The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice

Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli is Senior Lecturer in the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Bob Pease is Chair of Social Work at Deakin University in Geelong, Australia.

1. Recognition, Resistance and Reconstruction: An Introduction to Subjectivities and Social Justice Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli and Bob Pease Part One: Reconstructing Gendered Subjectivities 2. Normative Gender Coercion and Its Subversion: An Autoethnography of a Quest for Recognition Julie Peters 3. "Mincing, Striding, Stomping, Gliding": Messing with Gender Choreographic Taboos Jack Migdalek 4. Mothers and Sons: Transforming Gendered Subjectivities Sarah Epstein Part Two: Recognising Resistant Sexualities 5. Conceptualising Disabled Sexual Subjectivity Russell Shuttleworth 6. "New Rules, No Rules, Old Rules or Our Rules": Women Designing Mixed-Orientation Relationships with Bisexual Men Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli Part Three: Validating Racialised Subjectivities 7. Crossing Borders as Mestizas and Coyotes: Recognising Older Somali Women’s Shifting Subjectivities in Australia Georgia Birch 8. Resisting Assimilation: Migrants and their House-Building Practices Mirjana Lozanovska 9. Indigenous Subjectivities: How Young Women Prisoners Subvert Domination Representations to Maintain Their Sense of Intrinsic Worth Sophie Goldingay and Tania Mataki Part Four: Interrogating Privileged Subjectivities 10. Transforming Privileged Subjectivities: Toward a Pedagogy of the Oppressor Bob Pease 11. Moving from One Place to Another Within a Colonizer Positioning Clare Land 12. Educating Men for Gender Equality: The Potential and Limitations of Remaking Masculine Subjectivities Stephen Fisher Part Five: Creating New Spaces of Resistance in Everyday Life 13. Resisting Age Conformity in Everyday Life Tina Kostecki 14. Residues and Resistance: The Chafe of Working-Class Girl to Academic Norah Hosken 15. Recognition and Redistribution as Situated Practices: Reflections on Some Experiences as a Social Work Academic Heather D’Cruz 16. Politics on a Small Stage: Relationships as a Theatre for the Mis/Performance of Fairness and Respect Mark Furlong