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"The COVID-19 pandemic represents a critical juncture in the development of the welfare state affirming its importance for its citizens' economic, health and wellbeing, and safety especially for its most vulnerable populations. It demonstrated that the crisis preparedness that is crucial for an effective protection of its citizens, the ultimate purpose of the welfare state, unquestionably exceeds the narrow horizon of a corporatized welfare industry with its singular focus on the maximisation of profit for the elites and cost containment for the government. Social workers need to engage with the contradictions and tensions that spring from an underfunded welfare services and engage in the political struggle over a well-resourced welfare state. Contributors to this book take on this challenge. By tracing the various contradictions of the pandemic, the contributors reflect on new ways of thinking about welfare by exploring what to keep, what to challenge and what to change. By highlighting important challenges for a social justice-focused response as well as exploring the many challenges exposed by the pandemic facing social work for the coming decades, contributors critically outline pathways in social work that might contribute to the shaping of a less cruel and more capable welfare state. Using case-studies from Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, Italy, Slovenia, Estonia, Sweden, Spain, South Africa, Canada, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, China, and the US, the book features 19 chapters by leading experts. This book will be of interest to all social work scholars, students, and practitioners as well as those working in social policy and health more broadly"--

Right-wing nationalist populism and social work : some definitions and features / Carolyn Noble and Goetz Ottmann -- Social work, modernity and right-wing nationalist populism / Jim Ife -- White fragility, populism, xenophobia and late neoliberalism / Donna Baines and Virginia Mapedzahama -- A radical tradition of community development responses to right-wing populism / Peter Westoby -- The rise of angry white men : resisting populist masculinity and the backlash against gender equality / Bob Pease -- Right-wing populism and a feminist social work response / Carolyn Noble -- The multifaceted challenges of new right-wing populism to social work : the profession's swansong or the rebirth of activism? / Luca Fazzi and Urban Nothdurfter -- A roar of defiance against the elites : Brexit, populism and social work / Iain Ferguson -- Integration in the age of populism : highlighting key terms in the context of refugee resettlement in the United States / Caren J. Frost, Kwynn M. Gonzalez-Pons and Lisa H. Gren -- Citizenship, populism and social work in the Finnish welfare state / Kati Turtiainen and Tuomo Kokkonen -- Surveillance, sanctions, and behaviour modification in the name of far-right nationalism : the rise of authoritarian welfare in Australia / Goetz Ottmann -- Is welfare chauvinism evident in Australia? Examining right-wing populist views towards Muslim refugees and Indigenous Australians / Tegan Edwards, Philip Mendes and Catherine Flynn -- Resisting the rise of right-wing populism : European social work examples / Janet Anand, Stefan Borrmann and Chaitali Das -- Social workers partnering with populism / Susie Latham and Linda Briskman -- They live like animals : migrants, Roma and nationalist populism / Eva Kourova and Stephen A. Webb -- Ga ngaandu gimubi-li yalagiirrma : (to whom it may concern) / Marcus Woolombi Waters.