ABSTRACT
The Love Ethic Model is presented as a way to do justice work using public campaigns, research, community arts practice and other NVDA strategies. The overarching aim is to place moral pressure on high-power entities such as governments and businesses to address eco-justice concerns. The contributors’ stories of eco-activism informed the Love Ethic Model, which distils the two key capacities of TCL and a particular form of DGW, namely, DGW between interest groups. The two capacities of TCL and DGW between interest groups bring a focus to new directions in how leadership and group work can be understood and practiced in social work and related disciplines. In the social work research domain, as another example, Godden’s research with East Timorese community members explicitly engages participants in naming their reality and understanding of love to draw out the relevance of love in their lives and communities.
