Gregory Shank and Adalberto Aguirre, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines the impact of immigrant labor, particularly from Mexico, at the local level. It remains a polarizing issue that the Obama administration may not address during his first term, disappointing Latino leaders and immigration advocates. Meanwhile, lacking a pathway to citizenship and union protections, […]
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War, Crisis, and Transition, Vol. 35: 3, 2008
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue of Social Justice explores the moral responsibility of individuals in a time of war, the complicity of international financial institutions in Africa’s tragic genocides, the dumping of toxic waste in the Third World, and the damage done internationally by neoconservative wars of choice and the use of torture. Contributors to […]
Asian American and Pacific Islander Population Struggles for Social Justice, Vol. 35: 2, 2008
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Shoon Lio This issue of Social Justice offers an overview of the struggle for social justice in the United States by Asian and Pacific Islanders, including the factors that shape oppositional consciousness and the possibility for collective action. Authors address Asian American activism in urban communities–particularly traditional Asian ethnic enclaves–around land […]
Activist Scholarship: Possibilities and Constraints of Participatory Action Research, Vol. 36: 4, 2009
Shabnam Koirala-Azad and Emma Fuentes, eds. This issue of Social Justice reflects the research and voices of scholars who are concerned with issues of power and representation in academic scholarship. This work challenges existing hierarchies and power dynamics in social science research, creating new possibilities for research in the academy. Given the expansion of global […]
Resisting State Criminality, Vol. 36: 3, 2009
Dawn L. Rothe, ed. This issue of Social Justice is dedicated to resisting crimes of the state. It explores an area of scholarship that has received little attention to date: the role that acts of resistance could or do play in efforts to control or constrain the criminality of states. Authors examine some of the […]
Policing, Detention, Deportation, and Resistance, Vol. 36: 2, 2009
Jodie Michelle Lawston and Martha Escobar, eds. This issue of Social Justice demonstrates that imprisonment, including immigrant detention, is essential to the US drive to preserve geopolitical dominance. It examines activist efforts to resist this trend and urges the building of bridges between prison abolition and immigrant justice work. The issue brings together a multiplicity […]
Policing Protest and Youth, Vol. 36: 1, 2009
Gregory Shank, ed. This issue of Social Justice examines the historical roots of recent forms of domestic spying and the fear campaigns that justify such programs–as well as the wars on crime, drugs, and terror. Authors look at how globalization affects policing practices in the United States, including the policing of protest and of inner-city […]
Citizenship Surveillance of La Gente: Citizenship Theory, Practice, and Cultural Citizen Voices, Vol. 35: 1, 2008
Melissa Moreno, ed. In this issue of Social Justice, authors call for citizenship inclusion of young Latinas/os in schools and society, since they are a politically underrepresented emerging “majority” in California and other states. How should la gente (the people), Latina/o families and their community allies, contend with the power imbued in citizenship ideologies and […]
Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, Vol. 37:4, 2010
Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim, and Clasissa Rojas, eds. The editors of this issue offer unique advantages due to their experience with grassroots organizations, antiviolence activism within communities of color, and participants in debates about prisons and police responses to violence. Their feminist praxis as scholar/activists is reflected in the scope and breadth of this volume. […]
Imperial Obama: A Kinder, Gentler Empire? , Vol. 37:2-3, 2010
Robert P. Weiss and Gregory Shank, eds. Contributors to this issue of Social Justice offer a searing indictment of how continuity has triumphed over change in any assessment of the Obama administration vis-à-vis the Bush-Cheney era in terms of national security issues. Articles on torture, counterinsurgency tactics, and “just war” theory demonstrate that neoliberalism and […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate effects […]
Sexuality, Criminalization, and Social Control Action Research, Vol. 37:1, 2010
Clare Sears, Andreanna Clay, Jessica Fields, and Alexis Martinez, eds. This issue of Social Justice examines aspects of the sexual politics of criminalization in the context of a three-decade long strategy for increasingly managing social problems through penal measures. To date, scholars have critically considered race in studies of criminalization, examining the severe and disproportionate […]
Juvenile Delinquency, Modernity, and the State, Vol. 38:4, 2011
Heather Ellis, ed. This issue of Social Justice explores the changing meanings of “juvenile delinquency” and the relation between juvenile crime discourses and state authority in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is on the histories of West and East Germany, Soviet Russia, and Scotland. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the […]
Education, Militarism, and Community, Vol. 38:3, 2011
Gregory Shank and Stefania De Petris (coord.) This issue of Social Justice revolves around prominent influences on public education, including corporatization, militarism, and communities mobilizing in defense of their own interests. Purchase articles (click on the author link to read the abstract and buy the pdf): Editors, Introduction: Education, Militarism, and Community [Free Download] Adalberto […]
Conflicts within the Crisis, Vol. 39:1, 2011
Nicola Montagna and Sue Mew, eds. This issue of Social Justice investigates some of the most significant cycles of protest that have occurred across the globe since the current financial, economic, and political crisis started in 2007. It covers four Eurozone countries, Greece, Italy, Spain, and the UK, and one Mediterranean country involved in the […]
Policing the Crisis–Policing in Crisis, Vol. 38:1-2, 2011
Kendra Briken and Volker Eick, eds. This issue of Social Justice discusses recent policing and security strategies, civil rights, and crime policy within the framework of the current financial and economic crisis. Contributors focus on various aspects of urban policing in crisis, such as recent developments in the “governance” of urban spaces. Some articles analyze […]