by Liz Scarfe | Feb 23, 2023 | foundational, helping, oppression/anti-oppression, power
This article attempts to provide a concise explanation of the key features of industrial complexes and a potted history of the term. It’s mostly pre-reading for this article on the White Saviour Industrial Complex but there are also some good links here to other...
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 | Dec 15, 2022 | colonialism, foundational
In the medico-biological sciences, colonising is something bacteria do all the time when they spread across parts of a body without causing infection. The very early migrations of Anatomically Modern Humans (aka Homo sapiens) from the African continent to the rest of...
by Liz Scarfe | Dec 7, 2022 | foundational, oppression/anti-oppression, power
Whilst the fundamental concept has been articulated in one way or another in academic and social change discourse for at least 100 years, the term intersectionality was first coined by lawyer, civil rights advocate, and philosopher Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, in her...
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 23, 2022 | culture, foundational
Over the last twenty-something years, there’s been a noticeable flurry of ‘cultural’ work in response to a growing awareness of the impacts of cultural dominance. It’s stimulated a range of new theories, practices, and reflections aimed at reducing...
