Story Of Justice Research Articles

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

The mobile spatialization of agriculture in Hong Kong

This paper examines the multi-actor making of the ruralscape in Hong Kong. I critically adopt the theoretical framework of Ingold's concepts of walking to understand how different “wayfarers”, including but not limited to farmers, residents, land activists, agriculture learners, researchers, journalists, leisure practitioners and government officials, walk to make a multi-sensorial landscape. This paper encapsulates the observation outcomes of multiple times of walking by different individuals and groups recorded during my ethnographic fieldwork between 2008 and 2021. I shed light on the local practices and perspectives of hang cyun (walking in villages) and hang tin (walking in fields) to illustrate my observations. By analyzing the wayfarers' walking experiences and embodied movements, I consider the ruralscape as a vibrant space where people configure its meanings and materialize their lifestyle. The wayfarers' embodied experiences reflect the continuity and changes of a rural Hong Kong. Their making of ruralscape helps alleviate people's anxiety and enhance people's hope concerning the current Hong Kong society that faces food safety issues, environmental degradation, social class disparity and spoon-feeding education. I consider that being an agent who exercises his/her subjectivity during the walking in the ruralscape, a wayfarer makes the ruralscape meaningful in various aspects. My explanation contributes to the theoretical discussion of embodied movement and space making particular to the construction of a politicized nature telling us stories of (in)equality, (in)justice, and hope (lessness).

Humanity Activity of Nanthan Character in Veerakumarn Vadamodi Koothu – A Study

The Events of Rituals and performing arts provide space for people to live together, celebrate, and enjoy in the contemporary globalization environment. Artistic activities create new awareness among the society. Koothu theatre is a form of community theatre studied among the Eelam Tamils. It also helps to achieve optimal stability. While the Scrip of the Koothu is written with stories from Bharata and Ramayana, historical stories, fables, social justice stories, etc. are also included. The written script of ‘Veerakumaran’ in Sri Lanka is performed in a version of the Vadamodi Koothu style.It is also performed as a Therukoothu in Tamil Nadu. This Veerakumaran drama shows that the humanity not found in the kings and the so-called high castes is always present in the common people. This study is designed with a qualitative approach and descriptive research methodology. The article is selected as the model for this review. Data is collected and analyzed by re-reading the transcript. The study aims to reveal the human nature of the character ‘Nanthan’. Research question: Nandan on how life-saving and educational services realize remarkable humanity through characterization. As a result of these findings, Nanthan, the leader of Paraicherry, rescues and takes care of Queen Sornakandhi with love and compassion when she loses her husband due to the conspiracy of a minister pregnant Sornakandhi. Nanthan also arranged, guided, and comforted the midwife to deliver her child. Later, Nanthan raised the child as his uncle and taught him many skills. The lesson of this is to reveal that life-saving and educational services are available to ordinary people without dominant power.

They Were Free: The Clear Error at the Core of Prigg v. Pennsylvania

The archives of the Historical Society of Harford County in Maryland contain the records of the 1837 freedom trial of Margaret Morgan, the central character in Prigg v. Pennsylvania. These documents reveal stunning evidence of the life of freedom lived by Margaret and her six children whose status as enslaved persons was simply assumed by Justice Joseph Story in his Prigg opinion, which nationalized slavery and established a federally protected right for slaveholders to recapture enslaved persons. This paper argues that based on the testimony presented by Margaret during her 1837 freedom trial in Harford County, even under the laws of Maryland, Margaret presented sufficient evidence for her and her six children, Lucy, Elizabeth, Hester, Amanda, Charles, and infant daughter, Margaret Ann, to be adjudged free. Consequently, the Maryland jury filled with slaveholders who concluded Margaret and her six children were all slaves committed clear error – a clear error that Justice Story later rubber stamped as the full story in Prigg v. Pennsylvania. By reviewing Margaret’s evidence proving that she and her six children were all free, the unconscionable reality that Prigg v. Pennsylvania was a fabricated test case is exposed. The reason that the evidence of Margaret’s life of freedom is sitting in the records of a Maryland historical society and never made it into the Supreme Court record is due to a series of sinister negotiations between the governments of Maryland and Pennsylvania that resulted in a special verdict stipulating as “fact” the falsehood that Margaret was a “slave for life.” In seeking to aggrandize federal power, Justice Story relied on this lie that Margaret was a “slave for life” to preempt state personal liberty laws, nationalize slavery, and subordinate the status of black Americans to a “species of property” subject to seizure and kidnapping into slavery on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line.

