How to Care More: Seven Skills for Personal and Social Change

Our contemporary moment is rife with injustices and crises: environmental disasters, climate change, racial divides, political divides, sexual misconduct, and high unemployment and debt rates, amongst other urgent challenges. While it is important to recognize these problems and call for change, we can also learn from caring initiatives that foster new ways of living, based in relationality, respect, and mutual support. 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. Each chapter provides an overview of one skill to practice caring more, including listening, consent, collaboration, and cultivating inclusion, love, and resilience that will enhance personal wellbeing and relationships with others, reducing conflict in our families, workplaces, and communities. With definitions of key terms and hands-on activities, How to Care More offers thought-provoking discussion and powerful examples of small-scale action and community building that can have a big impact, empowering readers to work towards positive social change.

Author: Miranda Campbell
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 01/15/2022
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781538145043

About the Author
Campbell, Miranda: - "Miranda Campbell is an Assistant Professor in the School of Creative Industries at Ryerson University. Unique in North America, the School of Creative Industries is an interdisciplinary creative industries management program and is one of the most in-demand programs at Ryerson, drawing students from across Canada as well as abroad. Using ethnographic methods based in oral history and life story methodologies alongside community participatory action research, her work has highlighted that young people spend substantial amounts of time in community-oriented ways, working to redress structural problems, exclusion, and inequity. 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 $50,000 Donner Prize for the best public policy book by a Canadian, and for the Gertrude Robinson Award, for the best Communication Studies book in Canada. Her media invitations include national CBC radio, community radio in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Chicago, and network television appearances. Campbell has presented her academic work at numerous national and international conferences, and has been invited to keynote at forums on youth and creativity in Belgium, Norway, and Toronto. She's participated in a range of panels and roundtable discussions examining youth and creativity from a number of angles, from crowdfunding to the legacy of DIY practices to the survival of the independent artist. In addition to writing for various academic journals and anthologies, she has published for a general audience with Maisonneuve, Jacobin, Noisey, Rabble, and the Gazette. Praise for Out of the Basement: "Out of the Basement represents a major contribution to research on cultural policy. There's no other book in the field like this one. It valuably allows readers to understand the perspectives of young cultural producers." - David Hesmondhalgh, Head of the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds "The book is an excellent example of where policy and education need to focus in order to respond to this youth crisis. Campbell's book is essential for anyone and everyone interested in youth cultural productions. More importantly, every single policymaker, teacher, and parent should read this book." - Giuliana Cucinelli, Concordia University"

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