1st Edition

Philosophies and Practices of Emancipatory Nursing Social Justice as Praxis

Edited By Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith, Peggy L. Chinn Copyright 2014
360 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

360 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

*** Awarded First Place in the 2015 AJN Book of the Year Award in two categories - "History and Public Policy" and "Professional Issues" *** 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... Read more

Foreword  Joan M. Anderson.  Introduction  Paula N. Kagan, Marlaine C. Smith, and Peggy L. Chinn  Section I: Philosophical and Theoretical Considerations: Innovative Frameworks for Health  1. Problematizing Social Justice Discourses in Nursing  Annette J. Browne and Sheryl Reimer-Kirkham  2. Towards an "Ethics of Discomfort" in Nursing: Parrhesia as Fearless Speech  Amélie Perron, Trudy Rudge and Marilou Gagnon  3. Compassion, Biopower, and Nursing  Jane M. Georges  4. Social/Moral Justice From a Caring Science Cosmology  Jean Watson  5. No Hiding Place: The Search for Impermeable Boundaries  Beverly Malone  6. Nursing as Social Justice: A Case for Emancipatory Disciplinary Theorizing  Sally Thorne  Section II: Research Methodologies and Practices: Critical New Knowledge Development  7. Community-Based Collaborative Action Research: Giving Birth to Emancipatory Knowing  Margaret Dexheimer Pharris and Carol Pillsbury Pavlish  8. Social Justice Nursing and Children’s Rights: A Realist and Postmodern Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Nurses’ Reflections on Child Risk and Protection Within Domestic Violence  Nel Glass and Kierrynn Davis  9. The Identity, Research and Health Dialogic Interview: Its Significance for Social Justice-Oriented Research  Doris M. Boutain  10. Critical Research Methodologies and Social Justice Issues: A Methodological Example Using Photovoice  Robin A. Evans-Agnew, Marie-Anne Sanon and Doris M. Boutain  Section III: Pedagogy of Praxis: Teaching for Social Justice  11. Social Justice: From Educational Mandate to Transformative Core Value  Mary K. Canales and Denise J. Drevdahl  12. Anti-Colonial Pedagogy and Praxis: Unraveling Dilemmas and Dichotomies  C. Susana Caxaj and Helene Berman  13. "And That’s Going to Help Black Women How?": Storytelling and Striving to Stay True to the Task of Liberation in the Academy  JoAnne Banks  14. Social Justice in Nursing Pedagogy: A Postcolonial Approach to American Indian Health  Selina A. Mohammed  15. Human Violence Interventions: Critical Discourse Analysis Praxis  Debby A. Phillips  16. Teaching, Research and Service Synthesized as Postcolonial Feminist Praxis  Lucy Mkandawire-Valhmu, Patricia E. Stevens and Peninnah M. Kako  Section IV: Critical Practice Approaches and Methodologies  17. Cultivating Relational Consciousness in Social Justice Practice  Gweneth Hartrick Doane  18. Facilitating Humanization: Liberating the Profession of Nursing from Institutional Confinement on Behalf of Social Justice  Danny Willis, Donna J. Perry, Terri LaCoursiere-Zucchero and Pamela Grace  19. Promoting Social Justice and Equity by Practicing Nursing to Address Structural Inequities and Structural Violence  Colleen Varcoe, Annette J. Browne and Laurie M. Cender  20. Military Sexual Trauma and Nursing Practice in the Veterans Administration  Ursula A. Kelly  21. Through a Sociopolitical Lens: The Relationship of Practice, Education, Research and Policy to Social Justice  Jill White  22. A Passion in Nursing for Justice: Toward Global Health Equity  Afaf I. Meleis and Caroline G. Glickman.  Afterword  Paula N. Kagan

Biography

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.