All Outputs (10)

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.

'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.

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.

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.

Introduction to Audre Lorde ‘Age, race, class, and sex : Redefining difference’ (2015)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2015). Introduction to Audre Lorde ‘Age, race, class, and sex : Redefining difference’. In I. Parker (Ed.), Marxismo, psicología y psicoanálisis. Mexico DF: Ideas y Letras

This text (1980) by the Black feminist lesbian activist Audre Lorde (1934 -1992) also known as the ‘Sister Outsider’ concerns issues that occupy Lorde’s critical social theory (Byrd, 2009:21). Re-reading Lorde forces critical analysis of reading pra... Read More about Introduction to Audre Lorde ‘Age, race, class, and sex : Redefining difference’.

Social work: Oppression and resistance (2015)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2015). Social work: Oppression and resistance. In I. Parker (Ed.), Handbook of Critical Psychology. Abingdon/New York: Routledge

Equality and diversity (2013)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2013). Equality and diversity. In A. Worsley, T. Mann, A. Olsen, & E. Mason-Whitehead (Eds.), Key Concepts in Social Work Practice (74-78). Sage

The concepts of equality and diversity are at the heart of Sojourner Truth’s speech delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention on equal rights in Ohio, where baring her breasts, she asked a curious question, ‘Ain't I a woman?’. This situation has mo... Read More about Equality and diversity.

Communication problems in a couple (2013)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S., & Hesk, G. (2013). Communication problems in a couple. In J. Bettmann, G. Jacques, & C. Frost (Eds.), International Social Work Practice : Case Studies from a Global Context. Routledge

The activism of Black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : Interconnections, politics and practice (2013)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2013). The activism of Black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : Interconnections, politics and practice. In I. Testoni, M. Wieser, A. Groterath, & M. Guglielmin (Eds.), Teaching Against Violence Reassessing the Toolbox : Teaching with Gender European Women’s Studies in International and Interdisciplinary Classrooms (31-60). The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation, Utrecht & Central European University Press

This chapter uses Audre Lorde’s essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power” as an analytic framework to explore an account of gender violation experienced by Patricia Hill Collins. The intention is to demonstrate that the activism of Black femini... Read More about The activism of Black feminist theory in confronting violence against women : Interconnections, politics and practice.

Testimony, tolerance and hospitality : The limitations of the Human Rights Act in relation to asylum seekers (2012)
Book Chapter
Nayak, S. (2012). Testimony, tolerance and hospitality : The limitations of the Human Rights Act in relation to asylum seekers. In N. Kang-Riou, J. Milner, & S. Nayak (Eds.), Confronting the Human Rights Act : Contemporary Themes and Perpectives (219-241). London: Routledge

This chapter is written with women asylum seekers as a lens of critical situated knowledge. These co-writers are members of the campaign group ‘United for Change’, within the ‘Salford Forum for Refugees and People Seeking Asylum’ and the charitable... Read More about Testimony, tolerance and hospitality : The limitations of the Human Rights Act in relation to asylum seekers.