Search For Social Justice Research Articles

Genuine multiculturalism: the tragedy and comedy of diversity

While many modern societies are noted for their diversity, the resulting challenge is to determine how citizens from different backgrounds and cultures can see themselves and each other as equals, and be treated equally. In Genuine Multiculturalism, Cecil Foster shows that a society's failure to bridge these differences is the tragedy of modern living and that pretending it is possible to mechanically develop fraternity and solidarity among diverse groups is akin to seeking out comedy. Arguing that genuine multiculturalism is the search for social justice by individuals who have been trapped by ascribed identities or newcomers who have been shut out of perceived ethnic homelands, Foster details how this process, in essence, is the story of the Americas. Reconceptionalizing the terms of multiculturalism, he offers an intervention into Canada's claim that its definition and practice are based on recognizing equality of citizenship. Identifying genuine multiculturalism as an ongoing work in progress, rather than a tightly defined policy position, Foster challenges readers to imagine a greater and more harmonious ideal. A necessary theoretical reconsideration of diversity within society, Genuine Multiculturalism refocuses the debate about ideals and practices in modern societies.

Empowering The Underprivileged: The Social Justice Mission For Clinical Legal Education In India

<p>The 1960s and 1970s were an important time in the history of legal education in India, when the legal aid movement and various legal aid committees’ reports started to draw attention to the importance of experiential learning, or learning on the job, in legal education. The main aim of involving law students in the national legal aid movement was to make them feel more responsible for the considerable part of the Indian population who, because of their socio-economic status, couldn’t access justice. The history of how India’s clinical programs were introduced has a lot in common with the history of clinical programs in other parts of the world. There was a desire to create a pool of lawyers, who would serve as soldiers in the fight for social justice for underprivileged groups in the country.</p><p>While some prestigious universities started their clinical programs in the 1970s, most of the regulators of legal education took a long time to include clinical papers in the curriculum. In 1997 the Bar Council of India introduced four practical papers in the curriculum. The spirit of public service, and the widespread poverty in a country, has always been central to the push for clinical programs everywhere. But in India, the legal aid committees’ and other statutory bodies’ reports calling for clinical programs to support social justice, were always ignored. The National Knowledge Commission’s working group on legal education specifically mentioned the need to introduce students to issues relating to poverty, social change and social exclusion, through clinical legal education.</p><p>After the introductory section, the second section discusses the introduction of clinical programs with their roots in the search for social justice in the United States and India. The third section discusses the continuous deliberation by various bodies, commissions and committees about the need to introduce clinical programs with a social justice perspective in India. The fourth section discusses the social justice-based clinical programs in China and South Africa. This section tries to highlight some of the clinical models focused on serving underprivileged groups, that have been introduced and implemented in these two countries and which ~ after local modifications ~ could serve as a template for programs in Indian law schools. The fifth section tries to search for clinical models best suited to India with reference to clinical programs in China and South Africa. Several examples of clinical activities in a few Indian law schools have been highlighted in this chapter to explain these models’ effectiveness and suitability for Indian circumstances. The sixth section sets out some suggestions for law schools and stakeholders of legal education in India as to how to further the country’s social justice mission of clinical legal education.</p>

Demos as an explanatory lens in teacher educators’ elusive search for social justice

Borrowing insights from the Ancient Greek ideal conceptions of a democratic civic space (demos), this article examines the applicability of this framework to four teacher educators’ journey to implement social justice in their programs. It is proposed that the three constitutive dimensions of demos (freedom of speech, equality to vote and hold office, and equality against the law) could provide explanatory lenses to bottom-up collaborative projects in teacher education and beyond, through the illumination of both successes and failures.

Multiculturality and morbidity related by bolivian immigrants in the Family Health Strategy

Some regions of Sao Paulo city have a great many Latin American immigrants who work and live in precarious conditions. Thisresearch aimed to identify the more frequently reported morbidity by Bolivian immigrants who are users of a USF (Family Health Unit) ofSao Paulo city. The methodology of this field work is exploratory and descriptive. We did random interviews with a sample of 25 Bolivianimmigrants, sewers; they are users of a USF living in the Bras quarter, downtown Sao Paulo. Results showed the existence of a high rate oftuberculosis cases among them, in addition to dermatological and respiratory problems. Amongst the necessary information in the planningof actions for health directed to particular populations such as of these immigrants, we emphasize morbidity, which may give essentialinformation, being an important health condition indicator for the population and their socio-economic conditions. This study disclosedthat immigrants fear being exposed, and avoid making “speculations”. Every assistance action must consider the diversity of people beingassisted, respecting their habits, customs and culture. It requires that assistance be adapted to user’s reality so as the implementation ofany action in health be guaranteed. The search for social justice must also be part of the life of all health professionals.

