{"product_id":"disrupting-whiteness-in-social-work-paperback","title":"Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSonia M. Tasc\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJim Ife\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocussing on the epistemic - the way in which knowledge is understood, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003econstructed, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003etransmitted and used - this book shows the way social work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhite western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ewithin its professional discourse. This imposition of white western\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eways of knowing has led to a corresponding marginalisation of other forms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eof knowledge. Drawing on views from social workers from Asia, the Pacific\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eregion, Africa, Australia and Latin America, this book also includes a glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eof over 40 commonly used social work terms, which are listed with their epistemological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eassumptions identified. Opening up a debate about the received\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ewisdom of much social work language as well as challenging the epistemological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eassumptions behind conventional social work practice, this book will be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eof interest to all scholars and students of social work as well as practitioners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eseeking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eto develop genuinely decolonised forms of practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSonia Tasc is a Lecturer in Social Work at Western Sydney University. A descendant of the Chilean Indigenous Mapuche Nation, a fact she discovered later in life, she is now committed to understanding and incorporating her indigeneity into her self-identification. Her lengthy academic career has almost completely focused on issues of race, whiteness, diaspora, and refugee and migrant rights. As a social work\/ human rights practitioner her practice incorporated Indigenous health, youth and child mental health, as well as child protection, always with a concern for race as a dimension of inequality. In her later academic life, she took a turn towards the creative visual arts, always maintaining a race analysis and focus on communities as sources of sustenance. Her current interest lies on disrupting white epistemologies in social work and beyond, as a foundational means of achieving decolonisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJim Ife is Professor of Social Work at Western Sydney University. He has previously been Professor of Social Work and Social Policy at The University of Western Australia and at Curtin University, and was Head of the Centre for Human Rights Education at Curtin, where is he Emeritus Professor. He has written extensively in the areas of community development, social work and human rights, and is the author of Community Development (Cambridge University Press, latest edition 2016), Human Rights and Social Work (Cambridge University Press, 3rd edition 2013), Human Rights from Below (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Rethinking Social Work (Pearson, 1997). He is also co-editor of Radicals in Australian Social Work: Stories of Life-Long Activism (Conor Court, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 212\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.2 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47407375286450,"sku":"9781032083612","price":93.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/0496af4f47bd99c53a12b9d37a73fa32.webp?v=1778219186","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/disrupting-whiteness-in-social-work-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}