Relational Responsibility
eBook - PDF

Relational Responsibility

Resources for Sustainable Dialogue

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Relational Responsibility

Resources for Sustainable Dialogue

About this book

The tradition of individual responsibility where individuals deliberate, morally evaluate, and then decide on a course of action is dear to the heart of Western ethical and legal codes and informs many contemporary practices of therapy, education, and organizational life. It also typically isolates, alienates, and ultimately invites the eradication of the otherùa step toward non-meaning. A vast range of current thinking places this view of the independently responsible individual in strong question. In Relational Responsibility, the authors attempt to transform the concept of responsibility in such a way that the relational process replaces the individual as the central concern. This volume invites practices that replace alienation and isolation with meaning-building dialogue. It is structured in a way that demonstrates their ideas. In Part I, McNamee and Gergen examine relational responsibility followed by their analysis of a challenging case study involving the issue of child sexual abuse. Part II contains responses from scholars and practitioners from the fields of communication, psychology, therapy, and organizational development that extend the original dialogue set out by McNamee and Gergen. Part III is a rejoinder to Part II in redirecting and augmenting the original conception and practice of relational responsibility. Relational Responsibility touches on a number of different disciplines, including communication theory, sociology, social theory, interpersonal and group communication, conflict management, and child abuse.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface: Situating the Conversation
  4. Part I - Relational Responsibility
  5. Chapter 1 - An Invitation to Relational Responsibility
  6. Chapter 2 - Relational Responsibility in Practice
  7. Chapter 3 - A Case in Point
  8. Part II - Expanding the Dialogue
  9. Resonance and Refiguration
  10. Chapter 4 - When Stories Have Wings: How Relational Responsibility Opens New Options for Action
  11. Chapter 5 - Collaborative Learning Communities
  12. Chapter 6 - Relational Moves and Generative Dances
  13. Chapter 7 - On Being Relational in an Accountable Way: The Questions of Agency and Power
  14. Chapter 8 - The Uncertain Path to Dialogue: A Meditation
  15. Chapter 9 - Relational Responsibility: Deconstructive Possibilities
  16. From Antagonism to Appreciation
  17. Chapter 10 - Relational Responsibility or Dialogic Ethics? A Questioning of McNamee and Gergen
  18. Chapter 11 - Responding and Relating: Response- Ability to Individuals, Relating, and Difference
  19. Chapter 12 - Co-constructing Responsibility
  20. Chapter 13 - Inspiring Dialogues and Relational Responsibility
  21. Bringing Parallels to Play
  22. Chapter 14 - Creating Relational Realities: Responsible Responding to Poetic 'Movements' and 'Moments'
  23. Chapter 15 - Relational Inquiry and Relational Responsibility: The Practice of Change
  24. Chapter 16 - A Circle of Voices
  25. Chapter 17 - "Just Like Max": Learning in Relation
  26. Chapter 18 - Waiting for the Author
  27. Part III - Continuing the Conversation
  28. Chapter 19 - Relational Responsibility: The Converging Conversation
  29. References
  30. Index
  31. About the Authors
  32. About the Contributors