A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work-a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state-abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of ""soft policing."" For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility.
offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work-a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.
Foreword by:
Mariame Kaba
Edited by:
Mimi E. Kim,
Durrell M. Washington,
Cameron Rasmussen
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 228mm,
Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9798888901366
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 16 October 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword Introduction (Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington) Society for Social Work and Research Keynote (Angela Y. Davis) Section 1: Possibilities Abolitionist Social Work (Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work) Abolition: The Missing Link in Historical Efforts to Address Racism and Colonialism Within the Profession of Social Work (Justin Harty, Autumn Asher BlackDeer, and Maria Gandarilla Ocampo) Reaching for the Abolitionist Horizon Within White Professionalized Social-Change Work (Sophia Sarantakos) Abolitionist Reform for Social Workers (Sam Harrell) Section 2: Paradox Is Social Work Obsolete? (Kassandra Frederique) No Restorative Justice Utopia: Abolition and Working with the State (Wakumi Douglas) Abolition, Social Welfare and the State (Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington) Section 3: Praxis Staying in love with each other’s survival: Practicing at the Intersection of Liberatory Harm Reduction and Transformative Justice (Shira Hassan) Social Work and Family Policing (Joyce McMillan and Dorothy Roberts) Indigenist Abolition: Strategies for Decolonization, Healing, and Imagination in Social Work Practice (Ramona Beltran, Katie Schultz, Angela Fernandez) Involuntary Commitment in Public Sector Mental Health Services: Anti-Carceral Strategies & Responses (Leah Jacobs and Nev Jones) Queer Black Feminism and Social Work Practice (Interview with Charlene Carruthers)
Mimi E. Kim is assistant professor of social work at California State University, Long Beach and founder of Creative Interventions. Kim continues her political work through promotion of transformative justice and abolitionist visions and practices of community care and safety. is a social worker, educator and facilitator. He is an Associate Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University, a lecturer at Columbia Social Work, a PhD student at the Graduate Center, and a Collaborator with the NAASW. is an author, social worker, educator, facilitator, and socio-legal scholar from the Bronx, New York. He is a collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago.
