{"product_id":"disrupting-whiteness-in-social-work-1","title":"Disrupting Whiteness in Social Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocussing on the epistemic – the way in which knowledge is understood,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econstructed,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003etransmitted and used – this book shows the way social work\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eknowledge has been constructed from within a white western paradigm, and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe need for a critique of whiteness within social work at this epistemic level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial work, emerging from the western Enlightenment world, has privileged\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewhite western knowledge in ways that have been, until recently, largely unexamined\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewithin its professional discourse. This imposition of white western\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eways of knowing has led to a corresponding marginalisation of other forms\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof knowledge. Drawing on views from social workers from Asia, the Pacific\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eregion, Africa, Australia and Latin America, this book also includes a glossary\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof over 40 commonly used social work terms, which are listed with their epistemological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassumptions identified. Opening up a debate about the received\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewisdom of much social work language as well as challenging the epistemological\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassumptions behind conventional social work practice, this book will be\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof interest to all scholars and students of social work as well as practitioners\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eseeking\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto develop genuinely decolonised forms of practice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238544724312,"sku":"9781032083612","price":51.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032083612.jpg?v=1770480923","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/disrupting-whiteness-in-social-work-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}