The Shifting Sands of Social Justice Discourse: From Situating the Problem with “Them,” to Situating it with “Us”

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes In particular, I am referring to the Australian government policy of removing Indigenous children from their families in the twentieth century (Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Citation1997). Other major world religions have similar traditions. This is not to minimize the extent of poverty in some Western countries but to acknowledge that in relative terms it cannot be compared in severity with the poverty of many industrially underdeveloped countries.