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Title: Articulating Social Justice: Student Everyday Activism and the Cultivation of Translocal Consciousness
Language: English
Authors: Gritt B. Nielsen (ORCID 0000-0002-9272-6583)
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'.
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