Popular Education, Health Inequalities and Resistance to Stigma - New article

Jane Jones, author of the Health Issues in the Community course and Community Activist has written a new article which explores the role of tackling health inequalities using popular education. 

The article reflects upon the work of Paulo Freire and how it continues to offer inspiration and hope for radical community development. It focuses on the role stigma plays and how courses such as HIIC are "a way of understanding the process and experience of stigmatisation from the perspective of those on whom it impacts the most". Jane writes:

"The majority of HIIC students brush up against these manifestations of stigma in their daily lives as the following examples demonstrate. It can be seen operating across many different spheres: housing; public space; consumerism; and mental health, dehumanising populations in the process of creating space for private capital."

The full article can be read here. 

Many of the example used in the article came from a collection of student's writings edited by Jane Jones and published by CHEX.