being an essential resource that made her feel as if she belonged on campus: “I made a lot of my friends through Robin Ready. … It made me very familiar with campus when school started. It just really made me feel that, like, RSU is a place that – you know, RSU is where I should be” (15 January 2015). For Rabbit and many students of colour at RSU, Robin Ready was a safe space. Rabbit was also a part of other organizations and initiatives that tried to create and support safe spaces for diverse students. However, by the beginning of her second year of college, Rabbit
authentic reflective practice, the environmental conditions for that reflection must be carefully considered. AMHPs need safe spaces to reflect and enhance their practice. To ignore the context in which AMHPs work is to ignore the complexity and skill required to undertake statutory mental health work. Context AMHP services undertake Mental Health Act (MHA) work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. With rising numbers of people being detained in England under the MHA ( NHS Digital, 2021 ) and even greater amounts of statutory work going unrecorded, AMHPs can be under
107 THIRTEEN Safe spaces and community activism Zanib Rasool I have long experience of community development and consider that it is still as important today as it was in the 1970s and 1980s for empowering women. Policy makers should refocus on the voice of women who are marginalised, and create safe spaces for women to develop their skills in a nurturing environment; we need to put gender back on the agenda. I see the community as an important knowledge base through its various assets and networks, which are being underused and undervalued. Everyone has
(s) that activists can make their voices heard and try to influence policymaking processes – thus acting as ‘agents of change’. Exploring the interaction between international political actors and intersectional Romani women’s activism through the concept of safe space , this article fosters this emergent debate. The concept of ‘safe space’ is still disregarded by the literature on social movements. It finds its roots predominantly in feminist research, in particular, queer studies and critical (feminist) pedagogy. The former mostly refers to physical and
a specific characteristic of the encampments. Others, however, committed themselves to addressing the gendered violence, through direct and indirect action. The varied strategies to construct ‘safe’ or ‘safer’ spaces, however, demonstrated a varied understanding of gendered violence, including who it impacts and the way it might intersect with other forms of oppression. Complicating this struggle further was the external co-optation of these allegations to discredit the movement and justify eviction. Conservative media outlets seized on the spectre of sexual
155 TEN Powhiri: a safe space of cultural encounter to assist transnational social workers in the profession in Aotearoa New Zealand Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata, Helen Simmons, Litea Meo-Sewabu and Antoinette Umugwaneza Introduction Navigating the borders of a new country and a new area of work can be bewildering for the transnational social worker. This chapter introduces a cultural framework called ‘pōwhiri’, which challenges the reader to consider the experience of its process and metaphorical application to practice. It is our declared position that
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From the squares of Spain to indigenous land in Canada, protest camps are a tactic used around the world. Since 2011 they have gained prominence in recent waves of contentious politics, deployed by movements with wide-ranging demands for social change. Through a series of international and interdisciplinary case studies from five continents, this topical collection is the first to focus on protest camps as unique organisational forms that transcend particular social movements’ contexts. Whether erected in a park in Istanbul or a street in Mexico City, the significance of political encampments rests in their position as distinctive spaces where people come together to imagine alternative worlds and articulate contentious politics, often in confrontation with the state.
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