Restorative Justice Practices Within Higher Education and the Arts: Addressing Complex Legacies of Harm
A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Crime and Justice".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 August 2025
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sociology of health and medicine; race and ethnicity; global/transnational sociology; inequality; decolonial feminist methodologies; Black feminist thought; gender equity and development effectiveness; maternal and child health; sociology of religion
Interests: diversity and leadership in librarianship; 19th century banking practices and procedures; user designed data sets (Native American and African American hip-hop lyrics); digital humanities and text analysis; assessment in research libraries and higher education; spaces for people and paper in academic libraries
Interests: language endangerment and revitalization, language circulation, ideologies of language; indigeneity and sovereignty, historical educational trauma, feminist decoloniality, and the US Southwest
Interests: the nature of institutional authority as well as institutional change and effects
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is informed by restorative justice practices, the scholarship of feminist decoloniality, and the histories of higher education and the arts, and we locate discussions of universities confronting their past within social movements for educational equity and the arts and the agency of creators and learners who demand their rightful place. Articles submitted to this Special Issue will examine the experiences of groups that have been marginalized in higher education and the arts, with authors exploring whether complex legacies of harm—along the lines of race, culture, citizenship, state and tribal sovereignty, globalization, and disability—require both personal and institutional reflexivity to unveil the multidimensional experiences of both perpetrators and survivors. We aim to provide guidance to those willing to move beyond acknowledgment to correcting harm in higher education and the arts.
Prof. Dr. Assata Zerai
Prof. Dr. Teresa Neely
Mariann Skahan
Dr. Kathy L. Powers
Pamela Agoyo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- feminist decoloniality in higher education
- histories of higher education
- restorative practices in higher education
- social movements for educational equity
- marginalized groups
- secondary marginalization
- Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs)
- Native American faculty and students
- Black faculty and students
- disability studies
- DACA and undocumented students in higher education
- restorative practices in the arts
- minority-serving institutions (MSIs)
- healing and reclamation
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