Collier - Violence Against Women
"...a 'hybrid welfare regime, combining elements ofliberal and social-democratic welfare regimes' (Lister 2004 quoted in 2006, 1)...it "continued to be informed by neo-liberalism in that it aimed to integrate citizens into the market as opposed to protecting them from it." (p. 169)
What is the social investment state/post-neoliberalism?
The 3 ways in which social movements interact with, access and deploy expert knowledge.
Instrumenting expertise, contesting expertise & embodied knowledge.
The creation of this federal document provided lesbian and gay activist the opportunity to address inequality.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
There is a, “...responsibility of _________ to include wide range of voices but there is a corresponding responsibility on ________ to engage in ways they feel will influence change most effectively” (Higgins, p. 62)
What is the government and citizens?
Early in the history of Canada, these were the two most important aspects of social policy.
What are the church and family?
The idea that "different parties will differ in their approaches to neoliberal governing practices, which will likely to informed by their left- and right-wing ideological predisposition" (p. 169)
What is partisan difference?
Due to our Western value of evidence-based knowledge, this type of knowledge is usually the most valued in Canadian society.
Instrumenting expertise.
Prior to the implementation of the Charter this strategy was utilized by lesbian and gay activist.
What is a civil rights strategy?
Federal, provincial, municipal, and organizational are the _________________, one of two factors that shape policy making (the other being the purpose of policy).
What are the dimensions/scale of policy?
The three ways in which oppression is maintained.
- Primary invisible structures (i.e. classism, patriarchy, sexism, racism, ableism, etc.)
- Secondary concrete structures (i.e. social institutions and systems like family, community, educational)
- Power and privilege? (Swan, 2009)
The casting of anti-violence policies in this way invisibilizes the issues of violent against women and could mean that the women's movement is losing control of the issue.
What is gender neutral terms?
This type of knowledge asks the question: 'expert according to whom?'
What is contesting expertise?
The strategic use of _________ created opportunities for lesbian and gay social movements to address inequality.
What is litigation?
This term is defined as having the following:
What is citizen engagement?
On June 7, 2018, one of the easiest ways to be involved in policy making occurs across Ontario.
What is the Ontario provincial election. Make sure you vote!
“...suggesting that party differences are in fact more nuanced than they appeared earlier in this analysis - that is, the _____ is not always positive in its anti-violence policies and the _____ is not always negative” (pg. 180)
What is left and right?
In this reading, this type of expertise was attached to a standpoint epistemology approach.
Originally called The Equality Writes Ad Hoc Committee, this formal entity helped organize lesbian and gay activist and actively supported challenges against policies that marginalize lesbian and gay people living in Canada.
What is Egale?
A wholistic Indigenous approach to social policy emphasizes the importance of nurturing these four aspects of someone's life.
What are mental (north), spiritual (east), emotional (south), and physical (west)?
"A course of action or inaction chosen by public authorities to address problems that deal with human heath, safety, and well-being." (Westhues, 2012, p. 6)
What is social policy?
This is one of the most important areas in the violence against women movement (or any movement for that matter!) because it speaks to whether the state is willing to act on feminist critiques or feminist structural inequality.
What is how policy is framed?
'While ______ routinely contest power and authority, they also challenge how we understand individual and collective identities, especially identities that are not always easily embraced by movement adherents due to their potentially stigmatizing effects' (40).
What are Health social movements?
In the 80s, this crisis shifted the focus away from obtaining rights for lesbian and gay people living in Canada.
What is the AIDS crisis?
This approach/model combines evidence-based, values-based, and participatory-based approaches to policy analysis. (Westhues & Wharf, 2012)
What is a strengths-based approach?
The practice of needing to "negotiate the system in order to meet client needs". It is a "behaviour that “seeks as its maxim application and tangible support to vulnerable people...It involves negotiating aspects of the system that constrain them, a means of mobilizing power long practised by “lower level participants in complex organizations” (Theriault, Low, and Luke, 2014, p. 72)
What is positive deviant social work?