Critical Social Work – Considerations and Suggestions

Herz, Marcus; Johansson, Thomas

doi:10.22329/csw.v12i1.5843

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“…In line with critical social work scholars (Dominelli, 2002, 2010; Herz & Johansson, 2011; Mattsson, 2014; Mehrotra, 2010; Pringle, 2010, 2011; Williams & Graham, 2016), this study adds to contributions calling for sociopolitical transformations and alternative approaches where equality and social justice are the guiding principles for acting upon the world. 1…”

Section: Embodied Vulnerabilities In a Moral Economy Of Caresupporting

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“…Juxtaposing care with justice issues, “the social” and political, this study is in dialogue with critical anthropological scholarship on biopolitics (Fassin, 2010/2012a; Ong, 2006; Rose & Novas, 2005) and feminist ethics of care (Clement, 1996; Sevenhuijsen, 1998; Tronto, 1993). It adds to social work as a “caring profession” and simultaneously a profession devoted to equality, social justice, rights, and antioppressive practices (Dominelli, 2002, p. 1; Herz & Johansson, 2011; Mattsson, 2014; Pringle, 2010).…”

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A Cry for Care But not Justice: Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economy of Child Welfare

Knezevic

2019

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This study explores the pivotal role of the body for political recognition and rights claims in child welfare “moral” interventions. I examine how the bodily figures in child welfare assessments, linking these manifestations to the concept of the moral economy of care. A sample of assessment reports from a Swedish municipality, all addressing violations of children’s bodies or integrity, are used as empirical material. I show how the psychosomatically suffering child is being best “heard” as vulnerable. I also argue that such a moral economy of care silences children’s accounts of gendered and racial injustices. Furthermore, racialized moral divides are indicated when assessments of different child bodies are considered. A concluding remark points to a need for a child welfare moral economy of social justice that responds to structural intersecting injustices in childhoods, including to those of a racialized child welfare and its individualized and symptom-oriented services.

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A Cry for Care But not Justice: Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economy of Child Welfare

Knezevic

2019

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“…Naturally, that in the context of changing environment and emerging new patterns of social problems the search for new alternatives for medical or problem-oriented social work model is gaining ground. According to M. Herz and T. Johansson (2011), the increasing amount of scientific research reveal that social work practice is over-reliant on stereotypic approaches, while social workers too often lean on psychological methods. Systemic approach, attention to society is the farther the more abandoned in favour of attention to a personality, which results in lack of understanding of social context.…”

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Positive Social Work Approach: The Shift From “Work” Towards “Social”

Kreivinienė¹,

Rimkus²

2021

Tiltai

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Positive orientation has become widely recognized in many scientific fields during the last decade. Possible nature of positive orientation in social work could be derived from positive psychology. However this topic is just starting to be discussed and researched in Lithuania and other European countries. In this article the authors represent complementary social work approaches that are proved as effective in a contradiction to most applied and dominant in practice nowadays problem-oriented model of social work. Therefore, the aim of the article is to overview social work practices as a ground for starting modeling Positive Social Work (PSW). Literature analysis was employed to ground different approaches of social work and set the basis for possible Positive Social Work beginning.

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“…The study was based on the assumption that social and cultural practices are embedded in activation policy and implementation, and become manifest in encounters between service users and representatives of the welfare state (Herz & Johansson ; Pfau‐Effinger ). The study used a narrative approach and a combination of Axel Honneth's () and Nancy Fraser's () respective theories of recognition to facilitate an understanding of: (i) how gendered identity construction in labour activation may affect male and female participants’ sense of their social value differently, (ii) how these gendered identity constructions become visible within the user–social worker relationship and (iii) how such identity constructions may affect implementation of the activation programme.…”

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Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

Hansen

2017

Int J Soc Welfare

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Few studies have considered how labour activation programmes affect participants’ identity construction, particularly from a gender comparison perspective. Using qualitative data and recognition theories, this exploratory study of the Norwegian Qualification Program examined how gender may affect labour activation recipients’ identity construction and sense of social value. The findings suggest that women experience labour activation as an enabling process, facilitating an enhanced sense of social value and status. In contrast, men experience either no such change or a diminution of their sense of worth and status. The study shows how cultural values regarding gender, work and employment are embedded in social work practice and activation policy implementation. Underscoring how activation may be intertwined in such cultural values and norms, the study calls for further research to understand these processes, as they may affect outcomes in labour activation policy.

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Critical Social Work – Considerations and Suggestions

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

A Cry for Care But not Justice: Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economy of Child Welfare

A Cry for Care But not Justice: Embodied Vulnerabilities and the Moral Economy of Child Welfare

Positive Social Work Approach: The Shift From “Work” Towards “Social”

Recognition and gendered identity constructions in labour activation

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