1st Edition

Utopian Thinking and Social Work

By Chris Horsell Copyright 2025
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice. Exploring the question of how ideas about utopia and utopian method can be used in social work practice and policy practice to address social inequalities, it shows that central to this critique is the argument that contemporary social policy responses and... Read more

0. Introduction: Utopian Thinking and Social Work.  1.History and Meaning of Utopia.  2.Utopian Thinking, Social Work and Social Policy.  3.Utopia, Social Change and Literature: Bridging the Science/ Literature Divide in Social Work and Social Policy.  4.Utopian Thinking and Social Work Education.  5.Utopian Thinking in Social Work and Policy Research.  6.Conclusion.

Biography

Chris Horsell (PhD) is a lecturer in social work and social policy at the University of South Australia, Australia.