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Building Cohesion, Community and Citizenship
Building Cohesion, Community and Citizenship
Thanks to the Runnymede Trust for inspiring the name for this page. One of my interests
is in how education can assist in changing attitudes and result in better
services and cohesive and inclusive communities.
This page has the following sections
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These pages have relevant links:
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New Zealand Resources
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Pacific Conflict Transformation Network |
| Just Focus is a project for young people, by young people, to engage with issues that affect us in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Pacific, and globally |
- Dev-Zone Dev-Zone is an independent Aotearoa New Zealand based resource centre on international development and global issues.
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- The Global Education Centre a not for profit organisation providing services to the formal and informal education sector around Global Education.
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Cultural
Studies and Diversity Resources
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| Pop
Cultures.Com |
| Poynteronline
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| Communal/Plural
journal |
| New
Zealand Diversity Action Programme |
| Decolonizing
the University: Women of Color in Arizona Higher Education |
| The
Ethnicity Training Network run by the Centre for Research in Primary
Care at the University of Leeds. |
| Educators for Social Responsibility |
| The Runnymede Trust act as a bridge-builder between various minority ethnic communities and policy makers. They maintain a broad general interest in all matters to do with 'race' and racial discrimination, but to be effective we have developed a strategic approach to our work. |
| Race On The Agenda (ROTA) social policy think tank devoted to issues that affect Black and ethnic minority (BME) communities in London. |
The Real Histories Guide: online resource for teachers, parents, pupils and the wider community to encourage teaching and learning about cultural diversity |
| Insted (Inservice Training and Educational Development ) info on cultural diversity and race equality, stories and story-telling, multifaith education, Islamophobia, Jewish education and Israel Studies. They have some very comprehensive links. |
| Anew NZ an independent, non-partisan network of motivated and concerned
New Zealanders seeking a sustainable future. |
The European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC)
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| The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance |
| The European Multicultural Foundation and Minorities of Europe |
| AntiRacismNet provides both an online resource for the activist community and a portal offering information about anti-racism activities to the general public. |
| Sociology of Race and Ethnicity from the University of Surrey has some terrific and comprehensive links located in the
Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG). which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law. |
| Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations (CRER) |
| Institute of Race Relations |
| Black and Minority Ethnic People from the University of Bradford Library, SWAP HE Academy subject centre, University of Southampton has some terrific and comprehensive links located in the Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG). which aims to provide a trusted source of selected, high quality Internet information for researchers and practitioners in the social sciences, business and law.
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Belongings tells the stories of migrants, or the children of migrants who would have arrived in the decades immediately after the Second World War when the Australian Government actively pursued a policy of 'populate or perish'. Read stories of these people through personal mementos, photographs and memories.
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| The Center for Immigration Studies seeks to be a resource for information pertaining to immigration, especially U.S. immigration. |
| Intercultural glossary Canada |
| Institute of Race Relations (IRR) |
| EIN is a specialist provider of information on UK immigration and refugee law via the Internet. |
Conflict
transformation
International development and global issues
I am interested in the links between migration and development. Some argue that underdevelopment is a cause of migration, which causes developing countries to lose their highly skilled nationals.On the other hand properly managed international migration can assist in the development of countries.
Role of media
The media have a powerful role in promoting social cohesion or division and exclusion. Rigoni suggests that mainstream media tend to be assimilative rather than inclusive and produce exclusion from the public sphere. Media also produce social representations of groups that can lead to an essentialist attribution of negative identity. There has been concern about the tone of debate in UK media (especially surrounding asylum seekers, immigrants, refugees, Roma/Gypsies, Travellers and Muslims, after 11 September 2001 which has in turn led to more restrictive policies and political manoevering.
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Signature is co-edited by Eve Vincent and Marni Cordell, former editors of Spinach7 Magazine. Having suspended publication of the magazine, we want to keep making high quality independent media that is critical and thought provoking. We are interested in ideas, stories and voices that are overlooked by the dominant media, and in contributing to a more diverse and diffuse public culture. |
| SAJA Stylebook for covering South Asia & the South Asian Diaspora |
The media and ethnic and religious minorities
There are some amazing resources out there and two of my favourites are Defining “White Privilege” from Kendall Clark's website (see below) and the essay White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Napsack By Peggy McIntosh. Kendall's website has a very comprehensive list of resources and bibliography.
white privilege, a social relation
1. a. A right, advantage, or immunity granted to or enjoyed by white persons beyond the common advantage of all others; an exemption in many particular cases from certain burdens or liabilities.
b. A special advantage or benefit of white persons; with reference to divine dispensations, natural advantages, gifts of fortune, genetic endowments, social relations, etc.
