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New Voices ANZSWWER 2019 symposium Activism & Social change Oct 3 & 4 2019, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia En Encounterin ing g Interspecie ies Homelessness: So Social work with women and their co companion animals
New Voices ANZSWWER 2019 symposium – Activism & Social change – Oct 3 & 4 2019, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia
Me Melis lissa Lain ing
PhD Candidate School of Global, Urban & Social Studies RMIT University melissa.laing@rmit.edu.au
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Re Research questions
What is the nature of companion animal-inclusive practices
experiencing homelessness?
How do social workers (and other practitioners) understand and frame care towards, and within interspecies families? What are factors that influence the care of interspecies families in social work and the broader human services? What further scope for companion animal-inclusive practice do social workers envisage for interspecies families at risk of, or experiencing homelessness?
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Re Research design
Co Conceptual framework: Critical posthumanism (Cudworth & Hobden, 2018) Critical ethics of care (Pease, Vreugdenhil & Stanford, 2018) & Ecofeminism (Adams & Gruen, 2014) Qualitatively-driven Mixed Methods (Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011;
Mertens, 2008)
Online survey (n=90 SW & non-SW) from Victorian Homelessness/Housing & Family Violence sectors Semi-structured in-depth interviews (n=17 SW) Reflexive thematic analysis (Braun, Clarke, Hayfield & Terry, 2019) inductive and deductive coding
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RQ: What is the nature of companion animal-inclusive practices of resistance with interspecies families at risk of, or experiencing homelessness?
Resistance
Normative Creative Subversive Open
Companion animal friendly refuges Taking companion animals home (either temporarily or permanently with consent) Intake processes that specifically assess companion animals as part of the family system “Stealing animals” from violent homes Having relationships with veterinary clinics or hospitals for access to food, health care and emergency boarding for companion animals in situations where the family had to be separated Sneaking animals into crisis accommodation (motels, refuges) Brokerage money that is specifically for companion animals Linguistic sleight of hand - ‘turning a blind eye’, conversations that didn’t happen, saying things without saying things, ‘truth stretching’/lying by omission
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