Full Description
This book brings together sociological insights, theoretical perspectives and global research to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexities of contemporary power, violence, and justice.
It explores a diverse range of urgent topics, including: colonialism, migration, race, gender and intersectionality, social movements, security, environment, and education. In doing so, it asks what the role of sociology is - and could be - in moving us forward.
Both critical and hopeful, this collection stimulates us as researchers and as human beings. It challenges us to reflect, respond, and share in the responsibility of countering the forces that perpetrate violence, subvert equality, and dilute the notion of justice.
With contributions from an array of distinguished international scholars, including several former International Sociological Association presidents, this is an essential reference work for researchers across the social sciences interested in power, violence, social justice, human rights, public sociology, social change and social movements.
Margaret Abraham is Professor of Sociology and the Harry H. Wachtel Distinguished Professor at Hofstra University, USA. She is also a Past President of the International Sociological Association.
Contents
Power, Violence, and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities - Margaret Abraham
Indigenous Land Appropriation and Dispossession in Australia: In Search of Justice - Maggie Walter
Surveilling Blackness in the 21st Century U.S.A.: Modernity/Coloniality, Objectivity & Contemporary Forms of Injustice - Natalie P. Byfield
Socio-ecological violence, resistance, and democratization processes - J. E. Castro
The moral crusade on "gender ideology": Alliances against sexual and reproductive rights in Latin America - Richard Miskolci
The Arc of Justice in the Era of Routinized Violence* - Bandana Purkayastha
Sociology's Bipolar Disorder - Michael Burawoy
The Iron Bars get Closer: Anormative Social Regulation - Margaret S. Archer
The Rise of National Populism in Western Democracies - Alberto Martinelli
Mapping Violence: A Comprehensive Perspective - T.K. Oommen
Moral capital: A much needed resource - Piotr Sztompka
Preventing and exiting violence: a domain for sociology? - Michel Wieviorka
White Women in the War on Immigrants: Framing Anti-Immigrant Discourse Against Migrant Mothers - Mary Romero
A Case for Academic Justice: Universities as Sites of Violence, Power (and Justice?) - Nandini Sundar
