1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work New Perspectives and Agendas
Introduction - Analytics of Power and Politics for Social Work: Introduction to the Handbook
Stephen A. Webb
Chapter 1 - Elements for a Critical Theory of Social Work
Fabian Kessl
Chapter 2 – ‘Passing on’ Critical Social Work
Tina E. Wilson
Chapter 3 – Horror Autotoxicus: Critical Social Work as Autoimmunity
Stephen A. Webb
Chapter 4 – A View of ‘Social Work’ through the attualità of Italian Thought
Heather Lynch
Chapter 5 – Reconceptualising Welfare and Social Justice for Critical Social Work
Jessica H. Jönsson
Chapter 6 – The New Left and Social Work
Ian Cummins
Chapter 7 – How Critical Social Work Theory Informs Radical Social Work Practice
Colin Turbett
Chapter 8 – Neoliberal Social Work and Digital Technology
John Harris
Chapter 9 – The Hardening of Neoliberalism on Social Work in a Pandemic Scenario
Cristina Pinto Albuquerque
Chapter 10 – Accelerated Time in the Neoliberal University
Kristin Smith
Chapter 11 – Critical Social Work with Children and Families in the Neoliberal World
Steve Rogowski
Chapter 12 – The Biopolitics of Childhood
Zlatana Knezevic
Chapter 13 – Widening the Securitisation Net in Social Work
David McKendrick and Jo Finch
Chapter 14 – Ideology, Critical Social Work and the Tyranny of Resilience
Di Galpin, Annastasia Maksymluk and Andy Whiteford
Chapter 15 – Dissenting Social Work
Paul Michael Garrett
Chapter 16 – Critical Social Work as Imperfect Work
Rudi Roose
Chapter 17 – Disruptive Social Work from a Global Perspective
Guy Feldman
Chapter 18 – Social Work and the Movement to Abolish the Child Welfare System
Alan J. Dettlaff
Chapter 19 – Political Transition, Revolution and Radical Social Work
Pedro Gabriel Silva
Chapter 20 – Radical Approaches to Anti-Poverty Strategies
Uschi Bay
Chapter 21 – Critical Social Work and Extreme Events
Reima Ana Maglajlic
Chapter 22 – Radical Approaches to Mental Health Social Work
Jim Campbell, Kerry Cuskelly and Jim Walsh
Chapter 23 – Decolonisation, Whiteness and Anti-Racist Social Work
Gurnam Singh
Chapter 24 – The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter
Alondra Nelson
Chapter 25 – Social Work with Borders: Bordering Technologies and Human Rights
Natalia Farmer
Chapter 26 – The Said and the Unsaid: Confronting Racism in Social Work as ‘Uncanny’
Ameil Joseph
Chapter 27 – Anti-Roma Racism, Social Work and the White Civilizatory Mission
Sebijan Fejzula and Cayetano Fernández
Chapter 28 – Contesting Antigypsyism in Public Policy
Jekatyerina Dunajeva and Marek Szilvasi
Chapter 29 – Social Intervention and Migration: Critical Contributions
Laura C. Yufra
Chapter 30 – Empowerment as Biopolitical: The Case of Roma People in the Czech Republic
Eva Kourova and Stephen A. Webb
Chapter 31 – Decolonising International Social Work
Richard Hugman
Chapter 32 – International Social Work: Theoretical Decolonising from a Tribal Gaze
s.r. bodhi
Chapter 33 – Speaking about or for the Subaltern
Cynthia Pizarro
Chapter 34 – Native Americans and Tribal Life: Historical Oppression and Transcendence
Catherine E. McKinley
Chapter 35 – Marxism and Social Work in Brazil
Henrique Wellen
Chapter 36 – Critical Social Work in Brazil: Historical, Theoretical and Methodological Developments
Carina Berta Moljo and Cláudia Mônica dos Santos
Chapter 37 – Towards a Critical Turn: Social Work in Chile
Paula Vidal, Mariléia Goin, Nathaly Díaz and Alfredo Vielma
Chapter 38 – Doing Feminist Social Work: Working in, around and against Settler Patriarchal Rule
Norah Hosken and Sevi Vassos
Chapter 39 – Sexuality, LQBTQ Issues and Critical Social Work: Thinking with Queer and Post-Queer Theories
Stephen Hicks and Dharman Jeyasingham
Chapter 40 – Beyond the Gender Binary as Liberatory Social Work Practice
Jama Shelton, Shirley Li and Maggie Dunleavy
Chapter 41 – Transgender, Human Rights and Social Work
Sofia Smolle and Anna Siverskog
Chapter 42 – Agential Realism for Social Work
Vivienne Bozalek
Chapter 43 – Critical Social Work, Material Culture and Object
Mark Doel
Chapter 44 – Plastic Participation: Love and Social Work with Children
Teresa K. Aslanian
Chapter 45 – Social Work and Environmental Justice: Expanding Critical Social Work
Smitha Rao, Samantha Teixeira and Shanondora Billiot
Chapter 46 – Green Social Work and Social Justice
Jennifer Boddy and Sharlene Nipperess
Chapter 47 – Social Work Practice in the Post COVID-19 Era
Walter Lorenz
Biography
Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work and Assistant Vice Principal of Community and Public Engagement at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and previously worked as Research Professor at University of Newcastle, Australia and University of Sussex. Stephen is author of Social Work in a Risk Society (2006), and co-author/editor of The New Politics of Social Work (2013); Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance (2009, Routledge); Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work (2010); Social Work Theories and Methods (2012, second edition, translated into Korean and Polish); The SAGE Handbook of Social Work (2012); the major international reference work International Social Work (2010, 4 Volumes); and Information and Communication Technology in the Welfare Services (2003). In 2019 he edited the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work (2019), a major international reference work. His research interests focus on theorising social work, biopolitics, community, place and the more-than-human.
