Revolutionary Social Work (eBook, ePUB)

Promoting Systemic Changes
Redaktion: Kamali, Masoud

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how social work can be an agent for promoting revolutionary changes in order to counter the global neoliberal market fundamentalism which is destroying our planet and reinforcing socioeconomic inequalities, political instability, antidemocratic political ideologies, small wars, conflicts, racism and other forms of oppression.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000801019
• Artikelnr.: 65997500

Autorenporträt

Masoud Kamali is a professor of social work and sociology. Kamali has extensive research experience and publications in the field of social work and sociology with clear global perspectives on current social problems, such as neoliberalism, war, violence, forced migration, inequalities and discrimination. He has been appointed by the Swedish government as the head of the 'Governmental Inquiry into Power, Integration and Structural Discrimination' (2004-2006). He has also been the scientific leader of many international research projects. Among his recent publications are: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Societal Resistance (2021), 'Revolutionary Social Work: Promoting Sustainable Justice' (Critical and Radical Social Work, 2019), Neoliberalism, Nordic Welfare States and Social Work: Current and Future Challenges (Routledge, 2018), War, Violence and Social Justice: Theories for Social Work (Routledge, 2015), Racial Discrimination: Institutional Patterns and Politics (Routledge, 2009), and 'Fishing for Development: A Question for Social Work (International Social Work, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

1.Introduction: Revolutionising Social Work. 2.'It's not dark yet but it's getting there': Global Crises, Social Work and Resistance. 3.Progressive Revolutionary Change and the Democratic University: Reimagining Higher Education. 4.Anger and Social Work. 5.Revolutionary Social Work: South African Perspectives. 6.Chile Woke Up! Political Resistance of Chilean Social Workers in the Context of the 18-O Movement. 7.Crises, Social Work and Movements: The Greek Case. 8.The Transformation of a Revolution: Neoliberalisation of the Welfare State and the Need for Revolutionary Social Work in Iran. 9.Revolutionary Health: Radical Mental Health Social Work in the United States and The Liberation Health Model of Social Work Practice. 10.Conclusions: The Need for a Revolutionary Social Work.