1st Edition
Revolutionary Social Work Promoting Systemic Changes
This book shows how social work can be an active agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and reinforcing socioeconomic inequalities, political instability, antidemocratic political ideologies and movements, small wars, conflicts, racism and other forms of oppression.
Providing case-studies from South Africa, Chile, Iran, Europe, Australia and the USA written by leading critical and radical social work scholars, this book sheds light on consequences of the global neoliberal racial capitalism and postcolonial oppression.
By presenting innovative ideas and suggestions for a revolutionary social work aimed at promoting systemic changes and eliminating the roots of social problems this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social work, community development and social justice more broadly.
Chapter One – Introduction: Revolutionising Social Work
Masoud Kamali
Chapter Two – ‘It’s Not Dark Yet but It’s Getting There’: Global Crises, Social Work and Resistance
Iain Ferguson and Michael Lavalette
Chapter Three – Progressive Revolutionary Change and the Democratic University: Reimagining Higher Education
Phillip Ablett, Christine Morley, and Heather Fraser
Chapter Four – Anger and Social Work
Paul Michael Garrett
Chapter Five – Revolutionary Social Work: South African Perspectives
Linda Harms-Smith
Chapter Six – Chile Woke Up! Political Resistance of Chilean Social Workers in the Context of the 18-O Movement
Paz Valenzuela-Rebolledo, Gerhard Aldana-Araza, Carla Morales-Torres, and Gianinna Muñoz-Arce
Chapter Seven – Crises, Social Work and Movements: The Greek Case
Dimitra-Dora Teloni
Chapter Eight – The Transformation of a Revolution: Neoliberalisation of the Welfare State and the Need for Revolutionary Social Work in Iran
Salar Kashani and Nasrin Ghavami
Chapter Nine – Revolutionary Health: Radical Mental Health Social Work in the United States and the Liberation Health Model of Social Work Practice
Dawn Belkin Martinez
Chapter Ten - Conclusion: The Need for a Revolutionary Social Work
Masoud Kamali
Biography
Masoud Kamali is a professor of social work and sociology. Kamali has extensive research experience and publications in the field of social work and sociology with clear global perspectives on current social problems, such as neoliberalism, war, violence, forced migration, inequalities and discrimination. He has been appointed by the Swedish government as the head of the ‘Governmental Inquiry into Power, Integration and Structural Discrimination’ (2004–2006). He has also been the scientific leader of many international research projects. Among his recent publications are: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Societal Resistance (2021), ‘Revolutionary Social Work: Promoting Sustainable Justice’ (Critical and Radical Social Work, 2019), Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work: Current and Future Challenges (Routledge, 2018), War, Violence and Social Justice: Theories for Social Work (Routledge, 2015), Racial Discrimination: Institutional Patterns and Politics (Routledge, 2009), and ‘Fishing for Development: A Question for Social Work (International Social Work, 2012).
