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Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work
Author(s)

Bindi Bennett; Donna Baines; Natalie Clark

Publisher

Fernwood Publishing

Publication Year

2022

ISBN: 9781773635552

Categories:

  • Social Work → Activism & Social Movements
  • Social Work → Practice → Anti-oppressive Practice
  • Social Work → Social Justice
  • Social Work → Social Welfare
  • Social Work → Theory

 
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Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work

Rethinking Theory and Practice: 4th Edition

Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work brings together critical social work authors to passionately engage with pressing social issues, and to pose new solutions, practices and analysis in the context of growing inequities and the need for reconciliation, decolonization and far-reaching change. The book presents strong intersectional perspectives and practice, engaging closely with decolonization, re-Indigenization, resistance and social justice. Like the first three editions, the 4th edition foregrounds the voices of those less heard in social work academia and to provide cutting-edge critical reflection and skills, including social work’s relationship to the state, and social work’s responsibility to individuals, communities and its own ethics and standards of practice. Indigenous, Black, racialized, transgender, (dis)Ability and allied scholars offer identity-engaged and intersectional analyses on a wide-range of issues facing those working with intersectional cultural humility, racism and child welfare, poverty and single mothers, critical gerontology and older people, and immigrant and racialized families. This 4th edition of Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work goes well beyond its predecessors, updating and revising popular chapters, but also problematizing AOP and engaging closely with new and emerging issues

Contributors

Donna Baines

Donna Baines is the director and a professor in the School of Social Work at the University of British Columbia. She is editor of Doing Anti-Oppressive Practice, co-editor (with Stephen McBride) of Orchestrating Austerity and co-author of Case Critical. Her research and teaching interests include anti-oppressive theory and practice, paid and unpaid care work and social justice change.

Bindi Bennett

Bindi Bennett is a Gamilaraay cisgender mother, researcher and social worker. She is an associate professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Bond University. She has over twenty years’ practice experience in the fields of Aboriginal social work, child and adolescent mental health, schools and health.

Natalie Clark

Natalie Clark’s practice, research and activism is informed and mobilized through her interconnected identities including her Settler ancestry and her Secwepemc and Métis kinship – as grandmother, mother, auntie and community member. Natalie is a Full Professor in the School of Social Work and Human Service at Thompson Rivers University, Co-Chair of the Gender Equity committee, and continues to practice as a violence counsellor and girls group facilitator with children, youth and families.

Chapter Contributors Pages Year Price
This chapter describes the origins and core themes of anti-oppressive practice (aop), as well as any ongoing tensions in the relatively new theory of social work practice.
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Donna Baines; Natalie Clark 38 2022 $3.80
This chapter is an offering and sharing of an intergenerational genealogy of Indigenous feminist resistance to colonial violence and, more importantly, an avowal and resurgence of Indigenous …
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Natalie Clark 18 2022 $1.80
This chapter describes the relationship between social work and the state: how social work can be used as a tool of oppression on behalf of the state and how social work can be harnessed to …
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Donna Baines; Dylan Lambi-Raine 20 2022 $2.00
This chapter explores the benefits of social work that incorporates cultural humility in its practice. Cultural humility and cultural competence are described in the context of Australia’s …
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Bindi Bennett; Trevor G. Gates 19 2022 $1.90
This chapter offers an intersectional view of low-income single mothers, many of whom are racialized or Indigenous or have other marginalized identities. This reading examines why these women are …
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Lee Caragata 19 2022 $1.90
This chapter discusses critical clinical social work in the context of mental health and (dis)Ability. The seven therapeutic processes used to perform this kind of practice are explained. A case …
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Catrina Brown; Judy MacDonald 25 2022 $2.50
This chapter examines why standardized assessments are being pushed as positive tools within social work and how theses assessments impact the efficacy of health and social services.
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Kristin Smith 23 2022 $2.30
This chapter uses examples from frontline social work practice and from schools of social work to highlight ways to integrate activism into everyday social work practice. The authors draw on …
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Donna Baines; Jaclyn Sauer 23 2022 $2.30
In this chapter, three acts of resistance that can be used to unsettle dominant and inequitable social work approaches and practices in micro, meso and macro contexts. The first is actively …
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Fritz Pino 18 2022 $1.80
This chapter examines how to practice anti-oppressive social work from an Indigenous perspective. The need to incorporate cultural knowledge and draw on practices that exist within the customs, …
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Bonnie Freeman 22 2022 $2.20
This chapter examines how the child welfare system impacts black families and breaks down why black children are overrepresented in care. The rise of the welfare state, anti-Black racism, and …
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Doret Phillips; Gordon Pon 16 2022 $1.60
This chapter describes disability anti-oppressive practice (daop), drawing on the case of Cory, a thirteen-year-old living with cerebral palsy. How to properly perform daop is explained.
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Irene Carter; Judy MacDonald; Roy Hanes 23 2022 $2.30
This chapter examines gender-affirming care in Canada and describes anti-oppressive social work for and with trans people. This reading discusses standardized clinical assessments as the …
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Daniel Grace; Kinnon R. MacKinnon 17 2022 $1.70
This chapter examines social work practice in the context of aging and working with older adults. The harmful assumptions made in social work practice, especially that older adults are frail, …
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Ilyan Ferrer; Shari Brotman; Wendy Hulko 24 2022 $2.40
This chapter shares stories from multigenerational Secwépemc and social work/ counselling practitioners with Indigenous ancestry and Secwépemc kinship ties. Each counsellor works with …
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Jeffrey More; Lynn Kenoras-Duck Chief; Natalie Clark 23 2022 $2.30
This section includes the closing thoughts of three social justice social work scholars who have committed their work and the days of their lives to advancing agendas of equity, fairness and …
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Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell; Ben Carniol 13 2022 $1.30

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