DescriptionSizeFormat
Author final version83 KBAdobe Acrobat PDFView/Open

Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35773

Title
The return of the political in social work
Author/Creator
Gray, Mel;  Webb, Stephen A.
Description
This article is a follow-up to our article 'Revisiting social work as art' and in part a response to Karen Healy's reply [both published in IJSW 17(2)]. It is, however, also a significant extension of this material since it engages with more general concerns about the critical project that is intrinsic to social work. Social work is not just about self-foundation based on knowledge, values and skills formation, but also about self-assertion. Crucially, it is through this notion of self-assertion that social work can be best understood as an agent of change. This transformative aspect of social work is our central focus. We are not concerned with structural conditions of power and domination but with theorising what a transformative politics would look like for social work using the lens of the French political philosopher Alain Badiou as a conceptual medium for permitting the return of the political for social work.
Relation
International Journal of Social Welfare Vol. 18, Issue 1, p. 111-115
Relation
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2397.2008.00626.x/abstract
Date
2009
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Keyword(s)
social work as art;  Badiou;  nature of social work;  ontology of social work;  psychologism
Resource Type
journal article
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/35773
Identifier
ISSN:1369-6866
Language
eng
Reviewed
Reviewed
Full Text
Full Text
 
Image Thumbnail
32 Visitors 52 Hits 3 Downloads
Save/E-mail Citation
Citation Format
E-mail Address
Subject
"International Journal of Social Welfare"
 
OR