It's Like Felting: Reflections on Feminist Social and Community Practices

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Author(s): Elizabeth Orr (Consultant and Social Work Teacher, Australia)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 22
Source title: Practical and Political Approaches to Recontextualizing Social Work
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jacques Boulet (Borderlands Cooperative, Australia)and Linette Hawkins (Action Research Issues Association, Melbourne, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6784-5.ch005

Keywords: Government & Law / Medical Information Science Reference / Policy & Reform / Public Health and Welfare

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This is a personal story describing the role and importance of local action whilst reflecting on collective and collaborative feminist community practices. The craft of felting is used as a metaphor for merging feminist social and community work theory and practices that encourage engagement with continuing cycles of activism aimed towards gender equality and Indigenous sovereignty. Following a rough chronology of engagement with movements for social change and respect for human and environmental rights, this chapter points to the value of post modernists' treatise of doubt, tension, and uncertainty. It also contains a plea for a continuation of the modernist social work activism to decrease suffering and inequality. Narrating and evaluating the ideas and actions of real-time practice, the author will demonstrate how knowledge of place, process, and strength in work towards interpersonal peace and planetary survival was achieved.

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