Janet L Finn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3580965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet L Finn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet L |
| FAMILY NAME | Finn |
| SIGNATURE | FINN J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 161 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Advanced integrated practice
The authors present an overview of the ‘advanced integrated practice’ approach to MSW education developed by the University of Montana School of Social Work to counter the false dichotomy between ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ social work practice. Advanced integrated practice is articulated through five key facets: 1) commitment to ongoing critical self-reflection and examination of the values and assumptions that shape social work; 2) critical understandi…
Just Practice
Judging childhood
Place, power, and possibility
Unsettling Feminisms
The meaning and making of childhood in the era of globalization
Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty
Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity. Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers, and David Mushinski. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 243 pp
La Victoria
This article utilizes the key themes of the just practice perspective (Finn &Jacobson, 2003ab) to examine a fifty-year history of community practice in La Victoria, a poor urban sector of Santiago, Chile. The author employs five key themes-meaning, power, context, history, and possibility-in exploring the challenges, contradictions and possibilities for community building under dictatorship and democracy. Lessons for critical community practice l…
Just Practice
The 21st-century challenges to social justice, human rights, and citizenship posed by transnational capital, growing global inequality and social exclusion, and multiple forms of violence confront the limits of the social work imagination and call for creative and critical interventions that focus on social justice. In this article we contend that the dominant theoretical approaches to social work practice are inadequate, and we consider the poss…
Marketing Democracy
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Julia Paley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 255 pp
Raíces
This article discusses the history, activities, contributions, and challenges of Raíces, a women's collective based in Santiago, Chile, whose participants promote community change through popular education. The article explores the philosophical foundations of Raíces and locates the collective in its political and historical contexts. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Raíces has confronted the tensions and contradictions of emerge…
Fuerza Unida
Affilia 's commitment to feminist social work knowledge and practice includes ongoing dialogue among scholars, teachers, and community practitioners and activists whose work is challenging gender oppression, changing women's lives, and shaping the future of feminism. As part of our new Women Creating Change column, we are bringing their stories to our readers. In October 2001, members of the Affilia board were challenged and inspired by the work …
Mining Men
From the 1920s to the nationalization of the Chilean copper mines in 1971, Chile Exploration Company (Chilex) a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Anaconda Copper Mining Company, was a major player in Chilean history, economy, and politics. Its Chuquicamata mine, located in Chile’s north desert, was the world’s largest open pit mine (Marcosson 1957:194–199). By mid-century the mine was the source of nearly three-quarters of Anaconda Company profits.1 I…
Text and Turbulence
This article examines constructions of adolescence and pathology and their relation to human service intervention. The author locates a history of discourses of adolescence and pathology along a trajectory of 20th-century capitalism. Particular attention is paid to racialized, gendered and classbased aspects of this history. The historic context sets the stage for a close reading of representations of youth pathology used to market treatment faci…
Working for Equality and Economic Liberation
This article chronicles the history of Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL), a Montana-based grassroots advocacy and educational organization that emerged in response to welfare reform. It discusses the development of WEEL, the feminist principles that undergird it, andWEEL's accomplishments, challenges, and links to a broad-based network of other groups
Walls and Bridges
Over the past decade, anthropologists have debated the politics of cultural knowledge development, questions of representation, and the merits of experimental texts that blur the boundaries of ethnography and fiction. For example, in their 1986 edited volume Writing Culture: The Poetics andPolitics ofEthnography, James Clifford and George Marcus challenged the dominant realist tradition in ethnographic writing,' questioning the ways in which text…
The State, the Clock, and the Struggle
Research Article| March 01 2000 The State, the Clock, and the Struggle: AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISCIPLINE FOR WELFARE REFORM IN MONTANA Janet L. Finn; Janet L. Finn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lyne Underwood Lyne Underwood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 109–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Se…
Our Lady of the Rockies
Struggling with Development
Struggling with Development The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines. Lynn M. Kwiatkowski. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. xii. 350 pp., tables, photographs, glossary, bibliography, index
