Do you think that after questioning and recognising complexity people will still feel outraged in the face of injustice?
We feel that after questioning and recognising complexity people will be better able to intervene responsibly in their context (within their capacities). We do not encourage ‘outrage’. As Moore (2005) suggests, outrage as a base for activism leads to disappointment, disillusionment, quick burn out, self-righteousness, fundamentalism, being willing to harm others for one’s righteous cause, and most importantly to being so caught up in your rage that you end up attacking the very people you are supposedly working with in the name of making the world a better place. Therefore, we believe that it is important to acknowledge that this is about ‘us all’ – we are all part of the problem AND part of the solution – and that we need to try to change our contexts without reproducing the relations of domination (that created the problems in the first place). However, we recognise that, in certain contexts (e.g. where there is a high level of political apathy), strategies that promote outrage can b
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