Abstract Indigenous language endangerment is a global crisis, and in response, normative “endangered languages” narrative about the crisis has developed. Though seemingly beneficent accurate many of its points, this can also cause harm to communities by furthering colonial logics that repurpose languages as objects for wider society's consumption, while deemphasizing or even outright omitting e...

In his last writings, Wittgenstein repeatedly addresses the question of how our concepts relate to general facts nature or human and they are embedded in lives. doing so, he uses term “pattern life”, characterizing complicated relationship between lives “are connected with what interests us, matters us” (LWPP II, 46). But who is this “us”, whose manifest we use designate patterns life? What if ...

The province of Ontario has shown great commitment towards the development of renewable energy and, specifically, wind power. Fuelled by the Green Energy Act (GEA) of 2009, the Province has emerged as Canada's leader in wind energy development (WED). Nonetheless, Ontario's WED trajectory is characterized by social conflicts, particularly around environmental health. Utilizing the Social Amplifi...

In his article "Mahfouz between Lukácsian and Brechtian Approaches to Realism" David F. DiMeo compares the interpretations of realism by the leading Arabic author of socially committed fiction to the theories of Bertolt Brecht and György Lukács. The early works of novelist Najib Mahfouz feature a Lukácsian approach, embracing critical realism to present a totalizing view of the social system, a...

This article explores the theoretical foundations for a social justice–centric global law clinic movement. Our starting position is that clinics, type of clinical legal education (CLE), are in unique to engage in, and potentially promote, justice issues outside their immediate communities jurisdictions. To achieve this aim, it necessary clinics adopt universal pro forma underpinned by key conce...

Race, class, and gender dynamics can result in power differentials and discrimination in organizations. Such deleterious effects are particularly troubling for non-profit agencies with diverse employee and community bases and that endeavor to redress social inequality through service and program provision. Foucault (1975, 1980) as well as Andersen and Collins’s (2007) theories provide a means t...

Environmental justice (EJ) research seeks to document and redress the disproportionate environmental burdens and benefits associated with social inequalities. Although its initial focus was on disparities in exposure to anthropogenic pollution, the scope of EJ research has expanded. In the context of intensifying social inequalities and environmental problems, there is a need to further strengt...

Psychological and clinical research on forgiveness has grown exponentially over the last two decades. Recognizing that counselors might be able to help clients not only reduce the negative in their lives but also promote the positive, researchers and clinicians have addressed ways that forgiveness might be promoted after interpersonal hurts and injustices. In this Introduction to the Special Is...