Abolitionism and the Paradox of Penal Reform in Australia: Indigenous Women, Colonial Patriarchy, and Cooptation The authors explore abolitionism in the context of the Australian colonial project and the paradoxes and challenges presented to the abolitionist vision by the project of penal reform. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Australia witnessed the emergence of a […]
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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).
Elízabeth Martínez
Affirming Women’s Rights Elizabeth Martínez identifies women as key to combating the right-wing assault on equality of opportunity. To date, an estimated six million women have benefited from affirmative action policies on the job. Some five million “minorities” have benefited, a figure that includes women. Although women of color have experienced more meager gains relative […]
Elizabeth Sutherland Martínez
Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez, In Her Own Words Personal notes, poetry, and political writings Elizabeth “Betita” Sutherland Martínez Citation: Social Justice Vol. 39, No. 2-3 (2012): 49-82
Ellen Reese
Defending Homes and Making Banks Pay: California’s Home Defenders League Using participant observation and in-depth interviews, this article explores efforts by the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) to organize homeowners against foreclosures and unfair lending practices in Southern California. Through protest and advocacy, ACCE’s Home Defenders League has helped families facing foreclosure to […]
Elmer H. Johnson
Managing Prisoners in Japan: “Attica” Is Not Probable The author provides a national example that differs greatly from the situation in the UK, Canada, and the United States. Japanese prisons are relatively tranquil; aggression against staff and other convicts is rare, and riots are unheard of. Certainly, the very close supervision, ritualism, and severe sanctioning […]
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 […]
Emilia Carlevaro and Margaret Randall
Uruguay: A Woman Remembers This conversation between Emilia Carlevaro, a longtime political activist and Uruguayan member of the Latin American Organization of the Families of the Disappeared, and Margaret Randall, a feminist poet, writer, photographer, and social activist is a valuable history with lessons for new generations of activists. It explores the shared experience ofArgentina, […]
Emily Merideth and Garrett Brown
The Maquiladora Health and Safety Support Network: Case Study of Public Health Without Borders Emily Merideth and Garret Brown take an expansive view of who constitutes the public in their model for social change. In their case study of public health without borders Merideth and Brown describe a growing cross-border solidarity movement composed of U. […]
Environmental Victims, Vol. 23: 4, 1996
Edited by Christopher Williams This issue examines environmentally mediated injury and seeks to change the perception of those who suffer from that of sick patients who are simply in need of treatment, to one of “environmental victims” who deserve justice. It reflects a wide range of interested parties and national perspectives, with academic contributors, frontline […]
Eric Madfis & Jeffrey Cohen
Critical Criminologies of the Present and Future: Left Realism, Left Idealism, and What’s Left In Between This article argues for the benefits of advancing an innovative critical criminological approach that concerns itself explicitly and simultaneously with both the criminology of the present and the criminology of the future. We put forth the idea that left […]
Eric Rofes, David Keiser, Tony Smith, and Matt Wray
White Men and Affirmative Action: A Conversation The authors articulate their perceptions of the state of equity, especially from the position of an educator of white men trying to do the right thing. They reveal issues regarding economics, class, privilege, fear, and the daily practice of challenging one’s own attitudes and those of one’s own […]
Erica R. Meiners
Trouble with the Child in the Carceral State This article examines how the child frames transactions within the US carceral state. Part one defines the frameworks of prison abolition that shape this analysis. Part two identifies the flexibility of the contemporary category of the child using three examples of current tropes of the child within […]
Ernest Kikuta Chavez
My Brother’s Keeper: Mass Death in the Carceral State As the number of prisoners in the United States who die from terminal illness, old age, and deteriorating health conditions reaches unparalleled proportions, scholars who study punishment ought to extend their focus to the ways in which mass incarceration is producing what is referred to in […]
Fawsy Mansour
The Arab World Today The basic question confronting the Arab world is why, in the mid-1990s, it was sliding back into a position of deepening dependency, stalled development, and increasing marginalization, despite having been one of the major participants and beneficiaries of the national liberation movement that in the second half of the twentieth century […]
Faysal Yachir
Wither the Arabic World? The author begins with the question: What is the Arab world? The most common answer is that it is a cultural rather than an ethnic reality. Indeed, the Arabs lack real ethnic unity, just as the Spanish or French, commonly called Latins, cannot be considered to be ethnic Romans. Physical types […]