Innovative community building: Inclusion of gender, ethnicity and LGBTQ rights in urban sustainable work

This project develops a new framework for inclusive community-building by combining theories of collective reflection, nonviolent communication, and care.

The project applies and reformulates this framework through empirical research, to develop a practice-based theory of inclusive community-building.

Through discourse analysis of online media and social media content, we map different ideas on what inclusion means and what it requires. We then explore how these ideas are put in practice through in-depth case studies such as local groups opposing violence as well as feminist, anti-racist and queer communities.

Situated in different institutional environments, these case-studies allow us to examine how practices and institutions interact to generate inclusion and innovate contributions to sustainable development. In this project, we use a feminist, anti-racist approach to nonviolent political engagement.

The project is led by Lund University.

Publication from the project:

• Priscyll Anctil Avoine (Swedish Defence University) and Agnese Pacciardi (Lund University): Creative tensions: Lüvo’s feminist decolonial praxis in working through/and against neoliberal academia, Globalisation, Societies and Education