Jim Ife
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Ife |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Ife |
| SIGNATURE | IFE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9896-1672 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Human Rights and Social Work
Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical social work practice, to deductive and inductive app…
Teaching about vulnerability and love in social work
Teaching vulnerably, and doing so in a way that ‘talks back’ to the dominant ‘banking model’ and the neoliberal forces that have entered the classroom where everything is evaluated through flawed metrics such as Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs), is to take an enormous personal and professional risk. This paper is written as a critical collaborative autoethnographic reflective dialogue between two social work academics who embody diametrical…
(Re-)Imagining Social Work in the Anthropocene
The ecological crisis, marked by the Anthropocene epoch, is having a major impact on the global ecosystem, and the consequences are predicted to become increasingly severe in coming decades. The turbulence and uncertainty of the crisis means social work must begin planning, reflecting and reorientating. The first half of the article contextualises the climate crisis within neoliberal capitalism, whereas the second half proposes alternatives for s…
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice. Design/methodology/approach We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experi…
The Threatening Troika of Populism, Nationalism, and Neoliberalism
Right-wing Populism and Social Work
Social Welfare for a Global Era
Social Welfare for a Global Era: International Perspectives on Policy and Practice." Australian Social Work, 70(2), pp. 257–258
Human Rights and Social Work
Human Rights and Social Work
Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the first edition in 2000 and this book is situated firm…
Needs, Rights and Democratic Renewal
The way in which a discourse of human needs has been appropriated by neo-liberal perspectives within modernity is well-documented. The construction and definition of “needs” by professionals has been criticised as “the dictatorship of needs”, and has readily excluded people other than professionals and managers from the definition of need. Need becomes objectified, something to be “assessed” by professionals using expert methodologies, rather tha…
Human Rights from Below
In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights ca…
Human rights, politics and intercountry adoption
English Intercountry adoption, once viewed as a means of international charity, has recently been challenged by political and economic forces, leading to vio lation of human rights. The authors compare the experiences of two sending countries – Romania and the Marshall Islands – and suggest the utilization of a bottom-up human rights approach. French L’adoption internationale, autrefois vue comme un moyen d’oeuvre de bienfaisance internationale, …
Human Rights and Social Work
Human rights ideals are at the pinnacle of contemporary social work practice and international political discourse. Yet in recent years, with the heightened threat of terrorism, we have begun to witness an erosion of many traditional civil liberties. Set against this backdrop, the revised edition of Human Rights and Social Work moves beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks. With customary clarity and ease of style, Jim Ife challen…
Human Rights and Critical Whiteness
Human rights have been used since the establishment of the United Nations after World War II to prevent violations by formulating an ideal of humanity where respect and dignity are central. While many writers have questioned their validity given the origins of human rights as a Western project, this paper takes the critique further by positing that notions of ‘the human’ used by human rights occurred during the European Enlightenment and could th…
Human rights and social work
Human rights ideals are at the pinnacle of contemporary social work practice and international political discourse. Yet in recent years, with the heightened threat of terrorism, we have begun to witness an erosion of many traditional civil liberties." "Set against this backdrop, the revised edition of Human Rights and Social Work moves beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks. With customary clarity and ease of style, Jim Ife chall…
Human rights and community work
English Much effort has been made to develop international understandings of human rights without the corresponding attention to responsibilities. The authors argue that a community development framework may be useful in reconceiving human rights in a more holistic way, and that social workers and community development workers are well placed to be grassroots human rights workers. French Beaucoup d'efforts ont été déployés pour développer une com…
Social Work and Human Rights
Social work and a love of humanity
The idea of a ‘love of humanity’, though largely absent from social work literature, is a potent concept for challenging the dominant discourses of individual material wealth, greed and power. It can be associated with the postmodern agenda of emancipation from oppressive discourses of professional ‘expertise’. Love, or a ‘love of humanity’, has the same intent as formulations of social work grounded in postmodern critical theory, but it uses a d…
