Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule [Hardcover]

An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life

Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule documents three collaborative time capsules in 2022, when fifty-four practitioners of embodied social justice came together to respond to a series of prompts and activities centered around the question: What does it look, feel, and sound like to live (toward) justice in your life? Through photographs, video and audio recordings, and text-based reflections, they offer readers a vivid and immersive experience of embodying justice during a unique moment in history.

The diverse embodied social justice community engages in a vibrant dialogue of the ways in which practices such as yoga, ecstatic dance, somatic psychotherapy, meditation, martial arts, and more are often characterized by cultural appropriation, lack of diversity, and lack of social analysis.

Sonya E. Pritzker, Associate Professor, University of Alabama, Department of Anthropology, is a linguistic and medical anthropologist, as well as a licensed practitioner of Chinese medicine. Her work focuses on the intersection of language and embodied experience in relation to culturally situated ideologies of race, class, gender, health, and selfhood. Integrating theories and methods from linguistic, psychological, and biocultural medical anthropology, her research emphasizes collaborative and interdisciplinary approaches to advance understanding of human emotion, intimacy, and physical and mental wellbeing. She is a leader in embodied social justice. A treasure of inspiring words, images, insights, and reflections for how we can co-create social justice in these challenging times. The creativity and community of this project both models how we can live our values to build a better world. As I read, I grew more hopeful and felt more connected. This book will be a helpful resource in courses, proglS1