Class, Gender, and Power in the Mining Communities of the Americas
From the Canadian rockies to the Chilean Andes, mining has dominated the economies and lives of many ofthe people inhabiting the mountainous backbone of the Americas. Although isolated from the main centres of national trade and industry, mining communities shared characteristics with cities rather than the rural areas that surrounded them. They were densely populated, industrial, and their residents worked for wages and sought the mutual associa…
Mining Men and Designing Women
This chapter examines the construction of gendered subjectivities and the ways in which men and women reinforced, challenged, and acquiesced to those images. Constructions of man and womanhood and their relations to mining life distinctly shaped the contours of consciousness and action in Butte and Chuquicamata. Drawing from the ethnographic data, the chapter illustrates how men and women talk back to these images as they talk of labor, friendshi…
Food for Thought and Action
This chapter returns to broader questions of community and transnationalism, reflecting on the theoretical implications of this work and considering the lessons learned here in light of current cultural and political debates. Perhaps this history can inform us about the dangers and possibilities of the present systemic moment marked by global integration, brutal inequality, and a growing infatuation with free-trade agreements. Embedded in the fie…
Tracing the Veins
This is a tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—intimate strangers, linked through their histories as the copper-producing hubs of the Anaconda Company. Butte and Chuquicamata are connected in a labyrinthine history of political and economic intrigues that defy above-ground detection. This chapter notes the call for the engagement of history and ethnography in understanding the intersection of global processes and local …
Mining Community
This chapter examines the competing formations of community that linked and separated the people of Butte and Chuquicamata. Community is at once a negotiated reality in the making and an arena in which other forms of struggle and support play out. The discussion explores the communities that were made and not made as corporate and on-the-ground visions of belonging overlapped and collided, and considers the constructions of difference through whi…
Trust, Betrayal, and Transformation
A powerful discourse of trust and betrayal reverberates throughout the histories of Butte and Chuquicamata. This chapter explores the ways in which the theme of trust and betrayal has manifested in labor company relations, in gender relations, and in political promises made and broken. In materially and symbolically loaded ways, trust and betrayal have been encoded in social consciousness and practice. Workers in Butte and Chuquicamata have varia…
Young People as Competent Community Builders
This article reports on a pilot study of exemplary communitybased youth initiatives in the United States in which young people are active participants in solving problems, planning programs, and providing services at the community level. The article presents brief summaries of six initiatives illustrating a range of youth participation in the issues that affect their lives and their communities. These diverse initiatives exemplify a view of young…
Tracing the Veins
This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, the book shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the rich veins …
Text and Turbulence
This article examines constructions of adolescence and pathology and their relation to human service intervention. The author locates a history of discourses of adolescence and pathology along a trajectory of 20th-century capitalism. Particular attention is paid to racialized, gendered and classbased aspects of this history. The historic context sets the stage for a close reading of representations of youth pathology used to market treatment faci…
The meaning and making of childhood in the era of globalization
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Child welfare policy and practice
Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Do ve
FIRST -The anomalous position heretofore occupied by the Indians in this country can not much longer be maintained.The reservation system belongs to a 'vanishing state of things' and must soon cease to be.SECOND -The logic of events demands the absorption of the Indians into our national life, not as Indians but as American citizens.THIRD -As soon as a wise conservatism will warrant it, the relations of the Indians to the Government must rest sol…
Burnout in the Human Services
This article reviews the literature on burnout, using tenets offeminism as a frameworkand value base forcritiquing the literature. It contends that burnout is not inevitable, that personal adaptation or cosmetic changes in organizations are not adequate, and that the integration of the individual and institutional aspects of burnout is essential for defining and solving the problem. Furthermore, it presents strategies for change that incorporate …
Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty
Welfare Reform in Persistent Rural Poverty: Dreams, Disenchantments, and Diversity. Kathleen Pickering, Mark H. Harvey, Gene F. Summers, and David Mushinski. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. 243 pp
Place, power, and possibility
Marketing Democracy
Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile. Julia Paley. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 255 pp
La Victoria
