Abstract
For Mort Deutsch, justice is a political vision, a theoretical field, a way of teaching and being in the world. We write as the intellectual children and grandchildren of Mort, who have taken up his commitment to justice studies as a line of inquiry. For us, Mort’s thinking about distributive injustice expands to consider how the right to research injustice is distributed unevenly. So we work with participatory action research (PAR) collectives in prisons, schools, and communities, where we cultivate the distinct knowledges born in conditions of oppression and those spun in privilege. By bringing together research collectives of varied expertise, what Maria Elena Torre (2005) calls “contact zones,” we craft new questions about injustice, spawn new theoretical formulations, and design new research that can document the impact of social policy on lives and also support the efforts of social movements. By so doing, we challenge traditional conceptions of objectivity in psychology. We agree with Donna Haraway’s (1988) critical views of what she has referred to as the God’s eye view of objectivity; the belief that the view from afar or above is more true than the view from below.
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The Center for the Study of Boys and Girls (CSBGL) supports an ongoing consortium of independent schools throughout the country to conduct research and facilitate critical discussion on behalf of boys and girls.
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We should note, that there were important exceptions to this. The aggregated data from the PFJ survey, reporting a wide range of negative experiences for youth identifying as LGBQ, was astounding for many and highlighted a dire climate of violence and discrimination across public and private spaces for LGBQ young people. In response to the survey results, we conducted data-driven focus groups where key populations, like groups of LGBQ young people, contributed their expertise to help us analyze the PFJ data (see Brewster, Billies, & Hyacinthe, 2010).
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Stoudt, B.G., Fox, M., Fine, M. (2011). Awakening Injustice in a New Century. In: Coleman, P. (eds) Conflict, Interdependence, and Justice. Peace Psychology Book Series, vol 11. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9994-8_8
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