Justice matters: eclectic, dynamic, contradictory

Teaching for Justice in a Contradictory World

School today is caught in the dilemma of being expected to educate young people so that they can be integrated into modern industrial society. Because of structural injustices in society, not all students have equal chances in this integration process. Education in school is also expected to impart proficiency in skills which go beyond the functional skills which a productive society needs. The...

Women and the Criminal Justice System: Gender Matters

Through out most of our na tion's his tory, women of fend ers have been largely in visi ble or “for got ten” in a sys tem de signed to con trol and re ha bili tate men. Ac cord ing to Mau reen Cain, in both crimi nol ogy and more broadly in the crimi nal jus tice sys tem, women and girls “ex ist as Other: that is to say, they ex ist only in their dif fer ence from the male, the nor mal” (Cain, ...

Wild Justice Redux: What We Know About Social Justice in Animals and Why It Matters

Social justice in animals is beginning to attract interest in a broad range of academic disciplines. Justice is an important area of study because it may help explain social dynamics among individuals living in tightly-knit groups, as well as social interactions among individuals who only occasionally meet. In this paper, we provide an overview of what is currently known about social justice in...

Race(ial)Matters: The Quest for Environmental Justice Review Essay

The Contradictory Logics of Public-Private Place-making and Spatial Justice: The Case of Atlanta’s Beltline

The concept of spatial justice connects social justice to space (Harvey 1973; Lefebvre 1992 and Soja 2010). As Soja (2010) argues, justice has a geography. Spatial justice seeks more equitable distribution of resources in a world where societies are inherently unjust. In theory, many urban design and place-making projects aim to create a more spatially— just city. That is, until such projects c...