Researchers
Sam Keast, Christopher Sonn, David McCallum
Project Overview
This project seeks to bring to light how people and communities are problematised through discourse, policy, institutions and organisations. Through critical and creative methodologies, the project investigates how people are classified, measured, and made ‘problems’ and how assumptions about communities reproduce or maintain marginalisation. Key areas of investigation have been around education and youth programs and the reproduction of neoliberal, colonial forms of subjectivity, and the ways sociopolitical problems are re-constituted as problems of the individual.
The ongoing aim of this work is to generate critical questions for policy-makers, organisations, research and praxis that challenges dominant conceptions and assumptions made about people from marginalised and racialised communities. Through the denaturalisation of categories that problematise people and communities, the project seeks to work collaboratively toward greater self-determination and epistemic justice.