Global Social Work in a Political Context : : Radical Perspectives /

Global Social Work in a Political Context : : Radical Perspectives / / Iain Ferguson, Vasilios Ioakimidis, Michael Lavalette.

How is social work shaped by global issues and international problems and how should it address them? This book employs a radical perspective to examine international social work. Globalisation had opened up many issues for social work, including how to address global inequalities, the impact of glo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Ferguson, Iain,
Ioakimidis, Vasilios,
Lavalette, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Global social work in a political context
  • The political context of contemporary social work
  • The political economy of social work
  • Neoliberalism, social work and the state: retreat or restructuring?
  • The privatisation of social work and social care
  • Social work politics: past and present
  • Social work’s horrible histories: collusion and resistance
  • Social work as a praxis for liberation: the case of Latin American reconceptualisation
  • Refugees, migrants and social work
  • Social work, climate change and the Anthropocene
  • Debating the politics of social work today
  • A new politics of social work?
  • The case for a social justice-based global social work definition
  • Conclusions: ‘Making history’
  • References
  • Index

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