as American Indians, Bahamians, North American and Mexican feminists, working-class women in England, and LGBTQ communities of color in New York City and the San […]