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Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order
Two recent editions of this journal focus on art and social justice.
Art, Identity, and Social Justice (Vol. 34, No. 1), edited by Edward J. McCaughan and Emmanuel David, discusses the role of the visual arts, theater, and performance in the social justice struggles of communities as diverse as American Indians, Bahamians, North American and Mexican feminists, working-class women in England, and LGBTQ communities of color in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. Authors address identity and difference within contested relationships of power and structural inequality, including race, class, gender, sexuality, and nation. Read the Introduction and Abstracts
Art, Power, and Social Change (Vol. 33, No. 2). These essays explore dimensions of the role of art in processes of social change. Some address the power of art as a voice of dissent, as a tool for advancing social justice and democracy, as the core of a revolutionary strategy, and as a source of memory and future ways of knowing. Other essays warn about the art of power, such as government and art world censorship, the co-optive ability of capitalism, and the blinding force of Western rationalization. Read its Introduction and Abstracts.
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