New Voices ANZSWWER 2019 symposium – Activism & Social change – Oct 3 & 4 2019, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia En Encounterin ing g Interspecie ies Homelessness: So Social work with women and their co companion animals ls Me Melis lissa Lain ing PhD Candidate School of Global, Urban & Social Studies RMIT University melissa.laing@rmit.edu.au @ylaingylaing Photo by Joao Victor xavier on Unsplash
Cr Critical social work in Family Violence & Homelessness/H /Housing sectors: Fr From all-to too-hu human to o mor ore-th than-hu human? “Why doesn’t she just give up her dog?” Photo by April Walker on Unsplash
Re Research questions What is the nature of companion animal-inclusive practices of resistance with interspecies families at risk of, or experiencing homelessness? How do social workers (and other practitioners) understand and frame care towards, and within interspecies families? What are factors that influence the care of interspecies families in social work and the broader human services? What further scope for companion animal-inclusive practice do social workers envisage for interspecies families at risk of, or experiencing homelessness? Photo by Calum Lewis on Unsplash
Re Research design Co Conceptual framework: Critical posthumanism (Cudworth & Hobden, 2018) Critical ethics of care (Pease, Vreugdenhil & Stanford, 2018) & Ecofeminism (Adams & Gruen, 2014) Qualitatively-driven Mixed Methods (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011; Mertens, 2008) Online survey ( n =90 SW & non-SW) from Victorian Homelessness/Housing & Family Violence sectors Semi-structured in-depth interviews ( n =17 SW) Reflexive thematic analysis (Braun, Clarke, Hayfield & Terry, 2019) inductive and deductive coding Photo by Wendy Aros-Routman on Unsplash
A cri A ritical po posthumanist so social work? RQ: What is the nature of companion Normative resista No tance animal-inclusive practices of Creative resistance Cr resistance with interspecies families at risk of, or experiencing Subversive resistance Su homelessness? Open resistance Op Normative Resistance Open Creative Subversive Photo by Ben Mater on Unsplash
Normative resistance No Su Subversive resistance Companion animal friendly refuges Taking companion animals home (either temporarily or permanently with consent) Intake processes that specifically assess “Stealing animals” from violent homes companion animals as part of the family system Having relationships with veterinary Sneaking animals into crisis clinics or hospitals for access to food, accommodation (motels, refuges) health care and emergency boarding for companion animals in situations where the family had to be separated Brokerage money that is specifically for Linguistic sleight of hand - ‘turning a blind companion animals eye’, conversations that didn’t happen, saying things without saying things, ‘truth stretching’/lying by omission
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