Ghzala shares: “You've got some people that are just speaking for one person and fighting for that one person and then you've got individuals that are fighting for a whole community.”
In this episode Amanda (Inquiry Creative Communication Officer) is joined by Ghzala Khan (Inquiry Guide & Storyteller) and Martha Smart (Inquiry Guide). We explore together the concept of social action and working relationally.
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This episode is part of the short series based on the Inquiry’s value of being relational. You can find out more about the Inquiry’s values here.
Martha mentions their volunteer work with the Red Cross.
Ghzala mentions their social action with the local Asian community radio station (Awaz FM), their parents’ charity for a school for children in Pakistan (Amanat Educational Trust).
Martha mentions the research done prior to the Inquiry, the Together We Help research, which looked at social action during the pandemic and gave recommendation to Social Action Inquiry Scotland.
Ghzala, Martha and Amanda discuss defining social action. One available definition from the UK Government can be found here. The Inquiry initial definition of social action was “people creating positive change in their communities”.
Amanda references a previous Wavicle episode (Choice Points) in relation to the decision to have Guides instead of an independent panel of individuals with lived experience.
Martha mentions her connection with Darryl (Inquiry Co-Lead) through work together on the People’s Assembly Dundee.
Ghzala mentions the stories (17 in total) told and gathered as part of the Inquiry.
Ghzala mentions learning from the process is going with the flow and working emergently. Emergence is one of the Inquiry’s values and comes from adrienne’s maree brown’s Emergent Strategy.
Martha mentions a quote ‘staying with the trouble’ which is a book by Donna J. Haraway.
Ghzala mention’s Knight Rider’s talking artificially intelligence car KITT.
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