Preparing for Public Life: Education, Critical Theory, and Social Justice

2009 ◽  
pp. 69-76
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Life Education

Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings That One Gives

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-423
Author(s):  
John Joseph Norris ◽  
Richard D. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Third Space ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
Feminist Inquiry

This chapter summarizes the advancement of duoethnography throughout its fifteen-year history, employing examples from a variety of topics in education and social justice to provide a wide range of approaches that one may take when conducting a duoethnography. A checklist articulates what its cofounders consider the core elements of duoethnographies, additional features that may or may not be employed and how some studies purporting to be duoethnographies may not be so. The chapter indicates connections between duoethnography and a number of methodological concepts including the third space, the problematics of representation, feminist inquiry, and critical theory using published examples by several duoethnographers.

Critical Theory and Public Life: Reply to Brante and Chung

1990 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1045-1052
Author(s):  
Robert J. Antonio
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Life

Social Justice and Church Authority: The Public Life of Archbishop Robert E. Lucey

1983 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 482
Author(s):  
John Bernard McGloin ◽  
Saul E. Bronder
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Public ◽  
Church Authority

Critical Theory and Public Life

1987 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 304
Author(s):  
Harold Chorney ◽  
John Forester
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Life

scholarly journals Toronto’s Not-So-“Smart” City: Dismantling the Tech Utopia & Building Stronger Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Raza
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
State Elite ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
And Control

This thesis critically analyzes the dominant discourse, actors, and technologies associated with the Sidewalk Toronto smart city project to uncover and resist the potential dangers of the unregulated smart city. Drawing from gray and scholarly literature alongside four semistructured interviews and three action research methods, this research shows that smart cities and technologies are the latest iteration of corporate power, exploitation, and control. Imbued with neoliberal, colonial, and positivistic logics, the smart city risks further eroding democracy, privacy, and equity in favour of promoting privatization, surveillance, and an increased concentration of power and wealth among corporate and state elite. While the publicized promise of the smart city may continuously shift to reflect and co-opt oppositional narratives, its logics remain static, and its beneficiaries remain few. Applying a social justice-oriented lens which connects critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, intersectional feminism, and anticolonial methodologies is crucial in reconceptualizing “smartness” and prioritizing public good.

Assessing the SDGs from the standpoint of eco-social policy: using the SDGs subversively

2016 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Koehler
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Economic Rationale ◽  
Environmental Goals

The UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development impresses with its ambition of transformation, and because it has succeeded in marrying economic, social and environmental goals. This article looks at two interrelated questions. It asks whether and to what extent the Agenda's goals are transformative, but finds numerous omissions and clashes. It also seeks to examine whether the Agenda refers to eco-social policy. Two schools of thought are examined. Both critical theory and sufficiency economics propose shifts in norms, policies and practice – and argue for a “hierarchy reversal”, whereby social and climate justice goals override the economic rationale. The article concludes with a case for instrumentalising the commitments of the 2030 Agenda, but complemented by a subversive approach – injecting radical thinking and action for economic, environmental and social justice. Whether this could succeed in light of political constellations is open, and requires an idealistic faith in the power of ideas.

“I Don't Get No Respect

Dialogue ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. E. Cooper
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Political Sociology ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Advanced Students ◽  
To Come

The author struggles to come to grips here with the philosophical complexities and personal tragedies that disorient us when we reflect on the great and pervasive inequalities in human societies. His egalitarianism is radical in denying the justice of the inequalities that liberals like Rawls would countenance, and in denying that justice and capitalism are compatible. Nielsen displays a masterly knowledge of the literature of social justice, especially that which bears on Rawls's A Theory of Justice and Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, the celebrated philosophical flagships of liberalism and conservatism respectively; this feature of the book should be useful for advanced students of social and political philosophy who need to acquire a sense for the texture of contemporary argument in the field. The thicket of sturdy arguments in Equality and Liberty should convince Rawlsians to accept many tenets of Nielsen's radical egalitarianism, or else to re-examine their thinking about social justice. And the extended critique of Anarchy, State and Utopia should persuade Nozickians of the need for “a reasonably sophisticated political sociology and a sound critical theory of society” if one is to philosophize adequately about social justice (5). Many will find this critique the most valuable part of the book.

Public Health and Social Justice: An Argument Against Stigma as a Tool of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Blacksher
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Fair Share ◽  
Health Measures ◽  
The Social ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Shared Humanity

This chapter argues against the use of stigma-inducing measures as tools of public health on grounds of social justice. The value of social justice in public health includes both a distributive demand for a fair share of health and the social determinants thereof and a recognitional demand to be treated as a peer in public life. The use of stigma-inducing measures violates the first demand by thwarting people’s access to important intra- and interpersonal, communal, and institutional resources that confer a health advantage; it violates the second by denying people’s shared humanity and ignoring complex non-dominant identities. The position taken in this chapter does not preclude public health measures that regulate and ban health-harming substances or try to move people toward healthier behaviors. It does require that public health partner with people to identify their communities’ health challenges and opportunities and to treat people as resourceful agents of change.

Social reporting by Islamic banks: does social justice matter?

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 911-945 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rania Kamla ◽  
Hussain G. Rammal
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Social Accounting ◽  
Content Type

Purpose – This study examines social reporting by Islamic banks with special emphasis on themes related to social justice. By using critical theory and “immanent critique”, the study attempts to explain and delineate reasons for disclosures and silences in Islamic banks ' annual reports and web sites vis-à-vis social justice. Design/methodology/approach – The approach taken was a content analysis of annual reports and web sites of 19 Islamic banks. Findings – Islamic banks ' disclosures emphasise their religious character through claims that they adhere to Sharia ' s teachings. Their disclosures, however, lack specific or detailed information regarding schemes or initiatives vis-à-vis poverty eradication or enhancing social justice. Research limitations/implications – Limitations associated with content analysis of annual reports and internet web sites apply. This study focuses on Islamic banks ' social roles. Further studies of banks ' social roles in society in general are of interest. Practical implications – Drawing attention of Islamic banks and other stakeholders to the gap between the rhetorical religious and ethical claims of Islamic banks and their activities (as depicted through their disclosures) opens up the possibility of a positive change in Islamic banks ' actual social roles. Originality/value – The study fills a gap in both social accounting and Islamic accounting literatures with its emphasis on social justice and poverty eradication. The study contributes to the very scarce literature linking religion (especially Islam), critical theory, social accounting and Islamic accounting. It goes beyond previous research in Islamic accounting literature by exposing contradictions in the Islamic banking industry ' s rhetoric regarding their social role in society.

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