Full Description
This informative resource responds to recent developments in social work practices in North America and abroad through its exploration of anti-oppression practice. This groundbreaking collection demonstrates the transformative potential of inclusive practices, such as in Indigenous practice principles, through concrete examples of anti-oppression work with marginalized populations. Contributors also reveal how anti-oppression approaches more strongly combat a diversity of social issues, including anti-Black sanism, normative constructions of grief, discrimination against queer populations, and children and youth injustices.
Accessible and engaging, Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice will appeal to industry professionals and undergraduate students interested in examining original research on social work practitioners' experiences with anti-oppression practices.
Contents
Preface: Reimagining Anti-Oppression Social Work Practices: Tensions and Conversations
Samantha Wehbi and Henry Parada
Section I: Supportive Critiques of Anti-Oppression
Chapter 1: Parallel Pathways to Decolonization: Critical and Indigenous Social Work
Cyndy Baskin and Caitlin Davey
Chapter 2: Long-Standing Social Conflicts and Local Problems of Population Governance: Reorganizing for Future Theory Development and Community Practice
Tina Wilson
Chapter 3: Ontario's Child Welfare Transformation and Primary Health Care Renewal: The Allure of Change
Kristin Smith
Section II: Nuancing Anti-Oppression
Chapter 4: Youth Engagement in Governmental and Community Organizations: Contradictions and Recommendations
Susan Preston and Jordan Aslett
Chapter 5: Breaking Barriers: Obstacles to the Use of Family Group Conferencing
Nyron Sookraj, Doret Phillips, and Gordon Pon
Chapter 6: Equal Rights Discourse: Transformative Possibilities?
Dawn Onishenko
Section III: Engagement With Marginalized Populations
Chapter 7: Anti-Oppressive Social Work with Disabled People: Challenging Ourselves to Do Better
Judith Sandys
Chapter 8: When The Suffering Is Compounded: Towards Anti-Black Sanism
Idil Abdillahi, Sonia Meerai, and Jennifer Poole
Chapter 9: "It's Like a Tattoo": Rethinking Dominant Discourses on Grief
Robyn L. Ord
Section IV: Anti-Oppression as a Frame for Transformation
Chapter 10: Building Anti-Oppressive Organizations: Thoughts from a Multi-Dimensionally Informed Journey
Lisa Barnoff, Idil Abdillahi, and Beth Jordan
Chapter 11: Trade Unions and Social Work: Toward New Convergences Against Austerity
Winnie Ng
Chapter 12: The Professional Portfolio: Bridging the Classroom-Practice Divide in Social Work Education
Jennifer Clarke, Susan Preston, and Jennifer Ajandi
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