Welcome to Global Justice Perspectives!
1 March 2024
Welcome to Global Justice Perspectives, the new blog of the Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice (CCRJ)! We are a student-run blog aiming to question global dominant discourses across mainstream media and in academia.
Our posts will delve into global issues, from different understandings and perspectives: bringing focus to underrepresented and overlooked analysis, providing thought-provoking discussions to our readers.
Global Justice Perspectives aims to be an inclusive space, created for those with a passion for writing, no matter their prior experience. So please write with us!
The content will be written by students from across SOAS, aiming to gain nuanced outlooks on many international, local, cultural, social and spiritual issues. If you would like to sign up to be a writer, we are recruiting, so please email 669072@soas.ac.uk to find out more.
The editing team is made up of students from the MSc Conflict, Rights and Justice course, who also were appointed as Graduate Research Associates in the CCRJ this year.
Our wonderful editorial team members are:
Head Editor: Eleanor Austin
Co-Editors: Augusta Belle Rentenbach, Amy Sharrocks, and Armaan Verma.
Learn more about them here.
Relaunching the site
Global Justice Perspectives replaces the brilliant (Re)Imaging Peace and Justice, the previous blog run by CCRJ students which we lost access to this year. With the kind help and advice of Devin Windelspecht (a previous editor of (Re)Imagining Peace + Justice) we have been able to retrieve and archive most of their amazing posts and writing. Please see the archive section of the website!
It was really inspiring to read the posts from the previous blog team members, and their advocacy on discussing issues both within SOAS and across the world. From empirical analysis of current events (see Jasper A. Kiepe, The Media Ethics of Covering the Nairobi Hotel Attack and Juanita Johnson, How Social Media Fuels the Iranian Protests) to theoretical discussions reconceptualising dominant thought (see Aoife Delaney, Fetishising Wartime Rape does a Disservice to Survivors and Devin Windelspecht, Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention). Each of these articles provided an interesting, well-formulated discussion, which we aim to continue in our upcoming posts.
Our new logo was designed by Amy Sharrocks, who brought in lowercase letters to pay homage to bell hooks and centred smaller beings to keep focus on defying hierarchies and widening out perspectives. Rather than using a globe as the core of the logo, its presence is implied while smaller beings are foregrounded: the globe is often a pastiche, which purports a global view but in actuality prioritises a specific set of human hierarchies.
Thus, this logo is attuned to the aims of this blog: requesting deeper listening and representation of a multitude of different issues and perspectives, not only the hegemonic viewpoints which often dominate the political sphere.
We hope you enjoy reading our blog as more posts get published in the upcoming weeks, and in the meantime, please have a read of the archive to see the incredible work of past students from CCRJ.
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Please send us your words, and help us set a new agenda for the CCRJ blog!