War, Violence and Social Justice: Theories for Social Work

ISBN-13: 9780367599294 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 208 str.

Masoud Kamali

Opis

This book analyses the role of war and violence (in both its physical and symbolic forms) for social work in a time of neoliberal globalisation from a social justice perspective. It argues that the consequences of wars, in both their old and new forms, and the exercise of symbolic violence for the practices of social work at national and global lev

Recenzje

"Like the surfacing of a submarine, this book has the power to shock and to alter the terms of debate. We knew it was there, but did not fully believe it, and suddenly it is before our eyes...This book, written with force and clarity, supplies a fresh stimulus to action."
David Anderson, Retired Lecturer, Dundee University, Scotland, European Journal of Social Work

Spis treści

War, Violence and Social Justice

O autorze

Masoud Kamali is Professor of Social Work and Sociology at Mid Sweden University. He is the author of Racial Discrimination: Institutional Patterns and Politics (2008); Multiple Modernities: The Case of Iran and Turkey (2006); and Revolutionary Iran: Civil Society and State in the Modernization Process (1998).