A Hermeneutics of Love for Community-Based, Participatory Action Research. (May 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: McInerney, Robert Garfield
• Other Names: Robbins Brent Dean guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Journal of humanistic psychology. Volume 56:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 263
• Page End: 285
• Publication Date: 2016-05
• Subjects: communitas -- hermeneutics -- allopathy -- munificence; Humanistic psychology -- Periodicals; 150.192
• DOI: 10.1177/0022167815595320
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-1678

Abstract

This article presents a broad humanistic-existential framework in support of community-orientated, participatory action research. Beginning with Pink Floyd's The Wall as a pedagogic illustration of the aporia of community, three dispositions are offered for the community researcher: communitas, allopathy, and munificence. Each disposition is shown to be supported by particular shared burdens (hospitality, alterity, finitude, and supplementarity) within existence. From this theoretical framework, a model is provided for what is designated as a hermeneutics of love as a research practice in communities.