Book Review: Neoliberal Securitisation and Symbolic Violence: Silencing Political, Academic and Social Resistance by Masoud Kamali

Abstract

chapter considering the emancipatory potential of a particular theorist’s contribution and how it may (or may not) help activate dissenting forms of social work. To be sure, the book is not light reading or for the faint-hearted, but it provides substantial nourishment for dissenting practitioners and educators seeking a more advanced and scholarly, rather than merely introductory, engagement with critical social theory. Overall, the underpinning critical analysis results in impeccably crafted arguments that provide strong validation of the need for dissent. To sum up, Paul Michael Garrett is a leading global scholar in critical social theory with a creative and encyclopaedic mind, and much of this is on display in this book. Once again, therefore, he has succeeded in making a profoundly valuable contribution to the global social work academy. In short, by adding to the much-needed Leftist scholarship in the discipline of social work, Dissenting Social Work furnishes an intellectual feast that brings critical social theory and social work into a deeply serious and productive conversation.