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Emergent, Relational Revolution: What More Do We Have to Learn from Jane Addams?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Danielle Lake
Danielle Lake*
Affiliation:
Center for Design Thinking, Elon University, Campus Box 2620, Elon, NC27244, USA
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Corresponding author. Email: dlake@elon.edu
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Abstract

What does Jane Addams's approach to social change offer to publicly engaged scholars and activists today? This essay explores several dimensions of Addams's work that have been misinterpreted and overlooked, putting these aspects of her work into conversation with research on endeavors to move higher education toward civic democratic engagement. The goal is to visualize opportunities and strategies for more inclusive and democratic engagement with issues across local, regional, and global communities. In particular, this essay explores how Addams's place-based, boundary-spanning methods of engagement provide strategies for more inclusive and collaborative philosophical activism, including (1) fostering and sustaining relationships across difference, (2) engaging with soft systems mapping, and (3) using synthetic imagination in crafting transdisciplinary engaged narratives. In conjunction with research on social change and creative innovation, Addams's work highlights the potential value of collaborative and democratic endeavors across difference as a means toward more radical imaginaries and relational revolution.

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Hypatia , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , Spring 2021 , pp. 410 - 424
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Hypatia, a Nonprofit Corporation

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