humanity . (Emphasis added) In short, Fanon was pleading for the abolition of colonial and capitalist institutions, the democratic creation of inclusive alternatives and a revolutionary (transformed) version of humanity in which social relations between all would be defined by the mutual recognition of dignity and preservation of everyone’s integrity. As any committed reader of Fanon will recognise, he had at once dedicated himself to collectivity and was calling for engaged, emancipatory praxis. Notably, while Fanon was primarily addressing the ‘Third World’ at the
pedagogy argues that the education of adults and young people (in formal and informal contexts) can be emancipatory, offering a collection of real-world mediations with which to achieve social justice through a sustained, critical approach to all forms of oppressive systems – including the systems of neoliberalism ( Burbules and Berk, 1999 ; Aliakbari and Faraji, 2011 ; Mayo, 2015 ). Critical pedagogy has a profound relevance to the contemporary world, both as a current of philosophical enquiry and as an educational and formative outlook that is inextricably linked to
7 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 4 • no 1 • 7–20 • © Policy Press 2016 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204986016X14528475765875 article Emancipatory social work and social intervention: contributions from Argentinian social work Silvana Martínez1, silvanamartinezts@gmail.com Juan Agüero2, juanaguero@arnet.com.ar National University of Misiones, Argentina In this article, we give a general presentation of what we mean by social intervention from the political-ideological, theoretical-methodological and
81 FIVE In search of emancipatory social work practice in contemporary Colombia: working with the despalzados in Bogota Carmen Hinestroza and Vasilios Ioakimidis1 Washing one’s hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral. Paulo Freire Introduction In this chapter we explore the issue of internal displacement in Colombia through a ‘social work lens’. In recent years this humanitarian crisis has reached a climax as millions of Afro-Colombians, indigenous people and peasants have been forced
7 Critical and Radical Social Work • vol 5 • no 1 • 7–22 • © Policy Press 2017 • #CRSW Print ISSN 2049 8608 • Online ISSN 2049 8675 • https://doi.org/10.1332/204986017X14835297996415 Accepted for publication 30 November 2016 • First published online 05 January 2017 article Child sexual abuse, moral panics and emancipatory practice David Pilgrim, david.pilgrim@liv.ac.uk University of Liverpool, UK This article explores the shared interest of sociologists and social workers in moral panics when considering the public policy challenge of child sexual abuse
collective Black voices, experience and expertise to redress the omission, neglect and violence of health research that has historically obscured and denied the realities and concerns of Black communities, and continues to do so today. Using the core principles identified within the Black emancipatory action research (BEAR) approach ( Akom, 2011 ) as an analytic lens, this article seeks to document and reflect upon our research-activist process in order to illuminate the potential for research undertaken by, with and for Black communities to foreground and support the
59 Journal of Poverty and Social Justice • vol 26 • no 1 • 59–75 • © Policy Press 2018 • #JPSJ Print ISSN 1759 8273 • Online ISSN 1759 8281 • https://doi.org/10.1332/175982717X15123892377276 Accepted for publication 10 November 2017 • First published online 08 December 2017 Roma and a Social Europe: the role of redistribution, intervention and emancipatory politics Andrew Richard Ryder, andrew.ryder@uni-corvinus.hu Corvinus University Budapest, Hungary Marius Taba, tabamarius@yahoo.com Corvinus University and ELTE University, Budapest The article
highly stratified and variegated local population. One size does not fit all. Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell (2017) draw an analytical distinction between ‘reactionary’ and ‘progressive’ nostalgias. Their insight bears an instructive similarity to Sharika Thiranagama’s (2018 : 39) distinction between repressive and emancipatory models of civility (and, for that matter, a possible further distinction between exclusive and inclusive modalities of phatic communion). Nostalgia, civility and communication are all often presented as culturally positive, regardless of
115 EIGHT Welfare under warfare: the Greek struggle for emancipatory social welfare (1940–44) Vasilios Ioakimidis Introduction Critical social policy and social work studies regularly offer critiques on mainstream welfare systems, institutions and attitudes. But these approaches often leave little space for discussion about what alternative social work and welfare might look like. In the history of social work internationally there have been examples of collective and grassroots alternatives – forms of popular social work. In most cases, however, these
Introduction Issues arise in practice when professionals attempt to balance the emancipatory principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) alongside the statutory provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA), particularly when detention and compulsion under the MHA is being considered. Being assessed as lacking the mental capacity to decide on one’s own care and treatment is not an element of the statutory criteria for detention under the MHA. Essentially, this means a person who is assessed as having a mental disorder but has the mental capacity to
