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9780754638834

Social Work in a Corporate Era: Practices of Power and Resistance

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  • ISBN13:

    9780754638834

  • ISBN10:

    0754638839

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-11-28
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

The result of collaboration between authors from Canada, Britain and Australia, Social Work in a Corporate Era provides a re-evaluation of the assumptions and practices of the critical social work tradition and explores the possibility of rebuilding an 'emancipatory' social work. Calling for the development of a new politics of social work practice, this book addresses many of the urgent issues facing welfare state practitioners in health and social services today.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
vii
Introduction ix
Linda Davies
Peter Leonard
PART I: THEORY, REFLECTION, EMOTION
The Uses of Theory and the Problems of Pessimism
3(13)
Peter Leonard
Critical Reflection and Transformative Possibilities
16(15)
Jan Fook
Post-Theories for Practice: Challenging the Dogmas
31(14)
Nigel Parton
Subject-to-Subject: Reclaiming the Emotional Terrain for Practice
45(14)
Linda Davies
Sara Collings
PART II: CULTURAL POLITICS, LANGUAGE, COLLECTIVITY
Whose Side Are You On? Politicized Identities
59(17)
Michele Gnanamuttu
Texts and Power: Toward a Critical Theory of Language
76(15)
Anthony Pare
The Reprofessionalization of Social Work: Collaborative Approaches for Achieving Professional Recognition
91(20)
Karen Healy
Gabrielle Meagher
PART III: NARRATIVE, CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS, EMANCIPATION
Older Women Negotiating Uncertainty in Everyday Life: Contesting Risk Management Systems
111(17)
Amanda Grenier
Disrupting the Narrative of White Tutelage: Reflections on Post-colonial Social Work Education
128(16)
Laura Mastronardi
Social Work Practice and Research as an Emancipatory Process
144(16)
Kamal Fahmi
A Concluding Reflection 160(3)
Linda Davies
Peter Leonard
Index 163

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