Social Justice Institute Broadens its Reach Through New Partnership

The Trinity Social Justice Institute (TSJI) recently cemented a partnership with a U.K.-based academic foundation to further elevate and expand the profile of its scholarly work.

With the support of a new grant from the Antipode Foundation, the Trinity Social Justice Institute launched a Conjuncture initiative in the fall of 2024, which will continue through summer of 2025 under the leadership of co-directors Jordan T. Camp, associate professor of American Studies, and Christina Heatherton, associate professor of American Studies and Everett and Joanne Elting Associate Professor for Human Rights and Global Citizenship.

“In recent years, scholars, organizers, and organic intellectuals have increasingly invoked the concept of conjuncture to analyze struggles over material conditions in interrelated spaces and times,” note the co-directors of Trinity Social Justice Institute. “TSJI has ground its work in dialogue with leading thinkers in radical geography. With the help of this grant, and the academic journal Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, we are excited to broaden our efforts.”

Radical geography is a research approach that focuses on geographical inequalities and injustices to promote social change and advocate for the oppressed. Housing, prisons, education, and healthcare are frequent areas of study within that context.

The partnership with Antipode, and its $20,000 grant to Trinity, will enable the curation of debates in the field through programming for Trinity’s production of a podcast and web series Conjuncture.

The podcast and web series makes scholarly conversation accessible beyond academia. Episodes have been adopted for classroom use around North America and the world, noted the Trinity faculty team. The work is also slated to result in the publication of an edited volume on the topics addressed through the podcast.