...Steve Wing; Leah Schinasi Duke University Press 2007 Steve Wing and Leah Schinasi Public Health Preparedness: Social Control or Social Justice? ​Public health preparedness refers to a society’s readiness to respond to sudden...

...John Frow 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 John Frow Discursive Justice Someone must have been telling lies about Millicent D., because when...

...Ashley Dawson As the severity of the unfolding global climate crisis has become increasingly apparent over the last decade, a movement for climate justice has emerged to challenge unsustainable environmental policies pursued in the United States and around the world. The U.S. wing of this movement...

... conception of justice that is established with the deposition of law. The second part of this essay builds on this to briefly consider the theoretical and political implications of this conceptual nexus. © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Catherine Mills Playing with Law: Agamben and Derrida on...

... shot dead along the side of the road in June 2015 while hunting with friends is part of an ongoing process of genocide in West Papua. Race, nationality, and class all help determine who has full personhood before the law. In pursuing the elusive promise of justice in West Papua, indigenous people are...

... safety of individuals within Indigenous communities. Imposed criminal justice systems have not ensured the maintenance of social order in Indigenous communities. This essay explores the relationship between Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous overrepresentation in the criminal justice system...

..., both BLM protests and the movement itself have been labeled as irrational and dangerous, in part because protestors have refused to hide their anger at contemporary circumstances of racial discrimination in the criminal justice system and beyond. This essay challenges commonplace demands to eject anger...

...Adam Thurschwell Capital punishment has been analyzed in recent Anglo-American jurisprudence as a problem of moral rather than political philosophy—as a question of when, if ever, the heinousness of a crime justifies the imposition of death as a matter of retributive justice; when, if ever, the...

... identities, justice and marginality, and ethnic secessionist politics. Joseph U. Garang The Dilemma of the Southern Intellectual: Is It Justified? This historical and groundbreaking essay on Sudan- ese political thought and politics represents the decid...

... these outside demands on the Kofan and their devastating effects is a profound contempt for the rule of law by those around the Kofan and an utter lack of respect. Despite this, the Kofan know exactly who they are and the justice of their claims, and they continue to struggle against all odds. © 2011...

...Stavros Stavrides What has been called the squares movement is characterized by practices of commoning that reinvent public space as commons. People in the recent square occupations were not only demanding justice and direct democracy but were also creating ad hoc new forms of solidarity and...

... of mass imprisonment, the penal binge in the United States has reached a point of economic and political exhaustion. This opening provides an opportunity to demystify the history of rehabilitation and articulate a progressive vision of criminal justice. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014...

... our society in profound ways. Concentrating on the recent hunger strikes in the security housing units (SHUs) of Pelican Bay and throughout the California prison system, this essay reflects on the long reach and myriad forms of law in our penal archipelago. The new global order of justice not only...

... particular, precarity mobilizes both a critical perspective on neoliberalism and a transformative prospective. It allows us to both acknowledge and go beyond a concern with inequities of power, which so strongly signal an expectation of negativity and lack of social justice, to ask how the notion of...

...Lisa Diedrich I return to Patricia J. Williams’s essay “On Being the Object of Property” (1988) and her work more generally to explore how she imagines justice alchemically through the articulation of a rhetoricity of rights and of vulnerability. Put another way, I read Williams’s work as providing...

... as well as toxic sludge. In this paper we suggest that effective initiatives for justice, decolonization, and planetary survival must center infrastructure in their efforts, and we explore how Indigenous stories can help us envision and walk a different path. Drawing on our distinct work in...

...Irina Ceric Claiming that the criminal justice system fails to effectively prohibit protest and civil disobedience, corporate lawyers embrace the pervasive use of injunctions and contempt of court charges in struggles over resource extraction in British Columbia, dubbing this approach the “new...

... Report released in June 2019, cannot be mobilized as a tool for decolonization in seeking social justice for Indigenous women and gender diverse persons without their active knowledge and experience in directing how the recommendations are implemented. By foregrounding this experience with an...

... conditions for just energy futures beyond settler colonialism through emergent solar infrastructures. Developing a preliminary theory of Indigenous solarities, this article anchors the author’s observations to Lubicon Cree energy justice activist Melina Laboucan-Massimo’s Sacred Earth Solar initiative and...

... decade, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) had been involved in a striking level of intra-elite political competition for national power with the Kemalist establishment, which consisted of the high ranks of the military bureaucracy (the army), the civil bureaucracy (jurisdiction), and the...