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  2. Oppression - Wikipedia

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    There is no single, widely accepted definition of social oppression. Philosopher Elanor Taylor defines social oppression in this way: Oppression is a form of injustice that occurs when one social group is subordinated while another is privileged, and oppression is maintained by a variety of different mechanisms including social norms ...

  3. Kyriarchy - Wikipedia

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    In feminist theory, kyriarchy (/ ˈ k aɪ r i ɑːr k i /) is a social system or set of connecting social systems built around domination, oppression, and submission.The word was coined by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in 1992 to describe her theory of interconnected, interacting, and self-extending systems of domination and submission, in which a single individual might be oppressed in some ...

  4. Resistance literature - Wikipedia

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    The meaning of the words may come second to or be enhanced by this typographic significance. Example of this can be found in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! , [ 41 ] Alex Balgiu and Mónica de la Torre's anthology Women in Concrete Poetry 1959-1979 [ 42 ] , Alan Pelez Lopez's Intergalactic Travels: Poems from a Fugitive Alien, [ 43 ] and much of the ...

  5. Anti-oppressive education - Wikipedia

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    Anti-oppressive education is premised on the notion that many traditional and commonsense ways of engaging in "education" actually contribute to oppression in schools and society. It also relies on the notion that many "common sense" approaches to education reform mask or exacerbate oppressive education methods.

  6. Liberation psychology - Wikipedia

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    Liberation psychology or liberation social psychology is an approach to psychology that aims to actively understand the psychology of oppressed and impoverished communities by conceptually and practically addressing the oppressive sociopolitical structure in which they exist. [1]

  7. Anti-oppressive practice - Wikipedia

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    Anti-oppressive practice is an interdisciplinary approach primarily rooted within the practice of social work that focuses on ending socioeconomic oppression.It requires the practitioner to critically examine the power imbalance inherent in an organizational structure with regards to the larger sociocultural and political context in order to develop strategies for creating an egalitarian ...

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  9. Repression - Wikipedia

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    Political repression, the oppression or persecution of an individual or group for political reasons; Psychological repression, the psychological act of excluding desires and impulses from one's consciousness; Social repression, the socially supported mistreatment and exploitation of a group of individuals