Human Rights and Social Work
This book argues that incorporating the idea of three 'generations' of human rights allows us to move beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks. It examines current human rights issues and shows how a broader understanding of human rights can be used to ground a form of practice that is central to social work, community development and broader human services. The argument extends the idea of human rights beyond the realm of theoreti…
Local and global practice
Globalization, as currently understood, is confined to an economic world view, and does not include notions of global citizenship, social priorities and human rights. Yet social workers, because of the value base of the social work profession, must be concerned with these issues, and work towards a form of 'living in one world' that locates human values as paramount. One of the reactions to globalization has been an increase in localization, and …
A comment on ‘Reconstructing and re-conceptualising social work in the emerging milieu’
The article by McDonald and Jones raises some very important issues for Australian social work, and identifies some of the key decisions that social workers in Australia will be required to make if their practice is to maintain some degree of relevance in the changing context of the early twenty-first century
The Changing Role of the State in the Provision of Human Services in Australia
This paper considers how the changing role of the state represents a fundamental challenge to the identity of social work. It explores the effect of economic rationalism and globalization on the welfare state. It argues that an international perspective in social work will improve social work's capacity to analyse and find solutions to individual problems and articulate a broader oppositional politics
The Determination of Social Need—A Model of Need Statements in Social Administration
It is suggested that much of the confusion around the use of the concept of social need in social administration is that need has been conceptualized primarily within a positivist paradigm, with the implication that it is objectively measurable. An alternative model is proposed, which is a model of need statements rather than need per se, so that the focus of study is the definition of need and the person or group making that judgment. This model…
Human Rights and Social Work
Local and global practice
Globalization, as currently understood, is confined to an economic world view, and does not include notions of global citizenship, social priorities and human rights. Yet social workers, because of the value base of the social work profession, must be concerned with these issues, and work towards a form of 'living in one world' that locates human values as paramount. One of the reactions to globalization has been an increase in localization, and …
Human rights and community work
English Much effort has been made to develop international understandings of human rights without the corresponding attention to responsibilities. The authors argue that a community development framework may be useful in reconceiving human rights in a more holistic way, and that social workers and community development workers are well placed to be grassroots human rights workers. French Beaucoup d'efforts ont été déployés pour développer une com…
Social Work and Human Rights
Human rights, politics and intercountry adoption
English Intercountry adoption, once viewed as a means of international charity, has recently been challenged by political and economic forces, leading to vio lation of human rights. The authors compare the experiences of two sending countries – Romania and the Marshall Islands – and suggest the utilization of a bottom-up human rights approach. French L’adoption internationale, autrefois vue comme un moyen d’oeuvre de bienfaisance internationale, …
Right-wing Populism and Social Work
Human Rights and Critical Whiteness
Human rights have been used since the establishment of the United Nations after World War II to prevent violations by formulating an ideal of humanity where respect and dignity are central. While many writers have questioned their validity given the origins of human rights as a Western project, this paper takes the critique further by positing that notions of ‘the human’ used by human rights occurred during the European Enlightenment and could th…
The Determination of Social Need—A Model of Need Statements in Social Administration
It is suggested that much of the confusion around the use of the concept of social need in social administration is that need has been conceptualized primarily within a positivist paradigm, with the implication that it is objectively measurable. An alternative model is proposed, which is a model of need statements rather than need per se, so that the focus of study is the definition of need and the person or group making that judgment. This model…
(Re-)Imagining Social Work in the Anthropocene
The ecological crisis, marked by the Anthropocene epoch, is having a major impact on the global ecosystem, and the consequences are predicted to become increasingly severe in coming decades. The turbulence and uncertainty of the crisis means social work must begin planning, reflecting and reorientating. The first half of the article contextualises the climate crisis within neoliberal capitalism, whereas the second half proposes alternatives for s…
