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Creating Community Safety from Racialized Policing Using Contextual Fluidity, an Emerging Practice Model for Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy Embracing Cultural Diversity centeringmargins

This topic will lay the groundwork for creating community safety using contextual fluidity1 amid the increasing criminalization of care, cultures of violence, and on-going genocide. It will generate discussion centering on margins and inspire those who resist being excluded, oppressed, and live under the constant threat of violence. Tatum states that a subordinate group has to focus on survival in a situation of unequal power2. Borrowing from black abolition feminist scholar Andrea Ritchie, movements against police violence should promote “…nurturing values, visions, and practices”3. Freires underlying message of conscientization in Pedagogy of the Oppressed is that it is everyones responsibility to respond to the situation positively and thoughtfully.4

Texts on Contextual Fluidity:


  1. Nelson, C.H, and Dennis H. McPherson. 2004. Contextual Fluidity: an emerging practice model for helping. n.p.: 2004. ↩︎

  2. Tatum, Beverly Daniel. "Chapter 2: The Complexity of Identity."; In Why are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, 18. n.p.: 2002. ↩︎

  3. Ritchie, Police Violence, 239. ↩︎

  4. Freire, Pedagogy, 6. ↩︎