Connections with Paulo Freire’s legacy in anti-racism media activist collaboration in Finland / Conexiones con el legado de Paulo Freire en la colaboración mediactivista antirracismo en Finlandia

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https://doi.org/10.25267/COMMONS.2020.v9.i2.04

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2020): The legacy of Paulo Freire in civil society development
Artículos del monográfico
133-158
Published: 21-12-2020
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  • Leonardo Custódio (FI) Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland)
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  • Monica Gathuo (FI) University of Helsinki (Finland)
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In this article, we introduce the Finland-based initiative Anti-Racism Media Activist Alliance (ARMA Alliance, 2018-2020). The article presents our ethical- methodological reflections about the processes of collaboration and dialogue we have experienced as co-founders and coordinators of ARMA Alliance. Our analysis is grounded on our joint retrospective analysis of how the activist-research purposes of ARMA Alliance connect with Paulo Freire’s legacy. Our objective is to contribute to scholarship that problematizes the multi-layered relationship between research and activism in collaborative processes of communication for social change (in our case, against racism). First, we present what the ARMA Alliance initiative means and how it connects with Paulo Freire’s work. Then, we look back at the decolonial insights, cathartic encounters and dialogues that led to the development of the initiative. After that, we reflect about the relationship between collaboration and conscientization. Lastly, we indicate some experiences in putting dialogue and collaboration into practice.

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Anti-racism Google Schoolar
media activism Google Schoolar
collaboration Google Schoolar
conscientization Google Schoolar
Finland Google Schoolar

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Custódio, L., & Gathuo, M. (2020). Connections with Paulo Freire’s legacy in anti-racism media activist collaboration in Finland / Conexiones con el legado de Paulo Freire en la colaboración mediactivista antirracismo en Finlandia. Commons. Revista De Comunicación Y Ciudadanía Digital, 9(2), 133–158. https://doi.org/10.25267/COMMONS.2020.v9.i2.04

Author Biographies

Leonardo Custódio, Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland)

Leonardo Custódio is a postdoctoral researcher on Minorities’ studies at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. Custódio received his PhD in Social Sciences at Tampere University (2016). His scholarly and activist work has focused on media activism as processes through which people who suffer from inequalities and racism use media for rights, justice, respect and changes. Custódio’s book “Favela media activism: Counterpublics for human rights in Brazil” was published in 2017 by Lexington Books. As an activist researcher, Custódio is one of the coordinators, together with Monica Gathuo, of the Anti-Racism Media Activist Alliance. ARMA Alliance is a collaborative anti-racist, activist-research initiative based in Finland. ARMA Alliance is funded by the Kone Foundation (2018-2020).

Monica Gathuo, University of Helsinki (Finland)

Monica Gathuo is a community organizer, freelance media producer and a master’s student of global politics and communication in University of Helsinki. Gathuo works with the PoC community and furthermore with the Afrofinnish community in Finland. She has produced podcasts, minidocumentary series and texts to discuss the racial inequalities in Finland. Gathuo co-coordinates together with Leonardo Custódio the Anti-Racism Media Activist Alliance, ARMA Alliance, which is a collaborative anti-racist, activist-research initiative based in Finland. Our main focus is on how people who suffer from racism in different societies use media to raise their voices, mobilize support and act collectively against racism. ARMA Alliance is funded by the Kone Foundation (2018-2020).

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