This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions.
Divided into five parts: concepts; the impact of environmental crises; sustainable communities and lifestyles; food politics; and the profession in transition, this work s main objective is to place...
This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to ac...
With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialogue, illuminating some of the profession s key dilemmas. Applied discourse studies illustrate the importance of talk and interaction in the construction of everyday and institutional life.
This book provides a detailed review and illustration of the contribution of discourse approaches and studies on professional interaction to social work. Concentrating on how social workers carry out their work in everyday organisational encounters with...
With communication and relationships at the core of social work, this book reveals the way it is foremost a practice that becomes reality in dialog...
Social Work in a Global Context engages with, and critically explores, key issues that inform social work practice around the world.
Social work can take many forms, and is differently understood in different parts of the world. However, at base, it can be seen as a profession which strives to advance the causes of the vulnerable and marginalised with the aim of promoting social justice, equality, and human rights. This text provides examples of social work in a wide range of countries, informing our understanding of what social work is. It looks at how practice changes or...
Social Work in a Global Context engages with, and critically explores, key issues that inform social work practice around the world.
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights, equal rights, violence and poverty. In fact, the social work profession was started by and maintained in large part by women and has been home to several generations of feminists starting with recognized first wave feminists. This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Showcasing the breadth and depth...
Social work as a profession and academic discipline has long centered women and issues of concern to women, such as reproductive rights, labor rights,...
Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily experience of health, illness and disease. This innovative volume redresses the balance by exploring chronic illness and social work, through the specific lens of autoimmunity, engaging in wider debates around vulnerability, resistance and the lived experience of ongoing ill-health.
Moving beyond existing conceptualisations of vulnerability as an issue of mental distress, ageing, child protection and poverty, Price and Walker demonstrate...
Whilst the body has recently assumed greater sociological significance, there has been less engagement in social work and social care on the bodily...
The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities. The book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be identified as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience. In examining the concept of responsibilisation from the point of view of both the responsibilised client and welfare worker, the book breaks from the traditional literature to demonstrate how...
The impetus for this book is the shift in welfare policy in Western Europe from state responsibilities to individual and community responsibilities...
The underlying frame of social work is the nation state, and it is from within the state that welfare strategies and social policies are devised and implemented. However, post-colonialism, globalisation, migration and the associated implications for human rights, social justice and social welfare policies contest the idea of a clearly defined space for social work and present new challenges for researchers and practitioners.
Transnational Social Work and Social Welfare argues for the increased importance of the transnational perspective in social work theory and practice. The book...
The underlying frame of social work is the nation state, and it is from within the state that welfare strategies and social policies are devised an...
Drawing on intersectional theorising, Homelessness and Social Work highlights the diversities and complexities of homelessness and social work research, policy and practice. It invites social work students, practitioners, policy makers and academics to re-examine the subject by exploring how homelessness and social work are constituted through intersecting and unequal power relations.
The causes of homelessness are frequently associated with individualist explanations, without examining the broader political and intersecting social inequalities that shape how social...
Drawing on intersectional theorising, Homelessness and Social Work highlights the diversities and complexities of homelessness and social ...
