Gig work has long been a factor in the labor economy, but in the last decade, the advent of platform-based gig work has boosted its dominance and for reasons that I will outline in this paper, accelerated […]

Too often it seems like a conversation around food security veers away from the reality of a conversation about food justice. The episode of this series that we watched was such a thoughtful examination of the […]

The question asked at the beginning of “Black Lives and Police Tactics Matter” is whether the police are a source of public good or a perpetuating factor of racial inequality? After reading this article, lis […]

I found the zoning information packet from The Center of Urban Pedagogy to be extremely helpful and entertaining. There are so many terms in the world of housing and development that get used, and perhaps […]

After reading David Pellow and Robert Brulle’s article titled “Poisoning the Planet: The Struggle for Environmental Justice” and listening to the American Dissected podcast episode “Unleaded”, I wonder if enviro […]

The articles we read this week outline the ways in which economic justice, or rather economic injustice, can play out in a person’s life, especially in the city. In the article by Formosa, Weber and Atkins titled […]

David Harvey’s article about a “right to the city” is an exploration of urban environments as a sort of ecosystem that seeks to regulate itself. The article describes issues of inequality that urbanization seeks […]

In this week’s reading, the idea of justice itself is at the fore. In an excerpt from a chapter of Amartya Sen’s book, we read about two separate lines of reasoning for trying to understand the meaning of […]