The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice
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Publication date:
31/10/2025
Hardback
656 pages
246x171mm
Price: 1995.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780197847756
Publication date:
31/10/2025
Hardback
656 pages
Part of Oxford Handbooks
Edited by Corey Dolgon
- A bold declaration of the need for sociology to fully immerse itself in struggles for liberation and justice, offering myriad approaches and case studies of such work
- Global in scope, incorporating scholars and case studies from across Europe, Latin America, South Africa, Southern Asia and throughout the United States
- Incorporates ground-breaking theoretical work that integrates critical race theory and decolonization studies with practical applications of engaged research and pedagogy
Rights: OUP USA (INDIAN TERRITORY)
Edited by Corey Dolgon
Description
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.
About the editor
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).
Contributors:
"This handbook should stir debate across academic institutions and beyond." -- C. Machado, Choice |k Y
Edited by Corey Dolgon
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. “System change, not climate change!” Climate Activism in Austria: Protest, Media, and Publics
Elke Zobl and Ricarda Drüeke
27. Climate Justice is Social Justice
John Foran
28. Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Land-based Struggles against Racial Capitalist Dispossession in Rural India
Dip Kapoor
29. The “Labor of Diaspora:” Black Women, Kinship, Commodity, and Sustainable Transnational Black Families in the US South
Masonya J. Bennett and Sandra Weissinger
30. In the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd: Community Action, Police Terrorism, and the White Racial State
Nicole Leo Moore and Wendy Leo Moore
31. Crafting Insubordinate Spaces: A Social Justice Initiative at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Daniel Olmos
32. Be the Moose: Problem-Solving Sociology, Social Justice Organizing, and Transgender Community in the US Southeast
Austin H. Johnson
Tips for Action
Epilogue: From Social Justice to Revolutionary Sociology-Notes Towards a Popular Culture of Uprising
Edited by Corey Dolgon
Review
"This handbook should stir debate across academic institutions and beyond." -- C. Machado, Choice
Edited by Corey Dolgon
Description
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.
About the editor
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).
Contributors:
"This handbook should stir debate across academic institutions and beyond." -- C. Machado, Choice |k Y
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. “System change, not climate change!” Climate Activism in Austria: Protest, Media, and Publics
Elke Zobl and Ricarda Drüeke
27. Climate Justice is Social Justice
John Foran
28. Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Land-based Struggles against Racial Capitalist Dispossession in Rural India
Dip Kapoor
29. The “Labor of Diaspora:” Black Women, Kinship, Commodity, and Sustainable Transnational Black Families in the US South
Masonya J. Bennett and Sandra Weissinger
30. In the Wake of the Murder of George Floyd: Community Action, Police Terrorism, and the White Racial State
Nicole Leo Moore and Wendy Leo Moore
31. Crafting Insubordinate Spaces: A Social Justice Initiative at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Daniel Olmos
32. Be the Moose: Problem-Solving Sociology, Social Justice Organizing, and Transgender Community in the US Southeast
Austin H. Johnson
Tips for Action
Epilogue: From Social Justice to Revolutionary Sociology-Notes Towards a Popular Culture of Uprising
Surinder S. Jodhka
The Millennial Woman in Bollywood: A New 'Brand'?
Maithili Rao
Ali Rattansi
Holly Lawford-Smith
Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions
Nandini Hebbar N.
The Political Ecology of Informal Waste Recyclers in India
Dr Federico Demaria
Religions, Mumbai Style: Events-Media-Spaces
Michael Stausberg
