Radical Empathy

Radical Empathy Bibliography

Kathy Carbone (Pratt) 

1. Ambroise, W. D. (2023). Practicing and Marketing with Empathy in Libraries. Library Philosophy and Practice, 1-10.

2. Arroyo-Ramírez, E., Jones, J., O'Neill, S., & Smith, H. (2021). An introduction to radical empathy in archival practice. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(2).

3. Birdi, B., Wilson, K., & Cocker, J. (2008). The public library, exclusion and empathy: a literature review. Library Review, 57(8), 576-592.

4. Burns, E. A. (2023). Culturally responsive librarians: shifting perspectives toward racial empathy. Open Information Science, 7(1), 20220140.

5. Caswell, M., & Cifor, M. (2016). From human rights to feminist ethics: radical empathy in the archives. Archivaria, 81(1), 23-43.

6. Cooke, N., Warren, K., Brown, M., & Jackson, A. (2020). It Starts at Home: Infusing Radical Empathy into Graduate Education. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3 (Radical Empathy in Archival Practice, 1–23. https://journals.litwinbooks.com/index.php/jclis/article/view/123 

7. Decety, J., & Cowell, J. M. (2014). Friends or foes: Is empathy necessary for moral behavior? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 9(5), 525-537. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691614545130

8. Fife, K. (2024). Working with queer archives through radical empathy. SAGE Publications.

9. Gomez, M. L. (2022). Recognizing All Students’ Assets: The Role of Profound Interruptions. The European Educational Researcher, 5(2), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.31757/euer.521

10. Grant, A., & Pittaway, S. (2024). Enacting a Pedagogy of Kindness: A Guide for Practitioners in Higher Education (1st ed.). Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003364887 

11. Han, R., & Han, Y. (2021). Radical empathy in the university archives: examining archival representations of Chinese students from 1906 to 1920. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 728-730.

12. Jordan, J. V., & Schwartz, H. L. (2018). Radical Empathy in Teaching: New Directions for Teaching and Learning. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 153, 25–35. https://doi.org/10.1002/tl.20278

13. Kelty, Shawna Mefferd. (2018). We Have Lift-Off: The Pedagogy of Radical Empathy for First-Year Student Success. Theatre/Practice: The Online Journal of the Practice/Production Symposium of the  Mid America Theatre Conference, 7, 1–28.

14. Kim, H. N. (2024). Empathy and Academic Achievement among Black/African American Students at an HBCU. Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 14(1), 296-308.

15. Lowry, J. (2019). Radical empathy, the imaginary and affect in (post) colonial records: how to break out of international stalemates on displaced archives. Archival Science, 19(2), 185-203.

16. Parson, L., & Kitsch, S. (2022). Teaching Empathy in Virtual Settings Through an Ethic of Careethic of care. In L. Parson & C. C. Ozaki (Eds.), Teaching and Learning for Social Justice and Equity in Higher Education: Virtual Settings (pp. 277–307). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88608-0_11

17. Phillips, A. (2017). Understanding Empathetic Services: The Role of Empathy in Everyday Library Work. Journal of Research on Libraries & Young Adults, 8(1).

18. Sellars, M. (2023). Radical acceptance: Teachers who support students with migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds. Teachers and Teaching, 29(5), 528–541. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2022.2098269

19. Sellars, M. & Imig, S. (2021). School Leadership, Reflective Practice, and Education for Students with Refugee Backgrounds: A Pathway to Radical Empathy. Intercultural Education, 32(4), 417–429.

20. Thompson, Kimberly D., Singletary, Zachary T., Morse, Tracy Ann, & Morris, Abigail L. (2022). Boundaries, Self-Care, and Empathy: Building an Empathic Teaching Survival Kit - ProQuest. Composition Studies, 50(2), 34–52. 

21. Tuitt, F., Haynes, C., & Stewart, S. (Eds.). (2023). Race, equity, and the learning environment : the global relevance of critical and inclusive pedagogies in higher education / (First edition.). Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group.

22. Winn, S. R. (2021). Radical Empathy in Peer Education: A Case Study on Deconstructing Whiteness. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(2), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i2.129

23. Arroyo-Ramírez, E. (2021). Radical empathy in the context of suspended grief: An affective web of mutual loss, Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies 3(2), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.24242/jclis.v3i2.134.

