Ebook: A violent history of benevolence : interlocking oppression in the moral economies of social working
Author: Chapman Christopher S., Withers A. J.
- Tags: Social service -- Moral and ethical aspects, Social service -- History, Benevolence -- History, Violence -- History, Liberalism -- History, Benevolence, Liberalism, Social service, Violence, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, capitalism, cisheteropatriarchy, colonialism, eugenics, interlocking oppression, moral economy, rehabilitation, social work history, social work, white supremacy
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Language: English
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"A Violent History of Benevolence traces how normative histories of liberalism, progress, and social work enact and obscure systemic violences. Chris Chapman and A.J. Withers explore how normative social work history is structured in such a way that contemporary social workers can know many details about social work's violences, without ever imagining that they may also be complicit in these violences. Framings of Read more...