Engaging Social Justice

The global economic collapse of 2008 has brought into sharp relief the penetration of global capitalism and its impact on working people both in the industrial core and in developing nations. In response, social movements challenging the World Trade Organization and annual gathering of progressive groups and NGOs at the World Social Forums have embarked on the goal of creating an alternative to the neo-liberal policies that have immiserated generations. The articles in this book address the need for a progressive pedagogy, highlight the organizational forms of resistance to capitalism, and explore new forms of struggles against capitalist practices by people throughout the world.

Contributors include: Emily Achtenberg, Melanie E L Bush, Deborah L. Little, Victoria Carty, Margaret Cerullo, Chris Chase-Dunn,Victor Figueroa, Matt Kaneshiro, Laura Collin, Ximena de la Barra, Richard Dello Buono, Heather Gautney, Arseniy Gutnik, Kristen Hopewell, Lauren Langman, Marie Kennedy, Chris Tilly, Fernando Leiva.

David Fasenfest, Ph.D. (1984) in Sociology, University of Michigan, is Associate Professor of Sociology at Wayne State University. He publishes widely on community economic development and change, and is the Editor of Critical Sociology.

'Though varied in both style and content, the articles together shed light on the character of global protest and new techniques of mobilization made possible by new communication technologies. This contemporary emphasis, along with an analysis of recent globalized protests, is the volume's greatest strength. Of equal importance is the amount of empirical evidence and comparative examples authors make use of to identify the changing nature of protest. [...] Summing Up: Recommended.'
B.K. Friesen, Choice Reviews Online, May 2010