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Create Dangerously: An Introduction
Get PDFThere is something very communal to the art of servant-leadership. As you attend to a life of servant-leadership and engage with the articles here or the chapters in the anthologies, we encourage you to engage with generosity, grace, patience, and a life-affirming essence. Life is shot through with the art and science of servant-leadership, and once we encounter it we see just how directly servant-leadership informs, deepens, and shapes us here and now. As for our mutual quest for the essence of servant-leadership, let’s show care for each other and our work. Sisterhood. Brotherhood. Good intention and good humor. As we apply goodness of heart and strength of mind to our journey, we hope to help build a community of trust and kindness
A Phenomenological Exploration of Women’s Lived Experiences During their Pregnancy Lifecycle
Get PDFWhen considering peri-and-post natal health, there are several biopsychosocial risk factors at play. Biological, psychological, and social health factors are significant in contributing to maternal wellbeing and influencing maternal morbidity/mortality [1]. The Covid-19 pandemic had significant impacts on general populations and on vulnerable groups such as pre-peri-and-post natal women [2]. In previous epidemics, pregnant women were reluctant to attend hospitals and doctors’ appointments due to fear of infection [3]. Covid-19 has shown similar effects [2] and as such, risks associated with the pregnancy lifecycle have increased. A phenomenological investigation found themes of women experiencing negative healthcare, struggles with self-advocacy, heightened challenges for Women of Color, financial instability, increased anxiety, lower social support, lower physical wellbeing, and overall negative experiences related to being pregnant and/or in the pregnancy lifecycle during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Combatting the Far Right: Preliminary Results from a Large, Qualitative Study
No full textThis paper presentation reports on some of the preliminary findings from a large, qualitative study, Combatting the Far Right in the Streets, Online and Around the World, (hereafter, CTFR), which seeks to identify the individuals, groups, and organizations that are working to quell the rise of the far right as street violence, through online platforms that accelerate the spread of violence globally. I, along with a team of researchers have conducted over one hundred indepth interviews with grassroots activists, community groups, reporters, filmmakers, podcasters, scholars, and attorneys who are engaged in this work. In this first report on the findings, I will provide an overview of key strategies that are proving effective and discuss theroadblocks to implementing those strategies
Tracking Hate: Community Resources that Build Resiliency and Empower Action
No full textThis presentation will highlight the innovative approach developed by Spokane County Human Rights Task Force to collecting, tracking, evaluating hate and bias incidents in our county and reporting the findings to the public. Presenters will share data gathered, lessons learned and future plans for increasing community outreach and building stronger bridges into Spokane’s marginalized communities
Understanding and Countering Hate in the Northwest
No full textScott Kennedy serves as the moderator for this session
The American Professional-Managerial Elite\u27s Hostility toward the White Working Class: Causes and Consequences
No full textThe identification and delineation of White Working Class (WWC) deaths of despair in the United States, pioneered by Anne Case and Angus Deaton, is rich in implications, particularly regarding the relationship between America\u27s professional and managerial class (PMC) and the WWC. Case and Deaton\u27s work is nicely supplemented and culturally contextualized by Joan Williams\u27 writing regarding misperceptions of the WWC. It is particularly important to recognize the thinly concealed hostility that elites harbor toward the WWC, alluded to by these authors but deserving further elaboration and analysis. This presentation applies cultural materialism\u27s epistemology and criteria for defining economic exploitation to suggest that the elite\u27s disparaging attitude toward the WWC is not simply a reaction to WWC racism, reactionary grievance, or alleged ignorance. Rather, PMC scorn is a variety of systematic othering replete with adroit victim-blaming, incubated in a political economy that has not only failed to protect all working class individuals and families from the depredations of automation and globalization, but has--just as importantly--benefited the PMC materially through the more predatory aspects of capitalism and endemic rent-seeking behavior in present-day America.
The consequences of this economic configuration in an increasingly polarized United States society have already proved calamitous. Among the most glaring is a mortality rate from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States that stands far above those of other G7 countries, and de facto impunity for Donald Trump, the former US president whose office orchestrated a violent repudiation of the last presidential election results.