Social Imaginary of the Just World: Narrative Ethics and Truth-Telling in Non-Fiction Stories of (In)Justice

The paper focuses on the issue of truth-telling in non-fictional narratives of (in)justice. Based on examples of rape narratives, domestic abuse narratives, human trafficking narratives and asylum seeker narratives, I examine the various difficulties in telling the truth in such stories, particularly those related to various culturally conditioned ideas of how the world works, which at the same time form the basis of, among other things, legal discourse and officials’ decision-making processes. I will also demonstrate that such culturally conditioned ideas, which are the basis of official discourse, can be considered within the category of both the social imaginary of the just world in the Taylorian sense of the term, and the social master narrative, which in the case of stories of (in)justice is often based on the just world hypothesis.

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America

Murder among the Mormons

Murder among the Mormons

Stories That Matter: An Analysis of Teacher Candidates’ Compositions About Social Justice Events in Their Lives

This study generated from our interest in learning about social justice events in the lives of teacher candidates in our programs of study. In many schools of education, including our own, social justice is a concept that is integrated into the curriculums, yet there is wide variation as to how this is actually done. A unique aspect of this study was that more than half of the candidates were matriculated in an alternate teacher education program where the majority of candidates are people of color. Using narrative analysis, we examine 48 written narratives composed by teacher candidates about events relating to social justice in their lives. Results indicated that candidates’ narratives clustered into two themes and six categories: The themes consisted of stories about self or family members and to other stories about people in their communities. The categories pertained to racism, bullying, sexuality/gender identity, homelessness/elderly and social violence, with the stories about racism as being the most frequently described. Our findings are discussed in light of the importance of understanding the life experiences of today’s teacher candidates, especially when there is greater diversity in their color and ethnicities than previous generations of teachers. These social justice stories offered us the opportunity to learn about the saliency and the emotional effects of social justice events in our teacher candidates’ lives, and we suggest ways our programs might be improved to better prepare future candidates for teaching in today’s racially and culturally diverse schools.

The Top Social Justice Stories of 2022

The Top Social Justice Stories of 2022

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace

Social Justice Storytelling: A Pedagogical Imperative

Librarians and information professionals need to be reflective practitioners who can analyze, understand, and communicate in culturally competent ways about social justice. This study analyzes the output of student responses to the assignment to record a video social justice story in four graduate library and information science (LIS) courses. Qualitative analysis reveals patterns of “calling out injustice” and “calling in the audience” that reflect students’ social justice storytelling and that demonstrate abilities to engage and provoke audiences. The findings show that social justice topics in LIS are amenable to a variety of narrative strategies. Future LIS research should look more deeply at what students learn through assignments like these and how this pedagogy should affect ongoing social justice storytelling by library professionals. Teaching LIS students to be social justice storytellers is an important way of continuing to push the field to “walk the talk” of diversity and inclusion.

Lead Toxicity and Environmental Health Justice Stories in Black and White Woodcut Portraits.

Omaha, Nebraska, has a lead-contaminated superfund site and substandard housing that pose risks for childhood lead exposure. Healthy Housing Omaha (formerly, Omaha Healthy Kids Alliance), an environmental health nonprofit, partnered with the fourth author, an artist, and a newspaper to raise awareness about lead poisoning by publishing portraits and stories of affected community members. The authors analyzed an interview with the artist, photographs of portraits published in a local newspaper, and quotations from portrait sitters. Shared stories of lead exposure and poisoning conveyed in the portraiture and printmaking processes revealed structural racism as an emergent theme. Arts-based research methods, such as portraiture, can be scaled and applied to support national and international community engagement efforts to advocate for environmental justice and public health.

Selling stories of social justice. How consumers react to and learn from social ads

Advertising strategies are constantly changing and today, companies often take a position regarding current social topics in their advertis-ing messages. With two experimental studies using actual ads, we explore how people react to and learn from social ads regarding particular social issues they tackle. With the first study, we examine whether an ad that deals with modern sexism raises awareness about this issue and whether it performs more effectively than a non-narra-tive, informative video (TED-talk) with the same topic. Second, as corporate social responsibility (CSR) ads are discussed to be received controversial among viewers, we explore how a social ad communi-cating a CSR message (gay rights) compared to a “classic” product ad performs on brand-relevant outcomes. Both studies indicate that raising awareness for a social issue through social ads could poten-tially backfire and might only work under certain circumstances. Advertisers, therefore, should elaborate on how they integrate CSR ads into their marketing strategies.

