Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions

doi:10.46692/9781447364306

Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance

A Tale of Two Professions

This book rethinks social work's history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive practice. Comparing international case studies, the book uncovers the role of social workers in politically tense episodes of recent history, skilfully navigating the profession's collective political past while considering its future.

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Social Work's Histories of Complicity and Resistance

A Tale of Two Professions

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

Notes on contributors
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

Preface
pp viii-x

Part I - Making amends with the past
pp 1-2

1 - Learning from the past to shape the future: uncovering social work’s histories of complicity and resistance
pp 3-28

Part II - Legacies of colonialism and racism in social work
pp 29-30

2 - Canadian social work and the Sixties Scoop: reflections on the past, lessons for today
pp 31-40

3 - Reconciling systemic abuse of children and young women with social work’s commitment to a human rights, transformative practice
pp 41-53

4 - The oppressive history of ‘child welfare’ systems and the need for abolition
pp 54-72

5 - Colonial and apartheid South Africa: social work complicity and resistance
pp 73-94

Part III - Social work’s contested ideologies
pp 95-96

6 - Social services in Nazi Germany and the role of social workers between complicity and rare resistance
pp 97-108

7 - Social assistance in Franco’s fascist Spain (1939– 75): a history of social control, family segregation and stolen babies
pp 109-120

8 - Social work in times of political violence: dictatorships and acts of resistance from the Southern Cone
pp 121-133

9 - Trade union mobilisation, resistance and political action of social workers in Portugal
pp 134-147

10 - The radical roots of popular social work in Palestine
pp 148-162

Part IV - Social work’s complicity with institutionalisation and detention
pp 163-164

11 - Institutionalisation and oppression within the mental health system in England: social work complicity and resistance
pp 165-182

12 - A refugee crisis or a crisis of anti-immigrant politics? Hostile refugee reception, the pandemic and new solidarities in Cyprus
pp 183-203

13 - Institutionalisation of certain children and mothers in Ireland: reflections on the ‘troubled history’ of child welfare social work
pp 204-216

Part V - Survivor perspectives and contemporary reflections
pp 217-218

14 - Facing the legacy of social work: coming to terms with complicity in systemic inequality and social injustice
pp 219-232

15 - ‘We want social workers to hear our story’: learning from parents whose children were taken away
pp 233-243

16 - Decolonisation and critical social work pedagogies
pp 244-260

17 - Adoption social work practice in Ireland: critical reflections on present-day injustices
pp 261-277

Index
pp 278-291

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