Action Terms
A form of power based on an individual's wealth, social class, and/or financial influence. Economically disadvantaged and oppressed people have subverted economic structures that privilege the rich by banding together in the past by banding together in the past to create their own economic power by withdrawing their labor, purchasing and investing power in support of an issue/cause.
What is Economic Power?
What is Intersectionality?
Knowledge gained through experience.
What is Experiential Knowledge?
Individuals and groups of people can hold this form of power and have the ability to create and uphold policies that directly impact the community.
What is Political Power?
The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by action or argument.
What is Resistance?
Creating power to influence decision making and change by, "allying" or coming together with organizations and individuals who share a goal.
Allied Forces
A statement, or action, or incident regarded as an instance, subtle or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group such as a racial or ethnic minority.
What is Marginalization?
The thoughts, beliefs, and choices that are accepted by the largest number of people.
What is Mainstream Knowledge?
An alliance for combined action; a temporary alliance of grassroots organizations, non-profits, and individuals brought together under a shared goal.
What is a Coalition?
The cumulative emotional and psychological harm of an individual or generation caused by a traumatic experience or event. For example, a genocide of a people would have long lasting impact on generations after.
What is Historical Trauma?
In social science and politics, power is the ability to influence or outright control the behavior of people. The term "authority" is often used for power perceived as legitimate by the structure.
What is Social Power?
People who might have something to lose and/or gain from the research.
Who are Stakeholders?
A person who has a comprehensive and authoritative knowledge of or skill in a particular area.
What is an Expert?
An arrangement in which individuals or organizations have come together to make decisions collectively, having agreed on a non-hierarchical structure.
What is Shared Power?
When people are targeted, discriminated against or oppressed over a period of time and they begin to believe the myths and misinformation that society as a whole keeps communicating them about their group.
What is Internalized Oppression?
A refusal to comply with the law in order to bring attention to an issue or problem, also used to protest unjust laws by breaking said laws.
What is Civil Disobedience?
The intentional and unintentional ways in which a people's history, voice or experience is removed or denied.
What is Erasure?
Generally referring to knowledge systems embedded in the cultural traditions of regional, indigenous, or local communities.
What is Cultural/Traditional Knowledge?
Engaging and retaining support from a large group of people from an impacted community, who then participate in and help direct and implement the work of the group.
What is Base Building?
Monitoring of behavior, activities, or other information for the purpose of influencing, managing or directing people.
What is Surveillance?
Growing a movement by doing work that involves all or some of the following: raising awareness about a problem, forming relationships, creating capacity, mobilizing a large number of people and organizations and sustaining momentum to advance a goal.
What is Movement Building?
Requires the researcher to examine the ways in which our own values, identities, and positions in society affect our research and our relationship with participants.
What is Critical Reflexivity?
Requires making a commitment to the people researcher work with in the community, personally, and professionally, in order to foster conditions for social justice through research. It is key to pay attention to and shift, who holds power within the research process.
What is Anti-oppressive Research?
A strategy used to increase pressure through direct action when community demands have not been met.
What is Escalation?
A persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud. For example, People of color who are first-generation college students may have this fear and begin to believe they don't belong in the academy or somehow mistakenly were accepted, even though they are 100% capable.