"Here we Are, Amazingly Alive": Holding Ourselves Together with an Ethic of Social Justice in Community Work

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dc.contributor.authorRichardson, Cathy
dc.contributor.authorReynolds, Vikki
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-12T23:12:30Z
dc.date.available2014-05-12T23:12:30Z
dc.date.copyright2012en_US
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, the authors describe their orientation to social justice based community work. The tenets of this work include: an ethical orientation towards staying alive in the work, descriptions of social justice, engaging with a hopeful skepticism, responding to privatized pain with justice-doing, and contesting the individualism of “burnout”. This is followed by reflections on the role of solidarity, the sacred, revolutionary love, resistance, and an ethic of belonging in the commitments to staying fully alive in community work. The authors discuss the importance of forging communities of care with other practitioners through shared and collectively held ethics.en_US
dc.description.reviewstatusRevieweden_US
dc.description.scholarlevelFacultyen_US
dc.identifier.citationRichardson, C. & Reynolds, V. ""Here we Are, Amazingly Alive": Holding Ourselves Together with an Ethic of Social Justice in Community Work." International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies, 3(1): 1-19.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/ijcyfs/article/view/10471/3103
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/5392
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Victoriaen_US
dc.rights.tempAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectsolidarity
dc.subjectsustainability
dc.subjectresisting burnout
dc.subjectsocial justice
dc.subjectbelonging
dc.subjectethics
dc.subject.departmentSchool of Social Work
dc.title"Here we Are, Amazingly Alive": Holding Ourselves Together with an Ethic of Social Justice in Community Worken_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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