Front Matter

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Table of contents v
3. President’s welcome vii
4. Editorial introduction ix
5. About the SSSP xii
6. Notes on contributors xiii
7. Acknowledgments xxi
8. Foreword xxii
9. Topical pieces
10. The challenge of global school segregation 3
11. The authoritarian backlash against education justice for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth 12
12. From the streets to social policy: how to end gender-based violence against women 23
13. Fatphobia 37
14. Opioid abuse and evidence-based practices for a global epidemic 45
15. Water justice as social policy: tackling the global challenges to water and sanitation access 53
16. COVID-19 vaccine inequity 62
17. The problem of insecure community health workers in the Global South 71
18. Sub-Saharan Africa’s digital poverty in perspective 80
19. Climate change, migration, and language endangerment in the Pacific 88
20. Reimagining the climate crisis as a social crisis 96
21. Reflection pieces
22. Invitation to transnational sociology 109
23. Global social justice research, teaching, and activism: a global turn in sociology? 120
24. A sociology of hope: why we need a radical action agenda for social justice 129
25. Afterword 138