Alexander W Sawatsky

Anarchist Perspectives for Social Work

Disrupting Oppressive Systems

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks to rigorously and specifically engage with anarchist theory and find application to social work fields of practice and social work theory.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780197750469
• ISBN-10: 019775046X
• Artikelnr.: 70523189

Autorenporträt

Alexander W. Sawatsky has taught at Booth University College for the last 17 years in the Faculty of Social Work where he was the Director from 2017-2023. He has written and published on topics related to mental health policy, history and social work practice including from a Critical Theory and anarchist perspective, and served on multiple boards, including the Manitoba College of Social Workers, the Manitoba Schizophrenia Society (now Peer Connections) and more. Currently, he is serving as Professor and Chair of the Department of Social Work at Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, MB, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: Anarchism and Social Work? An Introduction
* Chapter 2: Comments on the Welfare State and Social Work: An
anti-state perspective
* Chapter 3: Supported Employment: Wage slavery entrenched in recovery?
* Chapter 4: Green Anarcho-social work: Social ecology, the social
world and nature
* Chapter 5Crime, Social Work and Anarchism: Seeking to abolish the
carceral state
* Chapter 6: Education, Social Work and Anti-capital: A theoretical
exposition of teaching social work differently
* Chapter 7: Mutual aid and the way forward: Ideas and implications for
social work practice
* Chapter 8: Wither social work? Reflections on the end of social work
(and a world that needs it)