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Chapter 13. Social Work’s Very Complicated Relationship with Indigenous Languages
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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The text examines social work’s historical entanglement with colonial policies disrupting language transmission. It critiques institutional models that prioritize bureaucracy over autonomous, grassroots learning environments necessary for revitalization. Finally, authors propose shifting from performative reconciliation toward Indigenous-led systemic change and restorative restitution to dismantle control mechanisms perpetuating harm.
Contributors
Rochelle Allan
Craig Fortieris a Tkaronto/Toronto based scholar and community organizer. They have worked as a social worker in housing, youth organizing, and non-profit funding organizations while also organizing with migrant justice, queer/trans*, anti-capitalist, and Indigenous solidarity movements. Currently, they are an associate professor in Social Development Studies at Renison University College (University of Waterloo) and are the author of Unsettling the Commons: Social Movements Within, Against, and Beyond Settler Colonialism.
