F19 Theory & Practice: Community Action & Social Change

Critical Reflection #7: Steps Toward Transitional Justice

According to the Direct, Structural, and Cultural violence video posted by HarvardX, “structural violence represents the systematic ways in which some groups are hindered from equal access to opportunities to goods and services…

Critical Reflection 4 (Updated): Intersecting Identities

In the Complexity of Identity: “Who Am I?”, Beverely Tatum, states the following:

Dominant groups, by definition, set the parameters within which the dominant group holds the power and authority in society…

Oppression at Canal CR 5

In the “Five Faces of Oppression”, Iris Marion Young explains that oppression is associated with conquest and colonial domination but it…

CR6: Addressing Assets

When assisting a community in addressing obstacles and making positive change, it’s important to understand the variety of approaches as well as their strengths and weaknesses. Often a needs based approach is taken in which an outside individual or organization looks at what an…

CR7: Understanding and Addressing Structural Violence

We are all have a very familiar and even corporeal understanding of physical violence and we’ve; however, structural violence is a less familiar concept that can have equally damaging effects on those who experience it. Paul Farmer…

FINAL CR#4 BEING BOTH

Intersectionality is what I am. An individual who is in both realms of gender and race, and is in the “lower” class. As a woman, I am fighting for my rights in America but as well as a Latina woman demanding to be heard. Being subordinates in both has caused this intersection of oppression…

CR #7 Structural Violence and Transitional Justice

Structural violence is the unfairness and how society has structured what is deemed valued. My full understanding of the definition is that structural violence is the way society has created mistreatment based on gender, ethnicity, and…

Critical Reflection 7: Invisible Wars

Ayanna Berg

Emily WU

CASC 3400

28 November 2019

Critical Reflection 7:

Critical Reflection 6: Strategies For Community Development

Ayanna Berg

Emily Wu

CASC 3400

18 November 2019

Critical Reflection 6