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Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, O., & Nayak, S. (2024). Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction. Critical Social Policy, 44(3), 509-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/02610183241255474

Critical Social Policy (CSP) proudly launches the Journal’s Living Activism Section. This co-produced introduction to the Living Activism section of CSP, includes the ongoing impact of the CSP Solidarity Fund, lessons from the 2023 CSP gathering ‘Lea... Read More about Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction.

Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health (2022)
Thesis
Haslam, J. (in press). Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health. (Thesis). University of Salford

My study has investigated how the practice of channelling symptoms of psychosis through the medium of creative art forms has empowered three young adults to create alternative discourses to trouble and unsettle the dynamic of power between service p... Read More about Psychotic creativity. A Foucauldian discourse analysis of alternative conversations about mental illness and mental health.

An intersectional model of reflection: is social work fit for purpose in an intersectionally racist world? (2022)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (in press). An intersectional model of reflection: is social work fit for purpose in an intersectionally racist world?. Critical and Radical Social Work, 10(2), 319-334. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986021x16555682461270

Reflection is a trademark tool of social work, but if reflection tools are blunt, they will never dismantle the house of intersectional racist oppression. This provocation contends that reflective models need to decisively focus on intersections of p... Read More about An intersectional model of reflection: is social work fit for purpose in an intersectionally racist world?.

Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis : can group analysis allow outsider ideas in? (2021)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2021). Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis : can group analysis allow outsider ideas in?. Group Analysis, 54(3), 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316421997767

This is the transcript of a speech I gave at an Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) event on the 28th November 2020 about intersectionality and groups analysis. This was momentous for group analysis because it was the first IGA event to focus on black... Read More about Black feminist intersectionality is vital to group analysis : can group analysis allow outsider ideas in?.

‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training : inhabiting the threshold of ambivalence is a matter of power, privilege and position (2020)
Journal Article
Forrest, A., & Nayak, S. (2021). ‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training : inhabiting the threshold of ambivalence is a matter of power, privilege and position. Group Analysis, 54(1), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.1177/0533316420947999

Having in mind those gripped by ambivalence over whether to start, or stay on, the Qualifying Course in Group Analysis, we consider the training as one in ambivalence. We see ambivalence as an asset, not a hindrance. Forsaking familiar notions of amb... Read More about ‘Should I stay or should I go?’ Group-analytic training : inhabiting the threshold of ambivalence is a matter of power, privilege and position.

For women of colour in social work : black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles (2020)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2020). For women of colour in social work : black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles. Critical and Radical Social Work, 8(3), 405-421. https://doi.org/10.1332/204986020x15945755847234

This article offers women of colour in social work a black feminist self-care practice based on three principles from Audre Lorde’s work. The colonial situation of social work inevitably marginalises black feminist thinking and methods. In the contex... Read More about For women of colour in social work : black feminist self-care practice based on Audre Lorde’s radical pioneering principles.

Black feminist methods of activism are the tool for global social justice and peace (2020)
Journal Article
Nayak, S., & Sheehy, C. (2020). Black feminist methods of activism are the tool for global social justice and peace. Critical Social Policy, 40(2), 234-257. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261018319896231

We use the method of conversation as a tool of living activist struggles to end social injustice. We draw on Black feminism to create an intersectionality of diverse activist voices across time and space. We insist on an intersectional acuity to anal... Read More about Black feminist methods of activism are the tool for global social justice and peace.

Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement' (2019)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2019). Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement'. Psychological Studies, 64, 352-364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12646-019-00527-w

The methodology of ‘occupation’ through rereading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist
Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James,
Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader.
Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 19... Read More about Occupation of racial grief, loss as a resource : learning from ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement'.

Teaching Care Homes : leading and facilitating cross-sector collaborations : A Care England Programme in partnership with the Foundation of Nursing Studies and the Burdett Trust for Nursing : application pack (2019)
Other
Johnson, K., Cleary, S., Hesk, G., & Nayak, S. (2019). Teaching Care Homes : leading and facilitating cross-sector collaborations : A Care England Programme in partnership with the Foundation of Nursing Studies and the Burdett Trust for Nursing : application pack

Background Information about the Programme
During 2016/17, Care England, with funding from the Department of Health, co-ordinated an exciting pilot programme to explore and develop the concept of Teaching Care Homes i.e. centres of excellence in p... Read More about Teaching Care Homes : leading and facilitating cross-sector collaborations : A Care England Programme in partnership with the Foundation of Nursing Studies and the Burdett Trust for Nursing : application pack.

Listening to black students… a critical review of practice education (2018)
Book Chapter
Hesk, G., McCaughan, S., & Stanley, A. (2018). Listening to black students… a critical review of practice education. In S. Taplin (Ed.), Innovations in Practice Learning. St Albans, UK: Critical Publishing

In Higher Education Institutions we embrace the notion of having a diverse and international presence in our Universities, the University of Salford strives towards, ‘Aligning our offer to best support students to secure a place at the University and... Read More about Listening to black students… a critical review of practice education.

Intersectionality in social work : activism and practice in context (2018)
Other
(2018). Intersectionality in social work : activism and practice in context. Abingdon

This ground breaking book is an innovative, passionate and provocative exploration of intersectionality. The sustained emphasis on activism and practice reasserts the potency of intersectionality borne out of Black feminism. The rare and pioneering i... Read More about Intersectionality in social work : activism and practice in context.

Textual practice as intersectional practice : situated caste and gender knowledge in India (2018)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S., & Rekha, S. (2018). Textual practice as intersectional practice : situated caste and gender knowledge in India. In S. Nayak, & R. Robbins (Eds.), Intersectionality in Social Work : Activism and Practice in Context (9-22). Abingdon: Routledge

Literary texts are marked with multi-layered, interdependent sensibilities that challenge binary positions of social conditioning. Literary texts, both in terms of composition and content are intersectional. Thus, the practice of writing and reading... Read More about Textual practice as intersectional practice : situated caste and gender knowledge in India.

Contextual intersectionality (2018)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S., Montenegro, M., & Pujol, J. (2018). Contextual intersectionality. In S. Nayak, & R. Robbins (Eds.), Intersectionality in Social Work : Activism and Practice in Context (230-250). Abingdon: Routledge

This chapter is structured by a series of questions that could be used as a social work framework for critical intersectional reflexivity. Applying a contextual intersectional lens to issues of social justice in the Spanish context, foregrounds issu... Read More about Contextual intersectionality.

'They like you to pretend to be something you are not' : an exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race', religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers (2018)
Book Chapter
Held, N., & McCarthy, K. (2018). 'They like you to pretend to be something you are not' : an exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race', religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers. In S. Nayak, & R. Robbins (Eds.), Intersectionality in social work : activism and practice in context (142-155). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315210810-11

This chapter looks at the intersections of gender, sexuality, ‘race’, religion and ‘refugeeness’. By drawing on research conducted with members of the Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) in Manchester, it discusses current issues faced by bisexu... Read More about 'They like you to pretend to be something you are not' : an exploration of working with the intersections of gender, sexuality, 'race', religion and 'refugeeness', through the experience of Lesbian Immigration Support Group (LISG) members and volunteers.

Declaring the activism of black feminist theory (2017)
Journal Article
Nayak, S. (2017). Declaring the activism of black feminist theory. Annual review of critical psychology (Online), 13, 1-12

This paper explores the ways in which declaring the activism of Black feminist theory troubles knowledge power relations, silence and hierarchical thinking. The Rape Crisis movement (rapecrisis.org.uk) has been instrumental shaping my standpoint and... Read More about Declaring the activism of black feminist theory.