Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work: Rethinking Theory and Practice

Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work brings together critical social work authors to engage with pressing social issues and provide new solutions, practices, and analysis in the context of growing inequities and the need for reconciliation, decolonization, and far-reaching change. The 4th edition foregrounds the voices of those less heard in social work academia and provides cutting-edge critical reflection and skills, including social work's relationship to the state and its responsibility to individuals, communities, and its own ethics and standards of practice.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2022
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd

Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work is a groundbreaking collection of critical social work authors who come together with a fierce passion to address pressing social issues and propose innovative solutions, practices, and analyses in the face of growing inequalities and the urgent need for reconciliation, decolonization, and far-reaching change. This comprehensive book offers robust intersectional perspectives and practical approaches, closely engaging with decolonization, re-Indigenization, resistance, and social justice. Similar to its predecessors, the 4th edition of Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work prioritizes the voices of those often marginalized within social work academia, providing cutting-edge critical reflection and skills that encompass social work's relationship with the state, its responsibility to individuals, communities, and its own ethical standards and practices.

Indigenous, Black, racialized, transgender, (dis)Ability, and allied scholars contribute identity-engaged and intersectional analyses on a diverse range of issues impacting those who work with intersectional cultural humility, racism, and child welfare, poverty and single mothers, critical gerontology and older people, and immigrant and racialized families. This 4th edition of Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work extends far beyond its predecessors, not only updating and revising popular chapters but also challenging and problematizing anti-oppressive social work and engaging closely with emerging and pressing issues.

By bringing together a diverse range of voices and perspectives, this book serves as a valuable resource for social workers, activists, educators, and scholars seeking to advance social justice, promote equity, and create a more inclusive and just world.

Weight: 610g
Dimension: 174 x 233 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781773635552
Edition number: fourth edition