Overview

Attending to the wisdom that emerges through care work, Practice Dialogues uplifts the complexity, creativity, and interconnection of care across fields of endeavor. Written by a collective of practitioners, Practice Dialogues calls readers to learn from, not simply about, care work and those dedicated to it. Recognizing the need to understand care work as practice that furthers people’s survival and thriving, this volume advances a method of research rooted in radical presence, mutual listening, and collaborative writing. Centering care work as and through co-authorship, the essays spotlight fields including medicine, somatic practice, teaching and school leadership, martial arts, organizing, the arts, and family caregiving. In the framing chapters, Practice Dialogues draws on scholarship from education, postcolonial cultural studies, Black studies, Indigenous studies, social work, trauma studies, and critical feminist studies. The volume creates an exchange among scholarship, questions of research methodology, and the ecosystems of care work, pushing the limits of what is possible within and beyond conventional boundaries.

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Author:   Alice Lesnick
Publisher:   Michigan Publishing Services
Imprint:   Lever Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781643150970

ISBN 10:   1643150979
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   16 June 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Prologue: Reasons and Ways to Read this Book Chapter 1: Reading Across the Dialogues: Cross-Connecting Themes and Takeaways, The Practice Dialogues Collective Chapter 2: Care Work as Knowledge Work, Research as Listening: Challenging Hierarchies of Labor Chapter 3: Methods and Methodology, Alice Lesnick & Kira Wu-Hacohen Chapter 4: Problem Wrestling, Loretta Dugan & Alice Lesnick Chapter 5: A Formula for Limitlessness, Kamau Blakney & Alice Lesnick Chapter 6: Attention: To Walk a Fine Line, Steven Volk & Alice Lesnick Chapter 7: By the Success of Others, Carla R. Glover & Alice Lesnick Chapter 8: Radical Partnership: No More, No Less, Suzy Roman Quinn & Alice Lesnick Chapter 9: Watching Both, Shira Cohen & Alice Lesnick Chapter 10: The Harsh Path to Excellence (But It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way), Xuan-Shi Lim & Alice Lesnick Chapter 11: Everyone In This Room Has Power, Ellen Stevenson & Alice Lesnick Chapter 12: Memory Is Presence, Lauren Lattimore & Alice Lesnick Chapter 13: Power With the Flow, Morgan Cook-Sather & Alice Lesnick Chapter 14: A Student of the (Changing) Details, Susan Moyer, Loretta Dugan, & Alice Lesnick Epilogue: Loretta Dugan & Alice Lesnick

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The Practice Dialogues Collective are co-authors of this book who come from the fields of education, social work, youth development, family caregiving and archiving, somatic practice, medicine, cultural arts, and organizing. All see themselves as care work practitioners.

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