2. A privileged position; the possession of an advantage white persons enjoy over non–white persons.
3. a. The special right or immunity attaching to white persons as a social relation; prerogative.
b. display of white privilege, a social expression of a white person or persons demanding to be treated as a member or members of the socially privileged class.
4. a. To invest white persons with a privilege or privileges; to grant to white persons a particular right or immunity; to benefit or favor specially white persons; to invest white persons with special honorable distinctions.
b. To avail oneself of a privilege owing to one as a white person.
5. To authorize or license of white person or persons what is forbidden or wrong for non–whites; to justify, excuse.
6. To give to white persons special freedom or immunity from some liability or burden to which non–white persons are subject; to exempt.
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Links |
| They're
all the same, aren't they?" Deconstructing media stereotypes of
'Asians' from
Education Australia Online |
| Examining
white skin privilege |
| White
privilege |
| WHITE
PRIVILEGE SHAPES THE U.S.A.
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| More
Thoughts On Why The System Of White Privilege Is Wrong© |
| White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Napsack |
| What
is an ethnic group? (from E-race) |
| "I
want respect and equality" A Summary of Consultations with Civil
Society on Racism in Australia |
| European
Commission against Racism and Intolerance |
| Race,
Gender, and Affirmative Action
(Elizabeth S. Anderson) |
| The
Affirmative Action and Diversity Project: A Web Page for Research
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| Independent
race and refugee news network |
| Media
Portrayals of Ethnic and Visible Minorities: Introduction |
| Continuum:
The Australian Journal of Media & Culture vol. 8 no 2 (1994) Critical
Multiculturalism |
| Australia:
Culture, Identity, Stereotypes and Perceptions Trinity College Western
Australia |
| Racism:
No way! |
| Digital
Representation: Racism on the World Wide Web by Indhu Rajagopal
with Nis Bojin |
| Floya
Anthias (1999) 'Institutional Racism, Power and Accountability' |
| Racism
and psychology |
| Ten
Things You Can Do To Fight Prejudice and Racism |
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Antisemitism
and Xenophobia Today
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| Debunking
the Myths about Asylum Seekers (Edmund Rice Centre) |
| Face
the Facts - Teaching Resources for Use in Australian Classrooms |
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We
are all Boat people
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| Race
Relations in 2004,
a comprehensive report on race relations in Aotearoa/New Zealand
over the past year. |
| Passages
to Canada the Citizenship and Immigration feature of The Memory
Project, has a neat site for exploring first-hand stories of immigration
in Canada.. |
| Whiteness in America: a state of racelessness and culturelessness? |
| White people need to acknowledge benefits of unearned privilege by Robert Jensen |
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AWARE (Alliance of White Anti Racists Everywhere) |
| Toward a Radical White Identity, an article by Susan B. Goldberg and Cameron Levin - read it online, or download the PDF |
WACAN.org - The White Anti-racist Community Action Network (WACAN) offers a protected online space where white anti-racists and people of color who support and encourage white anti-racists can assemble, network, share in community, and act to transform our larger society to one that is racially just.
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| White Privilege Conference - APRIL 26th - 29th, 2006, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI - ST. LOUIS. This conference addresses the society in which we live and is about the advantages that accrue to some but not others and about working to dismantle this system of privilege and oppression. |
Human
Rights, Civil rights and Social Justice
For
links on Domestic violence click
here and you can access more refugee resources by clicking here.
| Journals |
| Peace, Conflict & Development:
An Interdisciplinary Journal is an open-access journal focusing on contemporary issues in conflict and peace studies. We aim to publish innovative and accessible writing on a wide range of topics human rights, democracy and democratisation, conflict resolution, environment, security, war, culture, identity and community, and other related areas of interest. The journal is published twice annually, in January and July. |
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