Published
Jan 1, 2025Page count
160 pagesISBN
978-1447371687Dimensions
244 x 170 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Jan 1, 2025Page count
160 pagesISBN
978-1447371694Dimensions
244 x 170 mmImprint
Policy Press
Joe Whelan is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at Trinity College Dublin, Eire. An award-winning scholar, Whelan’s article 'Work and Thrive or Claim and Skive: Experiencing the Toxic Symbiosis of Worklessness and Welfare Recipiency in Ireland' was awarded the IRJ Distinguished Article Prize in 2022.
1. Introduction to Theory: Theorising Social Work
2. Ways of Knowing: Traditional Modernity and Postmodernity
3. Marx and Social Work
4. W.E.B Du Bois and Social Work
5. Jürgen Habermas and Social Work
6. Axel Honneth and Social Work
7. Pierre Bourdieu and Social Work
8. bell hooks and social work
9. Michel Foucault and Social Work
10. Judith Butler and Social Work
11. Giorgio Agamben and Social Work
12. Summary
