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  • - An Intersectional Approach
    by Carole (University of South Australia) Zufferey
    £40.99 - 137.49

  • - The Vietnam Experience
    by Edward Cohen
    £37.49

    This books fills a gap in the existing literature by providing analysis of international practice methods which can be used by developing countries to develop their own professional and educational infrastructures.

  • - The Vietnam Experience
    by Edward Cohen
    £123.99

    This books fills a gap in the existing literature by providing analysis of international practice methods which can be used by developing countries to develop their own professional and educational infrastructures.

  • - Challenges for the Social Work Profession
     
    £40.99

    This book challenges the idea of the nation state as a given entity and argues that globalization, new media as well as an increasing number of people crossing borders must have an impact on the theories and strategies of social work. With cases covering China, France, India, UK, Germany, Morocco, Malaysia, Israel and Turkey, it highlights the challenges as well as the opportunities this new perspective can open up for theories and strategies in social work. Intended for students, researchers and social workers interested in migration, social care, poverty and cultural competency in health and social care.

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    £40.99

    This book examines the ways in which policies associated with advanced liberalism and New Public Management can be seen as influencing professional practices to promote personalisation, participation, empowerment, recovery and resilience.

  • - Theory and Practice: International Perspectives
     
    £123.99

    This is the first book ever to be published on arts use in social work. Bringing together theoretical connections between arts and social work, and with practice examples of arts in micro and macro social work practice from around the world, the book aims to inspire the reader with new ideas.

  • - Talking with Youth in Care
    by Gerald (Carleton University de Montigny
    £123.99

  • - Power, Culture, Analysis
    by Sonia M. (Western Sydney University Tascon
    £123.99

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    £44.49

    This book explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It not only demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender but also how feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power.

  • - Perspectives for the 21st Century
     
    £123.99

    This book considers concepts of citizenship and social justice from a variety of contemporary perspectives, inviting readers to consider the complex relationships between love and justice, the battle for social equality and individual ways in which citizenship and social justice is perceived through culture, media and the arts.

  • - Activism and Practice in Context
     
    £123.99

    Bringing intersectionality to the forefront of social work within a Black feminist framework this book is concerned with practice and action that transgresses boundaries of race, religion and citizenship, to invoke the idea of social work without borders. It offers a unique, sustained critical analysis of the psychological impact of oppressive social structures from diverse range of international standpoints and will appeal to all those concerned by inequality and injustice in social work as well as those with research interests gender studies, race and ethnicity and sociology.

  • - Transforming the Politics and Practices of Caring
     
    £137.49

    This book argues that the concept of care is a political and a moral concept. It enables us to examine moral and political life through a radically different lens. It is argued that care has the potential to interrogate relationships of power and to be a tool for radical political analysis for an emerging critical social work.

  • - Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
     
    £40.99

    This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.

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    £123.99

    This book contributes to the development of new knowledge in social work by bringing a critical realist perspective in a wide range of disciplinary fields. The chapters show how critical realism as a theory of science may contribute to a more useful and realistic approach to both research and practice in social work.

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    £123.99

    This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden. Major environmental, social and cultural issues are explored, developing an epistemology of situated knowledge and methodologies in order to examines how social work has responded to specific social problems, crises and vulnerabilities in a glocalised world. It proposes `glocalisation¿ as a useful concept for re-framing conditions and practices for social work in a world perspective.

  • - The contribution of social work and social policy
     
    £132.99

    This groundbreaking book both explains and expands the growing debate on ecological (environmental) social work at the global level. In order to achieve this, the book strengthens the environmental paradigm in social work and social policy by undertaking further research on theoretical and conceptual clarification as well as distinct reflections on its practical directions. The book will be of interest to scholars from a broad range of disciplines, including those in social work and social policy, sustainability, economics, agriculture and environmental studies.

  • - Challenges for the Social Work Profession
     
    £132.99

    This book challenges the idea of the nation state as a given entity and argues that globalization, new media as well as an increasing number of people crossing borders must have an impact on the theories and strategies of social work. With cases covering China, France, India, UK, Germany, Morocco, Malaysia, Israel and Turkey, it highlights the challenges as well as the opportunities this new perspective can open up for theories and strategies in social work. Intended for students, researchers and social workers interested in migration, social care, poverty and cultural competency in health and social care.

  • - Evidence-Informed Responses
    by John (Queen's University Belfast, UK) Devaney, UK) Lazenbatt & et al.
    £44.49 - 132.99

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    £137.49

    This book explores feminism as core to social work knowledge, practice and ethics. It not only demonstrates how gender-neutral perspectives and practices obscure gender but also how feminist social work practice can transform areas of social work not specifically concerned with gender, through its emphasis on relationships and power.

  • - Promise and possibilities for justice-based knowledge
     
    £137.49

    This wide-ranging volume both maps the contemporary landscape of feminist social work research, and offers a deep engagement with critical and third wave feminisms in social work research. Containing an international selection of contributions, it is an important reference for all social work researchers with an interest in critical perspectives.

  • by Susanne (Free University of Bolzano Elsen
    £123.99

  • - Critical Posthuman and New Materialist Perspectives
     
    £123.99

    This book seeks to trouble taken-for-granted assumptions of anthropocentrism and humanism in social work - that which perpetuates human privilege and human exceptionalism. The edited collection provides a different imaginary for social work by introducing ways of thinking otherwise, which challenge human exceptionalism.

  • - Autoimmunity and the contemporary disease experience
    by Liz Price & Liz Walker
    £42.99 - 132.99

  • - Institutional Change in Russia
     
    £123.99

    This book provides new and empirically grounded research-based knowledge and insights into the current transformation of the Russian child welfare system.

  • - Critical Pedagogy and Practice for Social Change
     
    £123.99

  • - Discourse in Practice
     
    £132.99

  • - A Human Rights Approach
     
    £123.99

    Nationalist populism poses direct attacks on social tolerance, human rights discourse, political debates, the survival of the welfare state, impacting on the roles of social work. This book demonstrates how nationalist populism can and must be countered.

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    £37.49

    This engaging and timely volume contributes new knowledge to the rapidly emerging field of globalisation and social work. Interdisciplinary approaches bring together cutting edge scholarship from countries such as Australia, Finland, Japan, South Africa and Sweden.

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