Cultural Safety subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars. Critique of Israel’s genocide in Palestine and gestures of solidarity with the Palestinian people have been repressed or censored using Cultural Safety as justification.
https://overland.org.au/2026/02/on-the-misuse-of-cultural-safety/
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On the misuse of Cultural Safety - Overland literary journal
Since its original formulation and application in the health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1980s, Cultural Safety has been subject to wide reinterpretation. Its entry into institutional life more broadly has seen it turned it into a concept that allows it to be appropriated by the very powers that dominate the culture wars.
