Social Justice back issues from September 2006:
Introduction: neoliberal globalization, urban privatization, and resistance.
Sep 22, 2006; ... INCREASED ECONOMIC TIES BETWEEN NATIONS OFFER MANY POTENTIAL BENEFITS, SUCH as expanding the availability of goods and services and employment opportunities available to people and their communities. The expansion of economic ties between nations, however, has resulted in the emergence of ...
Privatization, neoliberal development, and the struggle for workers' rights in post-apartheid South Africa.(Law overview)
Sep 22, 2006; ... THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS' LONG STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID RAISED expectations considerably for political liberation as well as economic and social transformation among the working classes and poor communities in South Africa. The African National Congress (ANC) bad mobilized by ...
A new logic of infrastructure supply: the commercialization of water and the transformation of urban governance in Germany.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Introduction THE PRIVATIZATION OF WATER SUPPLY AND SEWAGE DISPOSAL 1S A CURRENT POLITICAL issue in many countries around the world (Shiva, 2002; Swyngedouw, 2004). It is highly contested because water is an indispensable good: to exclude people from access to drinking water ...
Welfare is not for sale: campaigns against welfare profiteers in Milwaukee.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Welfare Privatization: A New Arena of Class Struggle CLAIMING THAT THE PRIVATIZATION OF SERVICES INCREASED THEIR COST-EFFECTIVENESS and efficiency, the United States Congress authorized the privatization of a wider range of welfare services than ever before through the 1996 ...
Race, neoliberalism, and "welfare reform" in Britain.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Race, Intersectionality, and Neoliberalism AS OTHER SCHOLARS HAVE NOTED (SEE SCHUSTER AND SOLOMOS, 2004; WORLEY, 2005), New Labour's first term saw the introduction of several high-profile pieces of legislation: the Human Rights Act 1998, the Macpherson Report 1999, the Race ...
Preventive urban discipline: rent-a-cops and neoliberal glocalization in Germany.
Sep 22, 2006; ... SINCE THE MID- 1970S, THE TREND IN PUBLIC POLICY FOR GERMAN CITIES HAS SHIFTED from more socially inclusive to more exclusive measures. Due to global competitive pressures and growing neoliberalization, German municipalities and regions have experienced growing socio-spatial polarization ...
Securing the city: emerging markets in the private provision of security services in Chicago.
Sep 22, 2006; ... THE PAST 30 Y EARS HAVE WITNESSED A TRANSFORMATION IN THE GOVERNANCE OF RISK and security, one that has been marked by a distinct movement away from the public provision of policing and toward both marketized and community-based forms of security (Bayley and Shearing, 2001; see also ...
Eminent domain and city redevelopment in California: an overview and case study.(Case study)(Case overview)
Sep 22, 2006; ... "LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS" ARE WORDS THAT CAPTURE THE essence of the American character. The framers of the U.S. Constitution considered the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness to be fundamental rights nested in the ownership of property, especially homeownership ....
Urban renewal and the end of social housing: the roll out of neoliberalism in East Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg: urban renewal, urban policy, and modes of regulation.
Sep 22, 2006; ... HISTORICALLY, URBAN RENEWAL HAS BEEN AN INSTRUMENT AND EXPRESSION OF SOCIAL and political tendencies and power relations. The slum-clearing measures by Baron Georges-Eugene Haussmann in 19th-century Paris aimed at order and urban sanitation for the fast-growing cities in the age of ...
Housing for the working class on the periphery of Mexico City: a new version of gated communities.
Sep 22, 2006; ... THE EARLIEST VERSIONS OF GATED COMMUNITIES (1) IN MEXICO WERE THE COUNTRY clubs. Initially, these were golf clubs such as the Club Campestre in Mexico City, built in 1920, which had only a few residential plots on the peripheral areas of the golfing facilities. Later on, they were ...
Public or private? The Pope squat and housing struggles in Toronto.
Sep 22, 2006; ... WHEN IN THE SUMMER OF 2002 THE WORLD' S MEDIA ATTENTION WAS ON TORONTO, thanks to the visit of Pope John Paul II, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) used this moment to draw attention to their fight against poverty and homelessness in Canada's largest city. With relatively wide ...
The dialectics of privatization and advocacy in New York City's workfare state.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Introduction WITH THE RECENT PASSAGE OF WELFARE REFORMS IN 2006 AS A LITTLE-DISCUSSED element of a federal budget bill, welfare policy in the United States has moved ever closer to universal workfare. (1) Even before the more sweeping reforms of 1996, Bob Jessop described an ...
The pace of neoliberal globalization: a comparison of three popular movement campaigns in Central America.
Sep 22, 2006; ... Introduction IN THE LATE 1990s AND EARLY 2000S, THE POPULAR SECTORS IN CENTRAL AMERICA were embroiled in the largest acts of mass defiance since the national liberal .liberation struggles of the late 1970s and early 1980s. In Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, ...