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The Community, Identity and Displacement Research Network (CIDRN) is a public intellectual space where research activities are encouraged and promoted. This broad network aims to draw together and foster scholarly investigation of new diasporas and changing meanings of displacement and identity. It is an intellectual space where new questions about indigeneity, racism, refugees, sense of place, social inclusion, social justice, transnationalism and xenophobia can be raised, debated and discussed.

CIDRN Projects

March Seminar

Michelle Fine is a Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Women’s Studies, Social Welfare, American Studies and Urban Education at the Graduate Center, CUNY and founding faculty member of The Public Science Project, a university-community research space designed in collaboration with movements for racial and educational justice. She has been recognized as Professor Extraordinarius at the University of South Africa (UNISA) Psychology department, 2021 – 2024. As a scholar, expert witness in litigation, a teacher and an educational activist, her work centers theoretically and epistemically on questions of justice and dignity, privilege and oppression, and how solidarities emerge.

 

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This book claims a discursive space in academic scholarship for knowledges and ways of knowing that capture the diversity, complexity and full humanness of Australian Muslim women’s subjectivities. It draws on in-depth conversational interviews with 20 Australian Muslim women from various ethnic backgrounds during which the women shared their experiences of being at the crossroads of their religious, gendered, racialised and ethnic identities. The book puts forward a decolonial feminist border methodology by weaving the work of decolonial feminist philosophers Maria Lugones and Gloria Anzaldúa with postmodern feminist thinking on subjectivity and with discourse analysis. This methodology is used to centre and attend to the fluidity and plurality of Muslim women’s subjectivities, at the intersections of race, ethnicity, patriarchy, gender, sexuality and Islam.

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Publications by CIDRN members

PAPER – Blak Women’s Healing: Cocreating Decolonial Praxis Through Research Yarns

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Paola Balla, Karen Jackson, Rowena Price, -  Moondani Balluk, Victoria University Amy F. Quayle, and Christopher C. Sonn - Institute for Health and Sport, Victoria University This article is informed…

BOOK – Poking the WASP Nest Young People, Applied Theatre, and Education about Race

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Authors: André de Quadros, Dave Kelman, Julie White, Christopher C. Sonn, and Alison M. Baker This innovative project wrapped research around a youth theatre project. Young people of colour and…

PAPER – Fostering and sustaining transnational solidarities for transformative social change: Advancing community psychology research and action

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Christopher C. Sonn, Rachael Fox, Samuel Keast, Mohi Rua As we planned this special issue, the world was in the midst of a pandemic, one which brought into sharp focus…

PAPER – Subjectivities and the Space of Possibilities in Youth Programs: Countering Majoritarian Stories as Social Change in the Australian Context

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Samuel Keast & Christopher  Sonn The status quo of many not-for-profit organisations is well-intentioned service provision often coupled with an absence of critical understanding sustained by the restricting nature of neoliberal…