Reading Foucault for Social WorkColumbia University Press, 1999 - 292 páginas This is the first book-length introduction to the work of Michel Foucault in social work. The social work profession is being challenged today to adapt to changing societal and cultural conditions and to carve out a new societal niche. Foucault's work offers a particularly relevant entry point for revisiting social work's mission, activities, and objectives. A critical reexamination of its practices, institutional arrangements, and knowledge helps us to envision alternative social work practices and strategies for social change. Each chapter emphasizes different notions from Foucault's writings. Contributions include conceptual, philosophical, and methodological considerations, and discussions from various fields and levels of practice. The book covers policy in child welfare and child protection; gay-lesbian youth services; grief work and the family; client-worker interaction in a welfare office; and the social movement of the elderly. It includes a rountable discussion with Foucault on social work and a glossary. |
Contenido
The Culture of Social Work | 3 |
Waiting for Foucault Social Work and the Multitudinous Truths of Life | 27 |
Foucaults Approach Making the Familiar Visible | 51 |
Social Work Social Control and Normalization Roundtable Discussion with Michel Foucault | 83 |
Reconfiguring Child Welfare Practices Risk Advanced Liberalism and the Government of Freedom | 101 |
Contested Territory Sexualities and Social Work | 131 |
Foucault and Therapy The Disciplining of Grief | 157 |
Resistance and Old Age The Subject Behind the American Seniors Movement | 189 |
Surveillance and Government of the Welfare Recipient | 219 |
Postmodernity Ethnography and Foucault | 247 |
Issues to Look Forward to | 259 |
Glossary | 269 |
List of Contributors | 281 |
285 | |
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Reading Foucault for Social Work Adrienne S. Chambon,Allan Irving,Laura Epstein Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
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