Please note: this offer is only open to organisations, and specifically those working with marginalised groups in the UK*. A little context Last year, mySociety carried out research into the use of FOI to support social change for marginalised communities in the UK. That research informed a...
Research by Radio 4’s Women’s Hour in 2018 found that 42 per cent of women wouldn’t get involved in public life because ‘they’re not that type of person’; a view particularly expressed by marginalised groups. So, what did these women mean by that phrase? The answer appears to ...
The simple reality is that nobody knows everything, and everything they know does not fit every writer. The writing and publishing world is also an ever-evolving beast. There is a wide range of advice out there from poor to superb, and dated to current, that you have to pick through ...
By the way, we’re moving here into the territory of becoming an ally. When you’re not part of a marginalised group, what you can do is to use your privilege to support others and to make change. Strong recommend from me on this is Nova Reid’s ‘The Good Ally’. As a book, i...
CollectivismI notice that being part of one outgroup doesn’t mean that you support people from other outgroups. It sometimes seems like each outgroup is on its own island. We also see this in allyship initiatives at businesses, which are oftentimes focused on a specific marginalised. ...
and it is fluid like time. In different periods of history marginalised groups have been blamed for all the ills and failings in society. The Jews were scapegoated for everything from the killing of Jesus, the Black Death and poverty, Muslims are blamed for terrorism and extremism, refugees ...
Understanding differences in worldviews is particularly important for colonised parts of the world such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand where indigenous or First Nation peoples are sometimes marginalised from policy making. There is also the added factor of what influences such groups have on the...
and the construction of exclusive apartheid-style settlements for non- Ahwazi, non-Arab settlers; these settlers are offered multiple economic and social incentives to move there and given guarantees of a promising future, while the Ahwazi Arab indigenous peoples are further marginalised, alienated and...
The renowned Brazilian social scientist Paulo Freire called for a recognition of marginalised people as �subjects, and not objects� with agency to shape their own narratives. However, this reckoning lags behind in commentary on Ukraine and other post-communist countries. ...
But it does mean that these scars needn’t be one’s defining feature, in one’s own view or that of outside observers. The problem is, of course, that it’s one thing to move forward in terms of arts and culture, but socio-economically speaking it’s quite another. Rate this: ...