Toward a relational ethic

2019 ◽  
pp. 13-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Gergen
Keyword(s):  
Relational Ethic

scholarly journals Making degrowth locally meaningful: the case of the Faroese grindadráp

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ragnheiður Bogadóttir ◽  
Elisabeth Skarðhamar Olsen
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Faroe Islands ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
Economic Practices ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Food System ◽  
Food Procurement ◽  
Relational Ethic ◽  
Global Food

Abstract While the doxa of growth continues to dominate mainstream understandings of what constitutes a healthy economy, the concept and agenda of degrowth beg for theorization about how culture and power render some economic strategies more viable and meaningful than others. In this article we discuss the highly contested practice of Faroese pilot whaling, grindadráp. Through autoethnographic methods we identify and analyze forces challenging this deep-rooted practice, both within and outside Faroese society. Faroese resistance to abandon the practice, expressed in local pro-whaling narratives suggest that, in the struggle to legitimize the grindadráp as a sustainable and eco-friendly practice, Faroese people are simultaneously deconstructing central tenets of the global food system, and comparing grindadráp favorably with the injustices and cruelties of industrial food procurement. In this sense, we argue that the grindadráp not only constitutes a locally meaningful alternative to growth-dominated economic practices, but may also, in this capacity, inspire Faroese people to reduce engagement with economic activities that negatively impact the environment and perpetuate social and environmental injustices in the world. Keywords: Degrowth, whaling, Faroe Islands, relational ethic, noncapitalism.

scholarly journals Disrupting dehumanising and intersecting patterns of modernity with a relational ethic of caring

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Gail Mitchell ◽  
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Sherry L Dupuis ◽  
Pia Kontos ◽  
Christine Jonas-Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ethic Of Caring ◽  
Relational Ethic

scholarly journals A Relational Approach to Transforming Power in a Community-University Partnership

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penn Loh ◽  
Zoë Ackerman ◽  
Joceline Fidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Ethic Of Care ◽  
Cross Flow ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Institutional Practices ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Relational Approach ◽  
The Status ◽  
Relational Ethic ◽  
Policy And Planning

We use a relational understanding of power to analyze power dynamics at the institutional and interpersonal levels in our multi-year Co-Education/Co-Research (CORE) partnership between Tufts University Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI). Power in community-university partnerships is often examined only at the institutional level, conceiving of power as a resource to be balanced and shared. Indeed, CORE has advanced institutional shifts through co-governance, equitable funding, co-production of curriculum and cross-flow of people. While institutional policies and practices are critical, they alone do not transform deep-seated hierarchies that value university knowledge, practices and people over community. To understand how intertwined interpersonal and institutional practices can reproduce or transform these cultural and ideological dynamics, we use a relational approach, understanding that power flows in and through all relations. As community members, students and faculty, we reflect on the contradictions we have encountered in CORE. We examine how we reinforce the dominance of academic over community knowledge, even as we leverage institutional power to further community goals. These tensions can be opportunities for shifting, disrupting and transforming towards more equitable relations, but they can also reproduce and reinforce the status quo. Through reflective practice and a relational ethic of care, we can try to recognize when we might be shifting power relations and when we might be reproducing them. This is messy work that requires a lot of communication, trust, reflection and time. A relational approach to power provides hope that we can be part of the change we seek in all of our relations, every day. And it reminds us that no matter what we have institutionalised or encoded, our individual beings, organizations and communities are always in a process of becoming.  