This article utilizes the key themes of the just practice perspective (Finn &Jacobson, 2003ab) to examine a fifty-year history of community practice in La Victoria, a poor urban sector of Santiago, Chile. The author employs five key themes-meaning, power, context, history, and possibility-in exploring the challenges, contradictions and possibilities for community building under dictatorship and democracy. Lessons for critical community practice l…
Unsettling Feminisms
Contested Caring
The foster care system is a microcosm of the larger social welfare system in the United States and reflects the same gender, class, and racial inequities. Women, as key actors in the foster care system, struggle with conflicting expectations of mothering, representations of family, and definitions of expertise that are inherently disempowering. This article examines women's roles as birth mothers, foster mothers, and social workers; outlines a co…
Judging childhood
Raíces
This article discusses the history, activities, contributions, and challenges of Raíces, a women's collective based in Santiago, Chile, whose participants promote community change through popular education. The article explores the philosophical foundations of Raíces and locates the collective in its political and historical contexts. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Raíces has confronted the tensions and contradictions of emerge…
The State, the Clock, and the Struggle
Research Article| March 01 2000 The State, the Clock, and the Struggle: AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISCIPLINE FOR WELFARE REFORM IN MONTANA Janet L. Finn; Janet L. Finn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lyne Underwood Lyne Underwood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 109–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Se…
A Penny for Your Thoughts
A travers l'analyse des histoires de vie des femmes d'ouvriers de l'Anaconda Company, multinationale de l'industrie miniere du cuivre, a Butte (Montana, Etats-Unis) et Chuquicamata (Chili), l'A. decrit les representations feminines de la vie communautaire dans un univers essentiellement masculin. Elle discute notamment la participation des femmes a l'activisme social et la maniere dont leur vie quotidienne etait soumise aux rythmes et a l'espace …
Burnout in the Human Services
This article reviews the literature on burnout, using tenets offeminism as a frameworkand value base forcritiquing the literature. It contends that burnout is not inevitable, that personal adaptation or cosmetic changes in organizations are not adequate, and that the integration of the individual and institutional aspects of burnout is essential for defining and solving the problem. Furthermore, it presents strategies for change that incorporate …
Child welfare policy and practice
Child welfare policy and practice
Ella Cara Deloria and Mourning Do ve
FIRST -The anomalous position heretofore occupied by the Indians in this country can not much longer be maintained.The reservation system belongs to a 'vanishing state of things' and must soon cease to be.SECOND -The logic of events demands the absorption of the Indians into our national life, not as Indians but as American citizens.THIRD -As soon as a wise conservatism will warrant it, the relations of the Indians to the Government must rest sol…
Contested Caring
The foster care system is a microcosm of the larger social welfare system in the United States and reflects the same gender, class, and racial inequities. Women, as key actors in the foster care system, struggle with conflicting expectations of mothering, representations of family, and definitions of expertise that are inherently disempowering. This article examines women's roles as birth mothers, foster mothers, and social workers; outlines a co…
Youth Participation in Community Planning
Mining Men and Designing Women
This chapter examines the construction of gendered subjectivities and the ways in which men and women reinforced, challenged, and acquiesced to those images. Constructions of man and womanhood and their relations to mining life distinctly shaped the contours of consciousness and action in Butte and Chuquicamata. Drawing from the ethnographic data, the chapter illustrates how men and women talk back to these images as they talk of labor, friendshi…
Food for Thought and Action
This chapter returns to broader questions of community and transnationalism, reflecting on the theoretical implications of this work and considering the lessons learned here in light of current cultural and political debates. Perhaps this history can inform us about the dangers and possibilities of the present systemic moment marked by global integration, brutal inequality, and a growing infatuation with free-trade agreements. Embedded in the fie…
Tracing the Veins
This is a tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—intimate strangers, linked through their histories as the copper-producing hubs of the Anaconda Company. Butte and Chuquicamata are connected in a labyrinthine history of political and economic intrigues that defy above-ground detection. This chapter notes the call for the engagement of history and ethnography in understanding the intersection of global processes and local …
Mining Community
This chapter examines the competing formations of community that linked and separated the people of Butte and Chuquicamata. Community is at once a negotiated reality in the making and an arena in which other forms of struggle and support play out. The discussion explores the communities that were made and not made as corporate and on-the-ground visions of belonging overlapped and collided, and considers the constructions of difference through whi…
Trust, Betrayal, and Transformation
