Abolition and Social Work

Name: Abolition and Social Work
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SKU: 9798888900918
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A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities. Within social work—a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and... Read More

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Abolition and Social Work

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Description

A critical anthology exploring the debates, conundrums, and promising practices around abolition and social work in academia and within impacted communities.

Within social work—a profession that has been intimately tied to and often complicit in the building and sustaining of the carceral state—abolitionist thinking, movement-building, and radical praxis are shifting the field. Critical scholarship and organising have helped to name and examine the realities of carceral social work as a form of "soft policing." For radical social work, abolition moves beyond critique to the politics of possibility.

Abolition and Social Work offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realising abolitionist practice in social work—a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for re-centring this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9798888900918

Publisher: Haymarket Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 April 2024

Country: United States

Imprint: Haymarket Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Mimi E. Kim
Edited by Durrell M. Washington
Edited by Cameron Rasmussen
Foreword by Mariame Kaba

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 304

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Mimi E. Kim is assistant professor of social work at California State University, Long Beach and founder of Creative Interventions. Kim continues her political work through promotion of transformative justice and abolitionist visions and practices of community care and safety.
is a social worker, educator and facilitator. He is an Associate Director at the Center for Justice at Columbia University, a lecturer at Columbia Social Work, a PhD student at the Graduate Center, and a Collaborator with the NAASW.
is an author, social worker, educator, facilitator, and socio-legal scholar from the Bronx, New York. He is a collaborator with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work and PhD Candidate at the University of Chicago.