A Radical Practice of Inclusion

Ananya Dance Theatre directs our present‐day concern for racial and gender diversity toward a radical practice. Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea includes white and mixedrace women as well as black male‐presenting artists in her dances that place the global, social justice stories of black and brown women and femmes at their center.

GenderandSocio-CulturalrepresentationsinOralLiterature:DocumentationandLiteraryStudyoftheOralStory"JusticeinJungle"

Lust and loyalty are interlinked concepts that have a history as old as that of human beings. Human psychology and emotions have gone through different phases of development, yet these two emotions still exist. Literature being the true depiction of human life is full of stories of the human lust for power and search for loyalty. English writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlow, and Francis Bacon have highlighted these concepts in their literary oeuvre. These writers have mentioned dimensions of these concepts that are instrumental in laying out the specific instinctual flaws and follies of human beings. This research paper investigates these human characteristics being portrayed through fictionalized and dramatized accounts in the oral sources of literature in Sargodha. The oral sources of literature in Sargodha are interpreted for the exploration of the role of both male and female characters and their emotions in ancient Punjab. The research is qualitative in nature, and the primary source of oral data is collected in a recorded form. Moreover, different genre-specific books, research articles, and online resources have been consulted for the purpose of analysis and discussion. The story of Justice in Jungle is primarily documented and translated into English by the researcher. The findings show that the basic innate potentialities of different cultures and their inhabitants remain unaltered despite the literal uniqueness of the specific regions. The research is innovative in the way that it explores the universal human traits in the documented oral story and thus serves to authenticate the socio-cultural purview of the local oral literature of Pakistan.

The Top Social Justice Stories of 2021

AJN, American Journal of Nursing: January 2022 - Volume 122 - Issue 1 - p 16-17 doi: 10.1097/01.NAJ.0000815400.46043.3f

Data Justice Stories: A Repository of Case Studies

Data Justice Stories: A Repository of Case Studies

Storytelling after the End: Plotting a Course through Cormac McCarthy'sThe Road

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the importance of storytelling and plotting in Cormac McCarthy's The Road (2006). The novel follows a father and his son who, after a devastating global disaster, move through an ashen landscape in a desperate search for food, while attempting to evade roaming bands of cannibals. In this meaningless postcatastrophic world, the father insists on creating meaning for himself and his son as meaning has been created through millennia: by telling stories. The father tells his son stories of courage and justice and creates a coherent narrative universe around the opposition between cannibalistic “bad guys” and decent “good guys” who are “carrying the fire.” The already vast reception of McCarthy's novel has discussed the father's storytelling extensively, but while critics have paid much attention to the moral and mythological dimensions of his stories, they have overlooked a crucial aspect of his narrative fabrications, namely his active construction of a linear, goal-oriented plot. Drawing on the theoretical work of Frank Kermode, Peter Brooks, and Hayden White, the article analyzes this neglected aspect of The Road and shows how the father's active plotting keeps both the story and the protagonists moving through the broken landscape.

Sundance 2021 Introduction

Introduction to the Sundance Film Festival 2021

Breaking Consensual Silence through Storytelling: Stories of Conscience and Social Justice in Emer Martin's The Cruelty Men

In recent years Irish society has witnessed an upheaval in public opinion before the discovery of conspiracies of silence hiding stories of institutional abuse which had remained concealed from the public domain. These narratives of secrecy have been consistently identified and stripped away by writers like Emer Martin whose novel The Cruelty Men (2018) denounces the fact that forgetting and silence are woven into the fabric of society and politics in Ireland. Drawing on the notion of consensual silence, the article explores The Cruelty Men as a text that addresses institutional abuse and challenges official discourses by rescuing the unheard voices of the victims and inscribing their untold stories into the nation’s cultural narrative. As the article will discuss, ultimately the novel calls attention to the healing power of storytelling as a way of renegotiating Ireland’s relationship with the silences of the past.