Case critical : social services & social justice in Canada /

Social services are in crisis. After numerous service cuts, many of its jobs are now short-term, part-time and non-unionized, prompting us to ask why is there not a greater public outcry for helping people in need? This book applies decolonized, critical analysis to highlight what is often hidden fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kennedy-Kish, Banakonda (Bell) (Author), Carniol, Ben (Author), Baines, Donna, 1960- (Author), Sinclair, Raven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Between the Lines, [2017]
Edition:Seventh edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ntamkidwinan first words
  • Welcome
  • An Anishinaabe Elder's perspectives
  • 2. Power, ideology, and social services
  • Ongoing colonialism and its consequences
  • Canadian apology for residential schools
  • Indigenous child removal system and the "Sixties Scoop"
  • Today's colonialism
  • Individualism and privilege
  • Progressive social work
  • Naming and resisting injustices
  • Colonial privilege
  • Racism and privilege
  • Class privilege
  • Patriarchal privilege
  • Heterosexual / cisgender privilege
  • Ableism and privilege
  • Social justice and social services
  • Roots : early attitudes
  • Early North American social welfare
  • "Survival of the fittest" - Social Darwinism
  • Social work : the beginnings
  • Oppression and resistance
  • Indigenous "assimilation" and resistance
  • Inuit and Métis
  • Early 1900s unrest
  • Social programs and social injustices
  • Resistance and progressive movement
  • Neoliberal backlash
  • Diverging schools of altruism
  • Conflicts inside the social work curriculum
  • Conventional : ecological-systems theory
  • Anti-oppression perspectives
  • The controversy about competency models
  • From Aboriginal circiles in the classroom to Indigenizing social work
  • Four principles of good practice
  • Social workers : on the front line
  • Where social workers work
  • How people become social services users
  • Hierarchies and the stratification of social services
  • The challenge of social work
  • The bottom line : managerialized social services
  • Privitization of social services
  • A challenge : this story must change
  • Reality check : service users' experience
  • Welfare "reform" : smoke and mirrors
  • Different shades of social coercion
  • Caring social services : take a deep bow
  • Challenging feelings hopeless
  • Social justice movements
  • Labour unions and social work
  • Dealing with challenges : tiny miracles
  • Alternative social services
  • An activist agenda by progressive social works
  • Toward liberation
  • Challenging multiple oppressions
  • Themes for liberation in social work practice
  • Indigenous healing and liberation
  • Liberation and social services
  • The pendulum of practice : a tool for assessing cultural competence
  • Completing a cultural competence self-audit
  • Competence matrix
  • Supporting and actualizing transformation
  • Nawây-pîkiskwêwina after words
  • Can we go where we have never been?