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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.

Author: Watkins, Mary, Foreword by: Lipsitz, George, Contribution by: Bradshaw, G A

Topic: Sociology
Media: Book
ISBN: 030023614X
Language: English
Pages: 376