Mapping Ordinary Anti-Racism

This project will determine the rates of everyday anti-racism in Victoria, and how they vary across demographics and places. The team will identify important pro-social, intercultural actions in everyday life and the everyday language of anti-racism among Victorians, including which anti-racism discourses work best, and how pro-social action can be best inspired through campaigns. The team will develop recommendations on changes to community level intercultural dialogue interventions and the means for best evaluating their effectiveness and impacts, based on our international review of the current literature. The team will be able to recommend on the utility of discourses and scenarios planned for use in Victorian Government’s proposed social cohesion communications campaign, and advice on how those can be spatially tailored.

The Project So Far

• Developed a novel survey to gauge Victorians' everyday pro-social interaction and everyday anti-racism, and collected our data

• The project’s systematic review to identify best practices in measuring anti-racism is currently underway.

• We are currently drafting our report

What’s Next?

• World’s best practice on community level intercultural interventions.

• A quantified statement on anti-racism resilience.

• Our survey findings will be presented in a webinar, roundtables and briefings, and discussed in a report and academic publications and conferences.

• Findings from the systematic review will be used to inform the development of anti-racism audits and measures, effective discourses, inform social policy, including programs and campaigns.