Social justice is a socially created normative concept or ideas which mobilises individual or groups to struggle against inequality, poverty, exclusion, lack of recognition, as well as harm, in order to create a change in policies or reforms. (Newman and Yeates, 2008, p. 178). Social injustice can be said to be a concept of claimed unfairness or injustice about accepted belief, behaviour and norms in a particular society and at a particular time. The changeability and contestability nature of social injustice embroils that the same accepted normal way of life or how things are being done at a particular time/period is prone to changes. Such norms may be seen as irrational and unfair in the future, which may lead to social problems. The trend of struggles for social justice has been observed in history and even till present day, example of which are the struggles by groups or individual to be recognised as part of a society; the civil right struggles of blacks for equality; as well as the protest of workers against bad working conditions in order to make visible the injustice and/or unfairness claimed so as to attract changes in policies and reforms. In addition, social injustice is multidimensional in the sense that victims of a form of injustice are prone to surfer other forms of injustice or discrimination.
One strength of case studies is its power to give ‘extraordinarily rich and vivid’ important evidence that make visible what it was like to live in the times which the case study was drawn from and the particular injustice going on at that time. (Newman and Yeates, 2008, p. 174). The case study of surveillance on the Gated Communities has exposed explicitly vivid evidence of the aftermath of Apartheid in South Africa in 1994 which gave rise to levels of poverty, crime and unemployment (Reference). Gated communities created and strengthened boundaries between populations which increased the sense of insecurity, uncertainty, difference and threat (How was...