Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing
Social Justice as Praxis
Edited by Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith, Peggy L. Chinn
To Be Published July 1st 2013 by Routledge – 256 pages
Description
This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting nursing research, practice, and education within frameworks of social justice and critical theories. Social justice nursing is defined by the editors as nursing practice that is emancipatory and rests on the principle of praxis which is practice aimed at attaining social justice goals and outcomes that improve health experiences and conditions of individuals, their communities, and society. There is a lack in the nursing discipline of resources that contain praxis approaches and there is a need for new concepts, models, and theories that could encompass scholarship and practice aimed at purposive reformation of nursing, other health professions, and health care systems. Chapters bridge critical theoretical frameworks and nursing science in ways that are understandable and useful for practicing nurses and other health professionals in clinical settings, in academia, and in research.
In this book, nurses’ ideas and knowledge development efforts are not limited to problems and solutions emerging from the dominant discourse or traditions. The authors offer innovative ways to work towards establishing alternative forms of knowledge, capable of capturing both the roots and complexity of contemporary problems as distributed across a diversity of people and communities.
The book will interest the growing number of nurse scholars, educators, students, and practitioners dedicated to non-traditional perspectives such as critical social theory, critical feminisms, intersectionality, post-colonial discourse, American Pragmatism, and transformative and caring nursing theories as underlying frameworks for practice, research, and pedagogy. It fills a significant gap in the literature and makes an exceptional contribution as a collection of new writings from some of the foremost nursing scholars whose works are informed by critical frameworks.
Contents
1. Representations, Forbidden Representations and the Unrepresentable: Creating Visibility for Mapping Emancipatory and Transformative Nursing Praxis
2. And that’s Going to help Black Women How? Striving to Stay True to the Task of Liberation in the Academy
3. Critical Feminist Pedagogy and Praxis: Unraveling Dilemmas and Dichotomies
4. Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Methodology Using Demographic Survey Interviewing
5. Inter-Organizational Connections to Promote Sustainable Social Justice Praxis
6. Problematizing Social Justice Discourses in Nursing
7. Environmental Health Disparities: The Silent Imposition of Risk on the Poor
8. Social Justice: An Educational Mandate, An Educational Approach
9. Social Justice as a Signifier in Emancipatory and Critical Nursing Theory and Research
10. Social Justice Nursing: A Deeply Personal Process?
11. The ‘Just Culture’ Algorithm
12. Critical Discourse Analysis as a Research Methodology with Photovoice
13. Toward Justice in Health: An Exemplar of Nurses Speaking Truth to Power
14. Social Justice Nursing and Children’s Rights: A Realist and Postmodern Feminist Analysis of Nurses’ Reflections on Child Risk and Protection within the Context of Domestic Violence
15. Creating a Caring Science Curriculum: An Emancipatory Pedagogy for Nursing
16. Military Sexual Trauma and Nursing Practice in the Veterans Administration
17. Oppression and Horizontal Violence
18. A Conceptual Framework that Situates Nurses’ Lives as Lesbian Health Advocates
19. Social Justice and Rural and Remote Nursing Praxis
20. Transitions Theory and Post-colonial Feminism: Contradictory or Complimentary?
21. Using Social Justice in Nursing Education on American Indian Health
22. Towards an ‘Ethics of Discomfort’ in Nursing: Parrhesia as Fearless Speech
23. Education, Research, and Practice from a Critical Poststructural Psychoanalytic Discourse Analysis Perspective
24. Searching for Social Justice and Emancipatory Nursing: Relational Caring Complexity Theory
25. Critical Refractions: Nursing research in Religion and Spirituality through a Social Justice Lens
26. Trans-nationalism as a Research Methodology with Photovoice
27. Liberatory Knowledge and Discourses of Social Justice in Nursing
28. Nursing as Social Justice: A Case for the Emancipatory Thrust of Conventional Theorizing
29. Promoting Social Justice and Equity by Practicing Nursing to Address
Structural Inequities and Structural Violence
30. Social/Moral Justice from a Caring Science Lens
Author Bio
Paula N. Kagan is an Associate Professor at DePaul University.
Peggy L. Chinn is Professor Emerita of Nursing at the University of Connecticut.
Marlaine C. Smith is Dean and Helen K. Persson Eminent Scholar at the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University.
Name: Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing: Social Justice as Praxis (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith, Peggy L. Chinn. This anthology presents the philosophical and practice perspectives of nurse scholars whose works center on promoting nursing research, practice, and education within frameworks of social justice and critical theories. Social justice nursing is defined...
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