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  • Ageing, Sex and Disability

    New Aesthetics and Critical Perspectives

    Series series Sex and Intimacy in Later Life
    What if we reimagined ageing, illness and disability not as barriers to sexuality – but as starting points for new forms of desire, intimacy and pleasure?This groundbreaking book challenges the silence and stigma surrounding the sexuality of older, ill and disabled people. Drawing from sociology, health studies, cultural theory and lived experience, the authors explore diverse expressions of ... Read more

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  • Pushing Boundaries in Social Work Around the World, Vol. 2

    Policy and Global Perspectives

    Series series Social Sciences
    This book provides examples of how social workers have pushed back against neoliberalism, attempts to co-opt or silence social workers, and reproduce philosophical and ethical assumptions that divide humans from each other and from the natural world.This is the second book of a two-volume set that focuses on how authors have pushed boundaries in a particular field of practice, research or policy ... Read more

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  • Pushing Boundaries in Social Work Around the World, Vol. 1

    Women, Children and Isms

    Series series Social Sciences
    This book provides examples of how social workers have pushed back against civic and private corporate powers that attempt to control women, children, racialised and stigmatised groups, migrants, and indigenous peoples, and public policy agendas that continue to vulnerabilise and marginalise people.This is the first book of a two-volume set that focuses on how authors have pushed boundaries in a ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Social Care and Social Work

    Creating a Global Future

    Series series Research in Social Work
    European and North American notions of helping - or managing - poor and marginalised people have deep roots in religious texts and traditions which continue to influence contemporary social policy and social work practice in ways which many do not realise.Bringing together interdisciplinary scholarship, Mark Henrickson argues that it is essential to understand and critique social work’s origins in ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life

    Series series Sex and Intimacy in Later Life
    Following the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs), many people affected by HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have now been living with the condition for decades.Drawing on perspectives from leading scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK and the US, as well as research from India and Kenya, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in ... Read more

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  • Vulnerability and Marginality in Human Services

    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    Vulnerability has traditionally been conceived as a dichotomised status, where an individual by reason of a personal characteristic is classified as vulnerable or not. However, vulnerability is not static, and most, if not all, people are vulnerable at some time in their lives. Similarly, marginality is a social construct linked to power and control. Marginalised populations are relegated to the ... Read more

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  • Social Work Education

    Voices from the Asia Pacific

    Social work and social development in the Asia-Pacific region continue to grow in new and exciting ways. Social work educators are an essential part of shaping social work and development. In this second edition we hear four new voices, from Cambodia, Fiji, Japan and Vietnam, together with revised and updated chapters from social work educators in Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Korea, Nepal, ... Read more

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  • Social Work Field Education and Supervision Across Asia Pacific

    Social work programs and schools are flourishing in every corner of the globe, but especially in east and south-east Asia. As social work extends its influence across the region, it includes an increasing variety of theories and practices. Nevertheless, field education and supervision remain at the centre of any social work program and are the cornerstones of professional development for the ... Read more

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    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This Handbook explores the current dynamics, threats, and opportunities of social work education in terms of its origin, growth and development within different regions and political regimes. The book aligns with overarching contemporary themes such as changing governance structures around the world; digitalization and globalization; and decolonization and also in line with the advancement of ... Read more

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  • Indigenization Discourse in Social Work

    International Perspectives

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This contributed volume provides an in-depth understanding of contemporary debates, discussions and insights on Indigenous social work theory, education and practice across the globe. Based on theoretical and empirical perspectives, authors collectively contribute to a comprehensive, critical and up-to-date discussion about Indigenous social work theories, decolonization of social work education, ... Read more

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  • Degrowth

    A Vocabulary for a New Era

    Degrowth is a rejection of the illusion of growth and a call to repoliticize the public debate colonized by the idiom of economism. It is a project advocating the democratically-led shrinking of production and consumption with the aim of achieving social justice and ecological sustainability.This overview of degrowth offers a comprehensive coverage of the main topics and major challenges of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Handbook of Children's Rights

    Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    While the notion of young people as individuals worthy or capable of having rights is of relatively recent origin, over the past several decades there has been a substantial increase in both social and political commitment to children’s rights as well as a tendency to grant young people some of the rights that were typically accorded only to adults. In addition, there has been a noticeable shift ... Read more

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