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Chapter 1. Towards Abolitionist Social Work
Building Praxis
From: Abolish Social Work (As We Know It)
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The text critiques social work’s historical entanglement with capitalism and carceral systems before establishing abolitionist frameworks centered on solidarity rather than punishment. It then explores strategic organizing domains requiring practitioners to navigate ethical challenges while shifting power dynamics outside state control. Finally, the outline details justice models including restorative and reparative approaches designed to dismantle institutional harm through community-led mutual aid practices.
Contributors
Cameron Rasmussen
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.
