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The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice calls on sociologists to be first and foremost activists who apply sociological skills and imaginations to the work of organizing, mobilizing, educating, and envisioning radical social change. There has never been a more important time for such work. As millions of people are organizing and mobilizing in new and unparalleled ways to challenge the global powers responsible for political repression, exploitation and poverty, social devastation and ecological destruction, authoritarian movements are growing just as rapidly. This transformative political and social moment calls for the boldest forms of praxis from radical scholar-activists.This Handbook includes theoretical framing pieces on the decolonization of sociology and its demand for an alternative approach to social science developing from grassroots engagements to challenge powers of exploitation and oppression. This collection also provides critical case studies on sociological work committed to progressive policy initiatives and a variety of local and global organizing efforts from the classroom to industrial labor unions, from farmers and farm workers to musicians and journalists, and other public intellectual efforts. It has been written and edited in a way that might inspire students and faculty not to abandon the passion for political change and social justice that may have brought them to sociology in the first place.The contributors to this volume come from around the world and are finding ways to link their skills and interests to struggles for justice and liberation in powerful and creative ways. The possibilities are limited only by the collective imagination of groups' and movements' capacities to develop solidarity and find meaning and joy in struggle. Scholars are trained to look for new knowledge in the physical and virtual stacks of libraries where philosophers have tried to interpret the world. The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice is an attempt to inspire sociologists to look and engage elsewhere if we hope to change it.

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Author:   Corey Dolgon (Professor, Professor, Stonehill College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 18.00cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 25.90cm
Weight:   1.270kg
ISBN:  

9780197615317

ISBN 10:   0197615317
Pages:   656
Publication Date:   06 October 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: What the Philosophers (and Sociologists) Have and Haven't Done Corey Dolgon 1. An Inconvenient Praxis: Envisioning and Transforming Knowledge Production as the New Normal Mary Romero 2. From Public Sociology to Liberation Sociology and Beyond Alberto Arribas Lozano 3. Knowledge Justice: Co-production in Academies and the Streets Alberto L. Bialakowsky and Luz M. Montelongo 4. Decolonizing Sociology: In Pursuit of Truth, Healing, Reparations, and Restructuring Rodney D. Coates, Biko Agozino, Gurminder K. Bhambra, Ali Meghji, Julian Go, José Itzigsohn, Raewynn Connell, Sari Hanafi 5. Talkin' Decoloniality Blues: A Response to the Plenary Corey Dolgon Part I Introduction to Part One: Why Policy and Local Action Matter-Deductive Reasoning and Revolutionary Praxis 6. Social Justice in the Academy and Beyond: Can Sociology Deliver on the Promise of Inclusion? Melinda Messineo 7. Modes of Inquiry and Struggle from Housing Justice to Land Justice: A View from New York City John Krinsky and Hillary Caldwell 8. Wins, Losses, and Lessons of Engaged Social Justice Research: How Academic Institutions Nurture and Undermine Collaborative Community-Based Scholarship Greg D. Squires 9. Lessons From a Participatory Action Research Project Ten Years Later: Building A Political Identity Among US-Born Citizen Adult Children of Undocumented Immigrants Thomas Piñeros Shields 10. The Neighborhood Story Project: PAR as Narrative Resistance in Tennessee Amie Thurber 11. Organizing The Streets to Enact Social Justice: Street PAR in the Age of Gun Violence and Draconian Policies Yasser Arafat Payne, Brooklynn Hitchens, and Jonathan Rashied Wilson Jr. Tips for Action Part II Introduction to Part Two: Up Against the Ivy to Decolonize our Minds 12. Wrestling with Incommensurabilities and Possibilities of Social Justice and Decolonization in Community Engaged Learning Colleen Rost-Banik and Tania D. Mitchell 13. Centers for Engagement and the Possibility of De-Centering the Academy in Knowledge Production Vernon Robinson, Carrie Hutnick, and Nina Johnson 14. Woke: Revolutionary Education for Transformation and Liberation Anthony J. Jackson and Walda Katz-Fishman 15. Participatory Research, Popular Education, and Action for Social Change Jose Zapata Calderon 16. How Do We Think in Movements? Learning, Knowledge, and Struggle Lawrence Cox 17. Your Voice, Your Choice: A Dialogue-driven Civic Education Intervention with Youth in Umlazi, South Africa Alude Mahali-Bhengu and Thobeka Ntini-Makununika 18. Claim it in Bahia: Youth Participation in Community-Based Research and Development Camila Macedo Ponte 19. From Social to All-Terrain: The Experience of Social Movements in Recent Argentina Francisco Longa Tips for Action Part III Introduction to Part Three: From the Streets, From the Fields We Rise 20. Movement Struggles and Enforcement Structures: Movement Sociology and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers Fight for Human Rights and Economic Justice Melissa Gouge 21. Workers Go Global? Building Spaces of Solidarity in the Garment Industry Michael Fütterer 22. We Feed the World: Farmers' Struggles Against Global Capital in India Simin Fadaee 23. On Doing Public Scholarship: A Dialogue Rogelio Sáenz and Lily Casura 24. Journalism, Social Media, and Wars of Position Saba Bebawi and Bruce Mutsvairo 25. In Search of One Big Union: Singing Lectures on Folk Songs and Labor Movements Corey Dolgon 26.

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Corey Dolgon received a PhD in American Culture from the University of Michigan in 1994 and has held academic positions at Long Island University, Worcester State University, Clark University, Bentley University, Harvard University, and currently at Stonehill College where he is Professor of Sociology. He is also Past President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Association for Humanist Sociology, as well as a Fulbright Scholar (2018) and Specialist (2020-2023).

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