What is the relationship between social work and the state? Who controls which services needs are addressed and how? This important book looks at social work responses in different countries to extreme social, economic and political situations in order to answer these questions. Examples include: war situations, military regimes, earthquakes and Tsunamis. The results show the innovative nature of grass-roots provision and social work intervention and will be of interest to all social work academics, students and professionals.
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Social work in extremis
Lessons for social work internationally
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Social work in extremis
Lessons for social work internationally
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Table of contents
- SOCIAL WORK IN EXTREMIS
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- INTRODUCTION
- ‘Popular social work’ in the Palestinian West Bank
- Samidoun: grassroots welfare and popular resistance in Beirut
- Grassroots community organising in a post-disaster context
- Grassroots community social work with the ‘unwanted’
- In search of emancipatory social work practice in contemporary Colombia
- Addressing social conflicts in Sri Lanka
- International organisations, social work and war
- Welfare under warfare
- Social welfare services to protect elderly victims of war in Cyprus
- Neoliberalism and Hurricane Katrina
- Social work and social development in Central Asia
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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