- Title
- Environmental social work as critical, decolonising practice
- Creator
- Gray, Mel; Coates, John Coates
- Relation
- Doing Critical Social Work: Transformative Practices for Social Justice p. 271-285
- Relation
- https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/academic-professional/social-work/Doing-Critical-Social-Work-Edited-by-Bob-Pease-Sophie-Goldingay-Norah-Hosken-and-Sharlene-Nipperess-9781760110840
- Publisher
- Allen and Unwin
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Popular interest in the environment has steadily grown in recent decades such that the environmental movement has been called the 'largest, most densely organised political cause in human history' (Brown 1995: xiv). Aided by the globalisation of communication, people in all parts of the world are increasingly alarmed by growing concerns about environmental changes, and the actual and anticipated threats to human and global wellbeing. In response, millions of small, locally oriented community groups and large globally influential organisations, such as Greenpeace, Worldwatch Institute, and Kairos have emerged (Hawken 2007; Turner 2007). While the focus initially was most frequently local pollution and habitat destruction, concern spread internationally as 'development' strategies, risky technologies, and waste disposal were transferred to nations in the Global South. Greenpeace advocates labelled this as 'toxic colonialism' (Kone 2010) and works such as Hofrichter (1993) and Pulido (1996) brought attention to the role of international financial institutions in the social injustices created by environmental degradation. Bullard (1993) argued the environmental justice movement brought issues of sodal inequality and power imbalances into the larger environmental movement and underscored the importance of connecting environmental and social justice issues. International organisations, such as the World Council on Environment and Development (WCED) and the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), added credibility to the feared consequences of environmental destruction.
- Subject
- social work; decolonising; community; practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1343342
- Identifier
- uon:29138
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781760110840
- Language
- eng
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