Browsing by Author "Kennedy, R."

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    Deciphering the saliency of race within society and the research process: constructing the Bespoke Critical Bricolage (BCB)
    (The University of Northampton, 2016-09-07) Kennedy, R.
    The saliency of race within society is a topic that has been debated across the academy and wider society for many years. However, the narrative of dominance and superiority within the construction of whiteness as a cultural marker has largely been negated through the conversation of progress and post racialism. This article outlines some of the key challenges for researchers in positioning the issue of race within society. It does not separate the academy from the construction of knowledge from a value base that is steeped in colonialist thought and argues that race remains a significant factor in the construction of privilege. The article will illustrate the use of a Bespoke Critical Bricolage (BCB) as an alternative decolonized research methodology to gain a fuller understanding of the impact of race and position the counter narrative at the heart of the process
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    Intersectionality and Resistance in Youth Work: Young People, Peace and Global Development in a Racialized World
    (Sage, 2018-08) Sallah, Momodou; Ogunnusi, M.; Kennedy, R.
    This chapter is framed by the concepts of Critical Race Theory, Critical Peace Education, and Global Youth Work. It departs from a premise that Youth Work can be an effective tool to provoke consciousness (Sallah, 2014) and redress power imbalances as an instrument of resistance (Scott, 1990) in a grotesquely unequal and increasingly globalized world. In this context, we argue that globalized hegemony exists in personal, local, national and global acts of, and reactions to, violence, and that this necessitates a shift from a singular binary of oppression to an intersectorial approach recognizing multiple interconnections such as age, race, structural violence, ‘development’ and global situatedness. In making this argument, we focus on the way that hierarchies of oppression, enacted within society, are linked to micro aggressions and the framing of majoritarian stories within the conscious- ness of the oppressor and the oppressed that negate human potential as direct and structural violence (Galtung, 1969). Crucially, we argue that resistance to oppression should also shift from a mere critical understanding of this intersectionality, to generating pedagogies of disruption, and in turn pedagogies of hope. Starting from the experience of Youth Work in England, this chapter will decon- struct the lure of ‘whiteness’ as a cultural marker (Fanon, 1986; Giroux, 1997), and explore the causal and emergent properties (Archer, 1995; Carter, 2000) of racial hierarchy to understand the generative mechanisms that influence the structure and agency of the individual. It is cardinal to understand at this juncture that ethnicity/whiteness is only one of many variables that intersect to generate discrimination and oppression at the personal, local, national and global levels. Due to imposed word limits, we will explore only ethnicity/whiteness in detail, out of all the other variables, to illustrate our core points. This will permit us the opportunity to position Critical Peace Education and Global Youth Work as experiential, informal and critical spaces to disrupt the configuration of ways of knowing, in order to generate new ways of being. Key questions that frame the chapter include, ‘how do we initiate a critical dialogue between the hidden transcript of subordinate groups into the public transcript (Scott, 1990) of Youth Work?’ and ‘how do we make them one, anti-oppressive and mutually liberatory script?’
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    Neoliberalism and Youth Policy
    (Youth Policy, 2014-02) Kennedy, R.
    The paper will advance an analysis that highlights the globalised new world order which reflects the dominant values of a few powerful groups of people within western society. It will present an examination of the effects of colonialism across the developing world to the rise of neoliberalism across the western democracies. The understanding of how our reality has developed into a social construction or schema which acts as a filter to remove information inconsistent from the prevailing theme (Aronson, Wilson, Akert 1997, Sheehy 2004).
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    Race, Ethnicity and Young People
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015-10) Kennedy, R.; Sallah, Momodou
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    “‘Race’, Ethnicity and Young People”
    (Palgrave, 2015) Sallah, Momodou; Kennedy, R.
    Constructions of ‘race’ and ethnicity continue to affect how some people are socialized by the structures of society. This chapter explores theoretical and policy contributions to constructions of ‘race’ and ethnicity, and how it affects the lives of Black (Sallah and Howson 2007) young people. It starts with an exploration of the changing demographics of Europe generally and the UK in particular. It then looks at constructions of ‘race’ and the cumulative effect of these on racial and ethnic considerations in relation to working with Black young people. After an examination of Critical Race Theory and the articulation of the political definition of Black, the significance of cultural competence, based on mainstream practitioners gaining the required skills, values, attitudes, knowledge and resources, will be explored. The chapter concludes that culturally-competent praxis from mainstream services is needed to effectively counter defective constructions of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’, and their enactments, especially in relation to Black young people.
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    #ThinkTB Leicester
    (2016-10-26) Bazaz, P.; Higgett, N.; Kennedy, R.; Brookes, M.; Brophy, A.; Ebbern, C.
    An initial pilot animation funded by DMU Local has been created to inform viewers of the signs and symptoms on TB and where to go to seek advice and treatment. The animation has purposefully been created to be visually informative as it targets the specific needs of the multicultural community of Leicester. The storyboard, style and content have been created in collaboration with a local TB Specialist Nurse, Roz Kennedy from Glenfield Hospital Leicester. Although the animation serves specific local needs, such as where and how to seek advice it has been devised so it is easily adaptable for use in a wider national context.