Johnson, Karl2025-07-222025-07-222022-07-26Johnson, K. (2022) ‘Social Justice in Shetland’s Fire Festivals, and the role of Public Sociology’, Karl Johnson’s blog. Available at: https://www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/blogs/staff-karl-johnson/social-justice-and-up-helly-aa.https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/14327https://www.qmu.ac.uk/campus-life/blogs/staff-karl-johnson/social-justice-and-up-helly-aaKarl Johnson - ORCID: 0009-0007-6064-9150 https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6064-9150In 2018, four schoolgirls had their application to participate in the junior spin-off of a famous cultural event rejected by a group of adult men, re-igniting long-held tensions in the Shetland Isles. As an islander concerned with the future progress and prosperity of my home, and as a public sociologist at QMU, I joined a local grassroots activist group to try to help tackle a local problem of inequality.enOther