Published Issues

Volume 5: Education (2026)

Education and Liberation

The theme of “education and liberation” in Volume 5 of Namibian Journal for Social Justice is not only urgent and timely, but also historically grounded: it is a play on the aspirations voiced during the liberation struggle by a slogan of Namibia’s student movement, “education for liberation”. Globally, and particularly in the Global South, education consist...

Volume 4: Climate Justice and Resource Extractivism (2025)

Climate Justice and Resource Extractivism

This edition brings together articles, case studies, opinion pieces, and public-interest analysis on climate justice, extractivism, green hydrogen, mining, and community struggles in Namibia.

Volume 3: Employment, Livelihoods and the World of Work (2023)

Employment, Livelihoods and the World of Work

This edition examines work, unemployment, informality, migration, livelihoods, land, mining, digital access, and green energy transitions in Namibia and the wider region.

Volume 2: Inequality (2022)

Inequality and Social Justice

This edition grapples with Namibia?s urgent social justice question: inequality. It examines marginalisation, exclusion, the inequality-adjusted HDI, and the structures that reproduce profound income and social inequality.

Volume 1: Housing

The Namibian Housing Crisis in Perspective

Welcome to the first edition of the Namibian Journal of Social Justice (NJSJ). We are proud to present this new journal and hope it will make a meaningful contribution to the debates on social and economic justice in Namibia. The background and motivation for this journal is the fact that Namibia continues to be one of the world’s most unequal nations caus...