An Epistemological Conception of Safe Spaces

Anderson, Derek Egan

doi:10.1080/02691728.2020.1855485

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“…This led us to avoid the term “safe space” when naming our platform. Although safe spaces have garnered significant attention in the academic and activist domains ( 26 ), our results highlight how divergent understandings of this concept may drive some people away from engaging in dialogue.…”

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confidence: 81%

Embracing context: Lessons from designing a dialogue-based intervention to address vaccine hesitancy

Nguyen

Boey

Riet

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Dialogue with people who are vaccine hesitant has been recommended as a method to increase vaccination uptake. The process of cultivating dialogue is shaped by the context in which it occurs, yet the development of interventions addressing vaccine hesitancy with dialogue often overlooks the role of context and favors relatively fixed solutions. This reflexive paper shares three key lessons related to context for dialogue-based interventions. These lessons emerged during a participatory research project to develop a pilot intervention to create open dialogue among healthcare workers in Belgium about COVID-19 vaccination concerns. Through a mixed methods study consisting of in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys, we engaged healthcare workers in the design, testing, and evaluation of a digital platform featuring text-based and video-based (face-to-face) interactions. The lessons are: (1) what dialogue means, entails, and requires can vary for a population and context, (2) inherent tension exists between helping participants voice (and overcome) their concerns and exposing them to others' ideas that may exacerbate those concerns, and (3) interactional exchanges (e.g., with peers or experts) that matter to participants may shape the dialogue in terms of its content and form. We suggest that having a discovery-orientation—meaning to work not only inductively and iteratively but also reflexively—is a necessary part of the development of dialogue-based interventions. Our case also sheds light on the influences between: dialogue topic/content, socio-political landscape, population, intervention aim, dialogue form, ethics, researcher position, and types of interactional exchanges.

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Section: Lessonsmentioning

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Embracing context: Lessons from designing a dialogue-based intervention to address vaccine hesitancy

Nguyen

Boey

Riet

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Brave spaces shifts the focus away from the construct of safety to one of empowerment, encouraging the re-situation of individuals to be active knowledge creators or co-creators (Anderson 2021). During the planning and the roll-out of the activity programs, developing a place where children could be agents of change, have autonomy over decision-making processes while building relationships with children and adults was a central priority to Indigenous adults.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Safe spaces, as a construct, are often contextualized as locations that offer a level of protection to people and groups of people who are often at risk of being marginalized through micro-aggressions experienced within mainstream society that protect people from emotional, psychological, and physical harm. These spaces often include trigger warnings for potentially (re)traumatizing content (Anderson 2021, Freeman 2014. A safe space does not always provide the opportunity to look towards truth or to promote agency, thus there is a need to shift our understanding to that of brave spaces (Palfrey 2017).…”

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Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow

Cooper

2022

Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab.

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When considering the impacts of historical trauma and colonization upon the lived realities of Indigenous young people within Canada, it is essential that research uses strengths-based, capacity building approaches to ensure that the voices are heard and that their perspectives and advice can be actioned. A series of participatory workshops with adults and children were conducted within urban geographies to explore health seeking behaviours, health knowledge, and community resiliency. Research took place in Manitoba, Canada (2015-2016, n=36 girls and 24 adults) with First Nations and Métis community members and British Columbia, Canada (2017, n=11 children and 15 adults) with Métis community members. Children participated in community transect walks, photo elicitation activities, discussion circles (with adult participant contribution), and projected community mapping exercises where they drew their ideal, imagined community. Community consensus processes were used for member checking as well as initial evaluation of research findings including the establishment of key themes. Field notes, discussion transcripts, and images were analyzed for similarities and differences between ages, genders, cultural identifiers, and geographies. A key finding was the need for safe spaces that can also be brave spaces, or moments when community can be free to push for change without reprimand. Children were particularly concerned with sustainable, appropriate housing, safe methods of transportation, access to green spaces, and environmental stewardship within their day-to-day lives. Novelty Bullets: Brave spaces are essential for achieving/maintaining wellness within Indigenous communities. Responds to a need to shift to a determinants of life focus.

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“…Anderson (2021) provides a far more detailed case for a similar point. DiPaolo (2019) provides a useful discussion of the epistemic justification of using such effects, as "norms of compensation".…”

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Was it Polarization or Propaganda?

Nguyen¹

2021

Journal of Philosophical Research

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Here are two different explanations for the apocalyptic state of American politics. According to one story, we have been subject to systemic polarization. Social mobility and media filtering have divided us into like-minded enclaves, which irrationally boosts our self-confidence. This turns out to be a deeply symmetrical story. According to the other story, we have been subject to propaganda. Certain media sources have been systematically spreading misinformation. This story is usually told asymmetrically. I argue that current evidence better supports the asymmetrical propaganda story. I then diagnose the popularity of the polarization story. Though many are eager to accept debunking accounts of the political extremes, they often fail to adequately consider analogous debunking accounts of the political center. But the mechanisms of polarization should also effect the center. And the tendency to leap to accept a systemic polarization story, without sufficient empirical evidence, itself bears the mark of motivated reasoning.

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An Epistemological Conception of Safe Spaces

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Embracing context: Lessons from designing a dialogue-based intervention to address vaccine hesitancy

Embracing context: Lessons from designing a dialogue-based intervention to address vaccine hesitancy

Brave spaces: Indigenous children in Canada plan for a different tomorrow

Was it Polarization or Propaganda?

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