Case critical : social services & social justice in Canada / Banakonda Kennedy-Kish (Bell), Raven Sinclair, Ben Carniol, Donna Baines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy-Kish (Bell), Banakonda, author.

Carniol, Ben, author.

Baines, Donna, 1960- author.

Sinclair, Raven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social service--Canada.

Social service.

Social workers.

Canada.

Social workers--Canada.

Physical Description:

xv, 215 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

regular print

Edition:

Seventh edition.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : Between the Lines, [2017]

Summary:

"Social services are in crisis: after numerous service cuts, many of its jobs are now short-term, part-time and non-unionized, prompting us to ask why is there not a greater public outcry for helping people in need? This book applies decolonized, critical analysis to highlight what is often hidden from view for most Canadians: the personal trauma and communal devastation inflicted on Indigenous people by past and present colonialism, and how neoliberal tax cuts, austerity and privatization are creating more inequality, homelessness, and despair among both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. The authors advocate for social service providers to become social activists to de-legitimatize colonial and neoliberal policies by working in solidarity with progressive, grass roots social movements committed to Indigenous Treaty rights, and to economic, environmental, and social justice for everyone."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Ntamkidwinan first words

Welcome

An Anishinaabe Elder's perspectives

2. Power, ideology, and social services

Ongoing colonialism and its consequences

Canadian apology for residential schools

Indigenous child removal system and the "Sixties Scoop"

Today's colonialism

Individualism and privilege

Progressive social work

3. Naming and resisting injustices

Colonial privilege

Racism and privilege

Class privilege

Patriarchal privilege

Heterosexual/cisgender privilege

Ableism and privilege

Social justice and social services

4. Roots : early attitudes

Early North American social welfare

"Survival of the fittest"

Social Darwinism

Social work : the beginnings

Oppression and resistance

Indigenous "assimilation" and resistance

Inuit and Métis

Early 1900s unrest

Social programs and social injustices

Resistance and progressive movement^^^ ^ Neoliberal backlash

5. Diverging schools of altruism

Conflicts inside the social work curriculum

Conventional : ecological-systems theory

Anti-oppression perspectives

The controversy about competency models

From Aboriginal circles in the classroom to Indigenizing social work

Four principles of good practice

6. Social workers : on the front line

Where social workers work

How people become social service users

Hierarchies and the stratification of social services

The challenge of social work

The bottom line : managerialized social services

Privitization of social services

A challenge : this story must change

7. Reality check : service users' experience

Welfare "reform" : smoke and mirrors

Different shades of social coercion

Caring social services : take a deep bow

8. Challenging feeling hopeless

Social justice movements

Labour unions and social work

^ ^ Dealing with challenges : tiny miracles

Alternative social services

An activist agenda by progressive social workers

9. Toward liberation

Challenging multiple oppressions

Themes for liberation in social work practice

Indigenous healing and liberation

Liberation and social services

The pendulum of practice : a tool for assessing cultural competence

Completing a cultural competence self-audit

Competence matrix

Supporting and actualizing transformation

10. Nawây-pîkiskwêwina after words.

Notes:

Previous edition cataloged under Ben Carniol.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 196-215).

Other Format:

Carniol, Ben. Case critical.

ISBN:

9781771133111

1771133112

OCLC:

965149852