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice. Design/methodology/approach We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experi…
A comment on ‘Reconstructing and re-conceptualising social work in the emerging milieu’
The article by McDonald and Jones raises some very important issues for Australian social work, and identifies some of the key decisions that social workers in Australia will be required to make if their practice is to maintain some degree of relevance in the changing context of the early twenty-first century
The Changing Role of the State in the Provision of Human Services in Australia
This paper considers how the changing role of the state represents a fundamental challenge to the identity of social work. It explores the effect of economic rationalism and globalization on the welfare state. It argues that an international perspective in social work will improve social work's capacity to analyse and find solutions to individual problems and articulate a broader oppositional politics
Social Welfare for a Global Era
Social Welfare for a Global Era: International Perspectives on Policy and Practice." Australian Social Work, 70(2), pp. 257–258
Social work and a love of humanity
The idea of a ‘love of humanity’, though largely absent from social work literature, is a potent concept for challenging the dominant discourses of individual material wealth, greed and power. It can be associated with the postmodern agenda of emancipation from oppressive discourses of professional ‘expertise’. Love, or a ‘love of humanity’, has the same intent as formulations of social work grounded in postmodern critical theory, but it uses a d…
The Determination of Social Need—A Model of Need Statements in Social Administration
It is suggested that much of the confusion around the use of the concept of social need in social administration is that need has been conceptualized primarily within a positivist paradigm, with the implication that it is objectively measurable. An alternative model is proposed, which is a model of need statements rather than need per se, so that the focus of study is the definition of need and the person or group making that judgment. This model…
The Changing Role of the State in the Provision of Human Services in Australia
This paper considers how the changing role of the state represents a fundamental challenge to the identity of social work. It explores the effect of economic rationalism and globalization on the welfare state. It argues that an international perspective in social work will improve social work's capacity to analyse and find solutions to individual problems and articulate a broader oppositional politics
A comment on ‘Reconstructing and re-conceptualising social work in the emerging milieu’
The article by McDonald and Jones raises some very important issues for Australian social work, and identifies some of the key decisions that social workers in Australia will be required to make if their practice is to maintain some degree of relevance in the changing context of the early twenty-first century
Human Rights and Social Work
This book argues that incorporating the idea of three 'generations' of human rights allows us to move beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks. It examines current human rights issues and shows how a broader understanding of human rights can be used to ground a form of practice that is central to social work, community development and broader human services. The argument extends the idea of human rights beyond the realm of theoreti…
Local and global practice
Globalization, as currently understood, is confined to an economic world view, and does not include notions of global citizenship, social priorities and human rights. Yet social workers, because of the value base of the social work profession, must be concerned with these issues, and work towards a form of 'living in one world' that locates human values as paramount. One of the reactions to globalization has been an increase in localization, and …
Social work and a love of humanity
The idea of a ‘love of humanity’, though largely absent from social work literature, is a potent concept for challenging the dominant discourses of individual material wealth, greed and power. It can be associated with the postmodern agenda of emancipation from oppressive discourses of professional ‘expertise’. Love, or a ‘love of humanity’, has the same intent as formulations of social work grounded in postmodern critical theory, but it uses a d…
Social Work and Human Rights
Human rights and community work
English Much effort has been made to develop international understandings of human rights without the corresponding attention to responsibilities. The authors argue that a community development framework may be useful in reconceiving human rights in a more holistic way, and that social workers and community development workers are well placed to be grassroots human rights workers. French Beaucoup d'efforts ont été déployés pour développer une com…
Human Rights and Social Work
Human rights ideals are at the pinnacle of contemporary social work practice and international political discourse. Yet in recent years, with the heightened threat of terrorism, we have begun to witness an erosion of many traditional civil liberties. Set against this backdrop, the revised edition of Human Rights and Social Work moves beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks. With customary clarity and ease of style, Jim Ife challen…
