Dissenting Social Work

Author : Paul Michael Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000347883

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Dissenting Social Work by Paul Michael Garrett Pdf

This book, from one of international social work’s leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting. Addressing the troubled times in which we find ourselves, Garrett’s book examines a broad range of theoretical frameworks and draws on diverse writers, such as Marx, Foucault, Brown, Zuboff, Rancière, Wacquant, Arendt, Levinas, Fanon and Gramsci. The author’s panoramic vision encompasses Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Algeria, Israel/Palestine and China. Timely, lively and accessible, this book speaks directly to some of the main preoccupations of our era. Readers will be encouraged to relate developments in social work to key themes circulating around migration, the threat of neo-fascism, surveillance culture, colonialism, the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Imbued with a sense of hope for a brighter future, this book encourages a new generation of social work students to recognise and examine the importance of critical theory for understanding the structural forces shaping their lives and the lives of those with whom they work and provide services. This book is vital, indispensable and essential reading for social work students and other readers, throughout the world, seeking to make the connection between social work, social theory and sociology. Paul Michael Garrett—probably the most important critical social work theorist in the English-speaking world—is a remarkable and very productive critical thinker. In this book he deals with issues of migration, the threat of neo-fascism, surveillance culture, colonialism, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic... Insightful and inspiring, thought-provoking and comprehensive in addressing timely critical issues for social work globally. (Filipe Duarte, International Journal of Social Welfare, 2021)

Author : William Kaplan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773550704

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Why Dissent Matters by William Kaplan Pdf

An inquiry into dissent and how it might save the world.

Author : Sean Carleton,Ted McCoy,Julia Smith
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771993111

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Dissenting Traditions by Sean Carleton,Ted McCoy,Julia Smith Pdf

The work of Bryan D. Palmer, one of North America’s leading historians, has influenced the fields of labour history, social history, discourse analysis, communist history, and Canadian history, as well as the theoretical frameworks surrounding them. Palmer’s work reveals a life dedicated to dissent and the difficult task of imagining alternatives by understanding the past in all of its contradictions, victories, and failures. Dissenting Traditions gathers Palmer’s contemporaries, students, and sometimes critics to examine and expand on the topics and themes that have defined Palmer’s career, from labour history to Marxism and communist politics. Paying attention to Palmer’s participation in key debates, contributors demonstrate that class analysis, labour history, building institutions, and engaging the public are vital for social change. In this moment of increasing precarity and growing class inequality, Palmer’s politically engaged scholarship offers a useful roadmap for scholars and activists alike and underlines the importance of working-class history. With contributions by Alan Campbell, Alvin Finkel, Sam Gindin, Gregory S. Kealey, John McIlroy, Kirk Niegarth, Bryan D. Palmer, Leo Panitch, Chad Pearson, Sean Purdy, and Nicholas Rogers.

Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0674017684

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Why Societies Need Dissent by Cass R. Sunstein Pdf

Dissenters are often portrayed as selfish and disloyal, but Sunstein shows that those who reject pressures imposed by others perform valuable social functions, often at their own expense.

Author : Edgar Marthinsen,Nina Skjefstad,Anne Juberg,Paul Michael Garrett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000460797

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Social Work and Neoliberalism by Edgar Marthinsen,Nina Skjefstad,Anne Juberg,Paul Michael Garrett Pdf

Social work educators and practitioners are grappling with many difficulties confronting the profession in the context of an increasingly neoliberal world. The contributors of this book examine how neoliberalism — and the modes with which it structures the world — has an impact on, and shapes, social work as a disciplinary ‘field’. Drawing on new empirical work, the chapters in this book highlight how neoliberalism is affecting social work practices ‘on the ground’. The book seeks to stimulate international debate on the totalizing effects of neoliberalism, and in so doing, also identify various ways through which it can be resisted both locally and globally. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the European Journal of Social Work.

