Living Justice Project Time Capsule

The Living Justice Project (LJP) is a collaborative, ethnographic project addressing the central question:  What does it look, sound, and feel like to live (towards) justice in everyday life?

Collaborators

LJP is comprised of 54 participant-collaborators and two coordinators/researchers (or 56 total collaborators)

LJP collaborators are practitioners, students, and/or teachers of embodied social justice (ESJ),with most working as artists, facilitators, organizers, restorative justice practitioners, healers, scientists, social workers, dancers, policy advisors, teachers, meditation guides, and/or care-practitioners, to name just a few. 

Collaborator demographics: 19 Black, 9 Latinx and/or Indigenous, 4 Asian/Middle Eastern, and 22 white; 44 cis-gender female, 4 trans and/or nonbinary, and 4 cis-gender male collaborators. Ages ranging from 25 to 72 years. 

Methods

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Living Justice Project is designed as a collaborative, participatory project

It is grounded in research justice

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LJP embraces the understanding that we are all ethnographers

What the project became and will become is dependent on all of us.

Embodied Social Justice Timeline

Why & When

Gathering momentum in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and the widespread Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, as well as the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021 (among other global, national, and local events), the practices and communities surrounding ESJ began to grow exponentially in the U.S. and internationally between 2020 and the present. ESJ here became increasingly visible as well as accessible via podcasts, social media communities, and a growing genre of remote workshops offered by existing institutions as well as newly formed organizations

Investigating Meaning

Teachers, Mentors, Inspirations

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