A social ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's historical approach to human sexuality

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-339
Author(s):  
Tracy J. Trothen
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Value ◽  
Human Sexuality ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Current Approach ◽  
Ethical Analysis ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Human Relationships ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Entire Complex ◽  
Relational Ethic

This article provides a feminist ethical analysis of the United Church of Canada's approach to sexuality between the Church's formation in 1925 and 1980. An examination of this period in the Church's history is essential to an adequate understanding of the development of its current approach to sexuality. Two paradigm shifts can be observed from this analysis. First, the Church's understanding of the purpose of human sexuality has moved from the conviction that such expressions must be limited to procreation and the strengthening of the union of heterosexual married couples, to the belief that intimate expressions of human sexuality have intrinsic value within marriage. Second, the understanding of human sexuality has been transformed from a primarily act-centred ethic (rules related to specific actions) to a primarily relational ethic (discernment based on the entire complex of inter-human relationships).

scholarly journals Developing post-ableist music therapy: An autoethnography exploring the counterpoint of a therapist experiencing illness/disability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Carolyn Shaw
Keyword(s):  
Music Therapy ◽  
Social Constructionism ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Music Therapists ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Critical Ontology ◽  
Crip Theory ◽  
Relational Ethic ◽  
Justice Practice ◽  
Experience Of Illness

<p>This PhD examined a therapist’s experience of illness/disability to see if any new light could be shed on music therapy whilst also finding ways to navigate disability as a practitioner. There has not been adequate research attention given to the experiences of music therapists who have an illness/disability. The position is often negotiated in isolation with minimal tools and resources. An arts-based autoethnography was used to determine how the close examination of one’s personal experience with illness/disability can impact on practice, how the work can be negotiated, and to uncover any new practical or theoretical meanings. Furthermore, it looked to determine what arts-based autoethnography could offer one’s practice. A poststructural lens was used that drew on social constructionism, feminism, and the work of Michel Foucault. Data generated from a music therapist’s practice, experiences of illness/disability, literature, and professional documents were analysed using Foucault’s “critical ontology of ourselves” (Foucault, 1984b, p. 47).  Hidden processes of problematic ableism were found within the practice examined as well as in some educational and professional encounters. These regimes of ableism were supported by universalising and dichotomising discourses, namely humanism, western normativity, limited observable understandings of disability, and the enforcement of able/disabled divide through many binaries. The methodology provided the tools to reposition the practice to politicise disability and address ableism.  Addressing ableism was found to be more complex than simply incorporating disability issues into existing contemporary frameworks. The analysis led to the development of Post-Ableist Music Therapy (PAMT). PAMT extended the relational ethic beyond what was present in the prior practice by drawing on aspects of posthumanism, agonistic plurality, and increasing the visibility of disability studies and crip theory. Therefore, PAMT offers a different lens to the critical orientations’ apparatus: a social justice practice not based on empowerment and humanism but on agonism and posthumanism instead. As there is a lag in the theorisation of ableism, PAMT provides an alternative framework that can be applied to current approaches to increase our professional consciousness of ableism.  By repositioning the practice and exploring alternative subjectivities, the professional and personal narratives of a therapist experiencing illness/disability became more integrated, working with–not against–each other in a shared activism. The methodology fostered an increased ethical care of the self; offered tools that critiqued what we are; experimented with going beyond the limits imposed on us. The use of such tools could have wider application in the everyday practices of therapists. The findings have significant implications for practice and training, as the challenges people and societies face cannot be adequately dealt with without tools to explicitly uncover and address normalisation and ableism.</p>

The Relational Ethic in the Treatment of Adolescents

2005 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Chuck Kanner ◽  
Robert G. Lee
Keyword(s):  
Relational Ethic

Makeovers Made Over: Ubuntu and Decolonization in Reality TV

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 439-456
Author(s):  
Leyla Tavernaro-Haidarian
Keyword(s):  
Reality Television ◽  
Reality Tv ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
African Philosophy ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Relational Ethic ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Media Work ◽  
Deficit Discourses

Narratives about Africa are often shaped by deficit discourses that frame “development” as an instrument for advancing the interests of global capitalism. From within this neoliberal view, Africa has to “catch up” to and “be taught” how to emulate and achieve the standards promulgated in mainstream media. Through the lens of an alternative realism, however, such narratives can be reshaped. The African philosophy of ubuntu is one example of a deeply relational ethic from within which development can be reconceptualized as “freedom” in terms of democratic ideals and which can be used as a guiding principle for media work and the refashioning of (reality television) images.

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