Personal troubles as public issues: Revisiting Systemic Injustices in Europe
Today, Europe continues to experience a series of crises that disproportionately affect racially, socially, and economically marginalised groups and communities. The assent of populist governments across the region have emboldened racist, homophobic, and misogynist narratives, alongside a disdain for poor and working-class communities, and people on the move. Further, negative media portrayals of organisations, movements, […]
A reflection on extractive research: a commitment to uplifting marginalised voices and challenging structural inequality
At Systemic Justice, our research activities encompass community consultations, research conversations, data interrogation, analysis, and knowledge production – all carried out in service to racially, socially, and economically marginalised groups and communities.
Research: a necessary component of strategic litigation against systemic injustice
Before we can fix systemic injustices, we need to understand them. One of the key elements of our community-driven approach to strategic litigation that challenges climate, racial, social, and economic injustices is undertaking research to reveal how these injustices are experienced by marginalised communities across Europe. By design, our research methodologies recognise the interconnected harms of climate injustice, lack of access to justice, policing, racism, social unprotection and lack of freedom of movement.
Surfacing Systemic Injustices: “Nothing about us, without us.”
Our approach to research and knowledge aspires always to bear witness, by being there embracing our ‘social connectedness, developing a sense of fellow membership, of community, solidarity and belonging together’ with those who experience systemic injustice.