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"The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. It brings together world leading scholars in the field to provide additional in-depth, and provocative consideration of alternative and progressive ways of thinking about social work. The Handbook is comprised of 46 newly written chapters (and one reprint) which concentrate on differences between European and American contributions in this field as well as explicitly identifying the significance of critical social work in the context of Latin America. It provides a further vital trajectory of intellectual practice theory via interdisciplinary discussion of areas such as biopolitics, critical race theory, boundaries of gender and sexuality, queer studies, new conceptions of community, issues public engagement, racism and Roma people, ecological feminism, environmental humanities and critical animal studies. The Handbook is an innovative and authoritative guide to theory and method as they relate to policy issues and practice and focus on the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective and will be required reading for all students, academics and practitioners of social work and related professions"--

"The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. It brings together world leading scholars in the field to provide additional in-depth, and provocative consideration of alternative and progressive ways of thinking about social work. The Handbook is comprised of 46 newly written chapters (and one reprint) which concentrate on differences between European and American contributions in this field as well as explicitly identifying the significance of critical social work in the context of Latin America. It provides a further vital trajectory of intellectual practice theory via interdisciplinary discussion of areas such as biopolitics, critical race theory, boundaries of gender and sexuality, queer studies, new conceptions of community, issues public engagement, racism and Roma people, ecological feminism, environmental humanities and critical animal studies. The Handbook is an innovative and authoritative guide to theory and method as they relate to policy issues and practice and focus on the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective and will be required reading for all students, academics and practitioners of social work and related professions"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of contributors -- Editor -- Contributors -- Foreword: Critical social work and social justice -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Critical social work and the politics of transformation -- Setting the scene for critical social work -- Redefining the meaning of critical social work -- Handbook structure and content -- Political ontology and innovation in critical social work -- Taking a political stance in social work -- Note -- References -- PART I: Historical, social and political influences -- Chapter 1: Welfare words, neoliberalism and critical social work -- Introduction -- Welfare words, critical social work and social policy -- Keywords -- A welfare words approach -- Examples of welfare words -- Rhetorically recalibrated neoliberalism -- Welfare words, social work and critically disruptive thinking -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2: Neoliberal relations of poverty and the welfare state -- Neoliberal relations of poverty -- Neoliberalism defined -- Neoliberal welfare -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Marxist social work: an international and historical perspective -- Introduction -- Foundations of Marxist social work -- Marxist analyses of the state -- Marxist approaches to social work under capitalism -- Popular social work -- Marxist approaches to social work under socialism -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Critical social work in the U.S.: challenges and conflicts -- Introduction -- The evolution of critical social work in the U.S. -- The influence of socialism -- Voices of contemporary critical social workers -- Contemporary challenges and conflicts -- Responding to contemporary challenges -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: The rise of the global state paradigm: implications for social work

Historical, social, and political influences -- Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain -- Methods of engagement and modes of analysis -- Critical contexts for practice and policy -- Professional education and socialisation -- Future challenges, directions, and transformations

"The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the world's leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject. Comprised of 47 chapters divided into six sections: - Historical, social, and political influences - Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain - Methods of engagement and modes of analysis - Critical contexts for practice and policy - Professional education and socialisation - Future challenges, directions, and transformations it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method, and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective. This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments, its methodological advances, value based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice, it provides the first comprehensive, up to date, definitive work of reference while at the same time identifying emerging, innovative and cutting-edge areas"--

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Acknowledgements -- Matters of professional identity and social work / Stephen A. Webb -- Key concepts and perspectives -- Perspectives on professional identity : the changing world of the social worker / Mike Dent -- What is professional identity and how do social workers acquire it? / Fran Wiles -- Materiality, performance and the making of professional identity / Torben Elgaard Jensen -- Constructing the social, constructing social work / Elizabeth Harlow -- Location, context and workplace culture -- Vocation and professional identity : social workers at home and abroad / Mark Erickson and Jem Price -- Risk work in the formation of the "professional" in child protection social work / Emily Keddell and Tony Stanley -- Identity formation, scientific rationality and embodied knowledge in child welfare / Melissa Hardesty -- Field, capital and professional identity : social work in health care / Liz Beddoe -- Interprofessional collaboration : strengthening or weakening social work identity? / Julia Emprechtinger and Peter Voll -- Commitment in the making of professional identity / Stewart Collins -- Professional identity in the care and upbringing of children : towards a praxis of residential child care / Mark Smith -- Professional education, socialisation and readiness for practice -- Shaping identity? : the professional socialisation of social work students / Julia Wheeler -- Credible performances : affect and professional identity / Jadwiga Leigh -- Making professional identity : narrative work and fateful moments / Maura Daly and Martin Kettle -- Professional identity as a matter of concern / Stephen A. Webb -- References -- Index

This path-breaking text constructs a new way of thinking about social work based on contemporary social theory. Working in a counter-tradition that is suspicious of a number of governing ideas and practices in social work, it draws on themes from Beck, Giddens, Rose to explore the impact of risk society and neo liberalism on social work

AbstractThis article is a theory-building exercise, which focusses on Baradian agential realism to build a framework of key concepts and their interrelationships to show how and why this perspective matters to social work. It makes a statement about the relevance of agential realism, in the writings of Karen Barad and other feminist post-humanist thinkers, to rethink fundamental concepts, which are embedded in social work discourse, especially those humanist notions that relate to agency, subjectivity and reflection. It charts how agential realism can become foundational for social work knowledge. The article is intended both as an introduction to the thought of Barad and as a mapping of current agential realist scholarly trajectories. It guides the reader through the conceptual terrain of agential realist thought by explicating the key concepts of intra-action, entanglement, diffraction and agential cuts. In order to furnish an accessible engagement with Baradian theory, the article marshals case studies and references, drawing on ethnographic and qualitative research, which relate to social work. It concludes by showing how agential realism can provide a rich ontological framework for social work and highlights how it disrupts some of our long-held cherished beliefs about what it means to do social work.

This article argues that the politics of the 'right to difference' and celebration of diversity in social work is a malign tendency that is symptomatic of the malaise of postmodernism and other fashionable trends in human rights discourse. It is suggested that a normative concept of human rights as worked through postmodern preoccupations with difference and diversity is a morally bankrupt perspective. The fixation of the 'right to difference' in social work runs parallel with neoliberalism with its celebration of diversity. The article offers a set of conceptual devices for rethinking social work ethics through the writings of Alain Badiou. His subtractive ontology of truth is presented as an essentialist alternative to the relativist discourses of difference. If social work is to recover a progressive stance, we must reinstall the concepts of sameness and equality. Therefore, social work should be 'indifferent to differences' by transcending the politics of difference.

• Summary: This article develops a means of evaluating service user participation in social care by modelling from a social network analysis framework. • Findings: The three sections of the article cover: i) an overview of the literature identifying the main agendas and influences of practical and theoretical models; ii) mapping the meanings and the mechanisms of interpretation of participation in social care; iii) a positive proposal of a network analytic model for evaluating the degrees of participation in social care agencies for monitoring and evaluation. The conclusion raises some criticisms of the ways social care research has engaged in too general discussions of participation such that they cannot be operationalized. Some observations about the politics of `representation' and `faith' in calls for participation are also raised. • Applications : A positive proposal of a network analytic model for evaluating the degrees of service user participation in social care agencies for monitoring and accountability is developed. The value of social network analysis is outlined by its emphasis on relationships between actors, as distinct from an emphasis on the attributes of individual and groups of actors. To this end a new model of participation for social care derived from network analysis is developed.