Stephen Webb (editor) - The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work brings together the worlds leading scholars in the field to provide a cutting-edge overview of classic and current research and future trends in the subject.

Comprised of 48 chapters divided into six parts:

Historical, social, and political influences

Mapping the theoretical and conceptual terrain

Methods of engagement and modes of analysis

Critical contexts for practice and policy

Professional education and socialisation

Future challenges, directions, and transformations

it provides an authoritative guide to theory and method, and the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective.

This handbook is a major reference work and the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of critical social work. It does so by addressing its conceptual developments, its methodological advances, its value-based front-line practice and as an influence on the policy field. By offering a definitive survey of current academic knowledge as it relates to professional practice, it provides the first comprehensive, up-to-date, definitive work of reference in critical social work while at the same time identifying emerging, innovative and cutting-edge areas.

Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University. His research interests focus on social work and social theory, with a focus on ethics, power, politics and community. His article on evidence-based practice published in the British Journal of Social Work was the worlds most cited article and the most influential publication in social work over ten years (Hodge et al., 2011). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

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The Routledge Handbook
of Critical Social Work

Edited by Stephen A. Webb

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First published 2019
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Names: Webb, Stephen A., 1956- editor.

Title: The Routledge handbook of critical social work / edited by Stephen A. Webb.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge international handbooks | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018035706| ISBN 9781138578432 (hardback) | ISBN 9781351264402 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Social service. | Social sciencesPhilosophy.

Classification: LCC HV40 .R68467 2019 | DDC 361.3dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018035706

ISBN: 978-1-138-57843-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-26440-2 (ebk)

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by Swales & Willis Ltd, Exeter, Devon, UK

This book is dedicated to my wife Penelope, to our companion species friends Hegel and Kore, and to my parents Mary and Philip Webb.

Editor

Stephen A. Webb is Professor of Social Work at Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland. Prior to this he was Professor of Human Sciences and Director of the Research Institute for Social Inclusion and Well-being, University of Newcastle, Australia and Professorial Research Fellow in Social Work at the University of Sussex. He is Visiting Professor at several European universities in Germany, Holland, Poland and Portugal. In 2008 he was awarded the Deutscher Akademisher Austaussch Dienst, (DAAD) Academic Exchange Scheme for a visiting professorship at the Centre of Human Capabilities Research, University of Bielefeld, by the German Federal Government. He has published several books which theorise social work from a political and philosophical standpoint. His article on evidence-based practice published in the British Journal of Social Work is the worlds most cited article in the field and the most influential publication in social work over the last ten years (Hodge et al., 2011). In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).

Contributors

Brent Angell is Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Work at the University of Windsor, Canada. His scholarly work focuses on redefining critical perspectives related to diversity and community-engaged practice research. Dr Angell collaborates with several Canadian First Nations on research related to education, health, criminal justice, and safety. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the online periodical Critical Social Work: An Interdisciplinary Journal Dedicated to Social Justice and provides consultation to a broad constituency on organizational development and institutional leadership. Dr Angells research and writings critique normative paradigms and practices to advance understanding and generate change.

Mark Baldwin was a Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Bath, UK, and retired in 2015. His research interests focus principally on the part played by front-line practitioners in the construction of policy and practice, mainly in the area of adult services. This interest includes consideration of professional discretion and the concept of the learning organisation as well as the possibilities for social workers to practise from radical perspectives in contemporary social work organisations. He also has an interest in the possibilities for service-users to participate in the construction of their services. His research methodology has been principally participatory action research, mirroring his approach to both teaching and social work practice. Mark is a member of the Social Work Action Network , a radical campaigning organisation based in the UK but with links across the globe.

Liz Beddoe is an Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her research interests include critical perspectives on social work education and supervision; the study and social work professional identity in host settings, and the experiences of migrant social workers. Liz has published widely in international journals and contributions to edited books, addressing diverse professional issues. She has published several books on the practice of professional supervision and several edited texts on social policy, health and social work and transnational social workers. She is editor-in-chief of the open access journal Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work . She teaches on the discourse of social work and research methods. She is committed to developing positive and creative engagement in social media as a productive space for international social work research and professional development.