orientations towards embracing uncertainty – particularly relevant for the COVID crisis during which this book was written – and transdisciplinary learning. The learning activities of playing and designing serious games and mapping campus infrastructures engaged students with ecological challenges and responses to them through whole-person learning. This can lead to a politics of sustain-ability and eco-centrism that recognizes the intrinsic value of the natural world as well as human responsibility for ecological destruction and its repair.
. Although self-love may be connected with the mantras of neoliberal self-help ( Hazleden, 2003 ), I suggest it should rather be read here as connected with the idea of self-care and love as activists’ form of warfare ( Lorde, 1988 ). As change was a long way off and the path full of challenges, all politics had to be combined with an aspect of self-care and self-respect. Indeed, I suggest that the repairing of their self-relation in the way described, rather than individualizing their activist efforts, potentially enabled them to transcend the limitations of selfhood
161 ar tic le 4 © The Policy Press • 2010 • ISSN 1759-8273 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 18 • no 2 • 2010 • 161-6 • 10.1332/175982710X513948 Repairing the broken society: the way forward Charlotte Pickles1 Social breakdown is perhaps the greatest challenge facing Britain today. The economic downturn has had a devastating impact, but the slow journey to recovery has begun. Sadly, we cannot say the same about our social recession; this will take much longer to fix. Yet there has never been a more pressing time to start repairing our broken
This debate paper lays out an argument for using a critical theory perspective to reframe our practice and research in the voluntary sector. A critical perspective, defined further later in this paper, would have us: reveal unexamined assumptions, unintended consequences, and make invisible systems of power and oppression visible; repair or change these systems of power and oppression; and (re)imagine better futures towards emancipation, transformation, equity, and justice. Before I present this argument, I want to share a brief story that introduces
This chapter reprints in English and Spanish (versión en español disponible abajo) the contributions of Tarcila Rivera Zea to the UNESCO CIRE seminar series. She spoke in the session entitled ‘Education’s Reparative Possibilities: Responsibilities and reckonings for sustainable futures’ held on 24 February 2020. In the session, Rivera Zea argued that reparative and healing education must be based on dignity and dialogue across differences to repair the harms of colonization and discrimination, sharing her experiences as an Indigenous rights activist
Annie Stopford (2020) Trauma and Repair: Confronting Segregation and Violence in America Lexington Books 200 pp Hardback: ISBN 978-1-4985-6559-2, £73.00 Paperback: ISBN 978-1-4985-6561-5, £31.00 Electronic: ISBN 978-1-4985-6560-8, £29.00 There is a cinematic sequence in James Baldwin’s (1962 ) great American novel Another Country , in which two of the book’s main protagonists, Cass and Vivaldo, both White, are in a New York taxi, heading uptown, from Chelsea through Central Park and onwards, to attend the funeral of their Black jazz musician friend
Restorative justice (RJ) and restorative approaches (RAs) are becoming increasingly valued as a way of responding to a wide range of conflicts, including problem and offending behaviours. The growth in the use of RJ and RAs has been described as a ‘global social movement’ that sets out to repair harm, reduce conflict and harmonise civil society. This report takes a close look at the implementation of an RJ approach in the challenging environment of children’s residential care homes. It will appeal to people who are interested in the use of RJ, particularly its use with children and young people, as well as those interested in problem and offending behaviours in relation to children in care.
Despite frequent claims that waste is being reduced, consumer-reliant economies, everyday consumption and the waste industry continue to produce and demand more waste.
Combining a lucid style with robust empirical and theoretical research, this book examines the root causes of the global waste problem, rather than simply the symptoms. It challenges existing waste policies, highlighting what needs to change if we are to get serious in tackling this global problem. It concludes with policy implications for shifting waste from an ‘end-of-pipe’ concern to being at the heart of the debate over decarbonization.
What are the implications of caring about the things we research? How does that affect how we research, who we research with and what we do with our results? Proposing what Tronto has called a ‘paradigm shift’ in research thinking, this book invites researchers across disciplines and fields of study to do research that thinks and acts with care.
The authors draw on their own and others’ experiences of researching, the troubles they encounter and the opportunities generated when research is approached as a caring practice. Care ethics provides a guide from starting out, designing and conducting projects, to thinking about research legacies. It offers a way in which research can help repair harms and promote justice.
Drawing on interviews with journalists, senior police and press officers, this is the first ethnographic study of crime news reporting in the UK for over 25 years. It explores changes over the last 40 years, including the aftermath of the Leveson Report and the breakdown of relations between the Met and the mainstream media.
The book argues that new investigative journalism non-profits have been slowly repairing the field of crime journalism and reporting with and not on stigmatised communities.
Nevertheless, the police continue to control the flow of policing news to the press and the public. Despite the radical transformation of the Fourth Estate, in the case of the police it never been so restricted in its ability to speak truth to power.
