Utopian Thinking and Social Work
eBook - ePub

Utopian Thinking and Social Work

  1. 178 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Utopian Thinking and Social Work

About this book

This book highlights the importance of employing imaginative sensibilities to thinking and action in social work and social policy practice.
Exploring the question of how ideas about utopia and utopian method can be used in social work practice and policy practice to address social inequalities, it shows that central to this critique is the argument that contemporary social policy responses and subsequent social work interventions to a range of policy problems (e.g. homelessness, poverty, family violence) need to acknowledge the failure of dominant neoliberal discourses in addressing these issues. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted and, in many ways, exacerbated existing inequalities, and the post-pandemic future provides opportunities to put utopian ideas into action.
Showing how utopian thinking can challenge fundamental assumptions regarding welfare dependency and unitary identities in policy settings, this book will be of interest to all scholars, students and professionals working in social work and social policy.

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Information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040310304
Edition
0
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Social Theory
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction: Utopian Thinking and Social Work
  9. 1 History and Meaning of Utopia
  10. 2 Utopian Thinking, Social Work and Social Policy
  11. 3 Utopia, Social Change and Literature: Bridging the Science/Literature Divide in Social Work and Social Policy
  12. 4 Utopian Thinking and Social Work Education
  13. 5 Utopian Thinking in Social Work and Policy Research
  14. 6 Conclusion
  15. Index