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  • Community Development in an Uncertain World

    Vision, Analysis and Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Community Development in an Uncertain World, Jim Ife draws on the principles of social justice, ecological responsibility and post-Enlightenment and Indigenous perspectives to advance new holistic approaches to community development. The book explores the concept of community development on a local and international scale in the context of globalisation and postcolonial theory. Students will ... Read more

    $76.29 USD

  • Human Rights and Social Work

    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife, Karen Soldatić, Linda Briskman ...
    Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Re-imagining Social Work

    Towards Creative Practice

    by Jim Ife, Rimple Mehta, Sharlotte Tusasiirwe ...
    Social workers are increasingly faced with contemporary global challenges such as inequality, climate change and displacement of people. As a field committed to supporting the world's most vulnerable populations and communities, social work must adapt to meet the needs of this changing global landscape. Re-imagining Social Work broadens the imaginative horizons for social workers and acquaints ... Read more

    $51.69 USD

  • Human Rights from Below

    Achieving Rights through Community Development

    by Jim Ife ...
    In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Human Rights and Social Work

    Towards Rights-Based Practice

    by Jim Ife ...
    Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Populism, Democracy and Community Development

    by Rebecca Fanany, Ismet Fanany, Andie Reynolds, Arto Salonen, Juha Hämäläinen, Keith Popple, Benny Witkovsky, Randy Stoecker, Marjorie Mayo ...
    Series series Rethinking Community Development
    Using international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the relationships between community development and populism in the context of today’s widespread crisis of democracy.It investigates the development, meanings and manifestations of contemporary forms of populism and explores the synergies and contradictions between the values and practices of populism and community development ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • New Theories for Social Work Practice

    Ethical Practice for Working with Individuals, Families and Communities

    Edited by Kieran O'Donoghue, Robyn Munford ...
    Social work theory and practice is evolving, and, this edited collection explains both what the latest developments are and how to use them in practice.Exploring the challenges currently being faced within social work, it shows new ways social workers can conceptualise and respond to these issues. It covers emerging theory relating to work with families, children and young people, refugees, older ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work

    Edited by Sonia M. Tascón, Jim Ife ...
    Focussing on the epistemic – the way in which knowledge is understood,constructed,transmitted and used – this book shows the way social workknowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, andthe need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level.Social work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privilegedwhite western knowledge in ways ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Participation

    From Tyranny to Transformation: Exploring New Approaches to Participation in Development

    Edited by Samuel Hickey, Giles Mohan ...
    Participation has established itself as a significant approach to project implementation, policy-making and governance in developing and developed countries alike. Recently, however, it has become fashionable to dismiss participation as more rhetoric than substance, and subject to manipulation by agencies and social change agents intent simply on pursuing their own agendas under cover of community ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Social Policy

    A Critical and Intersectional Analysis

    by Fiona Williams ...
    Welfare states face profound challenges. Widening economic and social inequalities have been intensified by austerity politics, sharpened by the rise in ethno-nationalism and exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, recent decades have seen a resurgence of social justice activism at both the local and the transnational level. Yet the transformative power of feminist, anti-racist and ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Care and Capitalism

    by Kathleen Lynch ...
    The logics and ethics of neoliberal capitalism dominate public discourses and politics in the early twenty-first century. They morally endorse and institutionalize forms of competitive self-interest that jettison social justice values, and are deeply antithetical to love, care and solidarity.But capitalism is neither invincible nor inevitable. While people are self-interested, they are not purely ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Global Perspectives in the Geography Curriculum

    Reviewing the Moral Case for Geography

    by Alex Standish ...
    ‘For geographers across the globe this book provides the arguments for a return to the teaching of geography and why they should reject the politicisation of the subject by education policy makers and politicians. Standish’s careful critique shows the necessity of a depoliticised geography curriculum the irony of which would be that it would ensure that every child could point to Iraq, Iran and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD