- Title
- The death of emancipatory social work as art and birth of socially engaged art practice
- Creator
- Schubert, Leanne; Gray, Mel
- Relation
- British Journal of Social Work Vol. 45, Issue 4, p. 1349-1356
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcv020
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- The growth of socially engaged art practice over the last decade is considered in light of the relationship between social work, art and social change. The question posed is 'has social work - caught in neo-liberal paternalism - given way to socially engaged art as a medium of social change?' The paper argues that, as social workers have vacated public spaces of activism and change, so artists have moved in to fill the void and suggests there has never been a better time to reinvigorate critical social work and its emancipatory potential.
- Subject
- critical social work; art; socially engaged art practice; activism; social change
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1306853
- Identifier
- uon:21272
- Identifier
- ISSN:0045-3102
- Rights
- This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in the British Journal of Social Work following peer review. The version of record Schubert, Leanne; Gray, Mel. "The death of emancipatory social work as art and birth of socially engaged art practice” Published in British Journal of Social Work, Vol. 45, Issue 4, Pages 1349-1356, (2015) is available online at: https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/articlelookup/doi/10.1093/bjsw/bcv020.
- Language
- eng
- Full Text
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