How to drag with a worn-out mouse? Searching for social justice through collaboration

We consider what a concern for social justice in terms of social inclusion might mean for teacher education, both practising and prospective, with particular reference to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in mathematics education taking place at a borderland school. Our discussion proceeds through the following steps: (1) We explore what a borderland position might denote to address what social inclusion might mean. (2) We consider the significance of mathematics education and the use of ICT for processes of social inclusion. (3) We briefly refer to the Interlink Network, as many of our observations emerge as reflections on this project. (4) We present different issues that will be of particular importance with respect to teacher education if we want to establish a mathematics education for social inclusion. These issues concern moving away from the comfort zone, establishing networks, identifying new approaches, moving beyond prototypical research, and getting in contact. This brings us to (5) final considerations, where we return to the notion of social justice.

A Response to “Social Privilege, Social Justice, and Group Counseling: An Inquiry”: Inclusive Cultural Empathy and the Search for Social Justice

This response suggests that Inclusive Cultural Empathy (ICE) is a process that multiculturally aware group counselors can use to help group members move beyond the confines of social privilege and culture-bound assumptions that divide members and impede communication.

Capitalism and the Tax System: A Search for Social Justice

America is a country founded on ideas. The Enlightenment was one set of ideas that attended our birth and one Enlightenment belief as strong today as during the revolution is our faith in capitalism and the protection of private property. Yet, the United States tax system manages to violate fundamental capitalist principles as outlined in the extensive writings of Adam Smith - the father of capitalism. Comparing Smith's vision to the current United States tax system reveals many important inconsistencies, particularly the current penchant for simultaneously taxing wages while exempting (or delaying) taxes on wealth and wealth appreciation. The article proposes more closely aligning the U.S. tax system with Smith's capitalist vision by introducing a combined wealth and consumption tax each with significant exemption amounts. The expected result of a combined wealth and consumption tax system is the release of a considerable portion of the population from tax liability. Less expected rewards of a tax system that more closely resembles Smith's capitalist ideal include: (a) support for a living wage; (b) class based affirmative action; and, (c) reparations for slavery.

Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice

Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice

In Hard Times, the Search for Social Justice

In Hard Times, the Search for Social Justice

Tradition chiite et islamisme khomeiniste (Note)

If we compare the religious tradition of Shi'ite Islam with the ideology Khomeini propounded from 1979 on, it emerges that Khomeini-style Islamism is more of a revolutionary political ideology falling within the category of Western Third-Worldism. It diverges from Shi'itism which has traditionally preached the illegitimacy of power, the need for contestation, the challenging of whatever is established, the search for social justice, the giving of support to the oppressed, and the expectation of a coming messiah. Khomeini exploited this tradition to serve political ends. He interpreted it in his own way and instituted a radical, infallible government of clerics while preaching anti-Westernism and Pan-Islamism intermixed with the exporting of his revolution. Shi'ite Islam has thus lost its traditional religious character, giving rise to confusion between religion and politics to the detriment of the former.

‘More mighty than the waves of the sea’: toilers, tariffs, and the income tax movement, 1880–1913

Social movements are at once the symptoms and the instruments of social progress. Ignore them and statesmanship is irrelevant; fail to use them and it is weak. Walter Lippmann In the spring of 18...

American Slavery in History and Memory and the Search for Social Justice

The ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in December 1865 abolished slavery in the United States. In the years that followed, southern planters and their allies proved extraordinarily resourceful in inventing new forms of labor extraction and racial oppression, but try as they might, they could not resuscitate chattel bondage. Yet, almost a century and a half later, the question of slavery again roils the water of American life. Indeed, the last years of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty-first have witnessed an extraordinary resurgence of popular interest in slavery, which has stimulated its study and provided the occasion for a rare conversation between historians and an interested public. Slavery has a greater presence in American life now than at any time since the Civil War ended. The intense engagement over the issue of slavery signals-as it did in the 1830s and the 1960s-a crisis in American race relations that necessarily elevates the significance of the study of the past in the search for social justice. The new interest has been manifested in the success on the big screen of the movies

Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted nationalism, neoliberalism and the search for social justice, by Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya. Scottsville: University of Natal Press and Harare: Weaver Press, 2002. 324 pp. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8654 38021 (paperback).

Journal Article Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted nationalism, neoliberalism and the search for social justice, by Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya. Scottsville: University of Natal Press and Harare: Weaver Press, 2002. 324 pp. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 0 8654 38021 (paperback). Get access Munyaradzi Majonga Munyaradzi Majonga Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 103, Issue 410, January 2004, Pages 144–146, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adh016 Published: 01 January 2004

BOOK REVIEW

Book reviewed in this article:Bond, Patrick and Manyanya, Masimba. Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice;

The Agony of School Reform: Race, Class, and the Elusive Search for Social Justice

The Agony of School Reform: Race, Class, and the Elusive Search for Social Justice

Key Ingredients in the Search for Social Justice: A Case Study of Best Practices in a Calcutta School

