scholarly journals Promoting Change amid Systemic Oppression

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Caroline S. Clauss-Ehlers
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Oppression

RAISE IT UP!! Youth Arts and Awareness

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Thomas-Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Young People ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Family Members ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Literary Arts ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Creative Self

RAISE IT UP! Youth Arts and Awareness (RIU) is an organization that promotes youth engagement, expression, and empowerment through the use of performance and literary arts and social justice activism. We envision a world where youth are fully recognized, valued, and supported as artist-activists and emerging thought leaders, working to create a world that is just, intersectional, and inclusive. Two fundamental tenets shape RIU’s policies, practices, and pedagogy. The first is that creative self-expression and culture making are powerful tools for personal and social transformation. The second is that social justice is truly possible only if and when we are willing to have transparent and authentic conversations about the oppression children experience at the hands of the adults in their lives. We are committed to amplifying youth voices and leadership and building cross-generational solidarity among people of all ages, particularly those impacted by marginalization. Though RIU is focused on and driven by the youth, a large part of our work includes helping adult family members, educators, and community leaders understand the ways in which systemic oppression shapes our perceptions of and interactions with the young people in our homes, neighborhoods, institutions, and decision-making bodies.

Confidence Culture

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shani Orgad ◽  
Rosalind Gill
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
International Development ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Workplace Relationships ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Systemic Oppression

In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill argue that imperatives directed at women to “love your body” and “believe in yourself” imply that psychological blocks rather than entrenched social injustices hold women back. Interrogating the prominence of confidence in contemporary discourse about body image, workplace, relationships, motherhood, and international development, Orgad and Gill draw on Foucault’s notion of technologies of self to demonstrate how “confidence culture” demands of women near-constant introspection and vigilance in the service of self-improvement. They argue that while confidence messaging may feel good, it does not address structural and systemic oppression. Rather, confidence culture suggests that women—along with people of color, the disabled, and other marginalized groups—are responsible for their own conditions. Rejecting confidence culture’s remaking of feminism along individualistic and neoliberal lines, Orgad and Gill explore alternative articulations of feminism that go beyond the confidence imperative.

scholarly journals John Stuart Mill's Harm Principle and Free Speech: Expanding the Notion of Harm

Utilitas ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Melina Constantine Bell
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Harm Principle ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Offense Principle ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Social Coercion ◽  
The Harm Principle

Abstract This article advocates employing John Stuart Mill's harm principle to set the boundary for unregulated free speech, and his Greatest Happiness Principle to regulate speech outside that boundary because it threatens unconsented-to harm. Supplementing the harm principle with an offense principle is unnecessary and undesirable if our conception of harm integrates recent empirical evidence unavailable to Mill. For example, current research uncovers the tangible harms individuals suffer directly from bigoted speech, as well as the indirect harms generated by the systemic oppression and epistemic injustice that bigoted speech constructs and reinforces. Using Mill's ethical framework with an updated notion of harm, we can conclude that social coercion is not justified to restrict any harmless speech, no matter how offensive. Yet certain forms of speech, such as bigoted insults, are both harmful and fail to express a genuine opinion, and so do not deserve free speech protection.

scholarly journals Let the Land Heal You

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Charlene Menacho
Keyword(s):  
Northwest Territories ◽  
Historical Trauma ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Creation Story ◽  
Major Shift ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Current Student ◽  
Ways Of Being

Colonization has affected Indigenous communities and created a major shift in Indigenous ways of being,knowing, and doing. This letter explores how colonization has caused trauma for Indigenous communities,specifically Dene men in the Northwest Territories. As a Dene woman and current student in a social workprogram, I work to uphold my responsibility to learn and be a resource to my people. In this letter, I willdiscuss the impacts of colonization on Dene men as a source of trauma, and the importance of returningto the land to heal oneself through Dene practices. I begin by discussing Dene people’s relationship tothe land as conveyed through our Creation Story. Next, I provide an overview of Dene experiences ofcolonization and systemic oppression. I then reflect on healing our historical trauma by returning to theland and allowing the land to heal us through ceremony.             Keywords: Colonization, trauma, Dene

scholarly journals Art and Heart to counter the one-hour-zoom-diversity event: Counterspaces as a response to diversity regimes in academia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angie Mejia ◽  
Yuko Taniguchi
Keyword(s):  
Predominantly White ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Institutional Diversity ◽  
Community Art ◽  
Predominantly White Institution ◽  
White Institution ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
The One ◽  
Equity And Inclusion

This text explores our work as Women of Color (WoC) nurturing spaces and practices in response to the mirage of support, the inadequacy of resources, and the tepid responses to systemic oppression within the diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts of our university, a Predominantly White Institution (PWI) in the Midwest. Via reflective vignettes, we discuss developing a community art collaboration as a counterspace, defined by various scholars as “social spaces ... which offer support and enhance feelings of belonging” (Ong, Smith, and Ko 2018, 207) for minoritized students. Throughout this text, we discuss the potential of art-based projects shaped by an anti-racist praxis as a resistance to the “check the box” institutional diversity efforts and as transformative spaces to imagine alternative academic futures for Women of Color staff, faculty, and students.

scholarly journals Esquierdo-Leal & Houmanfar (2020)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jovonnie Esquierdo-Leal ◽  
Ramona A. Houmanfar
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Analysis ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Leadership Communication ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Healthy Work ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
New Social Movement ◽  
Healthy Work Environments ◽  
Strategic Consideration

From a global pandemic to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Rayshard Brooks and others in the Black community, the year 2020 has cast light on long-standing social injustices. With this has come a new social movement and a call for change. Specifically, a call for transformative solutions that address not only new challenges but centuries of systemic issues, such as systemic oppression and systemic racism. Leadership across the globe has scrambled to answer the call, some issuing statements committed to change, others engaging in necessary action. What is critical, however, is that leadership understands the cultural factors that have given rise to centuries of oppressive practices and that they are held accountable for the commitments they have expressed. Leadership must promote, create, and maintain prosocial, inclusive, and healthy work environments. This requires new cultural practices and a focused organizational model. Equally important is the need to resolve ambiguity and communicate effectively, with strategic consideration of constituent perspectives and needs. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the contribution of behavior analysis in addressing systemic oppression as well as the pivotal role leadership communication plays in occasioning social change. It is our hope that this conceptual work will inspire behavior scientists to advance the field of behavior analysis and social movements in the direction of equitable, prosocial change that dismantles systemic oppression.

Psychoanalysis, Apparatus Theory, and Subjectivity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Buhler
Keyword(s):  
Film Theory ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Grand Theory ◽  
Critical Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Film Spectatorship ◽  
Systemic Oppression ◽  
Lacanian Theory

One of the aims of critical theories has been to reveal the systemic oppression that flows from the social structures of power, and critical theories have most typically turned to psychoanalysis to provide the theory for how these social structures work and reproduce themselves through the formation of their social subjects. Chapter 8 examines the influential film theory that derived from the intersection of semiotics, Marxism, and psychoanalysis called “apparatus theory.” This grand theory proved contentious but very influential, especially the concept of suture, which provided a model for film spectatorship and subjectivity. This chapter concludes with a section on neo-Lacanian theory and uses it to explicate the soundtrack theory of Michel Chion.

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