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.
Critical social work is increasingly involved in a global conversation, and as a subfield of social work it is rapidly becoming an interdisciplinary field in its own right and promoting novel forms of political activism. The Handbook showcases the global influences and path-breaking ideas of critical social work and examines the different stances taken on important political and ethical issues. It provides the first complete survey of the vibrant field of critical social work in a rich international context. This definitive volume is one of the most comprehensive source books on crucial social work that is available on the international stage and an essential guide for anyone interested in the politics of social work.
The Handbook is divided into sever sections
• Thinking the Political
• Politics and the Ruins of Neoliberalism
• Negotiating the State: Resistance, Protest and Dissent
• Race, Bordering Practices and Migrants
• Post Colonialism, Subaltern and the Global South
• Critical Feminism, Sexuality and Gender Politics
• Posthumanism, Pandemics and Environment
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 of 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.
0.Introduction - Analytics of Power and Politics for Social Work: Introduction to the Handbook. 1.Elements for a Critical Theory of Social Work. 2.‘Passing on’ Critical Social Work. 3.Horror Autotoxicus: Critical Social Work as Autoimmunity. 4.A View of ‘Social Work’ through the attualità of Italian Thought. 5.Reconceptualising Welfare and Social Justice for Critical Social Work. 6.The New Left and Social Work. 7.How Critical Social Work Theory Informs Radical Social Work Practice. 8.Neoliberal Social Work and Digital Technology. 9.The Hardening of Neoliberalism on Social Work in a Pandemic Scenario. 10.Accelerated Time in the Neoliberal University. 11.Critical Social Work with Children and Families in the Neoliberal World. 12.The Biopolitics of Childhood. 13.Widening the Securitisation Net in Social Work. 14.Ideology, Critical Social Work and the Tyranny of Resilience. 15.Dissenting Social Work. 16.Critical Social Work as Imperfect Work. 17.Disruptive Social Work from a Global Perspective. 18.Social Work and the Movement to Abolish the Child Welfare System. 19.Political Transition, Revolution and Radical Social Work. 20.Radical Approaches to Anti-Poverty Strategies. 21.Critical Social Work and Extreme Events. 22.Radical Approaches to Mental Health Social Work. 23.Decolonisation, Whiteness and Anti-Racist Social Work. 24.The Longue Durée of Black Lives Matter. 25.Social Work with Borders: Bordering Technologies and Human Rights. 26.The Said and the Unsaid: Confronting Racism in Social Work as ‘Uncanny’. 27.Anti-Roma Racism, Social Work and the White Civilizatory Mission. 28.Contesting Antigypsyism in Public Policy. 29.Social Intervention and Migration: Critical Contributions. 30.Empowerment as Biopolitical: The Case of Roma People in the Czech Republic. 31.Decolonising International Social Work. 32.International Social Work: Theoretical Decolonising from a Tribal Gaze. 33.Speaking about or for the Subaltern. 34.Native Americans and Tribal Life: Historical Oppression and Transcendence. 35.Marxism and Social Work in Brazil. 36.Critical Social Work in Brazil: Historical, Theoretical and Methodological Developments. 37.Towards a Critical Turn: Social Work in Chile. 38.Doing Feminist Social Work: Working in, around and against Settler Patriarchal Rule. 39.Sexuality, LQBTQ Issues and Critical Social Work: Thinking with Queer and Post-Queer Theories. 40.Beyond the Gender Binary as Liberatory Social Work Practice. 41.Transgender, Human Rights and Social Work. 42.Agential Realism for Social Work. 43.Critical Social Work, Material Culture and Object. 44.Plastic Participation: Love and Social Work with Children. 45.Social Work and Environmental Justice: Expanding Critical Social Work. 46.Green Social Work and Social Justice. 47.Social Work Practice in the Post COVID-19 Era
Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work and Assistant Vice Principal of Community and Public Engagement at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and previously worked as Research Professor at University of Newcastle, Australia and University of Sussex. Stephen is author of Social Work in a Risk Society (2006), and co-author/editor of The New Politics of Social Work (2013); Evidence-based Social Work: A Critical Stance (2009, Routledge); Ethics and Value Perspectives in Social Work (2010); Social Work Theories and Methods (2012, second edition, translated into Korean and Polish); The SAGE Handbook of Social Work (2012); the major international reference work International Social Work (2010, 4 Volumes); and Information and Communication Technology in the Welfare Services (2003). In 2019 he edited the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work (2019), a major international reference work. His research interests focus on theorising social work, biopolitics, community, place and the more-than-human.
