Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South

Edited by Nikhil Deb, Department of Social Sciences, California Polytechnic State University, Manjusha Nair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, George Mason University, USA and Glenn W. Muschert, Department of Public Health and Epidemiology, Khalifa University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates

‘The idea of social justice has inspired generations of people to struggle for more humane societies. Yet the paths have always been marked by chasms and blocks. This excellent Handbook introduces a variety of sites, in addition to organized struggles, where people imagine and claim justice. The excellence of the book rests on the variety of scholarship curated by editors Nikhil Deb, Manjusha Nair and Glenn W. Muschert. These chapters, their emphases, and cadences showcase the wealth of scholarship in the Global South and contribute to the ongoing process of decolonizing sociology. The foreword by Former ISA President, Sari Hanafi, provides an additional layer of excellence to this intellectual feast.’

• ContentsForeword xvii Sari Hanafi Preface: Setting the agenda for social justice in the Global South xxx PART I CONCEPTS AND HISTORY 1 Social justice in the Global South 2 Nikhil Deb, Manjusha Nair and Glenn W. Muschert 2 The republics and social justice 13 Robert K. Schaeffer 3 Everyday forms of resistance among olive-growing and shepherding communities in Palestine 24 Juman Simaan 4 Social justice and the dynamics of land access and exclusion in Tanzania 40 Francis Semwaza and Thomas A. Smucker PART II GLOBAL SOUTH DISPARITIES 5 Prison environmental injustice in the Global South(s) 58 Elisa Privitera and David N. Pellow 6 Ayah-intervened ageing and advocacy for a “knowledge from below” for old-age care in India 82 Sayendri Panchadhyayi 7 Health communication and social justice: A Global South perspective 101 Rati Kumar, Iccha Basnyat and Parameswari Mukherjee 8 Challenging hegemony 118 Rohini Balram and Jorge Knijnik 9 Social (in)justice in Bangladesh in the context of globality 133 Habibul Haque Khondker 10 The colonial project in Kenya’s “White Highlands” and the continuing devastation of pastoral livelihoods 145 Mokua Ombati PART III POLITICAL ECONOMY AND COMPARATIVE JUSTICE 11 Selective state intervention and uneven agrarian marketization in upland Laos 162Lamphay Inthakoun12 The hegemony of austerity 172Jon Shefner and Cory Blad13 Social justice and social perception in Latin America and the Caribbean 188Kevin Nazar14 Navigating Sharia with condemned bodies 204Nora Noralla15 Ageing, disability, and social justice in Nigeria 217Ellis Onyedikachi George and Prince Chiagozie Ekoh16 Women’s empowerment in APCNF 229Anvitha RavipatiPART IV GEOGRAPHY OF INJUSTICE 17 Socio-economic impacts of involuntary return migration 248Sebak Kumar Saha and Rhidoy Ahmed18 Health inequalities in Latin America 272Andrea Wendt, Luiza I. C. Ricardo and Giovanna Gatica-Domínguez19 Decentering the white gaze in African filmscape 287Vieux Alassane Toure20 Politicizing water governance and canal allocations 303Muhammad Arfan and Nabeel Ali Khan21 Gender digital divide in India 320Payel Dutta and Arindam Das22 Othered 333AnkitPART V STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE 23 From #PayUp to #PayYourWorkers 350Jason Rhodes and Shahidur Rahman24 Untangling the gender-corruption nexus for social justice in the Global South 367Kristy Kelly and Kejsi Ruka 25 Making insurgent citizenship in India’s Bhil heartland 388Alf Gunvald Nilsen26 Social justice and human dignity in the Global South 403Johnny Antonio Dávila27 Dependency Theory today 415Álvaro Germán Torres Mora28 Voice, positionality, and social justice in higher education 431Talia EsnardPART VI THE PURSUIT OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 29 Social justice through economic democracy 445Jeová Torres Silva Junior and Jean-Louis Laville30 International organisations and development 458Stephanie E. Trapnell31 Analysing child labour through the lens of child hawkers 470Oluwaseun Olanrewaju32 Social enterprises for transformative social justice and inclusion 484Noufal N., Biju A. V. Nair, Nithi Krishna P. P. and Nisha Sheen33 Why is there a non-WhatsApp exodus in the Global South(s)? 500Sérgio Barbosa34 Achieving social justice through constitutional change in Latin America 512Rodolfo López MorenoAfterword to the Handbook of Social Justice in the Global South 524Paul K. GellertIndex 529