In this episode, Angela interviews Shane Warren, a lecturer at QUT about the activist pedagogy he uses when working with marginalised peoples across a variety of practice areas.  Shane expresses his passion for critical and anti-oppressive practices and exposes the structural inequalities and dehumanising stereotypes prevalent within the homelessness space. Angela and Shane touch on the lack of funding for public housing and what we can do to create social change. Shane shares powerful stories from people’s own lived experience.

Transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Gxgcuaf1g3d0mJIDKcJTHP9zlqyRgTuCTNW88fXChgA/edit?usp=sharing

Key References:

The 2008 White paper on Homelessness "The road home: A national approach to reducing homelessness" : https://apo.org.au/node/2882

Conditionality in the context of housing-led homelessness policy: Comparing Australia’s Housing First agenda to Scotland’s “rights-based” approach By Andrew Clarke, Beth Watts & Cameron Parsell: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajs4.97

Report released for National Homelessness Week reveals more people are sleeping rough by Belinda Tasker & Donna Coutts: https://www.kidsnews.com.au/humanities/report-released-for-national-homelessness-week-reveals-more-people-are-sleeping-rough/news-story/f3259c4c84504112ea054824c8be7f4b

Step 2 to ending chronic homelessness published by San Rafael: https://www.cityofsanrafael.org/step-2-ending-chronic-homelessness/

Keywords:

Exposes Dehumanising Stereotypes, Anti-Oppressive Practices, Structural Inequalities, Lived Experiences, Social Change, Activist Pedagogy, Critical and Anti-oppressive Practices.

Music by Boe Toweh