Abolition and Social Work: Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Communi

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Abolition and Social Work by Cameron Rasmussen, Durrell M. Washington, Mimi E. Kim, Mariame Kaba 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 organizing 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.Featuring a foreword by Mariame Kaba, Abolition and Social Work offers an orientation to abolitionist theory for social workers and explores the tensions and paradoxes in realizing abolitionist practice in social work—a necessary intervention in contemporary discourse regarding carceral social work, and a compass for recentering this work through the lens of abolition, transformative justice, and collective care.Contributors include Autumn Asher BlackDeer, Ramona Beltran, Danica Brown, Charlene A. Caruthers, Angela Y. Davis, Alan Dettlaff, Tanisha "Wakumi" Douglas, Annie Zean Dunbar, Angela Fernandez, Kassandra Frederique, Maria Gandarilla Ocampo, Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis, Sam Harrell, Justin S. Harty, Shira Hassan, Leah A. Jacobs, Nev Jones, Joyce McMillan, Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work, Dorothy Roberts, Sophia Sarantakos, Katie Schultz, and Stephanie Wahab. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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. Table of Contents ForewordIntroduction (Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington)Society for Social Work and Research Keynote (Angela Y. Davis)Section 1: PossibilitiesAbolitionist Social Work (Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work)Abolition: The Missing Link in Historical Efforts to Address Racism and Colonialism Within the Profession of Social Work (Justin Harty, Autumn Asher BlackDeer, and Maria Gandarilla Ocampo)Reaching for the Abolitionist Horizon Within White Professionalized Social-Change Work (Sophia Sarantakos)Abolitionist Reform for Social Workers (Sam Harrell)Section 2: ParadoxIs Social Work Obsolete? (Kassandra Frederique)No Restorative Justice Utopia: Abolition and Working with the State (Wakumi Douglas)Abolition, Social Welfare and the State (Mimi E. Kim, Cameron Rasmussen, and Durrell M. Washington)Section 3: PraxisStaying in love with each others survival: Practicing at the Intersection of Liberatory Harm Reduction and Transformative Justice (Shira Hassan)Social Work and Family Policing (Joyce McMillan and Dorothy Roberts) Indigenist Abolition: Strategies for Decolonization, Healing, and Imagination in Social Work Practice (Ramona Beltran, Katie Schultz, Angela Fernandez)Involuntary Commitment in Public Sector Mental Health Services: Anti-Carceral Strategies & Responses (Leah Jacobs and Nev Jones)Queer Black Feminism and Social Work Practice (Interview with Charlene Carruthers) Review "Abolition and Social Work provides a frank and detailed analysis of how social work is shaped by and executes the work of the carceral state, and how social workers committed to abolition are struggling to dismantle criminalization within institutions designed to contain and control people. This book should be required reading for all social work students and everyone else who works closely with social workers—lawyers, nurses, teachers, mental health providers of all kinds. This book breaks the humanitarian illusion of social work and raises the real questions about if and how we can infiltrate its systems to redistribute, disrupt, and support liberation."—Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)"The contributors to this visionary book have offered a timely gift to social workers and other comrades working for freedom. It is both a call to remember the radical origins of social work practice and an invitation to redirect our current and future work—unapologetically—toward justice. We need this guidance more than ever; Abolition and Social Work serves as a compelling and timely resource for scholars, activists, and practitioners alike." —Beth E. Richie, author of Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and Americas Prison Nation"If you are working to limit or end the violence of policing and prisons, this book is required reading. Gathering the fruits of decades of experience from a wide range of perspectives, editors and contributors illuminate the traps, pitfalls, and dead ends of simply substituting counselors and caseworkers for cops and cages—most important, that caseworkers often act as or collude with cops, policing people instead of supporting them, producing similar and expanded forms of harm. This critical collection invites everyone in a caring profession into a critical assessment of their collusion with the carceral state, points to the promise of an abolitionist approach to care work, and challenges all of us to reach beyond policing in new forms to radically reimagine how we care for each other. A necessary and critical intervention, right on time." —Andrea J. Ritchie, cofounder of Interrupting Criminalization and coauthor of No More Police: A Case for Abolition"Timely and powerful, this collection is required, transformative reading not just for social workers but for all of us who engage in the daily radical labor to build a more free and flourishing world. Full of key tools to engage in abolitionist practices, Abolition and Social Work is a book to study and struggle with now." —Erica R. Meiners, coauthor of Abolition. Feminism. Now. Promotional Partner with the Network to Advance Abolitionist Social Work to promote the book, create reading groups and host events with the contributors. Our Haymarket Live events on YouTube with NAASW cosponsorship have garnered over 20,000 views.Social media influencer campaign to promote the bookPitch course adoption for social work undergraduate and graduate programs and pitch as a book discussion to community groups doing social services and anti-carceral work.Outreach to our extensive network of abolitionist groups and influencers.Pitch reviews and excerpts to academic and non-academic social work professional journals. Pitch interviews with editors and contributors to abolitionist and feminist podcasts. Details ISBN Publisher Haymarket Books Year 2024 ISBN-13 9798888900918 Format Paperback Imprint Haymarket Books Subtitle Possibilities, Paradoxes, and the Practice of Community Care Author Mariame Kaba Pages 304 Edited by Mimi E. Kim Place of Publication Chicago Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2024-08-06 Audience Professional & Vocational Publication Date 2024-04-30 US Release Date 2024-04-30 DEWEY 361.3 UK Release Date 2024-04-30 Alternative 9798888901366 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:159248165;

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