Reading Foucault for Social Work

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-231-10717-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 440 g

This is the first book-length introduction to the work of Michel Foucault in social work. The social work profession is being challenged today to adapt to changing societal and cultural conditions and to carve out a new societal niche. Foucault's work offers a particularly relevant entry point for revisiting social work's mission, activities, and objectives. A critical reexamination of its practices, institutional arrangements, and knowledge helps us to envision alternative social work practices and strategies for social change.

Each chapter emphasizes different notions from Foucault's writings. Contributions include conceptual, philosophical, and methodological considerations, and discussions from various fields and levels of practice. The book covers policy in child welfare and child protection; gay-lesbian youth services; grief work and the family; client-worker interaction in a welfare office; and the social movement of the elderly. It includes a rountable discussion with Foucault on social work and a glossary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chambon, Adrienne

Irving, Allan

Epstein, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Social Work in Perspective1 The Culture of Social Work, by Laura Epstein2Waiting for Foucault: Social Work and the Multitudinous Truth(s) of Life, by Allan Irving3Foucault's Approach: Making the Familiar Visible, by Adrienne S. Chambon4Social Work, Social Control, and Normalization: Roundtable Discussion with Michel Foucault2 Social Work Practices and Knowledges Reconsidered5Reconfiguring Child Welfare Practices: Risk Advanced Liberalism, and the Government of Freedom, by Nigel Parton6Contested Territory: Sexualities and Social Work, by Carol-Anne O'Brien7Foucault and Therapy: The Disciplining of Grief, by Catherine E. Foote and Arthur W. Frank8Resistance and Old Age: The Subject Behind the American Seniors'Movement, by Frank T. Y. Wang9Surveillance and Government of the Welfare Recipient, by Ken Moffatt10Postmodernity, Ethnography, and Foucault, by John Devine11 Conclusion:Issues to Look Forward to, by Adrienne S. Chambon and Allan Irving

Über Autor(innen)

Adrienne S. Chambon is associate professor in the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Allan Irving is professor at the Center for Social Work Education at Widener University and an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. The late Laura Epstein was professor emerita, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago.