On death and dying

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Symposium Review: 25th Anniversary of Moral Boundaries by Joan Tronto

The third way: the renewal of social democracy

Preface (1999) Preface (1990) 1. Subjects of Sex/Gender/Desire I. 'Women' as the Subject of Feminism II. The Compulsory Order of Sex/Gender/Desire III. Gender: The Circular Ruins of Contemporary Debate IV. Theorizing the Binary, the Unitary and Beyond V. Identity, Sex and the Metaphysics of Substance VI. Language, Power and the Strategies of Displacement 2. Prohibition, Psychoanalysis, and the Production of the Heterosexual Matrix I. Structuralism's Critical Exchange II. Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade III. Freud and the Melancholia of Gender IV. Gender Complexity and the Limits of Identification V. Reformulating Prohibition as Power 3. Subversive Bodily Acts I. The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva II. Foucault, Herculine, and the Politics of Sexual Discontinuity III. Monique Wittig - Bodily Disintegration and Fictive Sex IV. Bodily Inscriptions, Performative Subversions Conclusion - From Parody to Politics

Postmodern Subjects, Postmodern BodiesThinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Postmodernism in the Contemporary WestYearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural PoliticsGender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity

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Editorial: Globalization: New challenges and opportunities for social work:

Disasters, whether natural or (hu)man-made, are becoming increasingly important in social work theory and practice as they grow in both frequency and the number of people affected. The three articles that follow explore different facets of these. Social work intervention following an earthquake disaster forms the subject considered by Guat Tin Ng and Timothy Sim, who examine the relevance of psychosocial support offered to young victim-survivors after the Wenchaun earthquake of 2008 in China. This disaster affected school children tremendously because they were in their classrooms when the violent tremors struck. Many lost family members and friends as well as their homes and schools. Outpourings of grief and loss were evident everywhere. Using the newly built village primary school as their base, their initiative developed the extended mental health model of intervention that included working closely with young school children, their teachers and their parents, and fostered growing resilience in the community. This model is ongoing, and is a success story from which other social workers can learn. The focus of this particular article is mainly on the impact of relocating junior middle school children outside their home area. Their interesting findings are well worth reading. The article by Govindasamy Agoramoorthy and Minna J Hsu explores social work practice among tribal groups in the drylands of Gujarat and Rajasthan in India who experience drought and other climate change-related disasters that undermine their traditional agricultural activities. Initiating irrigation-based social work, a non-profit agency was able to empower the farmers by mobilizing them around cooperatives that built social capital and self-help initiatives to reduce the risks posed by severe drought and erratic rainfall. These activities reduced the economic dangers that can easily befall poor rural communities and enabled them to devise strategies that enhanced their ability to resist market-based initiatives that threatened to destroy traditional livelihoods. The article by Grant Doxey and Patricia McNamara is also about a farming community, and although the farmers face financial disaster and poverty, the authors focus on the lack of social services to remote areas which impacts not only on service (in)availability to remote and marginalized populations, but also on the pressure of those trying to provide them. In this case, they are the financial counsellors in the Rural Financial Counselling Service who often work alone without professional support in difficult conditions. The authors go on to explore how these financial counsellors can engage in more mainstream social work activities to meet the psycho-social needs of farming families. Climate change lies at the heart of the issues that these farmers face because prolonged and 561402 ISW0010.1177/0020872814561402International Social WorkEditorial editorial2014

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Social work on the frontline in addressing disasters, social problems and marginalization:

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explore social work educators’ experiences of using technology to teach during the COVID-19 pandemic. Over the last decade, there has been a move to digitalise higher education in many countries worldwide. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a mass exodus from the classroom to the home-based office at breakneck speed and highlighted, amongst other things, the digital divide that exists across the world. This research analysed data gathered from an international study that sought educators’ views on various issues related to working during COVID-19. The data were analysed using a thematic approach. The results showed that social work educators, in general, were favourable to online teaching, although the findings highlight critical areas that require consideration in the climate of increased digitalisation and the uncertainty of when a return to a familiar teaching environment can occur. These findings are considered in terms of a social work education informed by critical pedagogy. The results have implications in terms of finding a workable balance between face-to-face teaching and online instruction.

Information Communication Technology during Covid-19

Anti-Racist Probation Practice

China has developed modern social work over the past 30 years, introducing new theories and models of good practice that have been drawn from diverse parts of globe. It has also made extensive cont...

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Lena Dominelli

Papers

Editorial: Globalization: New challenges and opportunities for social work:

Social work on the frontline in addressing disasters, social problems and marginalization:

Information Communication Technology during Covid-19

Anti-Racist Probation Practice

Personal reflections on 30 years of social work development in China