This article examines the key ingredients in a Catholic inner-city school that have contributed to a paradigm shift in the school community. The school has relinquished a comfortable niche educating children of Calcutta’s elite in favor of the messy and risky business of engaging with the poor. It has asserted the right of every child to quality education, dared to cross social boundaries, and succeeded in integrating a widely disparate parent and child community. The article elaborates on a cluster of key ingredients which together constitute a pathway for transforming schools into those which practice social justice and provide quality education. It examines widely recognized change principles in action within a particular setting and relates that the achievement of equity and excellence are not mutually exclusive. It explores the distinctive values, ethos, teaching and learning strategies, leadership, staff and culture of the school that promote learning despite flouting conventional selection and social class norms, in order to distill the key ingredients which make for excellence and equity. This essay begins by setting the study in context, describes the research methodology briefly, and then provides an analysis of a model of best practice and a pathway to social transformation that the school has adopted.

The Mirror of Justice: Literary Reflections of Legal Crises (review)

According to Theodore Ziolkowski, the Western legal system has developed through a succession of historical crises, each precipitated by a need to realign the forces of law and morality in the face of new injustices within the institution of the law. Since the search for social justice is an abiding theme in great works of literature, the emergence of major literary figures at critical moments in the evolution of Western law is thus hardly coincidental: "It is at those moments when the tension between law and morality is increased to the breaking point that the law is changed and its evolution lurches forward again. And it is precisely those epoch-making moments that great literature reflects" (16). Baldly stated, this thesis might reasonably be felt to be naive and reductive, a kind of crude legal Darwinianism used to justify an otherwise rather arbitrary selection of works, but such an objection would seriously undervalue this wide ranging, scholarly, and penetrating study. Thankfully, Ziolkowski has written a book that does not in the final analysis depend for its effect on the promulgation of a grand theory; in fact, The Mirror of Justice is at its most successful where the central argument retreats into the background, providing little more than a convenient peg on which to hang a [End Page 189] series of highly stimulating discussions of literary works concerned with the law.

Circuitous journeys: modern spiritual autobiography

Circuitous Journeys: Modern Spiritual Autobiography provides a close reading and analysis of ten major life stories by twentieth-century leaders and thinkers from a variety of religious and cultural traditions: Mohandas Gandhi, Black Elk, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm X, Paul Cowan, Rigoberta Menchu, Dan Wakefield, and Nelson Mandela. The book uses approaches from literary criticism, developmental psychology (influenced by Erik Erikson, James Fowler, and Carol Gilligan), and spirituality (influenced by John S. Donne, Emile Griffin, Walter Conn, and Bernard Lonergan). Each text is read in the light of the autobiographical tradition begun by St. Augustine's Confessions, but with a focus on distinctively modern and post-modern transformations of the self-writing genre. The twentieth-century context of religious alienation, social autonomy, identity crises and politics, and the search for social justice is examined in each text.

Searching for Social Justice

ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of the life, research, writings, and contributions of Nicole Hahn Rafter. Rafter is widely regarded as one of America's foremost criminal justice historians, and she has also made important contributions to feminist issues and women's studies. Nicole Hahn Rafter's research and efforts to further social justice have established her as one of the nation's most important criminologists.

Comment on Marshall

The paper advances considerably our knowledge of comparative mobility patterns and particularly of how inequalities are perceived, though it is unclear just what causal influences are at work. While study of the two Germanies is an interesting area of comparative study and does have some advantages over other bi-national work, I would caution against seeing the outcomes as being determined solely by the policies of the two states. In making a comparative analysis of the two Germanies, one must not assume that we are studying how two identical entities vary when affected by two different stimuli; in this case two originally identical Germanies, one being infused with 'the capitalist route to economic prosperity' and the other with 'a communist path in its search for social justice' p. 398). 'At the outset', Eastern Germany was by far the poorer country being in 1939 mainly agricultural and rural with the major industrial and commercial areas being in the West. After 1945, the East was small and economically and culturally cut off from its hinterland. In addition to the massive emigration to the West, these economic and geographical factors had implications for the kind of population stock in each society. Each also was embedded in a different world order which influenced the possibilities for wealth creation and the provision of social justice and each was subject to external demands which shaped their internal trajectories. Hence, to paraphrase Hayek, the outcomes may be determined not by desert but by Western Germany's good luck and Eastern Germany's bad. To make conclusions about the effectiveness of how the 'social institutions [of capitalism and communism] operate[d] under varying circumstances' one would need to control for many other factors and to create a more even playing field. If one poses the question: what would have been the outcomes if the communists had come to power in West Germany and the capitalists in East Germany?, one's answer would be quite different to what has happened and, I suspect, detellllined largely by the different endowments of the West and East and their respective global linkages. It is also important to disentangle the features which were common to both societies and continued after Germany was divided. I have in mind here the cultural system and the ways that values, beliefs, rule application