Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance

A Tale of Two Professions
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4473-6427-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 578 g

Social work is often presented as a benevolent and politically neutral profession, avoiding discussion about its sometimes troubling political histories.

This book rethinks social work’s legacy and history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive and punitive practices. Using a comparative approach with international case studies, the book uncovers the role of social workers in politically tense episodes of recent history, including the anti-racist struggle in the US and the impact of colonialism in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

As the de-colonisation of curricula and the Black Lives Matter movement gain momentum, this fascinating book skilfully navigates social work’s collective political past while considering its future.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ioakimidis, Vasilios

Wyllie, Aaron

Weitere Mitwirkende

Moth, Rich

Duarte, Filipe

Selmi, Patrick

Noble, Carolyn

Dettlaff, Alan

Copeland, Victoria

McGregor, Caroline

Lavalette, Michael

Trimikliniotis, Nicos

Tsianos, Vassilis

Campana-Alabarce, Melisa

Muñoz-Arce, Gianinna

Martínez Herrero, María Inés

Harms-Smith, Linda

Turton, Yasmin

Kuhlmann, Carola

Bald, Caroline

Amadiegwu, Akudo

Silva, Pedro Gabriel

Martins, Alcina

Pease, Bob

Shennan, Guy

McGettrick, Claire

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Ethische Themen & Debatten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Making Amends With the Past

1. Learning From the Past To Shape the Future: Uncovering Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance – Vasilios Ioakimidis and Aaron Wyllie

Part 2: Legacies of Colonialism and Racism in Social Work

2. Canadian Social Work and the Sixties Scoop: Reflections on the Past, Lessons for Today – Filipe Duarte and Patrick Selmi

3. Reconciling Systemic Abuse of Children and Young Women With Social Work’s Commitment to a Human Rights, Transformative Practice – Carolyn Noble

4. The Oppressive History of 'Child Welfare' Systems and the Need for Abolition – Alan J. Dettlaff and Victoria Copeland

5. Colonial and Apartheid South Africa: Social Work Complicity and Resistance – Linda Harms-Smith and Yasmin Turton

Part 3: Social Work’s Contested Ideologies

6. Social Services in Nazi Germany and the Role of Social Workers Between Complicity and Rare Resistance – Carola Kuhlmann

7. Social Assistance in Franco’s Fascist Spain (1939–1975): A History of Social Control, Family Segregation and Stolen Babies – María Inés Martínez Herrero

8. Social Work in Times of Political Violence: Dictatorships and Acts of Resistance From the Southern Cone – Gianinna Muñoz-Arce and Melisa Campana-Alabarce

9. Trade Union Mobilisation, Resistance and Political Action of Social Workers in Portugal – Pedro Gabriel Silva and Alcina Martins

10. The Radical Roots of Popular Social Work in Palestine – Michael Lavalette

Part 4: Social Work’s Complicity With Institutionalisation and Detention

11. Institutionalisation and Oppression Within the Mental Health System in England: Social Work Complicity and Resistance – Rich Moth

12. A Refugee Crisis or a Crisis of Anti-Immigrant Politics? Hostile Refugee Reception, the Pandemic and New Solidarities in Cyprus – Nicos Trimikliniotis and Vassilis Tsianos

13. Institutionalisation of Certain Children and Mothers in Ireland: Reflections on the ‘Troubled History’ of Child Welfare Social Work – Caroline McGregor

Part 5: Survivor Perspectives and Contemporary Reflections

14. Facing the Legacy of Social Work: Coming to Terms With Complicity in Systemic Inequality and Social Injustice – Bob Pease

15. “We Want Social Workers To Hear Our Story”: Learning From Parents Whose Children Were Taken Away – Guy Shennan

16. Decolonisation and Critical Social Work Pedagogies – Caroline Bald and Akudo Amadiegwu

17. Adoption Social Work Practice in Ireland: Critical Reflections on Present-Day Injustices – Claire McGettrick

Über Autor(innen)

Moth, Rich
Rich Moth is Lecturer in Social Work at Royal Holloway University of London.

Shennan, Guy
Chair, British Association of Social Workers, 2014-2018

Ioakimidis, Vasilios
Vasilios Ioakimidis is Editor of the British Journal of Social Work, Founding Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Social Work at the University of Essex and a founding member of the Social Work Action Network.

Lavalette, Michael
Michael Lavalette is a Professor in the Department of Social Work, Care and Justice at Liverpool Hope Univeristy. He has published widely on radical social work and contemporary social movements. He is co-editor of Critical and Radical Social Work journal.

Vasilios Ioakimidis is Professor of Social Work at the University of Essex and the University of West Attica. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Johannesburg.

Aaron Wyllie is Lecturer at the Centre for Social Work and Social Justice at the University of Essex.