Space for reflective practice

Welcome to this space to continue your learning.  Within this space, we encourage you to engage in a reflective practice.  Through this space, we aim to support you in continuing to delve into the important issues, perspectives, and approaches presented by our speakers, Pier-Luc Turcotte & Tim Barlott

As you continue to engage in this process, we recommend you create a journal - either on paper or on your computer.  In this journal, you might consider reflecting on:  How might we draw from experiences of shame in our work? In what ways might this relate with processes of reflexivity?

What will you find here? 

• A sketch note based on the talk

• A summary and recording of the talk

• Suggested readings to further your reflections

We would be so pleased if you would share your thoughts in an anonymised space to share back with learners along this journey together. 

Summary

Pier-Luc and Tim offer an affirmative reading of shame and outline it as a pre-personal affect that opens people to seeing intolerable human cruelty. They present the potential for shame to act as a catalyzing affect, one that can unsettle mechanistic blindness to oppression. Pier-Luc and Tim explore shame as the inward anger that comes from seeing our complicity in the atrocities of others like us. Through shame, we see that the ‘other’ exists and what has happened to them is intolerable. Shame brings to the surface the ways that we are complicit in oppression at an affective level and produces creative impulses of desire (that may potentiate action). Socially transformative scholarship may be catalysed at the level of affect and desire, forced by shame to see and act on what is intolerable. 

Recording of Speaker Session

Link to the Zoom Recording 

Suggested Readings & Resources

The University of Alberta's Library has a wonderful set of resources for exploring Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. 

https://guides.library.ualberta.ca/edi/home.

As you continue your learning, we would recommend you explore: 

Nicholls, L., & Elliot, M. L. (2019). In the shadow of occupation: Racism, shame and grief. Journal of Occupational Science, 26(3), 354-365. https://doi.org/10.1080/14427591.2018.1523021 

Zembylas, M. (2019). “Shame at being human” as a transformative political concept and praxis: Pedagogical possibilities. Feminism & Psychology, 29(2), 303–321. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353518754592

Reflection Questions

How might we draw from experiences of shame in our work? 

In what ways might this relate with processes of reflexivity?