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Social work and the city : urban themes in 21st century social work
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ISBN: 9781137516220 9781137516237 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Palgrave Macmillan

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This book critically explores ways of thinking about the city and its relevance for the profession of social work. It provides a colourful illustration of practice drawing on examples of social work responses to a range of issues emerging from the unprecedented scale, density and pace of change in cities. The associated challenges posed for social work include: the increased segregation of the poor, the crisis of affordable housing, homelessness, gentrification, ageing, displacement as a result of migrations, and the breakdown of social support and care. Drawing on multiple disciplines, this groundbreaking work shows that these familiar features of the twenty-first century can be counteracted by the positive aspects of the city: its innovation, creativity and serendipity. It has a redistributive, caring and cohesive potential. The city can provide new opportunities and resources for social work to influence, to collaborate, to foster participation and involvement, and to extend its social justice mandate. The book shows that the city represents a critical arena in terms of the future of social work intervention and social work identity. In doing so, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of social work, social policy, community work and urban studies.


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Verzameling artikels Charlotte Williams

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Verzameling van 10 artikels Charlotte Williams. Bevat: "Anti-Racism and Predominantly 'White Areas': Local and National Referents in the Search for Race Equality in Social Work Education", "'A World on the Move': Migration, Mobilities and Social Work", "From Multiculturalism to Superdiversity? Narratives of health and wellbeing in an urban neighbourhood", "From Specialism to Genericism: Rising and Falling to the Challenges of Responding to Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Social Work Education in Wales", "Participatory methodologies involving marginalised perspectives", "Moral outrage! Social work and social welfare", "Reviving social work through moral outrage", "Succession and Success: New Generation Capacity Building in Social Work Education Australia", "The jester's joke", "Travelling hopefully: race/ethnic relations and social work: a transnational dialogue".


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'A world on the move' : migration, mobilities and social work

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Across the world, people are on the move?international students, highly skilled workers, economic migrants, retirees, refugees, nomads, those within global care chains and those whose unauthorised status leave them vulnerable to all sorts of human rights violations, including slavery. Even the term ?migration? now seems inadequate to describe the movement of people across the world as twenty-first-century communication technologies, transportation and culture make mobility so much easier, enabling people to think and act beyond the borders of their countries. The title of this Special Issue directs our attention to the complexities of global migration flows and the emergent networks and interconnections occurring across nation states. Migration is not of course new. Historically, human populations have migrated to different countries following long-established patterns of people fleeing conflict, war, persecution, escaping poverty and unemployment. What is new is the nature and extent of the social transformations produced by these movements which are challenging established ideas about migration itself. Major shifts in the scale and diversification of international migration serve to generate questions about identity, nation, citizenship, the reshaping of contemporary societies, community and place and, most pertinently for social work, raising questions about the adequacy and nature of responses within particular welfare regimes.


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Participatory methodologies involving marginalised perspectives

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In recent decades the imperative to achieve greater levels of engagement in public policymaking has given rise to a plethora of participatory methodologies aimed at reaching out to so called ?hard to reach groups? (Boag-Munroe and Evangelou, 2012; Brackertz, 2007). In all social policy fields, engaging underrepresented groups in governance is driven by the need to design and deliver more responsive services, provide legitimacy for policy decisions, improve take up of services and communicate confidence that as citizens all will receive fair treatment from agencies and institutions. This ambition to include has meant that government bodies and associated organisations have turned their attention to specific groups that do not easily participate either as a result of socioeconomic, demographic, attitudinal and cultural barriers, or too often as a result of stigma and discrimination. Participation is fundamental to the notion of citizenship, encompassing issues of recognition, representation, consultation and the right to have one?s voice heard and incorporated in decision making (Fishkin, 2011).

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Participatie --- Minderheid --- Beleid


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The jester's joke

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In Stan Cohen's essay in the classic Radical social work collection, he draws on the idea of ?the jester's joke? as a means of illustrating the need for the occasional prompt to jolt professional thinking and action. This chapter argues that the radical trajectory of anti-racism in social work in Britain has found itself in a cul de sac characterised by a politics of compromise. Social work deployed a particular model of radicalism and a set of strategies that have been exhausted in terms of their usefulness in the current political context such that they cannot be regarded as ?radical? at all. In their book, Bailey and Brake implied a significant rethink of the role and identity of social work and the ways in which social workers were being prepared for the world of practice. The variant of radicalism proposed by Bailey and Brake placed too much confidence in the trade unions, while failing to observe the discriminatory practices of trade unionists themselves.Bron: https://policypress.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1332/policypress/9781847428189.001.0001/upso-9781847428189-chapter-5


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Critical multicultural practice in social work : new perspectives and practices
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ISBN: 9781760297831 Year: 2019 Publisher: Australia Allen & Unwin

