Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798888900918

Editeur : Haymarket Books, 2024

Synopsis

A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.
Within social work--a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state--abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organizing have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of "soft policing." For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility.
Featuring a foreword by Mariame Kaba, Abolition and Social Work offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work--a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mariame Kaba is an organizer, educator, librarian, and prison industrial complex (PIC) abolitionist who is active in movements for racial, gender, and transformative justice. Kaba is the founder and director of Project NIA, a grassroots abolitionist organization with a vision to end youth incarceration. Mariame co-leads the initiative Interrupting Criminalization, a project she co-founded with Andrea Ritchie in 2018.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Haymarket Books
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798888900918
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Éditeur: Kim Mimi E., Washington Durrell M., Rasmussen Cameron
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