Articulating Social Justice: Student Everyday Activism and the Cultivation of Translocal Consciousness
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| Title: | Articulating Social Justice: Student Everyday Activism and the Cultivation of Translocal Consciousness |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Gritt B. Nielsen (ORCID |
| Source: | Globalisation, Societies and Education. 2026 24(3):607-623. |
| Availability: | Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 17 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Evaluative |
| Education Level: | Higher Education Postsecondary Education |
| Descriptors: | Social Justice, Activism, College Students, Local Issues, Global Approach, Values, Foreign Countries, Social Attitudes, College Environment, School Culture, Racism, Political Issues, Caring, Social Bias, College Curriculum |
| Geographic Terms: | Denmark |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14767724.2025.2459112 |
| ISSN: | 1476-7724 1476-7732 |
| Abstract: | This article focuses on students' use of "everyday activism" to promote social justice at their university and in wider society. Drawing on empirical material from Denmark, it analyses how student everyday activism that targets seemingly 'local' practices or norms at a given university shape and is shaped by 'more-than-local' connections and perspectives. In their everyday activism (online and offline), the students work on themselves and others and make 'structural inequalities' visible by categorising and connecting place, socio-spatial positionality and global power inequalities. In doing so, they cultivate and come to see themselves as part of a wider translocal 'consciousness' -- rather than a student movement -- that revolves around universalising values of care, respect and a sense of responsibility for making the university and wider society more equitable. In this way, a focus on everyday activism, I argue, can offer important insights into dilemmas in social justice work: including the relation between particularising and universalising readings of inequality, essentialist and constructivist notions of identity and (socio-spatial) positionality, and negotiations over the boundaries between what is political and 'beyond-political'. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1503756 |
| Database: | ERIC |
| Abstract: | This article focuses on students' use of "everyday activism" to promote social justice at their university and in wider society. Drawing on empirical material from Denmark, it analyses how student everyday activism that targets seemingly 'local' practices or norms at a given university shape and is shaped by 'more-than-local' connections and perspectives. In their everyday activism (online and offline), the students work on themselves and others and make 'structural inequalities' visible by categorising and connecting place, socio-spatial positionality and global power inequalities. In doing so, they cultivate and come to see themselves as part of a wider translocal 'consciousness' -- rather than a student movement -- that revolves around universalising values of care, respect and a sense of responsibility for making the university and wider society more equitable. In this way, a focus on everyday activism, I argue, can offer important insights into dilemmas in social justice work: including the relation between particularising and universalising readings of inequality, essentialist and constructivist notions of identity and (socio-spatial) positionality, and negotiations over the boundaries between what is political and 'beyond-political'. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7724 1476-7732 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14767724.2025.2459112 |
