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Chapter 9. Social Work Abolition in Unsettling Times
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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The text critiques professional social work as a mechanism for state surveillance and capitalist extraction within hierarchical structures. It proposes an abolitionist framework replacing traditional models with mutual aid and leadership from marginalized communities including Indigenous groups. Finally, it outlines transformative praxis requiring accountability, historical reckoning, and community sovereignty over assimilationist institutional goals.
Contributors
Craig Fortier
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.
Edward Hon-Sing Wong
Edward Hon-Sing Wong is based in Tkaronto/Toronto. With a background in mental health practice, labour organizing, and community organizing, his work and research centers on social work abolitionism in Canada and Hong Kong, mutual aid, social work and colonialism, institutional violence in the mental health field, and organizing in Chinese communities. He is currently a lecturer at York University’s School of Social Work and a former chair of the Chinese Canadian National Council Toronto Chapter.
