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Questioning the tradition of individual responsibility, this pioneering book also transforms the concept of responsibility by giving centre stage to the relational process rather than to the individual - replacing alienation and isolation with meaningful dialogue.
The first three chapters are the editors' own contribution on relational responsibility - followed by their analysis of a challenging case study involving the issue of child sexual abuse. The next 14 chapters contain responses from leading academics and professionals in the fields of communication, psychology and organizational development, which extend the editors' original dialogue. In conclusion, Sheila Mc Namee and Kenneth Gergen illustrate relational responsi
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Comprises 19 contributions which attempt to transform the concept of responsibility in such a way that the relational process replaces the individual process as the central concern. The contributors come at the topic from a wide variety of disciplines, including communications, psychology, therapy, and organizational development. Topics include collaborative learning communities, deconstructive possibilities in relational responsibility, co-constructing responsibility, the practice of change in relational inquiry and relational responsibility, and relational responsibility in practice. Of interest to students in communication theory, sociology, conflict management, and child abuse. Paper edition (unseen), $22.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Product Details
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Table of Contents
Preface - Sheila Mc Namee and Kenneth J Gergen Situating the Conversation PART ONE:RELATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY An Invitation to Relational Responsibility Relational Responsibility in Practice A Case in Point PART TWO: EXPANDING THE DIALOGUE: RESONANCE AND REFIGURATION When Stories Have Wings - David Cooperrider and Diana Whitney How Relational Responsibility Opens New Options for Action Collaborative Learning Communities - Harlene Anderson Relational Moves and Generative Dances - Ian Burkitt On Being Relational in an Accountable Way - John W Lannamann The Questions of Agency and Power The Uncertain Path to Dialogue - Sallyann Roth A Meditation Relational Responsibility - Mary Gergen Deconstructive Possibilities Relational Responsibility or Dialogic Ethics? A Questioning of Mc Namee and Gergen - Stanley Deetz and William J White Responding and Relating - Michael J Mazanec and Steve Duck Response-Ability to Individuals, Relating and Difference Co-Constructing Responsibility - Karl Tomm Inspiring Dialogues and Relational Responsibility - Eero Riikonen Creating Relational Realities - John Shotter and Arlene M Katz Responsible Responding to Poetic 'Movements' and 'Moments'
Relational Inquiry and Relational Responsibility - Robert Cottor and Sharon Cottor The Practice of Change A Circle of Voices - Peggy Penn and Marilyn Frankfurt
'Just Like Max' - Walter Eggers Learning in Relation Waiting for the Author - Maurizio Marzari PART THREE: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATION Relational Responsibility - Sheila Mc Namee and Kenneth J Gergen The Converging Conversation