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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808845003321

Autore

Watkins Mary

Titolo

Mutual accompaniment and the creation of the commons / / Mary Watkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, CT : , : Yale University Press, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

0-300-24548-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (373 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BradshawG. A

LipsitzGeorge

Disciplina

302.14

Soggetti

Solidarity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Accompaniment as a Way of Life -- Introduction -- One. Accompaniment: Existential, Psychosocial, Ecological -- Two. Creating Social Democracy Through Mutual Accompaniment: The Social Settlement -- Three. Radical Hospitality and the Heart of Accompaniment -- Four. Psychosocial Accompaniment: From Liberation Theology to Social Medicine and Liberation Psychology -- Five. After the Asylum: Accompaniment in the Context of Mental Illness -- Six. Beyond Treatment: Peer and Ecological Accompaniment -- Seven. Pathways Through Mutual Accompaniment to Solidarity -- Eight. Nonhuman Animal Accompaniment -- Nine. Earth Accompaniment: Standing with Trees, Waters, Mountains, Earth, and Air -- Ten. Mutual Accompaniment and the Commons-to-Come -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A landmark book that maps a radical model not only for the "helping" professions but for the work of solidarity This timely and pathbreaking volume maps a radical model of accompaniment, exploring its profound implications for solidarity. Psychosocial and ecological accompaniment is a mode of responsive assistance that combines psychosocial understanding with political and cultural action. Accompaniment-grounded in horizontality, interdependence, and potential mutuality-moves away from hierarchical and unidirectional



helping-profession approaches that decontextualize suffering. Watkins envisions a powerful paradigm of mutual solidarity with profound implications for creating commons in the face of societal division and indifference to suffering.