Podcast
Using a love ethic model within eco-social work practice
Eco-Social Work in Australia, Vol.18 June 2022
Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE)
2022
Abstract
The experience of the use of love and a love ethic within eco-social work practice has already been introduced by a previous guest in this series (Dr.Naomi Godden) and because these topics have been garnering considerable interest within the eco-social turn over the last few years I wanted to seek out further perspectives on the use of love by other leading eco-social work thinkers.
My guest on this episode of the series, Dr. Dyann Ross, is a social work academic, researcher and author who has continued to focus on and help elaborate the place of love in social work practice over the last twenty years or so. In fact, she goes so far as to say that exploring the ethic of love has been her life journey and work. As with wider eco-social work (ESW) approaches, the use of love in social work practice has been slow to appear on the mainstream social work radar but is now finding a greater audience of practitioners willing to explore and adopt its precepts. And Dr Ross’s work has made an important contribution towards that adoption.
In our discussion Dr Ross talks about her abiding interests in the importance of love and a love ethic for social work practice, and how a growing ethos of lovelessness for other people, non-human animals and Nature is a strong underlying causation of injustices and lack of ecological sustainability for the planet as a whole. The social work profession has an important contribution to make in helping right some of these wrongs, and we discuss the particular benefits the elements of a love ethic (ethics of love, non-violence and ecological justice) can bring to this important work.
Details
- Title
- Using a love ethic model within eco-social work practice
- Authors
- Dyann Ross (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Society
- Publication details
- Eco-Social Work in Australia, Vol.18 June 2022
- Publisher
- Householders’ Options to Protect the Environment (HOPE)
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99998998202621
- Output Type
- Podcast
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