Category: Faith Based Organisations and Migrations

Faith Based Organisations and Migrations, Faith in the City, Individual Publications, Trans-National Migration, Precarious Housing And Faith-Based Responses

A practical theology of liberation: Mimetic theory, liberation theology and practical theology

Stephan de Beer March 28, 2022

In this article, the authors bring two personal journeys together: one author’s liberationist journey, sparked by a search for justice and liberation in the slums of Guatemala City, and the other’s lifelong commitment to practical theology and spatial justice in South Africa. A practical theology of liberation is the result of life experiences in countries..

Faith Based Organisations and Migrations, Individual Publications, Trans-National Migration, Precarious Housing And Faith-Based Responses

Migration, precariousness, and the linked lives of newcomers in Hong Kong

Adrian J. Bailey, Rainbow Wing Yan Ng, Katherine Hankins, & Stephan De Beer March 28, 2022

We develop the concept of linked lives to deepen understanding of the relationship between migration and precarity. Linked lives and precariousness are mutually constitutive as they embed subjects in the social, spatial, and temporal relations of everyday life while referencing transitions, trajectories, and biographies that unfold through the life course. Studying linked lives draws attention..

The Centre’s research approach is to follow a praxis-methodology, assuming deep local immersion in communities, from where analytical, reflective, visioning and strategic tools are employed to read society, to foster a critical consciousness, and to make urban change.

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Our research is engaged and trans-disciplinary, bringing together academics, activists, practitioners and community members, to share diverse experiences and knowledges, to collaborate as equals, to facilitate new partnerships, and to foster ownership for change-making and policy formation from below.

				
					
						
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