Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence, a special issue of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order (Vol 37, No. 4, 2011-2012), critically examines grassroots efforts, cultural interventions, and theoretical questions regarding community-based strategies to address gendered violence. This collection encapsulates a decade of local and national initiatives led by or inspired by allied social movements that reflect the complexities of integrating the theory and practice of community accountability.
edited by Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo, Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Community Accountability: Emerging Movements to Transform Violence
— Editors’ Introduction - Foreword
— Beth E. Richie - Moving Beyond Critique: Creative Interventions and Reconstructions of Community Accountability
— Mimi Kim - Decolonizing Anti-Rape Law and Strategizing Accountability in Native American Communities
— Andrea Smith - Philly Stands Up: Inside the Politics and Poetics of Transformative Justice and Community Accountability in Sexual Assault Situations
–Esteban Lance Kelly - The Best Daughter
— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Catalyzing Possibility: The NO! Film Documentary as Community Accountability Technology
— Theryn Kigvamasud’Vashti and Aishah Shahidah Simmons, interviewed by Alisa Bierria - In Our Hands: Community Accountability as Pedagogical Strategy
— Ana Clarissa Rojas Durazo - “Where Them Bloggers At?”: Reflections on Rihanna, Accountability, and Survivor Subjectivity
— Alisa Bierria - Death and Rebirth of a Movement: Queering Critical Ethnic Studies
— Cathy Cohen - Afterword: After the Juggernaut Crashes
— Julia C. Oparah
Review of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities, edited by Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
— brownfemipower
Review of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, by Dean Spade
— Marcia Ochoa
Review of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock
— Jakeya Caruthers
Review of Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, edited by Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith
— Andrea Ritchie