34 min

Navigating Positionality and Power Collaboratory

    • Society & Culture

How can our identities, knowledge, values and biases influence how we work? Our guests Kaira Zoe Cañete, Emma Blomkamp, Shona Coyne and Jilda Andrews seek to answer this question by drawing from their co-creative experiences from various sectors including social policy, academic research, and cultural institutions. Topics they explore include:




The importance of recognising our positionality to assess our roles in co-creative practices and identify any blind spots or biases



How to navigate the ‘middle ground’ and develop an understanding and appreciation for multiple perspectives



Techniques for understanding the impacts of positionality on our practice, such as peer learning and reflection






Transcript



To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here.





Resources



Definitions of Positionality: Positionality - Dictionary.com and Positionality and Intersectionality - The University of British Columbia



Lesley Ann Noel: Critical Alphabet, "Decolonising Design Thinking" article, and "Emancipatory Research and Design Thinking" article



Articles on Power:  Hunjan, Raji and Jethro Pettit. 2011- Power: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Social Change and Institute of Development Studies - Participatory Methods: Power 



"Behind the Wheel" project (Emma Blomkamp): https://emmablomkamp.com/experience/behind-the-wheel



NMA Exhibition (Shona Coyne): https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage/tracing



Kaira Zoe Cañete's Research: https://scccp.net/podcast/co-created-research-a-conversation-with-kaira-zoe-canete/





Guests




Kaira Zoe Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. She specialises in gender, disasters, and development. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the Humanitarian Governance Project at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research interests include expanding/rethinking notions of disaster resilience, sustainability by centering perspectives of marginalised groups (the 'vulnerable') and advancing feminist ethics of care in disaster response and governance. 



You can find Kaira online at Institute For Global Development UNSW Sydney website, LinkedIn, Research Gate 



Alburo‐Cañete, Kaira Zoe. "PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery." Disasters 45, no. 4 (2021): 887-912.  - Behind a pay wall



Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe. "Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines." Third World Quarterly 43, no. 3 (2022): 651-672. - Open Access 



Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe, et. Al. "(Dis) comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies - Open Access 



Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Kaira. "Building back better? Rethinking gender and recovery in the time of COVID-19." Global Social Policy 22, no. 1 (2022): 180-183. - Open Access 





Dr Emma Blomkamp is a facilitator, researcher and strategic designer, best known for her work in co-design for behaviour and systems change. A Pākehā New Zealander living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Emma is passionate about co-creating compassionate systems. She has been leading participatory design and social innovation projects with public purpose organisations since 2014. As an independent Co-Design Coach, Emma now focuses on supporting public, health and community organisations to apply creative and participatory approaches in their work. 



Emma's current affiliations/links are: Co-Design Coach, emmablomkamp.com | Convenor and Founder, CoDesignCo | Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne



You can find Emma online at Emma Blomkamp's website | LinkedIn | Medium | Twitter 





Shona Coyne is an Indigenous cultural practitioner currently based at

How can our identities, knowledge, values and biases influence how we work? Our guests Kaira Zoe Cañete, Emma Blomkamp, Shona Coyne and Jilda Andrews seek to answer this question by drawing from their co-creative experiences from various sectors including social policy, academic research, and cultural institutions. Topics they explore include:




The importance of recognising our positionality to assess our roles in co-creative practices and identify any blind spots or biases



How to navigate the ‘middle ground’ and develop an understanding and appreciation for multiple perspectives



Techniques for understanding the impacts of positionality on our practice, such as peer learning and reflection






Transcript



To ensure accessibility we are committed to providing transcripts of all our podcast episodes - you can read the full transcript here.





Resources



Definitions of Positionality: Positionality - Dictionary.com and Positionality and Intersectionality - The University of British Columbia



Lesley Ann Noel: Critical Alphabet, "Decolonising Design Thinking" article, and "Emancipatory Research and Design Thinking" article



Articles on Power:  Hunjan, Raji and Jethro Pettit. 2011- Power: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Social Change and Institute of Development Studies - Participatory Methods: Power 



"Behind the Wheel" project (Emma Blomkamp): https://emmablomkamp.com/experience/behind-the-wheel



NMA Exhibition (Shona Coyne): https://www.nma.gov.au/exhibitions/endeavour-voyage/tracing



Kaira Zoe Cañete's Research: https://scccp.net/podcast/co-created-research-a-conversation-with-kaira-zoe-canete/





Guests




Kaira Zoe Cañete is a Filipino feminist scholar with training in Anthropology and Critical Development Studies. She specialises in gender, disasters, and development. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow for the Humanitarian Governance Project at the International Institute of Social Studies, Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands. Her research interests include expanding/rethinking notions of disaster resilience, sustainability by centering perspectives of marginalised groups (the 'vulnerable') and advancing feminist ethics of care in disaster response and governance. 



You can find Kaira online at Institute For Global Development UNSW Sydney website, LinkedIn, Research Gate 



Alburo‐Cañete, Kaira Zoe. "PhotoKwento: co‐constructing women's narratives of disaster recovery." Disasters 45, no. 4 (2021): 887-912.  - Behind a pay wall



Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe. "Benevolent discipline: governing affect in post-Yolanda disaster reconstruction in the Philippines." Third World Quarterly 43, no. 3 (2022): 651-672. - Open Access 



Alburo-Cañete, Kaira Zoe, et. Al. "(Dis) comfort, judgement and solidarity: affective politics of academic publishing in development studies - Open Access 



Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Kaira. "Building back better? Rethinking gender and recovery in the time of COVID-19." Global Social Policy 22, no. 1 (2022): 180-183. - Open Access 





Dr Emma Blomkamp is a facilitator, researcher and strategic designer, best known for her work in co-design for behaviour and systems change. A Pākehā New Zealander living on Wurundjeri land in Melbourne, Emma is passionate about co-creating compassionate systems. She has been leading participatory design and social innovation projects with public purpose organisations since 2014. As an independent Co-Design Coach, Emma now focuses on supporting public, health and community organisations to apply creative and participatory approaches in their work. 



Emma's current affiliations/links are: Co-Design Coach, emmablomkamp.com | Convenor and Founder, CoDesignCo | Honorary Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne



You can find Emma online at Emma Blomkamp's website | LinkedIn | Medium | Twitter 





Shona Coyne is an Indigenous cultural practitioner currently based at

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