Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies (IJPS)
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Artist's Statement: Heart
Get PDFArtist's Statement for the cover art of IJPS volume 6, issue 1: Heart, 2019. Acrylic on canvas
Growing a Green New Deal: Agriculture’s Role in Economic Justice and Ecological Sustainability
Get PDFThe Green New Deal offers a chance not only to fashion legislative proposals that can advance economic justice and ecological sustainability but also create space for conversation about the unjust and unsustainable nature of capitalism and the industrial worldview. One key component of both legislation and conversation should be a response to the crisis in contemporary agriculture. Repopulating the countryside and developing ecologically based farming practices will be central to creating a more just and sustainable society. 
Artist's Statement: Form Follows Nature
Get PDFArtist's Statement for the cover art of IJPS volume 6, issue 2: Form Follows Nature, 2019. Wood
Media Review: 'Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives and Future,' by Riane Eisler and Douglas P. Fry
Get PDFIn Nurturing Our Humanity, Eisler and Fry address the neuroscientific-biological and social-relational aspects of brain development in human children, as well as the ways brain growth in children is either promoted or inhibited, depending upon the relative degrees of domination or partnership systems existing within the social structures of families and cultures. Fry brings an anthropological perspective covering human prehistory, history and present-day humans, while Eisler brings a dynamic social-relational and systems science perspective. The effect of joining these perspectives is the dawning of a deeper understanding from which a plan can be made and carried out to raise new and successive generations of kinder, more peaceful, creative and intelligent humans. Nurturing Our Humanity winds up with Eisler’s plan, developed out of her own Cultural Transformation Theory. The plan calls for instilling partnership system values and practices into family cultures during earliest childhood, so that partnership values and practices can grow, endure, and replace domination values and practices in the family. As the family goes, so follows all the rest: schools, towns, cities, states, and nations
Nurturing Our Humanity: A Conversation with Riane Eisler
Get PDFHeidi Bruce, Managing Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, interviews the founder of the Center for Partnership Studies, Riane Eisler. Our focus is Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future, Eisler’s book co-authored with Douglas P. Fry, recently published by Oxford University Press. In the book, the authors provide a new analytical tool, the biocultural partnership-domination lens, which integrates knowledge to solve personal, social, economic, and environmental problems
Re-examining Darwin and Human Evolution from a Partnership Perspective: A Conversation with David Loye
Get PDFRiane Eisler talks with her husband, social psychologist and Darwin scholar David Loye, about his re-examination of Darwin’s theory of evolution and how and why the role of love, moral sensitivity, mutual aid, and other partnership values has been ignored in most evolutionary narratives, whereas selfishness, violence, and other traits key to imposing and maintaining domination systems have been presented as key to human evolution
Where is the Care in Caring: A Polemic on Medicalisation of Health and Humanitarianism
No full textCurrently in the caring professions, the human condition of facing uncertainty and danger is often overlooked in the quest for measurable outcomes that prove efficiency, taking agency out of the hands of the individuals being cared for. Traits that make an ‘ideal’ practitioner include compassion, advocacy skills, and the ability to engage with people in vulnerable situations, and to establish trusting, respectful relationships. Within a system of models, quotas, and specialties, these traits are easily hindered within health care and humanitarianism. The critical examination in this article in no way rejects the valuable elements in the fields of humanitarianism and health care. Rather, it discusses how care can be re-introduced. Uncertainty and danger are part of the human experience, and caring interventions need to take that into account. This article highlights the benefits of a collaborative relationship between the person in crisis and the practitioner, instead of a paternalistic relationship in which the practitioner is viewed as the ‘expert.’ With a caring perspective, the individual who is experiencing the crisis will retain ownership of and responsibility for their life, and not rely solely on external sources of wellbeing and comfort
Righteous Among the Nations: Music Without Borders
Get PDFThe Garden of the Righteous, a program presented by Naye Strunes, a Minneapolis-based Yiddish music ensemble, weaves together original Yiddish music and stories of fearless individuals from among the thousands of non-Jews who risked their lives to save innocent people during the Holocaust. The program gives audience members an opportunity to reflect on the extent of courage and compassion during dark times. All proceeds are given to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), a contemporary humanitarian organization that provides medical assistance to populations experiencing crises. This article explores the concept of righteousness among the nations, particularly in the context of partnership scholarship; the history and present-day renaissance of Yiddish language, music, and culture; and Médecins Sans Frontières as a contemporary example of living courageously
Decolonizing Research and Urban Youth Work Through Community-University Partnerships
Get PDF“Grounding Roots” is a community-based collaborative educational program that aims to build food, environmental, and cognitive justice through sustainable urban agriculture and horticulture via intergenerational communities of practice. Drawing upon Linda Tuhiwai Smith’s framework of decolonizing methodologies, this qualitative case study examined the ways in which a Community-University partnership engaged in decolonizing work through research and practice, as well as the ways in which the partnership served to preserve colonizing practices. Data analyses was guided by deductive coding strategies grounded in theory on decolonizing practices. Identified decolonizing practices included implementing a program of worth to the community and youth; building from community-led agendas; and prioritizing community healing and transformation over academic research agendas. Identified colonizing practices included inequitable power hierarchies in the leadership team and in garden groups, deficit-oriented talk about minoritized youth, and the devalorization of youth voice. Implications from this work call for researchers to do their own research about the white supremacist roots embedded in their practices, and to embrace decolonizing and humanizing practices to guide their work. This ongoing work highlights the need for researchers doing community-based work to engage in community-driven agendas that prioritize processes over products; to facilitate distributed leadership in collaboration with community members; and to produce worthwhile work and products with the community
When Push Comes to Love: Partnership and Social Justice
Get PDFDespite major accomplishments of the modern era, the protection of women, children, and the environment remain vulnerable. In response, there has been increasing growth of social justice protests that use social media to express the need for social change. This article provides a discussion of the rise of several social movements and their attempts to address issues of injustice, particularly focusing on sexual violence and environmental destruction. The increased use of social media prompted a global response, within the context of popular culture, which was then followed by mainstream news coverage of the protests. This technological shift in news sharing promoted increased awareness about issues of sexual violence and environmental destruction. The lasting impact, however, is unknown. Yet there may be links between current social justice movements and Riane Eisler’s Cultural Transformation Theory that could foster social change. This article formulates a more direct connection between social movements and Eisler’s Cultural Transformation Theory in a manner that intentionally urges progressive social justice groups to understand and move toward partnership in general, and specifically toward a cultural transformation that protects the environment and eliminates violence against women and children.