Author : Paul Michael Garrett
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040013540

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Social Work and Common Sense by Paul Michael Garrett Pdf

Rooted in a lively, critical approach to social work education and practice, Social Work and Common Sense challenges readers to think critically and more deeply about core facets of social work knowledge and ‘received ideas’. Garrett draws on the work of Antonio Gramsci to develop new, and often provocative, insights on attachment theory, creativity, anger, human rights, the ‘unmarried mother’ in Ireland’s past, and contemporary approaches to ‘decolonising’ social work education. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which includes a series of reflection and talk boxes to assist students to critically reflect (individually and in class/seminar and fieldwork/workplace discussions) on key facets of the preceding chapter. Addressing often complex ideas in a freshly accessible way, Social Work and Common Sense will be required reading in all postgraduate and advanced undergraduate classes in theory and social work.

Author : Sobia Shaheen Shaikh,Brenda A. LeFrançois,Teresa Macías
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773635293

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Critical Social Work Praxis by Sobia Shaheen Shaikh,Brenda A. LeFrançois,Teresa Macías Pdf

What we think must inform what we do, argue the editors and authors of this cutting-edge social work textbook. In this innovative, expansive and wide-ranging collection, leading social work thinkers engage with social work traditions to bridge social work theory and practice and arrive at social work praxis: a uniting of critical thought and ethical action. Critical Social Work Praxis is organized into sixteen sections, each reflecting a critical social work tradition or approach. Each section has a theory chapter, which succinctly outlines the tradition’s main concepts or tenets, a praxis chapter, which shows how the theory informs social work practice, and a commentary chapter, which provides a critical analysis of the tensions and difficulties of the approach. The text helps students understand how to extend theory into praxis and gives instructors critical new tools and discussion ideas. This book is the result of decades of experience teaching social work theory and praxis and is a comprehensive teaching and learning tool for the critical social work classroom.

Author : Catrina Brown,Judy E. MacDonald
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781773381695

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Critical Clinical Social Work: Counterstorying for Social Justice by Catrina Brown,Judy E. MacDonald Pdf

This edited collection offers an original critical clinical approach to social work practice, written by social work educators from the School of Social Work at Dalhousie University and their collaborators. It provides a Canadian perspective on the diverse issues social workers encounter in the field, highlighting the practical application of feminist, narrative, anti-racist, and postcolonial frameworks. With the aim of producing counterstories that participate in social resistance, this volume focuses on integrating critical theory with direct clinical practice. Through the use of case studies, the contributors tackle a range of substantive issues including ethics, working with complex trauma, men’s use of violence, substance use among women and girls, Indigenous social work praxis, critical child welfare approaches, counterstorying experiences of (dis)Ability, and animal-informed social work practice.

Author : Frederick Crews
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781593761509

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Follies of the Wise by Frederick Crews Pdf

Bestselling author and Berkeley professor of thirty years Frederick Crews has always considered himself a skeptic. Forty years ago he thought he had found a tradition of thought — Freudian psychoanalytic theory — that had skepticism built into it. He gradually realized, however, that true skepticism is an attitude of continual questioning. The more closely Crews examined the logical structure and institutional history of psychoanalysis, the more clearly he realized that Freud's system of thought lacked empirical rigor. Indeed, he came to see Freudian theory as the very model of a modern pseudoscience. Follies of the Wise contains Crews's best writing of the past fifteen years, including such controversial and widely quoted pieces as "The Unknown Freud" and "The Revenge of the Repressed," essays whose effects still reverberate today. In addition, his topics range from "Intelligent Design" creationism to theosophy, from psychological testing to UFO zaniness, from American Buddhism to the current state of literary criticism. A single theme animates his bracing and witty discussions: the temptation to reach for deep wisdom without attending to the little voice that asks, "Could I, by any chance, be deceiving myself here?"