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Critical multicultural practice, rather than being a specialism, is integral to Australian social work. Drawing on critical race theory, critical multiculturalism, intersectionality and critical reflection as practice theory, this major new edited collection challenges many of the dominant assumptions of cross-cultural social work and provides instead a new model of transformative engagement.Key concepts are considered, including identity, culture, diversity and superdiversity, how power and privilege shape everyday interactions and what is meant by citizenship in the contemporary context. Part One explores the changing nature of multicultural practice in Australia, including our society's changing demographic profile, the impact of asylum and refugee migrations, race and racism and cultural identity. Indigenous perspectives and the relationship with multicultural practice are examined, together with the ethical and legal basis for multicultural practice. This part concludes with an outline of the editors' framework for critical multicultural practice. Part Two draws on contributions from a range of practitioners and offers new perspectives on diverse fields, including child protection, mental health, disability, ageing, homelessness and rural and regional practice.Featuring case studies and insights drawn from across the spectrum of practice, this book is a vital resource for all social workers practising in Australia today.'[A] rich and nuanced analysis of what is happening at the interfaces of our work and the lives of Australian citizens, [it] articulates ways forward that are genuine, bold and empathetic.'From the foreword by Professor Kerry Arabena, The University of MelbourneSource: https://www.bookdepository.com/Critical-Multicultural-Practice-Social-Work-Sharlene-Nipperess/9781760297831?ref=grid-view&qid=1570009406934&sr=1-1


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Anti-racism and predominantly 'white areas' : local and national referents in the search for race equality in social work education

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This article draws on research that investigated teaching and learning for anti-racist and cultural competency practice across social work programmes in Wales. It utilises the concept of ?predominantly white areas?, defined as both a spatial category and as a mode of thinking to show how anti-racist teaching can be marginalised by misplaced assumptions associated with small minority presence. It draws on the relatively new theoretical trajectory of ?whiteness? studies to explore how particular constructions of the local/national context form a critical interplay with anti-racist teaching and learning, in this case ?the Welsh context?. It argues that anti-racist teaching needs to be accommodative of an understanding of constructions of the local and the national within which the recognition of minorities and the teaching of anti-racism can be appropriately reclaimed.


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From specialism to genericism : rising and falling to the challenge of responding to racial and ethnic diversity in social work education in Wales

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Issues of race equality/cultural diversity have been on the UK social work training agenda since the late 1970s; few attempts have been made to assess training inputs or evaluate outcomes. This aspect of social work education remains under-researched but the nature and extent of such training are also highly contested. This paper reports on a study of programme providers across Wales aimed at capturing the nature and extent of training on issues of race equality/cultural diversity. The findings suggest attrition of these issues against a strengthened legislative and policy mandate on equalities. Participants note a shift away from specific training on race equality/diversity towards a generic approach being unable to systematically account for student exposure or experience of training on these issues. Programme leads and practice assessors reveal difficulties in narrowing the gap between theory and practice, in assessing competency in this area, and report on competing priorities and failure to engage with black and minority ethnic (BME) users and user organisations in planning and delivery of the curriculum. The findings indicate a widening gap between professional aspirations and implementation; the paper concludes that higher education institutions (HEIs), practice assessors and BME user groups could work more closely to ensure effective coverage of these issues.


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Reviving social work through moral outrage

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Inspired by Hessel?s (2011) call in Time for Outrage and drawing on the concept of ?moral outrage?, we argue in this article that addressing contraventions of human rights and social justice issues demands an emotional connection with the nature of injustice. We propose that contemporary social work in Western liberal democracies has lost touch with the moral imperative, sentiment and affective encounter as a positive impetus for collective action. We consider competing interpretations of why this might be the case and look beyond the incursions of neoliberal market methodologies towards a consideration of the complex relationships between power, subjectivities and collective emotion. Western epistemologies have viewed emotion as the antithesis of rationality and discouraged this type of thinking as somehow risky, tricky and dangerous. We seek to reconfigure this political and ethical (mis)appropriation of emotions and argue for its centrality within the social injustice mandate of social work.


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Succession and success : new generation capacity building in social work education Australia

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In the past decade in Australia, a considerable body of research into the academic workforce as a whole has highlighted a number of key issues for long-term workforce planning. The broader picture is of a rapidly ageing workforce, particularly in senior leadership positions, of increasing casualization of the workforce and of a shrinking pool of likely applicants ready to take up positions as they become available. These issues are reflected in the social work academic workforce raising questions about succession planning, sustainability of programs and the reproduction of the discipline. The evidence base for an examination of these issues in the social work academic workforce in Australia is weak. In this article we consider the nationally and internationally available research in order to explore the key challenges in building and sustaining a strong social work academic workforce. We conclude by advocating for a comprehensive plan for capacity building underpinned by more integrated relationships between practice and academic social work.

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