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[Estimated reading time: 6mins] During my research and praxis over the years I have sometimes struggled to articulate with brevity some of the fundamental characteristics that practitioners should strive to embody if they aim to contribute to positive social change in healthcare and education. This led me to proposing, in late 2021 on twitter , ‘ structural humility ’ and ‘ socio-professional activism ’ as two new terms that may contribute to thinking and action towards social justice. In this blog I explain things in a little more detail… Firstly, let’s look at this quote from a recent research paper entitled ‘ Physical pain, gender, and the state of the economy in 146 nations ’: “ Economic worry can create physical pain.. .[its level] in a nation depends on the state of the economy. Pain is high when the unemployment rate is high. That is not because of greater pain among people who lose their jobs - it extends far beyond that into wider society …[and the] increase in phys

For those not aware, I occasionally post my attempts at understanding theory by using infographics. With this infographic I have attempted to clarify my understanding of Hylton White's (2020) argument that the structure of modern society " calls forth in the present the fetishised representations of capital and of labour ", and that the huge force and contemporary salience of antiblackness and antisemitism occupy a dualistic relation. White builds on the work of the likes of Fanon and Postone to argue that the structure of social action under capitalism generates fetishistic representations of its own functioning - Jewishness as the power of money ('capital-in-itself'), and blackness as the power of biology ('labour-in-itself'). These representations, as racial antisocial types, must be embedded in any analysis of class within different historical and contemporary settings. Reference: White, H. (2020). How is capitalism racial? Fanon, critical theory and t