by Liz Scarfe | Jan 26, 2023 | belonging, culture, foundational, oppression/anti-oppression, power
Culture is more or less the way we do things around here (see my article What’s Culture? for a bit more detail) and of course, the way we do things doesn’t develop out of a random nowhere, and it requires constant reinforcement (and evolution). Hello reward and...
by Liz Scarfe | Nov 30, 2022 | belonging, foundational, psychology
Heads up: in most of my articles I try not to go into a lot of detailed examples of the concepts to make the article less distressing for people from marginalised groups. In this article, I felt it was important to give more detailed examples, so please note it could...
by Liz Scarfe | Nov 10, 2022 | belonging, culture, foundational
The concept of belonging is central to understanding and analysing cultural wellbeing. If culture is how we do things around here (read the article What’s Culture for a fuller explanation), belongingness is at the heart of the we, and therefore not we, of culture, and...