Professional Documents
Culture Documents
The objective of this issue is thus to examine mental health and illness as a social justice
issue by examining social rather than individual deficits. Articles in this issue will shift
the focus and analysis from pathological individualism to social relations, social
structure, social systems, social practices, social organization, and so forth, as
inextricably intertwined human struggle, suffering and pain. We thus welcome papers
that utilize critical conceptual frameworks that may include, but are not limited to, poststructural, as well as, feminist, anti-capitalist, post-colonial and critical race theory.
Topics may include:
Length:
Articles should be approximately 6,000 words in length (not including references).
Publishing Schedule:
March 6, 2015: deadline for proposals (350-500 word abstract)
April 6, 2015: notification of acceptance
July 15, 2015: deadline for first drafts (articles are subject to a double
blind peer review process)
Submission:
Authors are invited to submit a 350-500 word abstract for consideration including
authors affiliations, contact information, and brief biography by email to the guest
editors:
Lacey Croft, York University, Department of Sociology, lcroft@yorku.ca
Mandi Gray, York University, Department of Sociology, graym@yorku.ca
Heidi Rimke, University of Winnipeg, Department of Sociology,
h.rimke@uwinnipeg.ca
About the Journal:
Studies in Social Justice publishes articles on issues dealing with the social, cultural,
economic, political, and philosophical problems associated with the struggle for social
justice. This interdisciplinary journal aims to publish work that links theory to social
change and the analysis of substantive issues. The journal welcomes heterodox
contributions that are critical of established paradigms of inquiry.
The journal focuses on debates that move beyond conventional notions of social justice,
and views social justice as a critical concept that is integral in the analysis of policy
formation, rights, participation, social movements, and transformations. Social justice is
analysed in the context of processes involving nationalism, social and public policy,
globalization, diasporas, culture, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, welfare, poverty, war, and
other social phenomena. It endeavours to cover questions and debates ranging from
governance to democracy, sustainable environments, and human rights, and to introduce
new work on pressing issues of social justice throughout the world.
Website: http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/index.php/SSJ
References:
Marsh, I. (2010). Suicide: Foucault, history and truth. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Mills, C. W. (1959). The Sociological Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rimke, H. (2014). Promoting anthropophobia and misanthrophilia: The violent
extremism risk assessment (VERA) as case study. In J. Shantz
(Ed.), Manufacturing Phobias. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Rimke, H. (2011). The pathological approach to crime: Individually based theories. In
K. Kramar (Ed.), Criminology: Critical Canadian Perspectives (pp.
78-92). Toronto: Pearson Education Canada.
Rimke, H. (2010c). Remembering the sociological imagination: Transdisciplinarity, the
genealogical method, and epistemological politics. International Journal of
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, 5(1), 239-254.
Rimke, H. (2010b). Beheading aboard a Greyhound bus: Security politics, bloodlust
justice, and the mass consumption of criminalized cannibalism. The Annual
Review of Interdisciplinary Justice Research, 1, 172-192.
Rimke, H. (2010a). Consuming fears: Neoliberal in/securities, cannibalization, and
psychopolitics. In J. Shantz (Ed.), Racism and Borders: Representation,
Repression, Resistance (pp. 95-113). New York: Algora Publishing.
Recommended Readings:
Rimke, H. (2012). Securing injustice: The psychocriminalization of resistance as
political violent extremism. The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Justice
Research, 3, 26-39.
Rimke, H. (2002). From sinners to degenerates: The medicalization of morality in the
C19th. History of the Human Sciences, 15(1), 59-88.
Ryan, W. (2004). The art of savage discovery: Blaming the victim. In L. Heldke and P.
OConnor (Eds.), Oppression, Privilege and Resistance: Theoretical Perspectives
on Racism, Sexism, and Heterosexism (pp. 275-285). Boston: McGraw-Hill.