SSH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Radical Change, Intersectionality

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 301
• Professor: Sal Guzzo

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*read the first two readings of this week, essential for individual project. The study of human behaviour throughout history was very significant. In terms, of what behaviour is seen as deviant and improper. For example, women who got their period were sent to mental institutions because they simply were bleeding. How might these forms of research be reconceptualized to shift focus away from pain and towards things like structural power, agency, renewal and refusal: researchers believe highlighting pain is effective but . Roadmap: on designing anti-oppressive research, recognizing community forms of knowledge: narrative, storytelling, and voice. From the ivory tower, back to the community. Anti-oppressive research as process and outcome: potts and brown (2005) argue that it is critical to consider not just the end objectives of research, but our process in order to work towards socially just research. For example, if you want to improve the prisoners" conditions in incarcentation.