CYCJ Webinar – Co-Creating learning and change with Black and Mixed heritage boys and girls in contested places and spaces through a post-colonial lens.

Summary:

Co-Creating learning and change with Black and Mixed heritage boys and girls in contested places and spaces through a post-colonial lens.

Dr Wainwright presented this paper to discuss a co participatory study undertaken with colleagues* in a youth Peer Action Collective (PAC) with Black and Mixed heritage boys and girls who explored their experiences and understanding of violence in their local communities in England and Wales. This co-creative study included 130 children as co-participants across ten regions in England and Wales to discuss their understanding of the experiences of violence in its multi-dimensional and ever-changing forms in local communities. In particular, the paper discusses how Black and Mixed heritage boys and girls experience and navigate their lives through these contested places and spaces that are their local communities, their homes. The paper explored how Black and Mixed heritage boys and girls made sense of their everyday lives in these contested places and spaces and discuss the strategies that they developed to ensure they were as safe as possible, while avoiding, the push and pull of individual /groups of children and adults involved in gangs, drugs and violence. The paper discusses the trauma that Black and Mixed heritage boys and girls and their families experience through generations of racism and uses a post -colonial and critical race theory lens to contextualise their experience. Finally, the paper provides suggestions regarding how authentic co-creation can provide possibilities for Black and Mixed heritage boys to have power and control over shaping their lives, avoiding violence and aspire to a positive future.

Co Authors on this Youth Endowment – Peer Action Collective ( PAC) study are : , Darren Sharpe, Nora Morocza, Ali Roy, Nicola Farrelly, Sarah Tatham, Rebecca Nowland, Charlotte Ennis, Cora Rooney and Cath Larkins

 

Bio:

Dr John Wainwright: John is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Health, Social Work and Sport at the University of Central Lancashire. John has several years’ experience working with children, young people and their families in the care and youth justice system. His research expertise is in (anti)-racism, ethnicity, youth justice, children and young people in the care system, adoption and fostering. He is the Co – Director of the Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE) at the University of Lancashire

 

 

Relevant links:

‘A lack of cultural understanding and sometimes interest’: Towards half a century of anti-racist policy, practice and strategy within probation – CLOK – Central Lancashire Online Knowledge

Black Boys’ and Young Men’s Experiences with Criminal Justice and Desistance in England and Wales: A Literature Review – CLOK – Central Lancashire Online Knowledge

Race, Ethnicity, Young People and Offending: the Elephant in the Room – CLOK – Central Lancashire Online Knowledge

Black and mixed-heritage boys: desistance through a co-creative Critical Race and postcolonial lens – CLOK – Central Lancashire Online Knowledge

Practice Guide Chapters – https://www.cycj.org.uk/resource/youthjusticeinscotland/

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