Imagining Otherwise: Connecting the Arts and Social Justice to Envision and Act for Change: Special Issue Introduction

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. In 2009, a search for the term "social justice" conducted by Adams (2010 Adams, M. 2010. "Roots of social justice pedagogies in social movements". In Social justice pedagogy across the curriculum: The practice of freedom, Edited by: Chapman, T. K. and Hobbel, N. 59–85. New York, NY: Routledge. [Google Scholar]) found 3,700 articles and 580 book titles in English, while a search by North (2008) found 3,500 titles on social justice education. This growth in social justice literature has meant that we cannot assume one set of meanings for the term social justice or social justice education. Similarly, social justice art is not a monolithic term, but draws on several different ideologies based on the civil rights movement (race/racism), feminism, queer politics, Marxism/neo-Marxism, postcolonial discourses, and disability studies. 2. For a review of different approaches to social justice pedagogy see Adams (2007, 2010).