The Hopeful Justice Collective
Restoke partnered with researchers, artists and organisations from across the UK in a social movement exploring Transformative Justice as a way to reintegrate women with convictions into their communities. Funded by the Nuffield Foundation & The British Academy. Working with local community leaders, activists, creatives, and anyone with an interest in new ideas of justice and supporting people in their community in a series of workshops led to the formation of a new group - The Hopeful Justice Collective
A Collective for the people of Stoke to imagine justice and liberation together through creative practice. We place transformation of our everyday practices, our communities, and our world at the centre of what we do.
Transformative Justice is:
Built on the premise that top down and state responses to violence reproduce harm
Focuses on overcoming ingrained social and structural barriers to engagement and justice issues
Cultivates accountability, healing, resilience, and safety by transforming the conditions that enable harm
Develops community accountability and engagement to challenge unequal and intersecting power relationships​
Promotes a bottom-up understanding of the lives and needs of populations.
