Beschreibung:
This book, from one of international social work's leading radical educators, provides a richly compelling argument for the profession to become more critical and dissenting.
1. Introduction. 2. Questioning the world of 'appearances': Karl Marx. 3. Neoliberalism, human capital and biopolitics: Michel Foucault and Wendy Brown. 4. Surveillance capitalism: Shoshana Zuboff. 5. Equality NOW: Jacques Rancière. 6. Critical Scholarship and neoliberal penality: Loïc Wacquant. 7. Dissenting with the arch-contrarian: Hannah Arendt. 8. Remembering that African, Asian and Palestinian lives matter: Emmanuel Levinas. 9. It is becoming 'impossible to breathe': Frantz Fanon. 10. Social work's Chinese future?: Antonio Gramsci. 11. Conclusion