The State Subregion in the Future of Africa Although the neoliberal reorganization of the world sets aside a place for Africa — as a reserve of the natural resources necessary for protecting the global environment and sustaining industrial production — it provides no such place for the region’s peoples. In this article the author underscores […]
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Bernard Headley and Dragon Milovanovic
Rights and Reintegrating Deported Migrants for National Development: The Jamaican Model In May 2014, 32 international scholars in law, human rights, philosophy, and the social sciences met in conference at Boston College to fine tune a 33-article Convention, drafted by the College’s Law School Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, on the rights of forcibly expelled and/or […]
Bernard Schissel
Youth Crime, Moral Panics, and the News: The Conspiracy Against the Marginalized in Canada This article examines the role of the media in scapegoating youth and of manipulating or decontextualizing the perception of youth by the public. This “blaming” is found in historic constrictions and can be intervened with postmodern conceptions of power and its […]
Beyond National: Identities, Social Problems, and Movements, Vol. 26: 3, 1999
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bogdan Denitch
Democracy and the World Order: Dilemmas and Conflicts The prospects for democracy at the close of the 20th century are perilous. In an increasingly unified world system, it is no longer possible to write about the prospects for democracy except on a world scale. It cannot be a precious entity reserved for the rich First […]
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Campus Coalitions for Human Rights and Social Justice
California at a Crossroads: Social Strife or Social Unity? A series of public policy and ballot initiatives in the 1990s compelled Californians to choose between social peace and deepening struggle and growing violence between competing groups. The idea behind California’s Proposition 187, which scapegoated undocumented immigrants, denied the state’s dependence on immigrants avoid taking responsibility […]
Carlos M. Vilas
Latin America and the New World Order This article details the growing marginalization of Latin America in the world economy in the 1990s. The region had embarked on a scheme of moderate growth with low salaries, high capital profitability, and social exclusion, in a context of broad trade and financial opening as well as growing […]
Children and the Environment, Vol. 24: 3, 1997
Edited by Sandra Meucci and Michael Schwab This special issue is about involving children in environmental planning and urban change. Taking children seriously as self-determining social actors has led to increasing acceptance of children’s place in movements to shape the future. The term “environment” is used broadly to mean children’s rights, social welfare policy, how […]
Christie D. Batson, Barbara G. Brents, Candace Griffith, and Robert Futrell
The Foreclosure Crisis and Neighborhood Sentiments: Learning from Las Vegas The economic crisis has brought new questions to our understanding of the relationship between urban disorder and residents’ connections to the neighborhoods in which they live. Our study examines neighborhood foreclosure rates with residents’ sentiments and evaluations of their neighborhood in Las Vegas, Nevada, one […]
Christopher Williams
Environmental Victims: An Introduction Issue overview on the environmental justice movement. environmental justice movement, environmental protection, human rights, victims’ rights, workers’ rights Citation: Social Justice Vol. 23, No. 4 (1996): 1-6
Christopher Williams
An Environmental Victimology A few decades ago this emergent U.S. movement challenged the white middle- class perception that environmental problems only concerned the natural world. Activists, especially from minority groups, suffering the effects of environmentally mediated poisoning reminded the world that saving humans is as important as saving whales. The impact of the movement has […]
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 […]
Colin Gunckel
Review of McCaughan, Art and Social Movements The author describes how Edward J. McCaughan’s Art and Social Movements adds to an exciting body of recent scholarship and exhibitions that reconsiders the role of cultural production, and visual culture in particular, within late twentieth century social movements. This new books enters into a dialogue with earlier […]