Author : Lynn Staley
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271040226

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Margery Kempe's Dissenting Fictions by Lynn Staley Pdf

Author : Arun Gadre,Abhay Shukla
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184007961

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Dissenting Diagnosis by Arun Gadre,Abhay Shukla Pdf

Complaints about the state of medical care are increasing in today’s India: whether it’s unnecessary investigations, botched operations or expensive—sometimes even harmful—medication. But while the unease is widespread, few outside the profession understand the extent to which the medical system is being distorted. Dr Arun Gadre and Dr Abhay Shukla have gathered evidence from seventy-eight practising doctors, in both the private and public medical sectors, to expose the ways in which vulnerable patients are exploited by a system that promotes unscrupulous medical practices. At a time when the medical sector is growing rapidly, especially in urban areas, with the proliferation of multi-specialty hospitals and the adoption of ever-more sophisticated technologies, rational and ethical medical care is becoming increasingly rare. Honest doctors feel under siege, professional bodies meant to regulate the medical sector fail to do so, and the influence of the powerful pharmaceutical industry becomes even more pervasive. Drawing on the frank and courageous statements of these seventy-eight doctors dismayed at the state of their profession, Dissenting Diagnosis lays bare the corruption afflicting the medical sector in India and sets out solutions for a healthier future.

Author : Lorna Burns,Katie Muth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781351357715

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World Literature and Dissent by Lorna Burns,Katie Muth Pdf

World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. Addressing a broad range of examples, from the Maghrebian humanist Ibn Khaldūn to India’s Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic. It asks the urgent question: how critical practice might cultivate radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?

Author : Steve Burghardt
Publisher : Cognella Academic Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1793515034

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The End of Social Work by Steve Burghardt Pdf

The End of Social Work: A Defense of the Social Worker in Times of Transformation explores the deeply flawed status quo of the social work profession. Its message is clear: it is not acceptable for social workers to labor under intolerable working conditions and financial strain because they work with the poor and oppressed. Steve Burghardt addresses why social workers no longer have the income and status once shared with nurses and teachers. He addresses the leadership failures that cause social workers to be blamed for not ending poverty yet expected to handle burnout through self-care rather than collective action. He looks beyond nostrums of social justice to the indifference to systemic racism in the profession's journals and programs and explores the damage caused by substituting individuated measures of unvalidated competencies for grounded wisdom in practice. It is thus no accident that a profession committing to "care for everyone" undermines the herculean work that so many social workers do on behalf of the poor, marginalized, and oppressed. Situating the work in the crises of 2020, Burghardt ends with a proposed call to action directed at a transformed profession. Such a campaign would be situated within the national struggles for racial justice, climate change, and economic equality so that social work and social workers regain their legitimacy as authentic advocates fighting alongside the poor and oppressed--and doing so for themselves as well. A rallying cry for social work itself, The End of Social Work is an ideal resource for social work programs and practicing social workers driven to enact meaningful change. Visit Steve Burghardt's The End of Social Work blog for regular insights on the ever-evolving social work profession. To keep up on the latest news for The End of Social Work and to tune in to Steve Burghardt's podcast, Macro Matters!, visit: endofsocialwork.com

Author : Jane Fenton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781350313873

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Social Work for Lazy Radicals by Jane Fenton Pdf

Be proud to be a lazy radical! This textbook makes the case for a radical approach to social work that can be embraced by everyone. It's an approach based on real empathy and an understanding of oppression, of managerialism, of the moral heart of social work, of humanism and of the effects of neoliberal hegemony. Jane Fenton provides a model of radical practice for students and social workers who are committed to 'doing the right thing', and who want to develop their own framework for practice. This book will appeal to students who are activists, but want to frame their individual-level practice in a meaningful way, and to those who are non-activist and non-political but simply want to be good social workers. It will give a political and moral understanding of social work practice and lead to confident, value-based and enjoyable social work.

Author : Arthur Lindner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Illumination of books and manuscripts
ISBN : LCCN:13016635

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Der Breslauer Froissart by Arthur Lindner Pdf