Human Rights and Critical Whiteness
Human rights have been used since the establishment of the United Nations after World War II to prevent violations by formulating an ideal of humanity where respect and dignity are central. While many writers have questioned their validity given the origins of human rights as a Western project, this paper takes the critique further by positing that notions of ‘the human’ used by human rights occurred during the European Enlightenment and could th…
Human rights and social work
Human rights ideals are at the pinnacle of contemporary social work practice and international political discourse. Yet in recent years, with the heightened threat of terrorism, we have begun to witness an erosion of many traditional civil liberties." "Set against this backdrop, the revised edition of Human Rights and Social Work moves beyond the limitations of conventional legal frameworks. With customary clarity and ease of style, Jim Ife chall…
Human Rights from Below
In Human Rights from Below, Jim Ife shows how human rights and community development are problematic terms but powerful ideals, and that each is essential for understanding and practising the other. Ife contests that practitioners - advocates, activists, workers and volunteers - can better empower and protect communities when human rights are treated as more than just a specialist branch of law or international relations, and that human rights ca…
Human rights, politics and intercountry adoption
English Intercountry adoption, once viewed as a means of international charity, has recently been challenged by political and economic forces, leading to vio lation of human rights. The authors compare the experiences of two sending countries – Romania and the Marshall Islands – and suggest the utilization of a bottom-up human rights approach. French L’adoption internationale, autrefois vue comme un moyen d’oeuvre de bienfaisance internationale, …
Needs, Rights and Democratic Renewal
The way in which a discourse of human needs has been appropriated by neo-liberal perspectives within modernity is well-documented. The construction and definition of “needs” by professionals has been criticised as “the dictatorship of needs”, and has readily excluded people other than professionals and managers from the definition of need. Need becomes objectified, something to be “assessed” by professionals using expert methodologies, rather tha…
Human Rights and Social Work
Now in its third edition, Human Rights and Social Work explores how the principles of human rights inform contemporary social work practice. Jim Ife considers the implications of social work's traditional Enlightenment heritage and the possibilities of 'post-Enlightenment' practice in a way that is accessible, direct and engaging. The world has changed significantly since the publication of the first edition in 2000 and this book is situated firm…
Human Rights and Social Work
Social Welfare for a Global Era
Social Welfare for a Global Era: International Perspectives on Policy and Practice." Australian Social Work, 70(2), pp. 257–258
The Threatening Troika of Populism, Nationalism, and Neoliberalism
Right-wing Populism and Social Work
Making #blacklivesmatter in universities
Purpose The purpose of this viewpoint article is to consider the #BlackLivesMatter movement within the Aboriginal Australian struggle for equality, sovereignty and human rights. Indigenous sovereignty has been threatened throughout Australia's history of colonization. We provide a viewpoint and recommendations for social policy education and practice. Design/methodology/approach We provide commentary and interpretation based upon the lived experi…
(Re-)Imagining Social Work in the Anthropocene
The ecological crisis, marked by the Anthropocene epoch, is having a major impact on the global ecosystem, and the consequences are predicted to become increasingly severe in coming decades. The turbulence and uncertainty of the crisis means social work must begin planning, reflecting and reorientating. The first half of the article contextualises the climate crisis within neoliberal capitalism, whereas the second half proposes alternatives for s…
Teaching about vulnerability and love in social work
Teaching vulnerably, and doing so in a way that ‘talks back’ to the dominant ‘banking model’ and the neoliberal forces that have entered the classroom where everything is evaluated through flawed metrics such as Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs), is to take an enormous personal and professional risk. This paper is written as a critical collaborative autoethnographic reflective dialogue between two social work academics who embody diametrical…
Human Rights and Social Work
Human Rights and Social Work: Towards Rights-Based Practice helps students and practitioners understand how human rights concepts underpin the social work profession and inform their practice. This book examines the three generations of human rights and the systems of oppression that prevent citizens from participating in society as equals. It explores a range of topics, from ethics and ethical social work practice, to deductive and inductive app…
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