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Social Justice and the University

Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy

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Editors:
  1. Jon Shefner

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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  2. Harry F. Dahms

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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  3. Robert Emmet Jones

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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  4. Asafa Jalata

    1. Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Robert Emmet Jones, Jon Shefner
      Pages 1-17

  4. Universities’ Roles in Promoting Social Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. The Goal of Gender Transformation in American Universities: Toward Social Justice for Women in the Academy

      • Barbara Risman, Timothy Adkins
      Pages 99-113

    3. Climate Change, Intergenerational Justice, and the University

      • John Nolt
      Pages 114-127

    4. Social Justice, the University, and the Temptation to Mission Creep

      • David A. Reidy
      Pages 128-146

  6. Teaching for Social Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229
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    2. Critical Engagement: Risk, Reward, and Methods in Teaching Social Justice

      • William V. Taylor, Ben Feldmeyer, Katie Morris
      Pages 231-252

    3. Teaching Human Rights in the College Classroom as a Cognitive Style

      • Benjamin Gregg
      Pages 253-279

    4. Teaching Spaces: A Critical Reflection on Spatial Exploration Exercises as Teaching Tools

      • Maria Stehle
      Pages 280-292

  7. Social Justice Movements and the University

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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Can universities continue to play a major role in advancing social justice today? This volume illuminates key aspects of social justice as a theoretical project and as a set of practical challenges. Authors address related issues from the perspectives of active practitioners in the context of or from close proximity to universities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

    Jon Shefner, Harry F. Dahms, Robert Emmet Jones, Asafa Jalata

About the editors

Timothy Adkins, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Benjamin Barton, University of Tennessee, USA Felix Bivens, Empyrean Research, USA Robert C. Blitt, University of Tennessee, USA Courtney Cronley, University of Texas, USA Walter Davis, Tennessee Health Care Campaign, USA Elizabeth A. East, University of Tennessee, USA Ben Feldmeyer, University of Cincinnati, USA John Gaventa, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Benjamin Gregg, University of Texas, USA Michael Handelsman, University of Tennessee, USA Jennifer Lantz, Chattanooga Regional Homeless Coalition, USA Eric Royal Lybeck, University of Cambridge, UK Katie Morris, Pellissippi State Community College, USA John Nolt, University of Tennessee, USA David A. Patterson, University of Tennessee, USA Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York, USA David Reidy, University of Tennessee, USA Barbara Risman, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Maria Stehle, University of Tennessee, USA William V. Taylor, University of Tennessee, USA Jayanni Webster, Knoxville Chapter of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, USA Stacia West, University of Kansas, USA Erik Olin Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

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