Case Study: 600 word limit Format: Social Action Project: Action Plan Curriculum Mode: Case Study. I have attached the question folder with all instructions with both part I also have attached my fi

A2b Case Study: Am I an activist?

Question: Am I an activist?

This assessment is asking you to consider two questions.

Must use the book of Inequality and Activism

Author: Muhammad, U

Published: 2016

Book Title: Confronting Injustice : Social Activism in the Age of Individualism.

Chapter2.

Firstly, ‘what is an activist?’. To answer this, using the literature, you are to select a definition/conceptualisation of an activist (50-100 words). Introduce this definition at the beginning of your paper. Think critically here and have fun exploring this concept; tease out some of the nuanced ideas around what it means to be an activist. Have your views around this concept been challenged? Does your chosen definition of an activist reflect this?

https://commonslibrary.org/beautiful-troubles-guide-to-activism-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic/.

Secondly, ‘am I am activist?’ To answer this, you will draw upon the experiences you have had in working toward social change (or lack of experience- it’s fine to argue that you are not an activist), as well as your understanding of the theories and the research we have explored throughout the unit, to critically discuss how these experiences, participation and commitment to social justice and social change, ‘fit’ within the definition above (500-550 words).

Ray Jackson, President of the

Indigenous Social Justice Association

“The asylum seekers being imprisoned in isolated privately managed-for-profit incarceration camps, with the singular exception of Christmas Island, are all on Aboriginal lands. And I, as a Wiradguri man, say to those asylum seekers, you are most welcome to our lands.

I realise, of course, that other Aborigines may have different views to mine and, of course, that is their right. But I will state most strongly in their defence that these refugees did not invade us, they did not steal our lands, they did not suppress our culture and language, they did not commit genocide, they did not steal our children, they did not steal our wages, they did not steal our human rights as a first people to exist and to grow. The parliaments of the invaders have done all that and more.

The human cost

Twelve refugees and asylum seekers have died on Manus Island and Nauru since 2013.

More than 150 other refugees and asylum seekers were transferred to Australia for medical care only after their lawyers threatened urgent court proceedings.

These cases included children as young as 10 who suffered from acute mental health conditions, some of whom attempted suicide.

Your discussion must be supported by the relevant literature with a minimum 6 academic.

Virasami, J, 2020, “Anti-Racism Requires More Than Passive Sympathy”, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/08/non-racist-isnt-enough-action-george-floyd-death?fbclid=IwAR055BeGAc-hkR9u42rQolr_rTUmODehWK8RoAdYY3IHitMw8mQehojZqlk.
Mori, W, 2020, 9th June, “Australia’s Pacific Minister Called Black Lives Matter Protests ’Self-Indulgent’. He Couldn’t Be More Wrong”, The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/09/australias-pacific-minister-called-black-lives-matter-protests-self-indulgent-he-couldnt-be-more-wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/20/the-global-pandemic-has-spawned-new-forms-of-activism-and-theyre-flourishing.
Sarah M 2018, ‘Refugees who have fled war and violence and made Australia home tell us why there is no place to return to’ 1st Oct, SBS Voices, Updated 24th Jun 2020, viewed 1st September 2020.
https://www.sbs.com.au/topics/voices/culture/article/2018/09/21/refugees-tell-us-what-would-happen-if-they-went-back-where-they-came.
• Ziersch, A., Due, C. & Walsh, M. Discrimination: a health hazard for people from refugee
and asylum-seeking backgrounds resettled in Australia. BMC Public Health 20, 108 (2020).