Gebundenes Buch

Writings of Healing and Resistance

Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect

Herausgegeben: Weems, Mary E.

Beschreibung

Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect is a multi-authored, interdisciplinary journey. It continues the work started in Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect (Peter Lang, 2003) by extending the importance of empathy in developing an action-based social consciousness. Mary E. Weems doesn't argue for a specific way of pursuing an empathy connected to mind, body, and spirit: She acknowledges that just as artists work in various media, each with their own process for sharing how they think and feel about a particular topic or moment, each individual may arrive in their own way at a deep, spiritual, close identification with the experiences of the other. Writings of Healing and Resistance encompasses a variety of forms: autoethnography, ethnodrama, poetic inquiry, and critical essay, as well as scholars' work in a number of disciplines including communications, cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, educational leadership, African American studies, and cultural foundations.

Autor

Mary E. Weems is a poet, playwright, performer, imagination-intellect theorist and Social Foundations scholar of urban education working in interpretive methods.

Produktdetails

• Cultural Critique 7
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 311208
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781433112089
• ISBN-10: 1433112086
• Artikelnr.: 36732796

Rezensionen

«Weaving the threads of empathy, performance, empowerment, pedagogy, poetry/narrative research, Mary E. Weems has assembled a cloth of vibrant colors and textures. This volume speaks to the power of imagination, thought, enlightenment, and well-being: it enunciates the nuanced depth of words and stories which serve to create a socially just space where resistance and change make the difference. Reading this book provides us an intuitive and aesthetic experience in aesthetic participation and scholarship.» (Shirley R. Steinberg, Werklund Chair of Youth Leadership Education, Professor of Youth Studies, University of Calgary)
«Mary E. Weems challenges us to revisit our stories of pain, struggle, reflection, and healing to develop empathy. Through her comprehensive analysis of what it means to work to interrupt oppression, the pages of this book are essential for those who continue to fight for justice in troubling times.» (David Stovall, PhD, (POSITION?), University of Illinois at Chicago)