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Abolition and social work : Possibilities, paradoxes, and the practice of community care / edited by Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, Durrell M. Washington.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rasmussen, Cameron, Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Alternatives to imprisonment.
- Antislavery movements.
- Decolonization.
- Harm reduction.
- Mass incarceration.
- Police abolition movement.
- Restorative justice.
- Social service and race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- LaVergne : Haymarket Books, 2024.
- Haymarket Books 2024
- Summary:
- A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work-a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state-abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of "soft policing." For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility. Featuring a foreword by Mariame Kaba, Abolition and Social Work offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work-a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.
- Contents:
- Introduction 1 Society for Social Work and Research Keynote Section 1: Possibilities 2 Conceptualizing Abolitionist Social Work 3 Abolitionist Reform for Social Workers 4 Indigenist Abolition: A Talk Story on Ideas and Strategies for Social Work Practice 5 Abolition: The Missing Link in Historical Efforts to Address Racism and Colonialism within the Profession of Social Work Section 2: Paradoxes 6 Is Social Work Obsolete? 7 Abolition and the Welfare State 8 Ending Carceral Social Work 9 Social Work and Family Policing: A Conversation between Joyce McMillan and Dorothy Roberts 10 Reaching for an Abolitionist Horizon within Professionalized Social-Change Work Section 3: Praxis 11 Staying in Love with Each Other's Survival: Practicing at the Intersection of Liberatory Harm Reduction and Transformative Justice 12 A Conversation with Charlene A. Carruthers about Social Work and Abolition 13 No Restorative Justice Utopia: Abolition and Working with the State 14 Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions as Abolitionist Praxis for Social Work Stéphanie Wahab 15 Abolitionist and Harm Reduction Praxis for Public Sector Mental Health Services: An Application to Involuntary Hospitalization Back Cover
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798888901175
- 9798888900918
- OCLC:
- 1425813307
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