Peter Westoby

Soul, Community and Social Change (eBook, PDF)

Theorising a Soul Perspective on Community Practice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In exploring ideas such as soul, soulful, 'soul of the world' and soul-force, Peter Westoby invites readers to disrupt their taken-for-granted assumptions about community practice and to foreground ethics, quality, being and the aesthetic. Drawing on work of people such as James Hillman, Thomas Moore and 'Bifo' Beradi, he insists on the need to bring more depth into practice, eschewing contemporary trends of soulless analysis, measuring, and technique. A soul perspective will resonate with people searching for both a robust socio-political response to the world and an imaginative, poetic and mindful centring of self, 'other' and the planet to their practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134807055
• Artikelnr.: 48418173

Autorenporträt

Dr Peter Westoby is a Senior Lecturer in Community Development, School of Social Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia; a Research Associate at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State, South Africa; and also a Director of Community Praxis Cooperative. Peter has over 25 years of experience in youth, community and organisational development in various settings, such as Australia, South Africa, Uganda, Vanuatu, the Philippines and PNG. His research interests include community development, dialogue theory and practice, and forced migration studies. Together with Lynda Shevellar he edited Learning and Mobilising for Community Development (Ashgate, 2012) and he is the author of Theorising the Practice of Community Development (Ashgate, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, Mary Watkins
Preface
Introduction
Interlude: community, development and our fantasy!
Settings and signposts: a soul perspective, soulful, ensouling and soul-force
Hillman's 'soul of the world' - in dialogue with the work of Mary Watkins
Keeping us off balance - how the 'other' world of old Chinese praxis offers a path for an authentic practice today - in dialogue with David Harding
Safeguarding the soul of community-based organisations - in dialogue with Lynda Shevellar
Soul-force, nonviolence and community (anti)development - in dialogue with Jason McLeod
Soul, song, music and social change - in dialogue with Kristen Lyons
Soul, memory-work and a deconstructive perspective - in dialogue with Verne Harris
Ritual and ceremony in soulful community work - in dialogue with Polly Walker
Soul, dialogue and creativity - in dialogue with David Palmer
Action (re)search, delicate empiricism and reflective social practice - in dialogue with Sue Davidoff
Conclusion
Postscript: soulful threads
Index.