From Individual to Collective Voice and Progressive Action: Barriers and Possible Solutions to Activism Research

• In Event: Fairmont Roundtable Session Two
  In Roundtable Session: Critical and Activist Perspectives on Cultural-Historical Research (Table 11)

Abstract

In this paper, we argue for co-production of strategies to mitigate the needs of the minoritized oppressed communities through community-based consultations. We do so by drawing attention to how oppressive histories, structures and discourses in England have created and reproduced classed, racialized divisions and identities pertaining to schooling, but also generally in society which are manifest in current ways of thinking about social justice research and activity. Narratives emerging from two projects will be used to illustrate the commonalities which exist within multi-faceted and nuanced experiences of working-class alienation in the North of England. Moreso, we demonstrate how contradictions between positions vs being positioned, identifications/identities, collective subjectivities and collective action mediate progressive actions and are key to activism research.

Authors

• Sophina Choudry, University of Manchester
  Presenting Author

• Emilia Howker, University of Manchester
  Presenting Author

• Julian S. Williams, University of Manchester
  Non-Presenting Author

• Erica Burman, University of Manchester
  Non-Presenting Author