Justice Citizens Research Articles

Emotional reflexivity in the animal justice politics of sight: embodied moral shock and limit of the emotional repertoire

Farm occupation is a recent tactic and enacts a politics of sight, which makes visible hidden animal violence by the animal industry complex. Animal justice citizen activists (AJCAs) identify and enter farms to protest lawful violence against animals by documenting and sharing images from the inside. This article examines activists’ subjective experience of immersion in animal violence. The analysis shows that a politics of sight requires and introduces extreme, conflicting emotional demands on AJCAs, requiring a level of emotional reflexivity and negotiation that is sufficiently grasped by existing conceptions of emotional habitus and moral shock. The empirical study seeks to contribute to filling this gap. To do so, I investigated the role of emotional reflexivity during, and after, AJCAs’ bodily immersion in the context of animal violence. The latter is also at its core of an unexpected moral shock for which there is not an established emotional repertoire among AJCAs. Thus, I explored the conflictual tension and the emotional consequences that AJCAs must manage during and after immersion in animal violence.

Cultivating Social Justice Citizens: Practicing Reformed Democratic Deliberation, Dissent, and Counternarrative in the Classroom

Cultivating Social Justice Citizens: Practicing Reformed Democratic Deliberation, Dissent, and Counternarrative in the Classroom

Review of Activist citizen education. A framework for creating justice citizens by Keith Heggart

Review of Activist citizen education. A framework for creating justice citizens by Keith Heggart

Effectiveness Through Crime Investigation Complaint Case Holds In Central Java Police Jurisdiction

Problems of criminal law, especially the problem of crime, abuse and all kinds of acts that fall into the category of offense is now becoming one of the crucial problems and quite tricky to overcome. In line with the task of institution Indonesian National Police (INP) in an effort to maintain security and order and enforcement of justice citizens, then the effectiveness of the investigation and the disclosure of a criminal offense it is important to be maximized. The aim is to give meaning to the rule of law in Indonesia that provides fairness, expediency and legal certainty.Keywords: Criminal Law; Police; Effectiveness; Law Enforcement

Civics and citizenship education: What have we learned and what does it mean for the future of Australian democracy?

The ambitious project to nationalise the Australian Curriculum has prompted great interest among policymakers, academics and civics teachers in Australian schools. The government-led citizenship education initiative Discovering Democracy (1997–2007) comprehensively failed to meet its objectives, most prominently the stated goal of developing active citizens. This article has twin objectives: to explore the ways in which government-directed civics education programmes have fallen short; and to argue for a shift in our approaches to civics education, in terms of both content and delivery, drawing on the surplus model, which credits students with unique ideas, knowledge and experiences. We draw upon Justice Citizens, an alternative approach to Civics Education that foregrounds students’ own interests and abilities as central to their development into active citizens as an example of the educational practices that can promote and strengthen active citizenship among school students. From this programme and other research, we discuss four student-centred themes that should inform further civics education curriculum development.

Educating "Good Citizenship" through Bilingual Children Literature Arabic and Hebrew

The aim of the research has been to evaluate the contribution of the genre of bilingual literature, Arabic and Hebrew, to citizenship education. Since the Israeli society is a multicultural society comprised of both nations, Arabs and Jews who live in conflicted environment, one must regard those textbooks as civic agents. Literature is a socialization agent and as such it is an active influential factor in children's mental environment. The responsible citizens act responsibly in their community. They obey rules and regulation, acts kindly to his surroundings and occasionally donates out of their own resources. The participatory citizen actually participates in the social life of the community, at local, state and national levels by joining established systems. The justice citizen calls for attention to matters of injustice and to the importance of pursuing social goals. The content analysis procedure, revealed that most the stories, hence, ten out the thirteen deal with the two elevated types of citizenship, namely, the participatory citizen and the justice citizen. Inspire of the fact  that we are dealing with children's literature, the authors of bilingual children literature do not belittle the capacity of children to grasp their role as citizens in multicultural society.

“Good citizenship” through Bilingual Children Literature: Arabic and Hebrew

The aim of the research has been to evaluate the contribution of the genre of bilingual literature, Arabic andHebrew, to citizenship education. Since the Israeli society is a multicultural society comprised of both nations,Arabs and Jews who live in conflicted environment, one must regard those textbooks as civic agents. Literatureis a socialization agent and as such it is an active influential factor in children's mental environment. Choosingliterary pieces adapted to children's life is important, since literature, by its essence, is about values, and itsfunction is to mold the child's character as an adult citizen. According the typology of Westheimer and Kahne(2003), the notion of being a good citizen is comprised of three types: the responsible citizen, the participatorycitizen and the justice citizen. The content analysis procedure, based on Krrippendorff (2004), revealed that mostthe stories, hence, ten out the thirteen deal with the two elevated types of citizenship, namely, the participatorycitizen and the justice citizen. Inspire of the fact that we are dealing with children's literature, the authors ofbilingual children literature do not belittle the capacity of children to grasp their role as citizens in multiculturalsociety.