Guest: Dr. Naomi Godden: Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Social Work, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia.
Introduction to this episode:
Dr Godden is a social worker, social justice and environmental activist, and feminist participatory action researcher from the rural community of Margaret River, Western Australia. She has 16 years of community development and social research experience in Australia and internationally in areas such as gender justice, Aboriginal family violence prevention, youth development, education advocacy, poverty alleviation, homelessness and affordable housing, sexual exploitation of women, environmental activism and the gendered impacts of climate change. She has worked in grassroots rural community organisations, local government, international development organisations such as Oxfam Australia and the International Women’s Development Agency, and universities, including Monash and Edith Cowan Universities in Australia. Her countries of work experience include Australia, Peru, United States, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, India and Thailand. She is also co-chair of the national Women’s Climate Justice Collective and chair of Just Home Margaret River Inc.
SUMMARY OF MAIN INTERVIEW TALKING POINTS - with approximate time positions in minutes
General introduction 0.52
Guest self-introduction 3.10
What is the significance of a love ethic within eco-social work (ESW) practice? 9.11
How can a love ethic/ESW practice help tackle sustainability challenges? 17.40
- using Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) 18.25
- climate justice activism and techno-patriarchy concerns 24.40
Why should mainstream social work be involved with a love ethic and ESW? 35.17
What could the future hold for mainstream SW practice in terms of these ideas? 43.13
Guest closing summary of her comments 51.15
Thanks to guest and close of interview 52.56
END 54.13
SOME RESOURCES RELEVANT TO THE DISCUSSION
- Dr Naomi Godden academic profile and research publications (2022)
- Shire of Augusta Margaret River WA, Community Strategic Plan 2036
- Just Home housing justice project Augusta/Margaret River region (2022)
- Nyoongar people SW WA responses to past severe climate change (2020)
- Michael Kim Zapf’s SW concept of people as place (2010)
- Introduction to the work of bell hooks from the Commons Social Change Library (2022)
- Commentary from bell hooks and Thich Nhat Hanh (2017)
- Dr Godden’s paper on links between community work, love and Buen Vivir in Peru (2020)
- Distinctions environmental/ecological (2000) and multispecies (2020) justice perspectives.
- IFSW: People’s Global Summit theme: Co-building a New Eco-Social World: Leaving No One Behind’ online access 29th June to 2nd July 2022.
- Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) and climate justice Godden et al (2020)
- Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development (2022)
- Longer term public health impacts of climate change exacerbated flood and bushfire events
- Mel Gray/John Coates - social work's responsibility to the non-human world (2012)
GUEST AND CONTACT DETAILS:
Dr Godden - see her research profile
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Production:
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This episode recorded in Toowoomba, S.E. Queensland, Australia on 24th March 2022.
Artwork: Daniela Dal'Castel Incidental Music: James Nicholson
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