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Policy Press social work journal highlights 

We are sorry that we couldn't join you in person at this year's European Conference of Social Work Research. We have created this virtual space to share highlights from our journals, including free special issues from Critical and Radical Social Work.

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Critical and Radical Social Work

Critical and Radical Social Work (CRSW) promotes debate and scholarship around a range of engaged social work themes. The journal publishes papers that seek to analyse and respond to issues, such as the impact of global neo-liberalism on social welfare; austerity and social work; social work and social movements; social work, inequality and oppression.

It welcomes contributions that question the definition of social work and social work professionalism, that look at ways in which organic and 'indigenous' practice can expand concepts of the social work project, and that consider alternative and radical histories of social work activity. 

Want to publish in Critical and Radical Social Work? Read our instructions for authors to learn more.

Free Special Issues 

We have created a collection of articles exploring some themes from this year's conference. These articles are free to read until 31 March:

Latin America’s Radical Social Work Tradition
Guest Edited by Marilda Villela Iamamoto, Cláudia Mônica dos Santos and Alexandra Aparecida Leite Toffanetto Seabra Eiras
Free until 31 May 2021

Revolutionary social work: Promoting sustainable justice
Guest Edited by Masoud Kamali & Jessica H. Jönsson
Free until 31 December 2021

Want more from Critical and Radical Social Work? Read our Editors' Choice collection for highlights from recent issues. The collection includes:

‘Disordering’ the world: Frantz Fanon’s contribution to social work’s understanding of decolonisation
Paul Michael Garrett

‘Social justice for all!’ The relative silence of social work in abortion rights advocacy
Elizabeth Beddoe, Trish Hayes and Jessica Steele

Porcelain ethics: a critical linguistic analysis of the treatment of race in the National Association of Social Workers Code of Ethics
Joshua R. Gregory   

If you enjoyed these free articles recommend Critical and Radical Social Work to your librarian. Ask them to subscribe or sign up for a 3 month free trial today!


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