Community-Based Intersectionality: The Changing Public Services Project
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https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v5i3.61618Abstract
The paper reflects on a changing public service project regarding women and intersectional analysis in Halifax, Canada. The project sought to facilitate collective mobilizations to challenge austerity and to imagine public services that meet the needs of the citizens who use them, and the workers that provide them. We provide an overview of the project, and then explore our attempt at adapting “multistrand” intersectional policy analysis (Hankivsky & Cormier, 2011) to a community-based context. In considering the challenges and opportunities associated with this work, the paper concludes that the changing public service project created space for an innovative approach to community-based research that can guide both participatory policy analysis and collective action.
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http://criawicref.ca/sites/criaw/files/IFFs%20Primer.pdf
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Cohen, Marjorie Griffin and Jane Pulkingham. (Eds.). (2009). Public Policy for Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour Market Issues. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Dhamoon, Rita and Olena Hankivisky. 2011. Why the Theory and Practice of Intersectionality Matter to Health Research and Policy. In Olena Hankivksy (Ed.), Health Inequities in Canada: Intersectional Frameworks and Practices (p. 16-50). Vancouver: UBC Press.
Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning. (2000). The Community Story Framework: A Tool for Participatory Community Analysis. Cochrane, AB: Four Worlds Centre for Development Learning.
Gregory, Tara, Diane Betzen, Dina Elias-Rodas, Maaskelah Thomas, and Tara Augustin. 2008. Guiding Principles for Youth Civic Engagement. The Community Psychologist, 41(3/4), pp. 62-65.
Hankinvsky, Olena and Renée Cormier. 2011. Intersectionality and Public Policy: Some Lessons from Existing Models. Political Research Quarterly, 64(1), pp. 217-229.
Hankivsky, Olena et al. 2012. Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis. In O. Hankivsky (Ed.), An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework (p. 33-46). Vancouver: Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University. Retrieved from http://www.sfu.ca/iirp/documents/IBPA/IBPA_Framework_Complete
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Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC). 2013. An Armchair Discussion on Public Service Renewal. Nova Scotia Regional Group of the Institute of Public Administration of Canada (IPAC) and Nova Scotia Federal Council.
International Centre for Parliamentary Studies (ICPS). (2012). Public Sector Reform. Retrieved from http://www.parlicentre.org/Public_Sector_Reform.php
Ontario. Commission on the Reform of Ontario’s Public Services.
2012. Public Services for Ontarians: A Path to Sustainability and Excellence. Retrieved from http://www.fin.gov.on.ca/en/reformcommission/chapters/report.pdf
Parken, Alison and Hannah Young. 2007. Integrating the Promotion of Equality and Human Rights for All. Unpublished Report for Welsh Assembly Government and Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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Ross, Stephanie. 2008. Social Unionism and Membership Participation: What Role for Union Democracy? Studies in Political Economy, 81(Spring), pp. 129-157.
Smithson, Janet. 2000. Using and Analysing Focus Groups: Limitations and Possibilities. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 3(2), pp. 103-119.
United Nations. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). 2010. Innovations And Best Practices in Public Sector Reforms: The Case of Civil Service in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. December.
Voices-Voix. Silencing the Public Service, n.d. Retrieved from http://voices-
voix.ca/en/facts/attacks-on-the- public-service
Waddell, Steve. (2012). Global Finance as an Action Research Domain: Testing the Boundaries. Action Research, 10(1), pp. 40-60.
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Findlay, T., Cohen, M., & Johnston, M.-D. (2020). Community-Based Intersectionality: The Changing Public Services Project. Engaged Scholar Journal: Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Learning, 5(2), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.15402/esj.v5i3.61618
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