Dissenting Social Work av Paul Michael Garrett

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<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, Ranci¿, 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 wo