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 […]
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Ruth Needleman
Brazil: Recognizing the Right to Self-Determination for African-Descendants Brazil and the United States had the largest slave populations in the hemisphere, and, as a result, comparable institutionalized racism and inequalities. At least until the recent “congressional coup” and move to impeach President Dilma Rousseff, Brazil had taken major steps to face its heritage of genocide. […]
Paul Kaplan and Jackson Dunn
The Problem of Explanation: Understanding the Scandal of Judicial Override in Capital Cases In this article, the authors analyze the intertwined problems of judgment and explanation through a comprehensive study of judicial override opinions. Of the 33 states that employ capital punishment, three-Alabama, Delaware, and Florida-are unusual in that the final decision on the death […]
Renee Byrd
“Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Each year, approximately 700,000 people are released from prison. Prisoner reentry has emerged as an object of knowledge and intervention in profound new ways over the last decade. The immediate survival needs of people released from prison are vital issues for building the prison abolitionist […]
Vol. 43-1 Miscellaneous
This issue brings together articles on prisoner reentry, judicial override in capital cases, self-determination for African descendants in Brazil, reintegrating deported migrants in Jamaica, the global war on drugs, and the Chilean New Song movement. TABLE OF CONTENTS “Punishment’s Twin”: Theorizing Prisoner Reentry for a Politics of Abolition Renée M. Byrd The Problem of Explanation: […]
Permanent Peoples’ Tribunal on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights
Charter on Industrial Hazards and Human Rights Signs of optimism about environmental justice come in the form of the Charter of Rights Against Industrial Hazards. Hope does not derive simply from the Charter itself; if anything, it is further evidence of a seemingly intractable problem. It comes from the extraordinary success of the Permanent Peoples’ […]
Barbara Dinham
Introduction to the Charter of Rights Against Industrial Hazards: For Communities, Workers, and Protection of Their Environment The world has now acquired ample experience of industrial and environmental hazards. Lessons must be learned from these experiences so that those who have died and suffered will not have done so entirely in vain. So judged the […]
Françoise Barten, Suzanne Fustukian, and Sylvia de Haan
The Occupational Health Needs of Workers: The Need for a New International Approach Occupational health has long been the flagship of environmental medicine, because the endeavors of the early trade unions brought the problems of workplace hazards to the fore. However, trade unions and occupational health were essentially Western ideas, and many of the resultant […]
Sanford Lewis and Diane Henkels
Good Neighbor Agreements: A Tool for Environmental and Social Justice The “Good Neighbor Agreements” pioneered and documented in this issue by Sanford Lewis with Diane Henkels are one of the most interesting approaches to environmental justice. Working with, as opposed to against, potential polluters at a local level must surely be better than constant conflict […]
Meena Singh
Environmental Security and Displaced People in Southern Africa When nations are in political transition, environmental issues become a low public and state priority. The case of Central and Eastern Europe is an obvious example. There, although environmental activism played a part in bringing about political change leading to the events of 1989, environmental victimization remains […]
Rosemarie Gillespie
Ecocide, Industrial Chemical Contamination, and the Corporate Profit Imperative: The Case of Bougainville The case of RTZ in Bougainville should rank with the Union Carbide (Bhopal) poisoning in importance. Yet Bougainville is an isolated island in the South Pacific, far from the gaze of the media, and events are an embarrassment to responsible states and […]
Satinath Sarangi
The Movement in Bhopal and Its Lessons The Union Carbide poisoning at Bhopal has already received attention in {Social Justice}, from a theoretical standpoint in relation to corporate crime (Pearce and Tombs, 1989). By contrast, the Bhopal activist Satinath Sarangi provides a current update of circumstances in Bhopal and an insightful assessment of the strengths […]
Alicia Fentiman
The Anthropology of Oil: The Impact of the Oil Industry on a Fishing Community in the Niger Delta Anthropologist Alicia Fentiman makes a unique contribution to the study of environmental victimization through a culturally informed analysis of the circumstances in the Niger Delta. Her approach is quite distinct from the “race” perspectives of the U.S. […]
Sharon Stephens
Reflections on Environmental Justice: Children as Victims and Actors This article begins with a brief discussion of the history of the environmental justice movement and of the reasons why race, ethnicity, class, and occupation (and, to lesser and problematic extents, geopolitical location and gender) are theorized in the literature, while age is ignored as a […]
Peter Penz
Environmental Victims and State Sovereignty: A Normative Analysis Peter Penz develops perspectives on environmental victimology through a meticulous discussion in relation to state sovereignty and national borders. In an earlier issue of {Social Justice}, Merideth and Brown (1995) provided an outline of the practical aspects of this debate, in relation to the Mexican maquiladoras. “If […]
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 […]