24. Baxter, T. (2024). Lovers in a dangerous time: Archives, archivists, and community. American Archivist, 87(1), 9–18. https://doi.org/10.17723/2327-9702-87.1.9

25. Bisio, A M., Duckworth, S., Egbert, H., Haskins, E., and O'Hara, G. (2021). Archivist to archivist: Employing an ethics of care model with interns and student workers. Journal of Western Archives, 12(1), 1-21.  DOI: 10.59620/2154-7149.1128  

26. Burgess, D., et al. (2022). From titular to radical empathy: Conceptualizing empathy through the lens of youth organizing. Journal for Multicultural Education 17(2), 223–36. https://doi.org/10.1108/JME-01-2022-0014.

27. Chiu, A., & Chen, J. (2021). Radical empathy in the university archives: Examining archival labor and Chinese student experiences at the University of Illinois. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 58(1), 72-82. doi: 10.1002/pra2.543

28. Fancher, S. (2022). Radical empathy and the managerial ethic of care. In C.E. Holm, A.B. Guimaraes & B. Wood (Eds.), Academic Librarian Burnout: Causes and Responses. Chicago, IL: Association of College and Research Libraries. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4308834

29. Givens, T. E. (2025). Reckoning: Creating positive change through radical empathy (Policy Press).

30. Head, N., & Kaur, S. (2024). Power and pedagogic failure: Seeking a politics of empathy towards an anti-racist academy. Journal of International Political Theory, 20(3), 309-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882241283576

31. Hollis, S. S. (2022). Know Means Know: Using Radical Empathy to Define Consent in Digital Archiving. Serials Review, 48(3–4), 222–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2022.2110851

32. Lassere, M., & Whyte, J. M. (2021). Balancing care and authenticity in digital collections: A radical empathy approach to working with disk images. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 3(2). doi: 10.24242/jclis.v3i2.125

33. Liew, C. L. and Lipscombe, A. (2023). Transforming indigenous knowledges stewardship praxis through an ethics of care. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology 60(1), 646–50, https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.832.

34.  Mazari, S. A. G., and Hobscheid, M. (2023). Compounded trauma and the teaching librarian: Reflections on trauma-informed approaches and the practice of radical empathy. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nh9d9pn.

35. Regehr, C., Duff, W., Aton, H., & Sato, C. (2022). “Humans and records are entangled”: empathic engagement and emotional response in archivists. Archival Science: International Journal on Recorded Information, 22(4), 563–583. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-022-09392-5

36. Smith, H. A. (2018). Radical love: Documenting underrepresented communities using principles of radical empathy. Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists, 15, 2–11.

37. Smith, H. A. (2022). “Wholeness is no trifling matter”: Black feminist archival practice and the Spelman College archives.The Black Scholar, 52(2), 16–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00064246.2022.2042764

38. von Rosen, A. (2022). Affect and digital caregiving: challenging the performing arts canon with a “dig where you stand” database. Archives & Records, 43(2), 128–142. https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2022.2031932

39. Watts, G. (2017). Applying radical empathy to women’s march documentation efforts: A reflection exercise. Archives and Manuscripts, 45(3), 191–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2017.1373361

40. Wright, K., & Laurent, N. (2021). Safety, collaboration, and empowerment: Trauma-Informed archival practice. Archivaria, 91, 38–73. https://doi.org/10.7202/1078465ar

Related Websites and Videos

Givens, T. E. (2021). Starting on the path to radical empathy. Medium. https://terrigivens64.medium.com/starting-on-the-path-to-radical-empathy-2f7c27337015

Givens, T. E. (2026). Radical empathy: Finding a path to bridging racial divides. https://www.terrigivens.com/radicalempathy/ 

Ha, T.-H. (2021). 5 exercises to help you build more empathy. TED Ideas. https://ideas.ted.com/5-exercises-to-help-you-build-more-empathy/ 

Policy Press. (n.d.). Radical empathy reading guide [PDF]. Bristol University Press. https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/asset/9312/radical-empathy-reading-guide.pdf 

Segran, E. (2016). Try this exercise in radical empathy to minimize conflict. Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/3066609/try-this-exercise-in-radical-empathy-to-minimize-conflict