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This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features such as Reflection Boxes and Talk Boxes to encourage classroom and workplace discussions.
List of contents
Introduction;
Part One: Debating modernity;
'How to be modern': Theorising modernity
'Solid' Modernity & 'Liquid' Modernity;
Modernity and Capitalism;
Modernity, neoliberalism, crisis;
Part Two: Theorists;
Thinking with Antonio Gramsci;
Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu;
Thinking with Jürgen Habermas;
Thinking with Michel Foucault;
Thinking with Axel Honneth and Nancy Fraser;
Alternative Directions? Alain Badiou, Antonio Negri and Italian Autonomist Marxism, Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello;
Conclusion: Looking for the 'blue'.
About the author
Paul Michael Garrett works at NUI Galway in the Republic of Ireland. In 2018 he was Visiting Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) and he has presented keynote papers at international conferences across Europe and in China. Contemporary neoliberalism and historical practices of marginalisation and domination are some of his key scholarly concerns. For over ten years, he has been a member of the editorial collective of Critical Social Policy. He is the author of over a hundred of internationally peer-reviewed articles of several books including Welfare Words: Critical Social Work & Social Policy (2018).
Summary
This book imaginatively explores ways in which practitioners and social work educators might develop more critical and radical ways of theorising and working. It is an invaluable resource for students and contains features such as Reflection Boxes and Talk Boxes to encourage classroom and workplace discussions.