A powerful discourse of trust and betrayal reverberates throughout the histories of Butte and Chuquicamata. This chapter explores the ways in which the theme of trust and betrayal has manifested in labor company relations, in gender relations, and in political promises made and broken. In materially and symbolically loaded ways, trust and betrayal have been encoded in social consciousness and practice. Workers in Butte and Chuquicamata have varia…
Crafting the Everyday
A Penny for Your Thoughts
A travers l'analyse des histoires de vie des femmes d'ouvriers de l'Anaconda Company, multinationale de l'industrie miniere du cuivre, a Butte (Montana, Etats-Unis) et Chuquicamata (Chili), l'A. decrit les representations feminines de la vie communautaire dans un univers essentiellement masculin. Elle discute notamment la participation des femmes a l'activisme social et la maniere dont leur vie quotidienne etait soumise aux rythmes et a l'espace …
Young People as Competent Community Builders
This article reports on a pilot study of exemplary communitybased youth initiatives in the United States in which young people are active participants in solving problems, planning programs, and providing services at the community level. The article presents brief summaries of six initiatives illustrating a range of youth participation in the issues that affect their lives and their communities. These diverse initiatives exemplify a view of young…
Tracing the Veins
This tale of two cities—Butte, Montana, USA; and Chuquicamata, Chile—traces the relationship of capitalism and community across cultural, national, and geographic boundaries. Combining social history with ethnography, the book shows how the development of copper mining set in motion parallel processes involving distinctive constructions of community, class, and gender in the two widely separated but intimately related sites. While the rich veins …
Class, Gender, and Power in the Mining Communities of the Americas
From the Canadian rockies to the Chilean Andes, mining has dominated the economies and lives of many ofthe people inhabiting the mountainous backbone of the Americas. Although isolated from the main centres of national trade and industry, mining communities shared characteristics with cities rather than the rural areas that surrounded them. They were densely populated, industrial, and their residents worked for wages and sought the mutual associa…
Working for Equality and Economic Liberation
This article chronicles the history of Working for Equality and Economic Liberation (WEEL), a Montana-based grassroots advocacy and educational organization that emerged in response to welfare reform. It discusses the development of WEEL, the feminist principles that undergird it, andWEEL's accomplishments, challenges, and links to a broad-based network of other groups
Walls and Bridges
Over the past decade, anthropologists have debated the politics of cultural knowledge development, questions of representation, and the merits of experimental texts that blur the boundaries of ethnography and fiction. For example, in their 1986 edited volume Writing Culture: The Poetics andPolitics ofEthnography, James Clifford and George Marcus challenged the dominant realist tradition in ethnographic writing,' questioning the ways in which text…
The State, the Clock, and the Struggle
Research Article| March 01 2000 The State, the Clock, and the Struggle: AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISCIPLINE FOR WELFARE REFORM IN MONTANA Janet L. Finn; Janet L. Finn Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lyne Underwood Lyne Underwood Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 109–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-18-1_62-109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Se…
Our Lady of the Rockies
Struggling with Development
Struggling with Development The Politics of Hunger and Gender in the Philippines. Lynn M. Kwiatkowski. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998. xii. 350 pp., tables, photographs, glossary, bibliography, index
Mining Men
From the 1920s to the nationalization of the Chilean copper mines in 1971, Chile Exploration Company (Chilex) a subsidiary of the U.S.-based Anaconda Copper Mining Company, was a major player in Chilean history, economy, and politics. Its Chuquicamata mine, located in Chile’s north desert, was the world’s largest open pit mine (Marcosson 1957:194–199). By mid-century the mine was the source of nearly three-quarters of Anaconda Company profits.1 I…
Text and Turbulence
This article examines constructions of adolescence and pathology and their relation to human service intervention. The author locates a history of discourses of adolescence and pathology along a trajectory of 20th-century capitalism. Particular attention is paid to racialized, gendered and classbased aspects of this history. The historic context sets the stage for a close reading of representations of youth pathology used to market treatment faci…
Raíces
This article discusses the history, activities, contributions, and challenges of Raíces, a women's collective based in Santiago, Chile, whose participants promote community change through popular education. The article explores the philosophical foundations of Raíces and locates the collective in its political and historical contexts. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which Raíces has confronted the tensions and contradictions of emerge…
Fuerza Unida
Affilia 's commitment to feminist social work knowledge and practice includes ongoing dialogue among scholars, teachers, and community practitioners and activists whose work is challenging gender oppression, changing women's lives, and shaping the future of feminism. As part of our new Women Creating Change column, we are bringing their stories to our readers. In October 2001, members of the Affilia board were challenged and inspired by the work …
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