Public Webinar — Rupture, Reframed (2) Locating Responsibility: From Personalisation to Power Awareness

Locating Responsibility: From Personalisation to Power Awareness When rupture becomes visible, responsibility often collapses onto individuals. Someone is blamed, defended, or exposed, while the wider forces shaping the moment remain unexamined. This personalisation can feel relieving — and it frequently reproduces harm. This second webinar explores how to locate rupture within systems of power, history, and positionality, shifting the focus from individual behaviour to shared accountability. Beginning again from lived experience, Ruth Cross traces how moments of rupture in racial justice education and migrant rights work revealed not personal failure, but the collision of differently positioned realities. She situates this learning within her longer RinA inquiry, where rupture is read as a micro-phenomenon emerging from macro conditions of inequality and oppression. Drawing on Leticia Nieto’s distinction between target and agent skillsets, alongside Mario Blaser’s writing on “worldings,” the session invites participants to consider rupture as a meeting of worlds rather than a breakdown in communication. These ideas are offered as lenses, not explanations — ways of staying with complexity without collapsing it. The final 45 minutes open into a reflexive dialogue space, where participants are invited to reflect on how responsibility is distributed, avoided, or misassigned in their own contexts, and what becomes possible when accountability is understood as a collective practice. --- Rupture, Reframed is a three-part public webinar series exploring how we work ethically with moments that disrupt, expose, and change us. Developed by RinA Fellow, Ruth Cross, during five years of inquiry in complex political contexts, this series treats rupture not as a problem to fix, but as a live social phenomenon carrying crucial information about power, responsibility, and what becomes possible next. Across three sessions, participants are invited into a shared public inquiry — moving from perception, to accountability, to collective repair — through lived experience, carefully chosen conceptual anchors, and facilitated reflexive dialogue. You are welcome to attend the series or stand alone sessions.