The Oxford Handbook of Sociology for Social Justice

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).

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

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