Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule
by Sonya E. Pritzker
Living Toward Justice 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.
Publisher: New Village Press
Distributor: NYU Press
Publication Date: November 18, 2025
Pages: 390
Trim: 7.5 x 9.25 inches
Images: 576 color images
ISBN (paperback): 978-1-61332-279-6
Price: $55
Primary edition: paperback
Also available in ebook and hardcover
About Sonya E. Pritzker
Sonya E. Pritzker is an Associate Professor at the University of Alabama’s Department of Anthropology. She 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, Sonya’s 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, programs, and in our own lives.”
—Beth Berila, ACC, transformational coach and facilitator; Director, Gender and Women’s Studies Program, St. Cloud State University
“This is not a book—it is an experience, an interactive exhibit, an experimental time capsule that has somehow translated living ideas and encounters around presence, purpose, possibility, practice and partnership such that the reading itself occurs in deeply embodied ways. It complicates what we thought we knew about ‘social justice’ and ‘embodiment,’ stripping them of singular definitions and linear thought about oppression and liberation to ground them in collective experiences of the body, heart, mind, and spirit. . . . a contribution across diverse fields that is unlike anything I’ve ever read.”
—Tessa Hicks Peterson, Professor and Assistant Vice President of Community Engagement, Pitzer College; author, Liberating the Classroom; co-editor, Practicing Liberation