Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare

Penna, Susan; Paylor, Ian; Washington, John

doi:10.1080/714052818

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“…In a similar vein Penna et al (2000) argue that by taking into account a 'dual configuration' of national and supranational concerns, social work should be considered within a transnational context. They begin by claiming that 'it is time to think globally about social work' and ask us to consider 'how professional social work can develop political and practice intervention strategies that can adequately react .…”

Section: Developing a Global Identity For Social Workmentioning

confidence: 96%

Local orders and global chaos in social work

Webb¹

2003

European Journal of Social Work

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We live, supposedly, in a run away global world that is permeated with risk, disaster and uncertainty. Social work, at least at the level of policy and research, has been seen to be responding to the globalization discourse. Its tendency is to try and deepen its own institutional reflexivity with a growing awareness of its own place within the new information age and neo-liberal moral order. In this paper it is suggested that social work has at best a minimal role to play with any new global order, should such an order exist. There are developments within social work that could have global significance, for instance, the spread of actuarial technologies and risk management. However, information networks and the universalization of expert systems hardly support claims for a 'global social work'.This paper attempts to clear the logjam of the increasingly unproductive debates about globalization and social work. These debates both set an allegedly beneficial ethical welfarism against the impersonal forces of globalization and thereby wish to enlarge the ethical purchase of social work; or present globalization as an inevitable phenomenon that has deleterious effects on social work and therefore ought to be resisted. Social work is thereby reformulated and extended as a potential solution to some of the ills of an alienating and immoral global force. Against a prospect of social work movements being individually and structurally transformative on a global level, it is argued that local cultural orders of reflexivity are the ground from which to properly understand the purpose and remit of its practices. It is claimed that any notion of a global or transnational social work is little more than a vanity. Local culture orders of reflexivity-concentrating as they do on the raw stuff of interactions, plans, interventions and ethics-recognize the need for a shared culture of depth understanding that comes with being native to that culture as a language user and agent of the kinesics and proxemics of 'being-here'. Neither the nation-state nor irredentism provide a basis for a perfect match between culture and successful practice, but without either of these within whose borders each of us lives, the idea of social work as culturally sensitive to the lives of others with whom we are working becomes increasingly distant and difficult. This position relies on a strong conception of the 'encumbered self' used in communitarian political theory. This paper argues that by ignoring the communitarian encumbered self the literature on globalization and social work is insufficiently sensitive to the importance of language and culture and ignores the role social work plays in maintaining local cultural diversity. Some kinds of social or political practice do not need a high degree of cultural literacy as does social work and therefore can engage in promoting a neo-liberal fantasy of a 'global this or that'. The realities of front-line practice let alone the actual economic constraints on social welfare spending rather insist that we se...

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Section: Developing a Global Identity For Social Workmentioning

confidence: 96%

Local orders and global chaos in social work

Webb¹

2003

European Journal of Social Work

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“…Moreover, analysis of social work development internationally shows that the social work practice has developed disparately in the context of separate nation states and it is idiosyncratic to the concrete cultures and countries (Penna, Paylor, & Washington, 2000). In particular, social work is still lacking scientific shape and there is a need for clear definition of social work as an integrative scientific discipline and its research methodology.…”

Section: Increasing Visibility Of Social Work As Science In Post-sovimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…as refuges, poverty, public health, violence, disability, children separated from the families and etc.) and will meet ongoing globalization discourse and global political and economic processes (Penna, Paylor, & Washington, 2000). At the same time, Scientific Social Work will be able to answer national challenges considering its ecological contexts based on evidence based practices and scientific innovations to shape effective and responsive social policy and intervention programs in transitional countries.…”

Section: Increasing Visibility Of Social Work As Science In Post-sovimentioning

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The Current Status of Social Work Science and Research: A Review of the Literature and Its Implications for Post-Soviet Countries

Sadzaglishvili

2017

IJSW

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This paper offers a review of the major literature about the modern status of social work as a science within the American and European contexts and its implications for post-Soviet countries where social work is an emerging profession. It identifies the most appropriate types of social work research (e.g. translational research) that can be used for bridging the science and service communities to directly affect the provision of services across different social work sectors. It also provides historical analysis of the various organizations within European and American social work to show their pivotal role in improving the scope and quality of social work research and consequently, social work as a science. And finally it suggests ways of increasing visibility of social work as science in post-Soviet countries through development of sound social work doctoral programs.

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“…Lastly, there is a need for a discussion about imaginative strategies which can bridge all three domains. A good starting point is an examination of collective, supranational interventions which can be used to combat the negative effects of globalisation (Penna, Paylor & Washington, 2000).…”

Section: Conclusion: Lessons For the Futurementioning

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Using critical social theory to develop a conceptual framework for comparative social work

Houston

Campbell

2001

Int J Soc Welfare

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This paper sets out a conceptual framework for comparing and contrasting social work within nation‐states and across international boundaries. The framework is “situated” theoretically within a (late)modernist understanding of events within advanced capitalism and draws primarily on Habermas' critical social theory. The authors apply this framework to explicate the development of social work in Northern Ireland, a region in which high levels of political conflict mark it out as a site of local, national and international interest. It is suggested that the ideas developed from the case study have relevance for the social professions in other countries, particularly where social conflict is in evidence.

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Globalization, social exclusion and the possibilities for global social work and welfare

Cited by 24 publications

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Local orders and global chaos in social work

Local orders and global chaos in social work

The Current Status of Social Work Science and Research: A Review of the Literature and Its Implications for Post-Soviet Countries

Using critical social theory to develop a conceptual framework for comparative social work

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