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Understanding the State: A Central Anti-Oppressive Social Work Skill
From: Doing Anti-Oppressive Social Work
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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 perform anti-oppressive practice.
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.
Dylan Lambi-Raine
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.