I love this approach to interdependence..... - ThreadSky

rebeccasolnit.bsky.social • 52 days ago

I love this approach to interdependence.....

This is such a powerful observation about why ableism is so inherent in U.S. society. From A Disability History of the United States by Kim Nielsen.

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lindasepp.bsky.social•52 days ago

Have you read the book?
I'm looking for a good book on ableism.

katerodger.bsky.social•52 days ago

Yes, beautiful.

And so very necessary.

prhho.bsky.social•52 days ago

Joining up these threads https://bsky.app/profile/dwolnik.bsky.social/post/3lervfruxzo2u Resilence so often the pernicious opposite to dependency

prhho.bsky.social•52 days ago

And my take on dependency in humanitarian relief here http://cdn-odi-production.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/media/documents/277_kBtmldc.pdf

prhho.bsky.social•52 days ago

In which we drew shamelessly on Hartley Dean’s brilliant ethics of welfare and his take on interdependence https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-ethics-of-welfare#:~:text=Edited%20by%20Hartley%20Dean,-Paperback&text=The%20book%20explores%20the%20extent,of%20responsibility%20on%20the%20other.

prhho.bsky.social•52 days ago

But I’m not sure I can claim any great research influence - fears of dependency are still deeply embedded in humanitarian thinking

olough.bsky.social•52 days ago

I wonder how this is being refracted through the lens of "less humanitarian, more social protection" - do fears of dependency vanish when aid safety nets are replaced by state ones?

prhho.bsky.social•52 days ago

Nope - many governments don’t want to support social protection due to dependency fears

prhho.bsky.social•52 days ago

See https://www.ids.ac.uk/publications/policy-pollination-a-brief-history-of-social-protections-brief-history-in-africa/

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blpd.bsky.social•52 days ago

More on this - Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin https://www.goodread
https://s.com/book/show/51306.Mutual_Aid

alysonistired.bsky.social•52 days ago

Such a good book. The section on Native cultures esp

ghostflaneur.bsky.social•49 days ago

shades of New Deal rhetoric I saw from the 1930s and 40s: how did the pioneers and frontier people survive? By looking out for each other.

Same nowadays. People will survive and thrive through cooperation and looking out for each other.

paulbeard.org•52 days ago

you mean…the people who claim to have been born in a log cabin they built with their own two hands were lying all this time?

Seriously, the myth of the rugged individual will take generations to root out but starting now seems like a good time.

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