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Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network

Locality: Footscray, Victoria, Australia

Address: Victoria University, Ballarat Rd 3011 Footscray, VIC, Australia

Website: http://communityidentity.com.au

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22.01.2022 Love Letters to the Palestinian Community If you would like send us a Direct Message with a short Love Letter or a small Loving Image by Wednesday evening May 2...6th at 12PM. On Thursday, May 27th, members will be gathering all these "Love Letters" and "Loving Images" that we receive and we will try to disseminate them as widely as possible. You can sign your name and your location, if you want, or you can sign "anonymous", that is up to you. Just know that we may even submit a small section of anything we receive to an article that we aim to publish for a paper like NYT or Al-Jazeera. Why do we want to do this? Because we trust the power of radical love as rehumanizing energies of resistance. Even when such levels of massacres are killing our people, there still remains a power inside of us when everything around us is destroyed. Our people deserve and desperately need justice, freedom, and safety. NOW!! But sometimes, we cannot control all the powers that abound to kill, massacre, silence, and erase us - powers that seem to endlessly work to block our access to justice, freedom, and safety. Palestinians are effectively walled outside of the limits of humanity. We are writing Love Letters to send across these limits as a very humble action - a little way to work for healing - a small remedy of the soul. This is an offering of medicine of radical love and resistance. A short message from you drawn from your soul will reach another soul in Gaza. Please write a love letter to women, to children, to men or to all of our people struggling in Palestine, and we will work to have them published on local and international sites, newsletters, and all types of social media platforms. We trust that in a small way, these letters hold power, not only to condemn the racism of white supremacist settler colonial Israel that has continuously failed to break the spirit of Palestinians, but to sustain our fighting spirit of radical love for life and justice

20.01.2022 From the Wheeler Centre It's been 20 years since Aileen Moreton-Robinson wrote Talkin’ Up to the White Woman (University of Queensland Press), the seminal work of Australian First Nations scholarship that exposed the blinding whiteness, and the serious limitations, of Australian feminist thought. To launch our Broadly Speaking series, on Wednesday 2 September we’re presenting the formidable Moreton-Robinson in conversation with critical race and whiteness scholar Fiona ...Nicoll. The pair will discuss the twentieth anniversary of Talkin’ Up to the White Woman. What's changed in Australian and global feminist conversations since Moreton-Robinson first wrote the book? Is popular feminism’s emphasis on intersectionality a sign of progress? And where do traditions of Indigenous women’s sovereignty sit in relation to mass movements like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter? Presented in collaboration with State Library of Queensland and RMIT Social and Global Studies Centre. Our online bookseller for this event will be Neighbourhood Books.

20.01.2022 Psychologists for Social Responsibility in Solidarity with Palestine See the statement on our website at psysr.net #psysr #FreePalestine #BDS #Palestine #Psychology #Psychologists #antiracism

19.01.2022 In this lecture Dr. Tony Birch will discuss the current climate crisis in relationship to historical events that impacted severely on Indigenous nations within Australia and globally. The lecture will also examine a need to give recognition and authority to Indigenous Ecological Knowledge that has sustained nations and protected Country for many thousands of years. Finally, the lecture will discuss contemporary battles by Aboriginal people in Australia to protect Country from the vandalism of mining, which also has implications for global ecological damage.

15.01.2022 Hello All, ICCP2020 will be taking place as a virtual event 11-13 November 2020. https://communitypsychologyaustralia.com.au/ Before then we have this exciting webinar with @Patricia Lynette Dudgeon, @ Linda Waimarie Nikora, and @ Nuria Ciofalo who will engage with knowledge and psychologies, critical theories, and ways of working that have been produced in various countries and contexts often referred to as the global south. The panel will respond to the ‘decolonial turn’ an...d Indigenous knowledge around the world, to discuss how these can advance community research and action towards goals of liberation, community and wellness. Karen Jackson will chair and @Mohi Rua will moderate. You can register here: https://vuevents.eventsair.com/iccp/registration//Register

13.01.2022 Listen to this....

10.01.2022 But the anti-Freirean ravings of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s far-right president, may actually be good publicity for this decades-old volume: in Brazil, book sales of Pedagogy of the Oppressed increased by 60 percent from 2018 to 2019. As Freire’s widow recently remarked, Bolsonaro is encouraging the sale of Paulo’s books!

10.01.2022 https://native-land.ca

09.01.2022 Blog post about Footscray Project with Nicole Oke and Chris McConville https://www.identitiesjournal.com//making-a-place-in-foots a follow-up paper is in this volume https://brill.com/view/title/39100

05.01.2022 Australia’s Social Justice Commissioner June Oscar’s Keynote Adress from the 2021 AIATSIS Conference in Adelaide this week - https://humanrights.gov.au//truth-change-reckoning-our-pas

04.01.2022 While we are busy finalising the full program for the online and live ICCP2020, we are delighted to announce the first of three exciting panels exclusive to con...ference attendees. The panels will be live and recorded and will include Spanish translation. For more conference and ticket information go to https://communitypsychologyaustralia.com.au/ See more

03.01.2022 This looks exciting. The plan is a face to face event.

02.01.2022 Becoming Black: a conversation with Olúfémi Táíwò and Achille Mbembe 'Mbembe and Táíwò discuss coercive state power from the Code Noir to algorithmic racism... and the universal struggle for racial and ecological justice.' 'The Movement for Black Lives not only exposed the brutality of US policing, it has stimulated conversations on systemic racism and coercive state power everywhere. For the tenth edition of its flagship State of Power report, the Transnational Institute has brought together two brilliant thinkers on racial capitalism today. Achille Mbembe is a groundbreaking philosopher, whose many books since the mid 1980s have exposed how coloniality has shaped democracy, identity and modernity. Olúfmi Táíwò is an emerging thinker, writer and activist whose theoretical work draws liberally from the Black radical tradition and anti-colonial thought. He has written extensively on climate justice. In this fascinating and wide-ranging conversation, they help us to understand modern day coercive state power, tracing its roots in colonialism and examining the way it has shaped our contemporary security institutions.' https://www.tni.org/en/publication/state-of-power-2021

01.01.2022 Call for papers Call for Papers for Psychology in Society (PINS) Special Issue Psychology, climate change and the environment: foregrounding justice to be ema...iled to [email protected]. How can we foreground justice in our work on climate and environmental psychologies? There is increasing interest in the role of psychology in climate change, environmental degradation, and sustainability Guest editors: Brendon Barnes, Garret Barnwell and Lynn Hendricks Submission deadline: 31 August 2021