Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157764
Kathleen Lynch
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157366
J. Finnerty
Brian Fanning’s book is an intellectual history of key (mainly European) thinkers’ views on the place of social policy in modern society. His particular focus is on three central intellectual and ideological approaches – liberalism, social democracy, and Christian democracy, and their mutual influence in addressing social problems. This account is interspersed with a history of European Welfare State politics, institutions and interventions. The book opens with an exploration of the intellectual foundations of laissez faire via a series of key texts and (mainly English) contexts – a method replicated in subsequent chapters. The differing understandings of poverty and poverty alleviation are insightfully explored, for example distinguishing between the punitive views of Joseph Townsend and the more humanistic approach of Adam Smith. The chapter on Utopian Socialism concentrates on Robert Owen and the cooperative movement, the latter seen as running alongside and ameliorating, rather than replacing, the excesses of laissez-faire capitalism. Other thinkers discussed include William Thompson and Anna Wheeler, Mary Wollstonecraft, and B. F. Skinner, and the paternalistic strain in much of this thinking is deftly highlighted. The chapter following discusses the shift from free market to reform liberalism, albeit under the sign of a severely restricted franchise. Fanning here concentrates on the works of Bentham and John Stuart Mill, and on Chadwick’s influence on the new Poor Law and the Factory Acts, as they grappled with the limitations of laissez-faire in addressing the needs of an emerging industrial and urban society. Book Reviews
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Pub Date : 2023-03-06DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157761
L. Dodson
Black authors and the Global South into the epistemological centre of scholarship that describes and resists coloniality. In section four, the authors address how different identities may be deployed to support or challenge the workings of whiteness in various international contexts, including the U.S., Caribbean, UK, and South Africa. In the fifth section, the authors analyze the practice of whiteness in everyday life, and its operation within institutional structures and the state. Finally, the last section opens up the space to discuss challenges, tensions and debates among scholars on their understanding of whiteness. This book provides a good start at circumventing the common pitfalls of whiteness studies (such as favoring scholarship from the Global North, and essentializing Black, White, Indigenous, other racialized people back into the orbit of whiteness) and interrupting the binary ways in which the idea of whiteness is taken up in the popular imagination. Indeed, much of the decolonizing literature remains trapped in the black-white/oppressor-oppressed binary and locked within Eurocentric ways of thinking. Hence, the core strength of this collection is to bring a global perspective through voices and locations other than Western Europe, the UK and US, and to deliberately link scholarship on whiteness back to the broader debate on how race, power, politics and oppression operate. It does this by putting, at front and centre, not only past colonizing processes, but present forms of neocolonialism, and political and social justice struggles around the globe, including the emergence (or re-emergence) of popularist politics and other forms of polarization. The extent to which the authors in this volume achieve this varies, which is not surprising because whiteness and white supremacy are monoliths of such longstanding that even scholars and activists who resist it struggle, in the words of Cross and Fine who wrote the book’s Epilogue, that it is ‘hard to see where the fugitive pathways to radical transformation might be carved’ (p. 353). Notwithstanding these difficulties, this text is an invaluable help on that journey.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-03DOI: 10.1177/02610183231158909
Steve Rogowski
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Pub Date : 2023-03-03DOI: 10.1177/02610183231157755
J. Y. Yee, Gary C. Dumbrill
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02610183221088461
Tara Mantler, C Nadine Wathen, Caitlin Burd, Jennifer C D MacGregor, Isobel McLean, Jill Veenendaal
COVID-19 illustrated what governments can do to mobilise against a global threat. Despite the strong governmental response to COVID-19 in Canada, another 'pandemic', gender-based violence (GBV), has been causing grave harm with generally insufficient policy responses. Using interpretive description methodology, 26 interviews were conducted with shelter staff and 5 focus groups with 24 executive directors (EDs) from GBV service organizations in Ontario, Canada. Five main themes were identified and explored, namely that: (1) there are in fact four pandemics at play; (2) the interplay of pandemics amplified existing systemic weaknesses; (3) the key role of informal partnerships and community support, (4) temporary changes in patterns of funding allocation; and (5) exhaustion as a consequence of addressing multiple and concurrent pandemics. Implications and recommendations for researchers, policy makers, and the GBV sector are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02610183221091553
Michael Orton, Sudipa Sarkar
The Covid-19 pandemic has seen emerging debate about a possible shift in 'anti-welfare commonsense' i.e. the orthodoxy previously described in this journal as solidifying negative public attitudes towards 'welfare'. While a shift in attitudes might be ascribed to the circumstances of the crisis it would still be remarkable for such a strongly established orthodoxy to have changed quite so rapidly. It is appropriate, therefore, to reflect on whether the 'anti-welfare' orthodoxy was in fact as unequivocal as claimed? To address this question, challenges to the established orthodoxy that were emerging pre-pandemic are examined along with the most recently available survey data. This leads to discussion of broader issues relating to understanding attitudes: methodology; 'messiness' and ambivalence of attitudes; attitudes and constructions of deservingness; and following or leading opinion. It is argued that the 'anti-welfare' orthodoxy has always been far more equivocal than claimed, with consequent implications for anti-poverty action and re-setting debate.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261e
S. Crossley
ently developed throughout the book (e.g. multiculturalism is not critically explored), but the main threads are clear in the closing section, Ruminations (Reid). This suggest that anti-racist strategies which challenge structural injustices against Black people must be brought firmly back on the agenda and not be allowed to be diluted or ignored. The goal is to increase Black people in leadership positions who can challenge injustices. The role of education, empowerment, decolonised curriculum, policy formulation and alliance building are seen as key ingredients in the anti-racist struggle as well as political activism. The book arrives on the scene amidst a Tory leadership selection and a government that has been the most racially diverse ever with key leaders from minority ethnic backgrounds. Yet they condone, rather than challenge, the most hideous policies such as sending immigrants to Rwanda. Surely, more than just Black faces are required. This is acknowledged in the book, but not developed. The book will be useful for those wishing to understand oppression in the various features of social work and social work education. Practitioners, academics and students will identify with the narratives and issues highlighted here and find common cause.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261d
Surinder Guru
activism (Chapter 2), broader formal attempts to acknowledge and address inequality (Chapter 13) and allied health professions, namely occupational therapy (Chapter 14). Whilst the focus of the book is largely on black lives and communities, it also discusses other racially discriminated groups, including Roma, Gypsy and Traveller (Chapter 7), and Jewish (Chapter 8), communities. Each chapter is accessible, written clearly, and to the point. This is not to say the book is comfortable reading, however. The book is uncomfortable to read, but then talking about racism should be. In conclusion, this book would be beneficial to a range of audiences. In Chapter 4, regarding the motivation behind her activism, Social Work student Diana, a young black woman, says ‘I didn’t allow them [the social work community/university] a moment to breathe, because I don’t have a moment to breathe’ (p. 25). There is no role in Social Work where you can afford to ignore this statement. If you are student, Diana is your fellow student and future colleague. If you are an educator, Diana is your student. If you are an organisation, Diana will be your employee. The onus is not on Diana to educate, it is on white people – at all stages of their careers – to take the time to stop, listen, learn and act. This book will aid with the above. It is just so timely, in both content and style.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-14DOI: 10.1177/02610183221142261b
Cynthia Okpokiri
. Keywords and concepts with contested socio-political
.有争议的社会政治关键词和概念
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