Scarcity Antidotes: How the Colonial Agenda Demands Our Bodies to be Sites/Sights of Scarcity, and Our Possible Futures

This first-person action research thesis explored the question, “How might I shift from a scarcity mindset to a possibility mindset to strengthen my anti-oppressive practice?” An anti-oppressive paradigm oriented this research to unconscious colonial norms within white supremacy culture that perpetuate power disparities in society. Using methods of structured journaling, collaging, and kitchen table conversations, the key findings of this research resonate in themes of limiting values and how they created barriers to change, embodiment and the impact of sensory and emotional realities, disrupting patterns in day-to-day life for personal growth, integrating juxtapositions within the self by accepting one’s opposite ways of being, and learning what it means to live within community. The recommendations are to orient to playful disruption, engage deep presence, metabolize past selves, and live with collective responsibility. This study exists within the tension between individual development and community participation, suggesting collective liberation is strengthened through a personal journey of reimagining the future using a possibility mindset.

Author dc:creator

• Archer, Jennifer

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Etmanski, Catherine

• School of leadership studies

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Identifier URI

https://doi.org/10.25316/ir-19758

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:null:10613/28139