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Informationen zum Autor Miranda Campbell is associate professor in the School of Creative Industries at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she teaches courses in creative collaboration, diversity, equity, inclusion, and care ethics. Her research focuses on creative employment, youth culture, and small-scale and emerging forms of cultural production. Her first book, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy, mapped the changing realities of youth self-employment in creative fields in the 21st century and was shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. Dr. Campbell's involvement with creative communities includes coordination and participation on the board of directors with Rock Camp for Girls Montreal, a summer camp dedicated to empowerment for girls through music education, and with Whippersnapper Gallery, an artist-run center focusing on emerging artists in Toronto. Klappentext How to Care More offers a definition of care based in relational action, highlighting care as an umbrella concept that can catalyze personal and social change and prevent conflict. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Fostering Care The introduction chapter gives an overview of both the need for and the rise in caring values. Chapter 1 sets the stage for the book by giving an overview of the importance of care and a people-centered approach in opposition the contemporary neoliberal demands of competitiveness and self-reliance. This chapter introduces care as a central value, that centers relationality. Following Fisher and Tronto (1990), I mobilize a definition of care as a process, including caring about (attentiveness to a problem), caring for (taking responsibility for a problem), care giving (competently addressing the problem) and care receiving (responsiveness to how the care was delivered). Two profiles illustrate the principle of youth-led peer support / teaching and learning in this chapter: Alt Gen (London, UK): This co-operative was set up by two young women to respond to the widespread youth unemployment crisis in the Great Recession period. Alt Gen suggests that young people should stop competing with one another for scarce resources and instead should start collaborating. As a co-operative, Alt Gen teaches young people how to create their own co-operatives, and offers funding to help youth set up their own initiatives. H.O.L.L.A. (NYC, USA). H.O.L.L.A. stands for "How Our Lives Link Together" and offers programming for youth to understand their place within broader systems of power and work towards empowerment, all the while underscoring love, working together, and taking care of one another. H.O.L.L.A. was founded by 6 young men in a New York correctional facility who were already facing extensive prison sentences by their 21st birthdays. H.O.L.L.A. has developed its own Healing-Centered Youth Organizing Curriculum, which informs its youth programs in the areas of knowledge sharing, leadership training, and collective formation. Concluding Activity: Intersectionality Card Game This activity gives instruction for readers to make and arrange cards to consider different aspects of their intersectional selves, so that readers can reflect on their own identities and how they relate and interact with others. Chapter 1: Listen Caring for one another starts from a place of willingness to listen. Though we might think listening is an innate ability, most people don't know how to listen very well. This chapter forwards listening as an active skill that needs commitment, practice, and patience, and an other-focus rather than a self-focus. Chapter 1 gives an overview of the practices of amplification, or highlighting the word...
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Miranda Campbell is associate professor in the School of Creative Industries at Ryerson University in Toronto, where she teaches courses in creative collaboration, diversity, equity, inclusion, and care ethics. Her research focuses on creative employment, youth culture, and small-scale and emerging forms of cultural production. Her first book, Out of the Basement: Youth Cultural Production in Practice and in Policy, mapped the changing realities of youth self-employment in creative fields in the 21st century and was shortlisted for the Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian. Dr. Campbell’s involvement with creative communities includes coordination and participation on the board of directors with Rock Camp for Girls Montreal, a summer camp dedicated to empowerment for girls through music education, and with Whippersnapper Gallery, an artist-run center focusing on emerging artists in Toronto.
