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Post-Anthropocentric Social Work: Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives book cover

1st Edition

Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

Edited By Vivienne Bozalek, Bob Pease Copyright 2021
254 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

254 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism. Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong... Read more

List of Tables, Figures and Images

Notes on contributors

Foreword
Mathew Arthur

Preface

Acknowledgements

  1. Towards Post-Anthropocentric Social Work
    Vivienne Bozalek and Bob Pease

    2.

    Part One: Philosophical Foundations of Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

  2. What Comes After the Subject? Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work
    Stephen A. Webb

  3. An Invitation into the Trouble with Humanism for Social Work
    Tina E. Wilson

    4.

  4. Restorative and Regenerative Relational Praxis Must Include the Non-human
    Jacques Boulet

    5.

  5. A Philosophy of Social Work Beyond the Anthropocene.
    Karen Bell

    6.

  6. Feeling the ‘Weight of the Body’: Posthumanism and De-liberalising Social Work
    John Fox

    7. Part Two: Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to Doing Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

  7. Propositions for Slow Social Work
    Vivienne Bozalek

    8.

  8. Ecofeminism to Feminist Materialism: Implications for Anthropocene Feminist Social Work
    Carolyn Noble

    9.

  9. Fostering Non-Anthropocentric Vulnerability in Men: Challenging the Autonomous Masculine Subject in Social Work
    Bob Pease

  10. Return of the Posthuman: Developing Indigenist Perspectives for Social Work at a Time of Environmental Crisis
    Glenn Woods and Dorothee Hölscher

    11.

  11. More-Than-Human Community Work: The Affirmative Biopolitics of Life in a Glasgow Neighbourhood
    Heather Lynch

    12.

  12. Posthumanism, Sexualities Education and the Production of Citizenship
    Pam Alldred, Nick Fox and Yohai Hakak

    13. Part Three: More-than-Human Sites of Practice in Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

  13. Animals as Domestic Violence Victims: A Challenge to Humanist Social Work
    Heather Fraser and Nik Taylor

    14.

  14. Towards a Critical Posthumanist Social Work: Trans-Species Ethics of Ecological Justice, Nonviolence and Love
    Dyann Ross, Bindi Bennett and Natalie Menyweather

    15.

  15. Encountering Interspecies Homelessness: Resisting Anthroparchy in Social Work and the All-Too-Human Services
    Melissa Laing

    16.

  16. Natureculture Dilemmas in Northern Finland: Guiding Post-Anthropocentric Social Work Through the Mire
    Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö

  17. Hauntology, History and Heritage: Intergenerational Trauma in South African Displaced Families
    Shanaaz Hoosain and Vivienne Bozalek

Biography

Vivienne Bozalek is Emerita Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape, and Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University, South Africa.

Bob Pease is Adjunct Professor in the Institute for Social Change at the University of Tasmania and an Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Deakin University.

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