This presentation will strive to address any prima facie rejections of its approach to the study of hatred by basing its argument in rigorous critical thinking, i.e. the logico-empirical operations of science, with judicious selection of authoritative facts and conceptual contributions. Most of the conceptual groundwork appears in the Coleman 2020 book review essay, Understanding --And Misunderstanding--The White Working Class: Two Must-Read Studies for the Helping Professions, Journal of Progressive Human Services, DOI: 10.1080/10428232.2020.186240
A Manifesto for Inventing Hope
No full textWaning democracy, climate derangement, public health crises, rising white supremacist regimes, and ongoing threats to policies and practices that safeguard human (and more-than-human) rights all make up a short list of what contemporary college students face in everyday life. Encountering students in campus contexts, it has become quite clear that they carry a level of emotional weight that culminates in a sense of despondence and existential dread. For students already on and at the margins of higher education, the burden is even greater. Given that our Jesuit orientation emphasizes the active promotion of social justice, the common good, care for the planet, and preference for the poor and marginalized, we discuss injustice at each turn, in depth, and with the hope that critical examination of meaning, power, and identity might inspire student engagement, activism, and transformation. Yet, these critical conversations take an emotional toll. Thus, we find ourselves asking: how does our current critical pedagogical attitude also foster hope? As our students confront complex reactions and rational anxieties to violence, neglect, destruction, and hatred, we are tasked with improving our students’ relationship to hope. For educators, the question becomes: How do we respond to hate and hatefulness? What do we do now?
With this in mind, we have begun the process of structuring hope into our syllabi, our classes, and our program. Drawing from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, including communication studies, environmental studies, and feminist theory, this roundtable seeks to extend our own conversations about what is possible as we think creatively about pedagogical approaches to hope. A roundtable at a Hate Studies conference offers a fantastic opportunity for a wide-ranging discussion to inform our work.
Our roundtable will invite participants to explore how “education is always a vocation rooted in hopefulness” (hooks, 2003, p. xiv) by engaging the following questions: What kinds of practices might help spark, and foster, student capacities to inventively, creatively, and meaningfully engage in re-imagining and re-shaping everyday life? What cultural and institutional norms impede pedagogies of hope, creativity, and imagination? Where do we find the imaginative resources for fostering hopeful pedagogies? How can hope be scaffolded/structured in pedagogical settings? How do we engage in radically hopefully pedagogy that is radically inclusive and takes account of how pedagogies of hope are interconnected with questions about power, identities, and positionalities? Who does a pedagogy of hope help? Who is burdened with the labor of developing and maintaining hopeful pedagogies?
In addition to conversation, this roundtable includes interactive components. Participants will engage and experiment with developing and sharing hopeful pedagogical practices that can be incorporated into the classroom context. As Jenkins, et al. (2020) said, “There can be no politics without hope, and it is through imagination that our hopes are rekindled” (p. 3). A pedagogy of hopeful imagination can resist the proliferation of hate in the 21st century and help establish communities of resistance that can imagine something better coming into being
Formers Lecture Circuit and Community Dissent: A Case Study of Ex-Neo-Nazi Platforming
No full textThis roundtable offers a case study of the phenomenon of former white nationalists (“formers”) marketing themselves for speaking events, especially at higher education institutions. It brings together faculty, students, community members, and local activists/organizers who worked to block a “former” from speaking at Eastern Washington University (EWU) in spring, and then again in fall, of 2022. It offers a current, concrete example of the ways “formers” market themselves, are able to gain strategic support from certain communities or organizations. In these platforming efforts we see the wielding of free speech discourse, empathy/second-chance rhetorics, the fostering of victim-blaming, and often misleading or obscuring information about the formers, including their motivations and organizational ties. Members of this roundtable talk about how they organized to challenge this event and think collectively about how we all can address these threats in the future. Using the proposed EWU event as an example, we examine how these events center the perpetrators of hate/violence, rather than victims/survivors, thereby perpetuating the very thing they are purportedly opposing, white supremacy. We found at the local level that an event was organized with a lack of transparency and that fascination with stories of redemption may have led to ignoring concerns raised by multiple organizations in the process, including BIPOC-led community groups, student groups, and campus programs.We consider the following questions: how do we effectively communicate our opposition across different constituencies; how do we convince university leadership to take these potential harms seriously; how do we work more collaboratively and effectively; how do we insure that students are educated and how do we sustain institutional knowledge about these struggles; how do we share information, strategies, and resources with other universities/communities facing these events; how do we keep each other safe in this organizing
Supporting Victims of Hate Crimes and Incidents: A Community Centered Approach
No full textThis 75-minute workshop will prepare service providers on ways to support survivors of hate crimes and incidents through the use of mini-lectures, discussions, and case studies.
Objectives: In this workshop, participants will: Understand the impacts of hate crimes and incidents on individuals and communities Recognize, identify, and understand how to reduce barriers to accessing services faced by people who are victimized by hate crimes and incidents Understand how to meet the needs of people victimized by hate crimes and incidents and apply this understanding to their practice
Background: Between 2021 and 2022, Irfan Chaudhry, Sunpreet Singh Johal, and Landon Turlock worked alongside several MacEwan University students to develop a guide and workshop to build community service capacity to support people whom perpetrators of hate crimes and incidents have victimized. In addition, several community organizations and subject matter experts were consulted and provided feedback on the content of the guide and workshop. The guidebook can be found here:
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