Social Justice

Constructing women as shamelessly choosing drugs and prostitution at the expense of the well-being of their babies leaves no room for narratives about those who treat pregnancy as an opportunity to start over (Murphy and Rosenbaum, 1999). [...]the sole focus on individual behavior deflects attention from the structural forces that limit women's ability to make individual choices , including year-long waiting lists , male-centered treatment models , experiences of violence, and the inability/...

Commentary: The Nexus of Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness in New Mexico

Poverty, Hunger, and Homelessness in New Mexico New Mexico has the 1 3th-hiohest rate of food insecurity in the nation , and is tied with Mississippi for the highest poverty rate (Gabe, 2012).1 One in four children do not know where they will get their next meal.2 Across the state, there are more than 600 emergency food distribution sites3 that serve more than 40,000 people a week.4 In Bernalillo County, where one-third of the state's population lives, low-income residents missed an estimated...

Ethico-Political Dilemmas of a Community Oral History Project: Navigating the Culture of the Corporate University

State legislators have continually decreased their budgetary allocations to institutions of higher education, universities have been increasingly privatized, and higher education tuition and fees multiplied, further burdening students and families (Comaroff and Comaroff , 200 1 ; Currie and Newson , 1998; Giroux, 2002; Levy, 1986; State Higher Education Finance, 2009; Supiano, 2012; Yamada, 2012). [...]the onset in 2007 of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s lef...

Introduction: Education, Militarism, and Community

[...]in their review of Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky, Deborah White and Janice Du Mont argue the case for building a worldwide movement to end the oppression of women, which they believe is the most profound moral issue of our generation. -

Native Americans and Social and Environmental Justice: Implications for Criminology

The more diffuse model of governance found in American Indian communities is reduced and superceded by a power structure that facilitates ties to the federal government and corporate interests. [...]the first step in restoring justice in Native American communities would be to promote relations of governance that benefit collective Native interests over external interests. Policies also needed to address social and environmental injustice in Native communities could include: reservation-spe...

Negotiating Treacherous Terrain: Disciplinary Power, Security Cultures, and Affective Ties in a Local Antiwar Movement

Additionally, the demographics and history of Santa Barbara, including the presence of a large research university, largely predetermined the level of crossracial and cross-class political collaboration that took place. [...]we use Jesse Mumm's (2008) concept of "intimate segregation" to highlight the ways in which marginalized people (particularly people organizing via queer, racial and ethnic, gender, and feminist identities), through creative organizing strategies and reappropriation of p...

Review: A Call to Galvanize a Movement to End the Oppression of Women Worldwide

[...]they argue , solutions must continue to come from the women themselves as well as from individuals who can aid in their efforts. Since its release , Half the Sky has generated a great deal of attention in the Western media.

Toward a Cultural Criminology of War

[...]elite promotion of the military (Domhoff, 2002) and the class functions of the military (Skjelsbaek, 1980: 86) are maintained by top-down ideological domination. In a series of surveys between 2002 and 2006, the percentage who thought "the U.S. should be able to attack any country it thinks might attack the U.S." ranged from a low of 35 percent (in 2006) to a high of 43 percent (in 2004) (Gallup, Inc., 2010). [...]at least one in three people supported a military attack that is arguabl...

Youth Movement: Building On the Assets of Community for School Reform

[...]research in the field of community psychology contends that such approaches do not result in longlasting positive change because they are fundamentally limited and unsustainable (Perkins, Hughey, and Speer, 2002). [...]we suggest that counselors should assume a leadership role in coordinating with key stakeholders in the community to base their interventions on a more accurate needs assessment: