Dissenting Social Work

<p>This book from one of international social work’s leading radical educators provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting. </p><p>Addressing the troubled times in which we find ourselves Garrett’s book examines a broad range of theoretical frameworks and draws on diverse writers such as Marx Foucault Brown Zuboff Rancière Wacquant Arendt Levinas Fanon and Gramsci. The author’s panoramic vision encompasses Ireland the United Kingdom the United States Algeria Israel/Palestine and China. Timely lively and accessible this book speaks directly to some of the main preoccupations of our era. Readers will be encouraged to relate developments in social work to key themes circulating around migration the threat of neo-fascism surveillance culture colonialism the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic. Imbued with a sense of hope for a brighter future this book encourages a new generation of social work students to recognise and examine the importance of critical theory for understanding the structural forces shaping their lives and the lives of those with whom they work and provide services.</p><p>This book is vital indispensable and essential reading for social work students and other readers throughout the world seeking to make the connection between social work social theory and sociology.</p><p>Paul Michael Garrett—probably the most important critical social work theorist in the English-speaking world—is a remarkable and very productive critical thinker. In this book he deals with issues of migration the threat of neo-fascism surveillance culture colonialism the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic… Insightful and inspiring thought-provoking and comprehensive in addressing timely critical issues for social work globally.</p><p>(Filipe Duarte <i>International Journal of Social Welfare</i> 2021) </p>