Aesthetic Materialism

Gilmore, Paul

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“…For example, fighting for substance use and mental health treatment for parents in need are supported by abolitionists and considered necessary non-reformist reforms. In contrast, other popular initiatives such as the use of drug courts are considered reformist in that they strengthen and expand, rather than displace, the reach of surveillance and control (Ben-Moshe, 2020;Gilmore, 2018). Similarly, foster care was a reformist reform that replaced orphanages and almshouses by placing children in the homes of distant strangers without addressing their family's needs (Roberts, 2022).…”

Section: Reformist Reform Vs Non-reformist Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child Welfare and Social Work Education

Leotti

Sugrue

Itzkowitz³

et al. 2023

ASW

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Social work has long been involved in child welfare practice. Though lauded as well- intended and admirable work, the profession’s involvement in the child welfare system is fraught with contradictions, ethical tensions, and a legacy of historical trauma and deep mistrust in Black and Native American communities. Challenging this legacy requires an honest look at how schools of social work participate in policies and practices that work to uphold racialized surveillance and forcible family separation. Accordingly, this paper invites readers into a critical conversation regarding social work’s collaboration with child welfare systems via Title IV-E training programs. To these ends, we draw on the conceptual framework of abolition as a useful tool for interrogating and disrupting social work’s relationship to child welfare.

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Section: Reformist Reform Vs Non-reformist Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

Child Welfare and Social Work Education

Leotti

Sugrue

Itzkowitz³

et al. 2023

ASW

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“…Opposed to this fantasy (or mask) of freedom, theorists of racial capitalism like Cedric Robinson 11 and Ruth Wilson Gilmore 12 insist that markets are saturated with coercion and unfreedom from beginning to end. This coerciveness emerged first in the capitalist enclosures of the commons in the United Kingdom which occurred simultaneous with the Atlantic slave trade, what Marx depicted as the "turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of blackskins".…”

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Blacks weather, Whites climate

Driscoll

2021

Cultural Dynamics

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This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes weather as the temperature and precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying to understand the disproportionate number of COVID-19 infections and deaths for Blacks and Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered this in 1992 when she transposed the notion of “weathering” from its standard meaning of a process that decays wood onto the cumulative racism experienced by Black women resulting in excessive maternal death. Her “weathering hypothesis” tracks the assemblage of negative health outcomes for all African Americans caused by dangerous work environments and polluted neighborhoods. My essay shows how these embodied health effects are linked to larger histories of burning fossil fuels. We now know burning coal and oil transforms the climate by increasing the ratio of CO2 molecules. We also know that this shifting climate determines specific weather outcomes. However, we don’t yet have a full picture of the racial dynamic undergirding this. As a corollary to weathering, this essay proposes a “climating hypothesis” to help expose the power that Euro-descendant whites have wielded for centuries to intervene in the earth’s climate.

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Sylvia Plath in Context

2019

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Aesthetic Materialism

Cited by 69 publications

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Child Welfare and Social Work Education

Child Welfare and Social Work Education

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