1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work New Perspectives and Agendas
The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. It brings together world-leading scholars in the field to provide additional, in-depth and provocative consideration of alternative and progressive ways of thinking about social work.
Critical social work is increasingly involved in a global conversation, and as a subfield of social work it is rapidly becoming an interdisciplinary field in its own right and promoting novel forms of political activism. The Handbook showcases the global influences and path-breaking ideas of critical social work and examines the different stances taken on important political and ethical issues. It provides the first complete survey of the vibrant field of critical social work in a rich international context. This definitive volume is one of the most comprehensive source books on crucial social work that is available on the international stage and an essential guide for anyone interested in the politics of social work.
The Handbook is divided into sever sections
• Thinking the Political
• Politics and the Ruins of Neoliberalism
• Negotiating the State: Resistance, Protest and Dissent
• Race, Bordering Practices and Migrants
• Post Colonialism, Subaltern and the Global South
• Critical Feminism, Sexuality and Gender Politics
• Posthumanism, Pandemics and Environment
The Handbook is comprised of 46 newly written chapters (and one reprint) which concentrate on differences between European and American contributions in this field as well as explicitly identifying the significance of critical social work in the context of Latin America. It provides a further vital trajectory of intellectual practice theory via interdisciplinary discussion of areas such as biopolitics, critical race theory, boundaries of gender and sexuality, queer studies, new conceptions of community, issues of public engagement, racism and Roma people, ecological feminism, environmental humanities and critical animal studies.
The Handbook is an innovative and authoritative guide to theory and method as they relate to policy issues and practice and focus on the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective, and will be required reading for all students, academics and practitioners of social work and related professions.
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.
