FORUM Brett Story, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (documentary, 87 min., 2016) Contributors: Brett Story, Jack Norton, Jordan T. Camp, & Annie Spencer Edited and moderated by Christina Heatherton Introduced by Kanishka Goonewardena FORMAT: PDF (download link available after purchase) • • •
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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 […]
Frederic I. Solop and Nancy A. Wonders
The Politics of Inclusion: Private Voting Rights Under the Clinton Administration Frederic Solop and Nancy Wonders explore the historical developments that culminated in the passage of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. This act, which expands ballot access by making voter registration services more widely available, became law because of President Clinton’s strong support. […]
Gail Hershatter, Emily Honig, and Lisa Rofel
Reflections on the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing and Huairou, 1995 This is a report on the fourth world conference on women held in Beijing and Huairou in September 1995. Much of the coverage in the United States used the occasion of the conference to portray China as the nemesis of capitalist democracy. Women’s […]
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
From Hometown Clubs to Transnational Social Movement: The Evolution of Oaxacan Migrant Associations in California This article examines the multiple forms of immigrant-led organizations found among the indigenous Oaxacan diaspora in the state of California. The economic and social impact of the almost 12 million migrants has been such that it has transformed the places […]
Gatekeeper’s State: Immigration and Boundary Policing in an Era of Globalization, Vol. 28: 2, 2001
Jose Palafox, ed. This issue examines US-Mexico border policing in terms of the effects of US immigration and border policy on unauthorized migrants and on the well-being of US citizens. The Southwest border has been the key locus of militarized enforcement in the United States, with the deepest institutional ties between the military and police […]
Gene Grabiner
Government and Market Surveillance, Emergence of Mass Political Society, and the Need for Progressive Social Change In this commentary, the author examines the political implications of the documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The essay examines the larger post-World War II intelligence framework that sought to ensure polarized centers of wealth and power, and it also draws lessons […]
Gene Grabiner
Who Polices the Police? This article examines discriminatory, aggressive, and violent policing within the framework of structural and cultural violence and offers some observations about the class character of policing in America. It also provides recommendations for improved police practice, including community policing, deescalation training, more stringent public regulation of policing, and the demilitarization of […]
Georg Rusche
Labor Market and Penal Sanction: Thoughts on the Sociology of Criminal Justice The English translation of Georg Rusche’s “Arbeitsmarkt und Strafvollzug” (1933) appeared in print for the first time in this journal. Originally submitted as a research proposal to the Frankfurt Institute of Social Research in 1931, Rusche’s article laid the foundation for the book, […]
George Aseniero
Asia in the World-System The world economic crisis, whose arrival Andre Gunder Frank was among the earliest to announce and systematically analyze to a disbelieving world, rather imperceptibly left the sphere of controversy (“Crisis? What crisis?”) some time ago and entered the realm of fact acknowledged by all. This essay focuses on the region that […]
Gilbert Elbaz
Beyond Anger: The Activist Construction of the AIDS Crisis Integral to the construction of a less fragmented more inclusive view of ”the public” are efforts that increase citizen participation in scientific and technological decision making affecting public health. A consistent public health theme in the 1990s will be how to balance the often divergent perspectives […]
Gilberto Arriaza
Grace Under Pressure: Immigrant Families and the Nation-State In this article, Arriaza describes the relationship between language, identity formation, and the nation-state. He argues that assimilationist national US policies privileging English and subordinating languages such as Spanish destroy the culture and identity of origin. Keeping one’s language and culture of origin do not contradict the […]
Gisela Espinosa Damián
The Fruitful and Conflictive Relationship between Feminist Movements and the Mexican Left This article describes the Mexican feminist movement over the last four decades as a multifaceted entity situated on the periphery of a multi-centered patriarchy. Espinosa’s analysis emphasizes the popular and indigenous feminist currents, which are omitted from a historiography of Mexican feminism that […]
Global Threats to Security, Vol. 29: 3, 2002
Robert M. Gould and Patrice Sutton, eds. This issue explores threats to the survival of the world community due to the assault on all forms of life from an interplay of toxic chemicals, ozone depletion, climate change, and habitat destruction. After the September 11 attacks on the United States, the global outlook for harnessing the […]
Globalization and Environmental Harm, Vol. 29: 1-2, 2002
Gregory Shank, ed. This double issue deals with the environmental crimes of entities with a global reach–the World Bank, the US military, the chemical industry, and toxic waste disposers–and the responses of activists and victims to these policies and practices. Do such practices constitute “crimes of globalization”? How can activist engagement and human rights law […]
Gregory Shank
Reflections on 40 Years of Social Justice The author examines the key themes that emerge over 40 years of publishing Social Justice, highlighting significant political and economic contexts. Social Justice history Citation: Social Justice Vol. 40, No. 3 (2013): 119-123