Radical Hope in Social Work

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-003-86310-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Social Work

This book broadens the concept of hope used in social work research, education, policy and practice. Moving beyond individualist analyses of hope that construct social workers as givers and holders of hope, it draws on intersectionality to argue that individualist articulations of hope in social work need to be interrogated to make visible structural and social contexts that are often marked by intersecting social and systemic oppressions and inequalities.

Discussing multidisciplinary research and conceptualisations of hope as a multidimensional concept that includes both individual and radical structural and social change in social work, this book theorises the importance of engaging with critical, radical and utopian conceptualisations of hope across social work research and practice. It also highlights how radical notions of hope are envisioned in different activist campaigns and across diverse fields of social work practice, including in revolutionary, abolitionist and system reform campaigns associated with Indigenising social work, incarceration, child protection and advocating for a greener world.

By theorising hope as an integral component in critical and radical social work’s commitment to social justice, in the context of the hegemony of neoliberal thinking, this book will be of interest to all scholars, students and practitioners of the subject.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zufferey, Carole

Horsell, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Community Care, Bildung, Freizeit, Freiwilligenarbeit
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction  Part 1 2.The Theory of Hope 3.Hope and Social Work Research 4.Radical Hope, Critical Pedagogy and Social Work 5.Hope and Social Work Practice  Part 2 6.Yarning about Hope for Indigenising social work 7.Hopes for a greener world through social work activism 8.Hope for co-design as a research practice in homelessness 9.Hopes for change in child welfare and child protection systems 10.Radical hope and mental health 11.Hopes for a prison free world 12.Hopes for a violence free world 13.Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Carole Zufferey is a Senior Lecturer in social work at the University of South Australia (now Adelaide University). She publishes in the fields of intersectionality, home, social work and homelessness. Carole has previously published sole-authored and edited books with Routledge, as well as with Policy Press. She was also a research team member on the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) lived experience research project led by Professor Robyn Martin at RMIT University.

Chris Horsell is a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of South Australia (now Adelaide University). He has been researching, teaching and writing in the areas of utopian thinking, homelessness, social inclusion and disability for numerous years. He has published two books with Routledge: Zufferey, Carole and Horsell, Chris (2022) The Complexities of Home in Social Work; and Horsell, Chris (2025) Utopian Thinking and Social Work.