Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research interests focus on social work and social theory, with a focus on ethics, power, politics and community. His article on evidence-based practice published in the British Journal of Social Work was the world’s most cited article and the most influential publication in social work over ten years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
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 48 chapters divided into six parts:
- 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, its 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.
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.
List of contributors; Foreword: Critical social work and social justice - Jan Fook; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Critical social work and the politics of transformation - Stephen A. Webb; PART I: Historical, social and political influences; Chapter One Welfare words, neoliberalism and critical social work - Paul Michael Garrett; Chapter Two Neoliberal relations of poverty and the welfare state – Sanford F. Shram; Chapter Three Marxist Social Work: an international and historical perspective – Tom Vickers; Chapter Four Critical social work in the U.S.: challenges and conflicts – Michael Reisch; Chapter Five The rise of the global state paradigm: implications for social work – Paul Stepney; PART II: Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain; Chapter Six Critical theory and critical social work– Edward Granter; Chapter Seven Reimagining social theory for social work – Christopher Thorpe; Chapter Eight Anarchism and social work – Mark Baldwin; Chapter Nine Relational constructivism and relational social work – Björn Kraus; Chapter Ten Extending Bourdieu for critical social work – Stan Houston; Chapter Eleven Why psychosocial thinking is critical – Liz Frost; Chapter Twelve Feminist contributions to critical social work – Viviene E. Cree and Ruth Philips; Chapter Thirteen The politics of Michel Foucault – Paul Michael Garrett; Chapter Fourteen Resistance, biopolitics and radical passivity – Stephen A. Webb; PART III: Methods of engagement and modes of analysis; Chapter Fifteen Critical race theory and social work – Monique Constance-Huggins; /...part contents.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research interests focus on social work and social theory, with a focus on ethics, power, politics and community. His article on evidence-based practice published in the British Journal of Social Work was the world’s most cited article and the most influential publication in social work over ten years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.