Policy Press

Social Work and Social Theory

Making Connections

By Paul Michael Garrett

Published

Jul 4, 2018

Page count

276 pages

Edition

2nd Edition

ISBN

978-1447341888

Dimensions

240 x 172 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jul 4, 2018

Page count

276 pages

Edition

2nd Edition

ISBN

978-1447341901

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jul 4, 2018

Page count

276 pages

Edition

2nd Edition

ISBN

978-1447341918

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Social Work and Social Theory

Drawing on a range of theorists and competing perspectives, this substantially updated and expanded second edition places social theory at the heart of social work pedagogy.

This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features, such as Reflection and Talk Boxes, to encourage classroom and workplace discussions.

This new edition includes:

· An extensive additional chapter on Foucault

· Reworked and expanded versions of the chapters featured in the highly-praised first edition

· Revised Reflection and Talk Boxes

· New and updated references to stimulate further reading and research

Paul Michael Garrett works at NUI Galway in the Republic of Ireland. In 2018 he was Visiting Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and he has presented keynote papers at international conferences across Europe and in China. Contemporary neoliberalism and historical practices of marginalisation and domination are some of his key scholarly concerns. For over ten years, he has been a member of the editorial collective of Critical Social Policy. He is the author of over a hundred of internationally peer-reviewed articles of several books including Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy (2018).

Introduction;

Part One: Debating modernity;

‘How to be modern’: Theorising modernity

‘Solid’ Modernity & ‘Liquid’ Modernity;

Modernity and Capitalism;

Modernity, neoliberalism, crisis;

Part Two: Theorists;

Thinking with Antonio Gramsci;

Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu;

Thinking with Jürgen Habermas;

Thinking with Michel Foucault;

Thinking with Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser;

Alternative Directions? Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Italian Autonomist Marxism, Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello;

Conclusion: Looking for the ‘blue’.