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Abolition in Social Work and Human Services

Visions, Possibilities and Challenges

by Peter Choate, Kerri Cleaver, Alan J. Detlaff, Aiofe Donohue, Ida Drury, Paul Michael Garrett, Anna Gupta, Emily Keddell, David McKendrick, Lisa Merkel-Holguin, Sophie Shall, Bindi Bennett, Peta Phelan, Donna Baines, Mohamed Ibraham, Dorothy E. Roberts, Chris Maylea, Emma Tseris, John Fox, Sacha Jamieson, Lobna Yassine, Mimi Kim, Kris Clarke, Mwendza Blell ...

Globally, social workers are committed to human rights and challenging unjust social structures. However, their close ties to the state often reinforce such systems of oppression.The first to apply abolitionist theory from international perspectives to social work, this book examines this contradiction, exploring whether social work can embrace radical change while operating within state ... Read more

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Globally, social workers are committed to human rights and challenging unjust social structures. However, their close ties to the state often reinforce such systems of oppression.The first to apply abolitionist theory from international perspectives to social work, this book examines this contradiction, exploring whether social work can embrace radical change while operating within state
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Destabilising Manhood and Masculinity

Unbecoming Men in a Violent Gender Order

by Bob Pease ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This book addresses the debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether. It argues that men have to move beyond the illusion of masculinity to address their habitual ways of relating that reinforce dominance and oppression and ... Read more

$44.99 USD

This book addresses the debate within feminism and critical studies of men and masculinities on whether men should be encouraged to develop alternative masculinities, or whether they should be challenged to renounce masculinity altogether. It argues that men have to move beyond the illusion of masculinity to address their habitual ways of relating that reinforce dominance and oppression and
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Interconnecting the Violences of Men

Continuities and Intersections in Research, Policy and Activism

Edited by Kate Seymour, Bob Pease, Sofia Strid, Jeff Hearn ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delimit – understandings ... Read more

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This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delimit – understandings
... Read more
Undoing Privilege

Unearned Advantage and Systemic Injustice in an Unequal World

by Professor Bob Pease ...

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. Here, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.The second edition of Undoing Privilege extensively revises the six sites of privilege ... Read more

$28.19 USD

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. Here, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.The second edition of Undoing Privilege extensively revises the six sites of privilege
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Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance

A Tale of Two Professions

by Rich Moth, Filipe Duarte, Patrick Selmi, Carolyn Noble, Alan Dettlaff, Victoria Copeland, Caroline McGregor, Michael Lavalette, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Vassilis Tsianos, Melisa Campana-Alabarce, Gianinna Muñoz-Arce, María Inés Martínez Herrero, Linda Harms-Smith, Yasmin Turton, Carola Kuhlmann, Caroline Bald, Akudo Amadiegwu, Pedro Gabriel Silva, Alcina Martins, Bob Pease, Guy Shennan, Claire McGettrick ...

Social work is often presented as a benevolent and politically neutral profession, avoiding discussion about its sometimes troubling political histories.This book rethinks social work’s legacy and history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive and punitive practices. Using a comparative approach with international case studies, the book uncovers the role of social workers in ... Read more

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Social work is often presented as a benevolent and politically neutral profession, avoiding discussion about its sometimes troubling political histories.This book rethinks social work’s legacy and history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive and punitive practices. Using a comparative approach with international case studies, the book uncovers the role of social workers in
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Posthumanism and the Man Question

Beyond Anthropocentric Masculinities

Edited by Ulf Mellström, Bob Pease ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for ‘the man question’. The contributors to this book interrogate the question of how ‘Man’ as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality, and they explore ways to unsettle men’s sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity.Men have to ... Read more

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This book brings together the emerging insights of what posthumanism, new materialism and affect theory mean for ‘the man question’. The contributors to this book interrogate the question of how ‘Man’ as a gendered being is entangled with nature, culture, materiality and corporeality, and they explore ways to unsettle men’s sense of sovereignty to decentre anthropocentric masculinity.Men have to
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Post-Anthropocentric Social Work

Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives

Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Bob Pease ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism.Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong human ... Read more

$57.99 USD

This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - those which perpetuate human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise that challenge human exceptionalism.Social work is at heart a liberal humanist project informed by a strong human
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International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities

Edited by Michael Flood, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Bob Pease, Keith Pringle ...

The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations.The Encyclopedia:examines every area of men's ... Read more

$65.99 USD

The International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities offers a comprehensive guide to the current state of scholarship about men, masculinities, and gender around the world. The Encyclopedia's coverage is comprehensive across three dimensions: areas of personal and social life, academic disciplines, and cultural and historical contexts and formations.The Encyclopedia:examines every area of men's
... Read more
Undoing Privilege

Unearned Advantage in a Divided World

by Professor Bob Pease ...

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western ... Read more

$28.99 USD

For every group that is oppressed, another group is privileged. In Undoing Privilege, Bob Pease argues that privilege, as the other side of oppression, has received insufficient attention in both critical theories and in the practices of social change. As a result, dominant groups have been allowed to reinforce their dominance.Undoing Privilege explores the main sites of privilege, from Western
... Read more
The Politics of Recognition and Social Justice

Transforming Subjectivities and New Forms of Resistance

Edited by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Bob Pease ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality
Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed and reconstructed within relations of power? What kinds of subjectivities are needed to struggle ... Read more

$57.99 USD

Via a wide range of case studies, this book examines new forms of resistance to social injustices in contemporary Western societies. Resistance requires agency, and agency is grounded in notions of the subject and subjectivity. How do people make sense of their subjectivity as they are constructed and reconstructed within relations of power? What kinds of subjectivities are needed to struggle
... Read more
Critical Ethics of Care in Social Work

Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring

Edited by Bob Pease, Anthea Vreugdenhil, Sonya Stanford ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work that is concerned with human ... Read more

$59.99 USD

This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. As such, it enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. The editors and contributors to the book argue that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work that is concerned with human
... Read more
Transforming Social Work Practice

Postmodern Critical Perspectives

Edited by Jan Fook, Bob Pease ...

Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human ... Read more

$59.99 USD

Transforming Social Work Practice shows that postmodern theory offers new strategies for social workers concerned with political action and social justice. It explores ways of developing practice frameworks, paradigms and principles which take advantage of the perspectives offered by postmodern theory without totally abandoning the values of modernity and the Enlightenment project of human
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