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Living Legacies of Social Injustice Power, Time and Social Change
Through a wide range of international and interdisciplinary case studies, this book develops the notion of legacy, and in particular, ‘living legacy’– that is, it explores power relations in the context of time as a means to considering and challenging social injustice.
Legacies of social injustice are very frequently erased, denied or declared redundant. Framed by the concept of ‘legacy’, this book does not conceive legacy as simply referring to relics of the past, or to cultural heritage practices and artifacts. Instead, the book focuses upon ‘living legacies’, understood as ongoing, actively engaged in the re-constitution of power relations, and influential in the development of alternative political imaginaries. Through a variety of studies from many different contexts—including Indigenous trauma in Australia, displacement in Beirut, women travellers in Scotland, and heteronormativity in Hollywood—the book draws not only upon historiographic, sociological, legal, political, cultural and other disciplinary approaches, but also specifically makes use of feminist and postcolonial perspectives. Foregrounding the legacies of inequality and marginalisation, it contributes to a re-thinking of power and social change in ways that together suggest potential means for unsettling and reimagining such legacies.
This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary range of readers with interests and concerns in the broad area of social justice, but especially to those working in sociolegal studies, sociology, gender studies, indigenous studies and politics.
1. Ongoing Legacies of Social Injustice: A Critical Interrogation
Chris Beasley and Pam Papadelos
Part 1
2. A Family Act: Power, Gendered Violence and the Living Legacy of Social Injustice in Papua New Guinea
Alison Dundon
3. A Pontian Commemoration: A Living Legacy to Remember Loss
Valerie Liddle
4. ‘Horrors’ of Honour
Kameljeet Kaur
5. The Legacy of Stigma: American Single Mothers
Amy Andrada
Part 2
6. Talking of Silence: Young Gypsy/Traveller Women in Scotland
Geetha Marcus
7. Young Refugees Navigating the Emotional Legacies of Displacement in Beirut Through Friendships
David Anderson and Mary Holmes
8. The Enduring Legacies of Migration: Older Greek-born Migrants’ Experience of Aging in Australia
Pam Papadelos
9. Unearthing Buried Legacies
Rosemary Wanganeen and Anna Szorenyi
Part 3
10. The Legacy of Injustice and Resistance: Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery
Maki Kimura
11. Haunted by the Heteronorm: Contemporary Hollywood Romance
Chris Beasley
12. Challenging Criminalisation in the Commonwealth: Theorising Legacies and Colonialities in LGBTIQ Movement Strategies
Matthew Waites
13. Re-imagining Legacy (Power-Time) and Social Change
Chris Beasley and Pam Papadelos
Biography
Chris Beasley is Emerita Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations, School of Social Sciences, at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Pam Papadelos is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Criminology and Gender Studies, School of Social Sciences, at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and Deputy Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender.
